Creative Thinking Jobs in the East Midlands

Creative Thinking
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 124 141
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 +5
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 19 60 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.80% 1.39% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.82% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -50.00% +90.48%
75th Percentile £33,750 £38,625 £62,500
90th Percentile - £49,650 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.40% -22.40% -0.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 3,291 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.93% 76.34% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,808 1,056
10th Percentile £26,208 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -15.49% +12.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £62,009
% change year-on-year -2.65% -8.88% +3.35%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the East Midlands

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire - 16 £32,500 -
Lincolnshire +6 2 - - 1
Northamptonshire +1 1 - - 1
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (5.26%) Camtasia
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) GCP
1 2 (10.53%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
General
1 16 (84.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (78.95%) Law
2 15 (78.95%) Legal
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) Senior
2 1 (5.26%) Designer
2 1 (5.26%) Developer
2 1 (5.26%) Junior
2 1 (5.26%) Junior Developer
2 1 (5.26%) Junior Software Developer
2 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Doctrine
1 1 (5.26%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Cyberattack
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (78.95%) Line Management
2 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
2 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.53%) Agile
3 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.53%) Clean Code
3 2 (10.53%) Coaching
3 2 (10.53%) Data Science
3 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (10.53%) Personalization
4 1 (5.26%) Design Thinking
4 1 (5.26%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (5.26%) Instructional Design
4 1 (5.26%) Logistics
4 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
1 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (78.95%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft