Critical Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 395 463
Rank change year-on-year -81 +68 +96
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 487 828 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.80% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.83% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 300 443 470
10th Percentile £25,047 £35,000 £28,558
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.42% +23.53% -29.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Critical 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England -74 398 £57,500 +4.55% 244
UK excluding London -111 293 £47,557 -9.42% 152
Work from Home +25 180 £55,000 -8.33% 112
London +29 168 £75,000 +25.00% 106
North of England -33 61 £52,500 +16.67% 41
South East -41 56 £57,500 +11.98% 39
Scotland -37 55 £45,000 -35.71% 10
South West -29 47 £50,000 -39.39% 20
Midlands -49 42 £42,200 -19.62% 20
North West -4 35 £40,000 -11.11% 23
West Midlands -11 29 £24,000 -56.36% 11
Yorkshire +64 25 £52,500 -4.34% 14
East of England +11 20 £43,500 -47.27% 16
Wales +5 9 £25,047 -54.36% 6
East Midlands -31 9 £46,000 -8.00% 9
Northern Ireland +29 3 - - 3
North East -28 1 £67,500 +68.75% 4

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.29%) Confluence
3 7 (1.44%) CMS
3 7 (1.44%) SAS
4 4 (0.82%) WordPress
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 37 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (6.57%) UserZoom
3 27 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (3.08%) Sketch
5 10 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.41%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) 1Password
9 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.21%) InVision
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.03%) Odoo
2 5 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.62%) Shopify
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 74 (15.20%) Azure
2 59 (12.11%) AWS
3 47 (9.65%) Figma
4 43 (8.83%) Power Platform
5 33 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (6.57%) SurveyMonkey
7 18 (3.70%) SaaS
8 11 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.26%) Serverless
9 10 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (2.05%) GCP
10 9 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.23%) OCI
12 5 (1.03%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 5 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.03%) PaaS
13 4 (0.82%) npm
13 4 (0.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.80%) Wireless
2 36 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
3 33 (6.78%) Network Security
4 30 (6.16%) WAN
5 24 (4.93%) 5G
6 22 (4.52%) Bluetooth
6 22 (4.52%) GSM
6 22 (4.52%) ISDN
6 22 (4.52%) LTE
6 22 (4.52%) PSTN
6 22 (4.52%) UMTS
7 20 (4.11%) LAN
8 16 (3.29%) Firewall
9 12 (2.46%) TCP/IP
10 10 (2.05%) Internet
11 8 (1.64%) BGP
11 8 (1.64%) NGN
11 8 (1.64%) OSPF
11 8 (1.64%) TACACS
11 8 (1.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.83%) Power BI
2 32 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.49%) Tableau
5 12 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.46%) GIS
6 8 (1.64%) Big Data
6 8 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (1.44%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (1.44%) Spatial Data
7 7 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.23%) MySQL
8 6 (1.23%) SAP HANA
9 5 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.03%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.03%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.03%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.82%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 56 (11.50%) JIRA
2 42 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 30 (6.16%) Burp Suite
3 30 (6.16%) Metasploit
4 22 (4.52%) LabVIEW
5 20 (4.11%) Git
6 7 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.23%) Selenium
8 5 (1.03%) Jaeger
8 5 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.82%) Appium
9 4 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.62%) GitLab
11 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.41%) git-flow
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.41%) WiX
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 288 (59.14%) Social Skills
2 176 (36.14%) Finance
3 160 (32.85%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (19.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (19.10%) Marketing
6 73 (14.99%) Law
7 34 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (6.16%) Retail
9 30 (6.16%) Telecoms
10 27 (5.54%) Legal
11 26 (5.34%) Banking
12 18 (3.70%) Public Sector
13 15 (3.08%) Publishing
14 14 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (2.26%) Tech for Good
16 9 (1.85%) Investment Banking
17 8 (1.64%) French Language
18 7 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 7 (1.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 68 (13.96%) Analyst
2 49 (10.06%) Senior
3 44 (9.03%) Developer
4 36 (7.39%) Tester
5 33 (6.78%) Lead
6 32 (6.57%) User Experience Researcher
7 30 (6.16%) Penetration Tester
8 28 (5.75%) Architect
9 25 (5.13%) Consultant
10 24 (4.93%) Project Manager
11 15 (3.08%) Hardware Engineer
12 13 (2.67%) Business Analyst
12 13 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (2.67%) Product Manager
12 13 (2.67%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.46%) Designer
13 12 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 11 (2.26%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.05%) Help Desk Analyst
15 10 (2.05%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.75%) HTML
2 27 (5.54%) CSS
3 20 (4.11%) React
4 19 (3.90%) Node.js
5 14 (2.87%) .NET
6 13 (2.67%) Web Services
7 11 (2.26%) Vue
8 8 (1.64%) .NET Framework
8 8 (1.64%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.64%) Django
9 6 (1.23%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.23%) RESTful
10 5 (1.03%) Kafka
10 5 (1.03%) Middleware
10 5 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.03%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.82%) JSON
11 4 (0.82%) LDAP
11 4 (0.82%) SOAP
11 4 (0.82%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.27%) Management Information System
2 32 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.93%) Algorithms
5 22 (4.52%) Acoustics
5 22 (4.52%) Satnav
6 19 (3.90%) Data Centre
7 18 (3.70%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.67%) Client/Server
8 13 (2.67%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (2.26%) Social Media
11 9 (1.85%) IoT
11 9 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.85%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.23%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.23%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (9.65%) Linux
2 30 (6.16%) Kali Linux
3 13 (2.67%) Windows
4 8 (1.64%) Android
5 7 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.41%) Unix
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (55.44%) Problem-Solving
2 192 (39.43%) Agile
3 112 (23.00%) Mentoring
4 108 (22.18%) Computer Science
5 97 (19.92%) Project Management
6 89 (18.28%) Analytics
7 87 (17.86%) User Experience
8 86 (17.66%) DevOps
9 81 (16.63%) Roadmaps
10 72 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
11 64 (13.14%) Visualisation
12 62 (12.73%) Data Visualisation
13 61 (12.53%) Data Management
14 58 (11.91%) Strategic Thinking
15 56 (11.50%) Customer Service
16 55 (11.29%) Coaching
16 55 (11.29%) User Research
17 54 (11.09%) Information Security
18 53 (10.88%) Analytical Thinking
19 48 (9.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.92%) Python
2 68 (13.96%) SQL
3 43 (8.83%) JavaScript
4 37 (7.60%) C#
5 18 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.87%) Java
7 13 (2.67%) PHP
8 10 (2.05%) R
9 8 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.03%) Bash
10 5 (1.03%) Ruby
11 4 (0.82%) Scala
12 2 (0.41%) C
12 2 (0.41%) C++
12 2 (0.41%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) VB
13 1 (0.21%) Bicep
13 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.21%) SOQL
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 238 (48.87%) Degree
2 58 (11.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (4.93%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.29%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.64%) CISM
8 7 (1.44%) CISSP
9 5 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.03%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.03%) PMP
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.82%) OSCP
10 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.62%) ISEB
11 3 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.80%) QA
2 37 (7.60%) Actionable Recommendations
3 19 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.29%) GDPR
5 11 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.85%) SLA
7 6 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.03%) GAAP
8 5 (1.03%) IFRS
8 5 (1.03%) NIST
9 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.82%) PMO
10 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.21%) COSHH
11 1 (0.21%) COSO
11 1 (0.21%) GRC
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.29%) Docker
3 11 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) NFS
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.87%) Ansible
2 12 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.46%) Terraform
3 5 (1.03%) Kiali
4 3 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.41%) Nmap
5 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 112 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.57%) Qualtrics
3 24 (4.93%) SAP
4 15 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.87%) Google
5 14 (2.87%) VMware
6 13 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.26%) Alteryx
8 10 (2.05%) Oracle
9 9 (1.85%) Aruba
10 7 (1.44%) Cisco
10 7 (1.44%) Mapbox
10 7 (1.44%) Splunk
11 6 (1.23%) Dell
11 6 (1.23%) Pega
11 6 (1.23%) Progress
11 6 (1.23%) UiPath
12 5 (1.03%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.03%) Databricks
12 5 (1.03%) Palo Alto