Innovative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative 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 382 461 338
Rank change year-on-year +79 -123 +192
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 670 667 1,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.64% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.67% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 418 261 278
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,438 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £72,647
90th Percentile £80,375 £105,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,084 £47,500 £43,325
% change year-on-year +9.65% +9.64% -13.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Innovative 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%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative 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 Innovative 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 +106 635 £55,000 -15.38% 191
UK excluding London +25 473 £52,084 +9.65% 151
Work from Home -36 209 £60,000 -12.82% 79
London +158 183 £70,000 +0.85% 56
North of England +66 139 £52,084 -25.59% 29
South West +35 104 £60,000 +9.09% 23
South East -10 101 £40,000 +23.08% 44
North West +73 77 £52,084 -13.19% 24
Midlands +39 69 £52,500 -34.38% 17
West Midlands +59 42 £55,964 -22.81% 9
Yorkshire +51 40 £46,457 -41.01% 3
East of England -30 30 £29,000 -3.33% 23
East Midlands -5 27 £50,000 -41.18% 8
North East +11 22 £46,457 - 2
Scotland -63 18 £41,250 -13.16% 11
Northern Ireland +37 11 £57,276 +27.28% 3
Wales +9 1 £82,500 - 8

Innovative 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 16 (2.39%) IIS
2 9 (1.34%) Confluence
3 8 (1.19%) Appian
4 7 (1.04%) CMS
5 5 (0.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.45%) SAS
7 3 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 50 (7.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 31 (4.63%) Spreadsheet
3 22 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.64%) Simulink
5 4 (0.60%) Adobe Captivate
6 3 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.45%) Trello
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.30%) Sketch
8 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.30%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 165 (24.63%) Azure
2 162 (24.18%) AWS
3 125 (18.66%) GCP
4 52 (7.76%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.19%) SaaS
7 7 (1.04%) Serverless
8 6 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 5 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.75%) Figma
9 5 (0.75%) GitHub
9 5 (0.75%) Route 53
9 5 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (0.75%) WhatsApp
10 4 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.13%) WAN
2 14 (2.09%) 5G
2 14 (2.09%) SD-WAN
3 12 (1.79%) Firewall
4 11 (1.64%) Network Security
4 11 (1.64%) Wireless
5 7 (1.04%) LAN
6 6 (0.90%) Internet
6 6 (0.90%) SAN
7 5 (0.75%) DNS
7 5 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.60%) OSPF
8 4 (0.60%) VPN
9 3 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.45%) VLAN
10 2 (0.30%) Broadband
10 2 (0.30%) MQTT
10 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.15%) DHCP
11 1 (0.15%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (16.72%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (16.57%) BigQuery
2 111 (16.57%) Looker
3 47 (7.01%) Power BI
4 36 (5.37%) Tableau
5 13 (1.94%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.79%) Metadata
7 11 (1.64%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.30%) GIS
12 2 (0.30%) Power Query
13 1 (0.15%) Big Data
13 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
13 1 (0.15%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
13 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.69%) JIRA
2 13 (1.94%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.75%) Subversion
5 4 (0.60%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.45%) Postman
7 2 (0.30%) Appium
7 2 (0.30%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.30%) JMeter
7 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.30%) Selenium
7 2 (0.30%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.15%) Git
8 1 (0.15%) JUnit
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 233 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 226 (33.73%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (12.84%) Retail
4 84 (12.54%) Finance
5 68 (10.15%) Marketing
6 48 (7.16%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (4.78%) Banking
9 22 (3.28%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.13%) Games
10 21 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.13%) Military
11 20 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 20 (2.99%) Law
12 19 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 15 (2.24%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.94%) Electronics
16 12 (1.79%) Legal
16 12 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 156 (23.28%) Senior
2 155 (23.13%) Architect
3 124 (18.51%) Data Architect
4 73 (10.90%) Lead
5 66 (9.85%) Developer
6 43 (6.42%) Software Engineer
7 42 (6.27%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 42 (6.27%) Delivery Manager
8 40 (5.97%) Lead Developer
9 38 (5.67%) Team Leader
10 30 (4.48%) Analyst
11 28 (4.18%) Business Developer
11 28 (4.18%) Consultant
12 27 (4.03%) Senior Architect
13 24 (3.58%) Field Engineer
13 24 (3.58%) Field Service Engineer
14 22 (3.28%) Project Manager
14 22 (3.28%) Senior Field Engineer
14 22 (3.28%) Senior Field Service Engineer
15 21 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.69%) .NET
1 18 (2.69%) React
2 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
2 7 (1.04%) HTML
3 6 (0.90%) Vue
4 5 (0.75%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.75%) CSS
5 4 (0.60%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.45%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.45%) Node.js
6 3 (0.45%) Spring
7 2 (0.30%) DOM
7 2 (0.30%) Express.js
7 2 (0.30%) JSON
7 2 (0.30%) JWT
7 2 (0.30%) Kafka
7 2 (0.30%) Playwright
7 2 (0.30%) RESTful
7 2 (0.30%) SAP TM
7 2 (0.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 201 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 40 (5.97%) Driving Licence
3 25 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.58%) EPoS
5 20 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.24%) CESG
7 14 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.94%) GNSS
9 12 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.34%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (1.34%) Virtual Reality
13 8 (1.19%) CCTV
14 7 (1.04%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.04%) Robotics
15 5 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.46%) Windows
2 31 (4.63%) Linux
3 13 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
3 13 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (27.61%) Mentoring
3 156 (23.28%) Agile
4 128 (19.10%) Data Architecture
4 128 (19.10%) Platform Engineering
5 125 (18.66%) Data Modelling
6 124 (18.51%) Data Integration
7 122 (18.21%) Data Security
8 120 (17.91%) ETL
9 113 (16.87%) Data Engineering
10 112 (16.72%) Data Governance
11 111 (16.57%) ERD
12 99 (14.78%) Project Management
13 65 (9.70%) Creative Thinking
14 62 (9.25%) Analytics
15 60 (8.96%) Customer Service
15 60 (8.96%) Scrum
16 56 (8.36%) Coaching
17 53 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
17 53 (7.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (7.61%) Python
2 41 (6.12%) SQL
3 39 (5.82%) Java
4 24 (3.58%) Perl
5 23 (3.43%) C++
6 14 (2.09%) C#
6 14 (2.09%) MATLAB
7 13 (1.94%) Bash
8 10 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.19%) Scala
10 7 (1.04%) C
10 7 (1.04%) R
11 5 (0.75%) Delphi
12 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) Go
13 1 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.15%) Rust
13 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 152 (22.69%) Degree
2 55 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (3.43%) HND
5 20 (2.99%) HNC
6 19 (2.84%) CISMP
7 18 (2.69%) DBS Check
7 18 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.79%) IISP
9 12 (1.79%) SC Cleared
10 10 (1.49%) CCNP
10 10 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.34%) CISM
11 9 (1.34%) CISSP
12 8 (1.19%) A+ Certification
12 8 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (16.72%) Data Quality
1 112 (16.72%) GDPR
2 35 (5.22%) SLA
3 25 (3.73%) NIST
4 23 (3.43%) PMO
5 15 (2.24%) JSP 440
6 13 (1.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 12 (1.79%) NIST 800
7 12 (1.79%) RMADS
8 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.90%) QA
10 5 (0.75%) NCSC
11 4 (0.60%) GRC
12 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.45%) JTAG
13 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (3.13%) Firmware
2 19 (2.84%) Docker
3 16 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.34%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.69%) Terraform
3 11 (1.64%) Ansible
3 11 (1.64%) Progress Chef
3 11 (1.64%) Puppet
3 11 (1.64%) Salt
4 5 (0.75%) Packer
Vendors
1 115 (17.16%) Google
2 62 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.93%) Dell
4 24 (3.58%) HP
4 24 (3.58%) IBM
5 22 (3.28%) VMware
6 18 (2.69%) Cisco
7 13 (1.94%) NetApp
8 6 (0.90%) Adobe
8 6 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.75%) Facebook
9 5 (0.75%) Oracle
9 5 (0.75%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.75%) SAP
10 4 (0.60%) Progress
11 3 (0.45%) Mercator
11 3 (0.45%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.30%) Databricks
12 2 (0.30%) HubSpot