Creative Thinking Job Trends in Birmingham

Creative Thinking
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 62 101
Rank change year-on-year -29 +39 +42
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 12 70 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.69% 3.87% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 4.15% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £29,000
25th Percentile - - £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £34,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - -40.35% -28.30%
75th Percentile - £42,375 £73,375
90th Percentile - £57,450 £91,250
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £57,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -29.82% -3.39% -9.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 1,686 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.30% 93.30% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 985 786 1,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,563 £40,494
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,625 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Business Development Executive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 11 (91.67%) Coaching
3 9 (75.00%) AI
3 9 (75.00%) Analytics
3 9 (75.00%) Data Architecture
3 9 (75.00%) Digital Strategy
3 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) Internal Audit
4 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) SOAR
5 1 (8.33%) Business Development
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Guerrilla Marketing
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CEH
1 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Databricks