Innovative Thinking Jobs in County Antrim

Innovative Thinking
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 61 99
Rank change year-on-year +39 +38 -28
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 8 12 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 4.28% 1.91% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 2.12% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £27,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,276 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +27.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,232 £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £55,000 £57,276 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.97% +27.28% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 565 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 94.65% 89.97% 96.73%
Number of salaries quoted 45 269 417
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £33,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £68,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +12.36%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in County Antrim

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking in County Antrim.

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in County Antrim

Innovative Thinking
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 12 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
Belfast +29 8 £55,000 -3.97% 5
Innovative Thinking
Northern Ireland

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (62.50%) nginx
1 5 (62.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (62.50%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket
1 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (62.50%) JUnit
1 5 (62.50%) Maven
1 5 (62.50%) Mockito
1 5 (62.50%) Postman
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
1 5 (62.50%) SonarQube
1 5 (62.50%) TestNG
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Information Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Procurement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (62.50%) Gherkin
1 5 (62.50%) Guice
1 5 (62.50%) JAX-RS
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
1 5 (62.50%) Mustache
1 5 (62.50%) OpenAPI
1 5 (62.50%) REST
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
1 5 (62.50%) Swagger
1 5 (62.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (62.50%) BDD
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
1 5 (62.50%) Dependency Injection
1 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
1 5 (62.50%) MVC
1 5 (62.50%) OO
1 5 (62.50%) OOP
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
1 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (62.50%) Kustomize
1 5 (62.50%) Packer
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow