Innovative Thinking Jobs in Belfast

Innovative Thinking
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Innovative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 50 -
Rank change year-on-year +47 - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 38 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 16.38% 1.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.10% 1.45% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £27,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £28,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £28,500 -
90th Percentile - £45,250 -
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £28,000 -
% change year-on-year +96.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Innovative 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 Belfast.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 199 413 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 85.78% 82.27% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 83 217 276
10th Percentile £30,150 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £42,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £69,125 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £90,500 £76,250
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in Belfast

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Innovative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Innovative Thinking

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 5 (13.16%) nginx
1 5 (13.16%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (31.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (15.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (13.16%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Google Workspace
3 5 (13.16%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (13.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 5 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) VLAN
1 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) SAP HANA
2 5 (13.16%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (13.16%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) JIRA
2 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.16%) Cucumber
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.16%) JUnit
2 5 (13.16%) Maven
2 5 (13.16%) Mockito
2 5 (13.16%) Postman
2 5 (13.16%) Selenium
2 5 (13.16%) SonarQube
2 5 (13.16%) TestNG
General
1 24 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Manufacturing
3 7 (18.42%) Aerospace
3 7 (18.42%) Automotive
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Information Specialist
1 7 (18.42%) IT Support
1 7 (18.42%) Lead
1 7 (18.42%) Procurement Specialist
2 6 (15.79%) Delivery Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Network Delivery Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Network Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Network Operations Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Network Services Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Service Delivery Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Service Manager
3 5 (13.16%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (13.16%) Gherkin
1 5 (13.16%) Guice
1 5 (13.16%) JAX-RS
1 5 (13.16%) Kafka
1 5 (13.16%) Mustache
1 5 (13.16%) OpenAPI
1 5 (13.16%) REST
1 5 (13.16%) RESTful
1 5 (13.16%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (13.16%) SAPUI5
1 5 (13.16%) Spring
1 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
1 5 (13.16%) Swagger
1 5 (13.16%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (47.37%) Management Information System
2 7 (18.42%) Operational Technology
2 7 (18.42%) Smartphone
3 6 (15.79%) Fibre Optics
4 5 (13.16%) Life Science
4 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (36.84%) Computer Science
2 14 (36.84%) Project Management
3 13 (34.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (34.21%) Service Delivery
4 12 (31.58%) Change Management
5 7 (18.42%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Information Management
5 7 (18.42%) Information Security
5 7 (18.42%) Matrix Organization
5 7 (18.42%) Product Strategy
5 7 (18.42%) Risk Analysis
5 7 (18.42%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (18.42%) Security Monitoring
5 7 (18.42%) User Experience
5 7 (18.42%) User Stories
6 6 (15.79%) Asset Management
6 6 (15.79%) IT Asset Management
6 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.79%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (18.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Ansible
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
1 5 (13.16%) Kustomize
1 5 (13.16%) Packer
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) SAP
2 8 (21.05%) Google
3 7 (18.42%) IBM
3 7 (18.42%) ServiceNow
4 6 (15.79%) BMC
4 6 (15.79%) Remedy
5 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft