Innovative Thinking Job Trends in Cheshire

Innovative Thinking
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Innovative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 84 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 1 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.058% 1.71% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 1.95% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,602 - -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £59,652 £46,457
% change year-on-year -7.80% +28.40% -22.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,143 616 1,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 66.34% 87.87% 76.00%
Number of salaries quoted 915 254 921
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,681 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £48,013
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.69% +1.08%
75th Percentile £61,875 £60,000 £60,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £76,750 £71,915
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Innovative Thinking job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Innovative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Innovative Thinking

Innovative Thinking
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Widnes - 1 £39,602 -
Innovative Thinking
North West

Innovative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft