Critical Thinking Jobs in Bristol

Critical Thinking
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Critical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 136 137
Rank change year-on-year +40 +1 +39
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 10 24 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.85% 0.76% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.87% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 20
10th Percentile £56,972 £41,699 £47,450
25th Percentile £64,621 £46,306 £55,914
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,500 £50,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +107.00% -35.48% +55.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £61,250 £86,563
90th Percentile £118,000 £95,250 £97,290
South West median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -39.39% +73.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Critical 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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,114 2,760 2,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 94.17% 87.51% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 719 2,074 1,460
10th Percentile £30,950 £33,500 £34,723
25th Percentile £47,231 £43,750 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.86% +9.10%
75th Percentile £70,917 £72,433 £73,776
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% +6.00%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Bristol

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in Bristol

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in Bristol over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in Bristol

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Luigi
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (20.00%) Figma
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) OSPF
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Digital Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Head of Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Audit Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (10.00%) IT Audit Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Audit Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Audit Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Analytics
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Science
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Insurtech
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Web Development
4 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (10.00%) PMP
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler