Creative Thinking Job Trends in Coventry

Creative Thinking
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 6 26 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 2.60% 11.93% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 12.26% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 £82,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £87,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £57,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -29.82% - -12.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 212 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 85.28% 97.25% 99.25%
Number of salaries quoted 100 108 245
10th Percentile £24,750 £33,050 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,813 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.97% -4.75%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.27%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Coventry

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Budget Management
3 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Information Capture
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft