Creative Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Creative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 377 278
Rank change year-on-year +56 -99 +105
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 579 463 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.77% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.81% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 180 165 354
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,800 £33,761
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,710 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% -7.56% +13.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,400 £81,251 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Creative Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 57,513 66,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.96% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,236 29,661 40,975
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +126 175 £44,000 -29.60% 21
West Midlands +129 135 £51,250 -21.15% 7
South East +29 105 £42,920 -4.62% 40
South West +22 102 £42,500 -15.40% 30
North of England -12 75 £32,000 -50.02% 49
Scotland -33 64 £60,000 +0.80% 10
East of England -6 44 £40,000 -36.00% 17
East Midlands +18 40 £36,250 -21.62% 14
North West -20 34 £38,000 -35.04% 27
Yorkshire +31 33 £69,500 +8.54% 17
Northern Ireland +8 9 £30,000 -29.41% 1
North East +1 8 £27,500 -55.35% 5
Wales +7 5 £47,029 +71.01%
Creative Thinking
UK

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.42%) CMS
2 13 (2.25%) IIS
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.69%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 165 (28.50%) Microsoft Office
2 161 (27.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.45%) AutoCAD
3 20 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.25%) Photoshop
5 11 (1.90%) Adobe Illustrator
5 11 (1.90%) InDesign
6 9 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (1.04%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.69%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.69%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.69%) Maya
8 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.52%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 11 (1.90%) Unit4 Business World
2 7 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.52%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (3.28%) Azure
3 16 (2.76%) SaaS
4 11 (1.90%) Power Platform
5 9 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (1.38%) Google Analytics
7 7 (1.21%) Figma
8 6 (1.04%) IaaS
8 6 (1.04%) PaaS
9 5 (0.86%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.69%) Google Docs
10 4 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.52%) AWS
11 3 (0.52%) Taleo
12 2 (0.35%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.35%) GCP
12 2 (0.35%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (0.35%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.28%) 5G
1 19 (3.28%) Firewall
1 19 (3.28%) SD-WAN
1 19 (3.28%) WAN
2 10 (1.73%) Broadband
3 9 (1.55%) Internet
4 8 (1.38%) Wireless
5 7 (1.21%) HTTP
5 7 (1.21%) MQTT
5 7 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.86%) DHCP
6 5 (0.86%) DNS
6 5 (0.86%) Network Security
6 5 (0.86%) SAN
6 5 (0.86%) VoIP
6 5 (0.86%) VPN
6 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.69%) OSPF
8 3 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.42%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.90%) DB2
3 8 (1.38%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.04%) Data Mining
5 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.69%) Power BI
5 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.35%) QlikView
6 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.17%) GIS
7 1 (0.17%) Metadata
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Power Query
7 1 (0.17%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (2.42%) Git
1 14 (2.42%) Visual Studio
2 11 (1.90%) JIRA
3 5 (0.86%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.52%) GitLab
4 3 (0.52%) Moq
4 3 (0.52%) NUnit
4 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.17%) Gradle
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 263 (45.42%) Social Skills
2 140 (24.18%) Military
3 133 (22.97%) Finance
4 106 (18.31%) Marketing
5 101 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (14.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (9.15%) Legal
8 40 (6.91%) Law
8 40 (6.91%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (5.87%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (4.84%) Public Sector
11 26 (4.49%) Electronics
12 25 (4.32%) Telecoms
13 22 (3.80%) Retail
14 20 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 16 (2.76%) Aerospace
16 15 (2.59%) Automotive
16 15 (2.59%) Banking
17 14 (2.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (22.45%) Graduate
2 66 (11.40%) Senior
3 48 (8.29%) Developer
4 46 (7.94%) Software Engineer
5 42 (7.25%) Lead
6 34 (5.87%) Project Manager
7 30 (5.18%) Consultant
8 27 (4.66%) Analyst
8 27 (4.66%) Coordinator
9 19 (3.28%) Designer
9 19 (3.28%) Senior Consultant
9 19 (3.28%) Technical Coordinator
10 18 (3.11%) IT Manager
11 17 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (2.94%) Services Director
11 17 (2.94%) UI Engineer
11 17 (2.94%) UX Engineer
12 16 (2.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 16 (2.76%) Security Consultant
13 15 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.70%) React
2 19 (3.28%) CSS
2 19 (3.28%) HTML
3 16 (2.76%) .NET
4 7 (1.21%) Django
4 7 (1.21%) Flask
4 7 (1.21%) RESTful
5 5 (0.86%) .NET Core
5 5 (0.86%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.86%) SOAP
5 5 (0.86%) Vue
6 4 (0.69%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.69%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (0.69%) GraphQL
6 4 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (0.69%) LDAP
6 4 (0.69%) Node.js
6 4 (0.69%) OpenAPI
6 4 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 134 (23.14%) Onboarding
2 32 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (3.97%) ARM Cortex
3 23 (3.97%) Verilog
4 21 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.28%) GNSS
6 18 (3.11%) Social Media
7 16 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.25%) CCTV
9 12 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.07%) CESG
9 12 (2.07%) Housing Association
10 11 (1.90%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.90%) FPGA
11 10 (1.73%) Blog
12 8 (1.38%) Driving Licence
12 8 (1.38%) MicroBlaze
12 8 (1.38%) Robotics
12 8 (1.38%) VHDL
13 7 (1.21%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.87%) Linux
1 34 (5.87%) Windows
2 18 (3.11%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.59%) Unix
4 8 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.04%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.52%) Android
8 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (31.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 168 (29.02%) Customer Service
3 148 (25.56%) Customer Experience
4 141 (24.35%) Process Improvement
5 135 (23.32%) Data Analysis
5 135 (23.32%) Logistics
6 133 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
7 132 (22.80%) Performance Metrics
8 128 (22.11%) Contingency Planning
9 104 (17.96%) Agile
10 91 (15.72%) Project Management
11 83 (14.34%) Mentoring
12 66 (11.40%) User Experience
13 58 (10.02%) SDLC
14 55 (9.50%) Software Engineering
15 54 (9.33%) Time Management
16 52 (8.98%) Computer Science
17 47 (8.12%) Innovative Thinking
18 43 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
18 43 (7.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.44%) Python
2 37 (6.39%) C++
3 31 (5.35%) Tcl
4 30 (5.18%) SQL
5 28 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 27 (4.66%) Java
7 24 (4.15%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.97%) SystemVerilog
9 19 (3.28%) Perl
10 17 (2.94%) C#
11 14 (2.42%) VB
12 13 (2.25%) C
13 11 (1.90%) Bash
13 11 (1.90%) MATLAB
14 6 (1.04%) R
15 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.52%) Swift
17 2 (0.35%) Julia
Qualifications
1 255 (44.04%) Degree
2 39 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.28%) HND
4 15 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.07%) CISMP
5 12 (2.07%) HNC
5 12 (2.07%) IISP
5 12 (2.07%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.90%) CISA
7 10 (1.73%) ACCA
8 9 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.52%) CIPD
11 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.52%) PMP
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.22%) QA
2 35 (6.04%) PMO
3 16 (2.76%) NIST
4 14 (2.42%) SLA
5 12 (2.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 12 (2.07%) JSP 440
5 12 (2.07%) NIST 800
6 11 (1.90%) GDPR
6 11 (1.90%) ITGC
6 11 (1.90%) RMADS
7 7 (1.21%) Good Clinical Practice
8 4 (0.69%) NCSC
9 3 (0.52%) JTAG
10 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) COSHH
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 19 (3.28%) Firmware
2 8 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (0.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.25%) SCOM
2 5 (0.86%) NetCrunch
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.87%) SAP
3 22 (3.80%) Adobe
4 14 (2.42%) Oracle
5 13 (2.25%) Google
6 11 (1.90%) Sage
7 8 (1.38%) Altera
7 8 (1.38%) Green Hills
7 8 (1.38%) Motorola
7 8 (1.38%) Xilinx
8 7 (1.21%) NVIDIA
9 6 (1.04%) Splunk
10 5 (0.86%) Cisco
10 5 (0.86%) Facebook
10 5 (0.86%) Ivanti
10 5 (0.86%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.86%) VMware
11 4 (0.69%) Computacenter
11 4 (0.69%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.69%) Juniper