Creative Thinking Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Creative Thinking
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 52 50
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +39
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 3 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedfordshire 0.66% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.50% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £26,000
75th Percentile £33,750 - £26,500
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -40.91% +37.50% -39.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Creative Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 324 402 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 70.90% 95.04% 77.50%
Number of salaries quoted 182 115 241
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £91,250
East of England median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -9.09%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Creative Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. 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
Bedford - 3 £32,500 - 1
Creative Thinking
East of England

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Automotive
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Executive
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Retention
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle