Critical Thinking Jobs in the City of London

Critical Thinking
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 171 190
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 +64
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 20 5 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.05% 0.15% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.16% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 19 1 29
10th Percentile £47,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £93,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £97,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -18.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,500 - £117,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £97,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,837 3,064 4,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.23% 91.74% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 2,398 3,612
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,250 £42,775
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the City of London

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the City of London.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the City of London

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the City of London

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the City of London region over the 6 months to 27 May 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 £120,000 -
Critical Thinking
Central London

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Magento
1 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) BigCommerce
4 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 5 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (10.00%) Metadata
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (40.00%) Law
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Military
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Consultant
2 6 (30.00%) Designer
2 6 (30.00%) Service Designer
3 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Graduate
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) J2EE
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Reinsurance
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (40.00%) User Stories
4 7 (35.00%) ETL
4 7 (35.00%) Scrum
5 6 (30.00%) Design Sprint
5 6 (30.00%) Design Thinking
5 6 (30.00%) Ideation Sessions
5 6 (30.00%) Inclusive Design
5 6 (30.00%) SDLC
5 6 (30.00%) Service Design
5 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (30.00%) User Experience
5 6 (30.00%) User Research
5 6 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (30.00%) UX Design
5 6 (30.00%) UX Research
5 6 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce