Critical Thinking Jobs in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 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 135 178 140
Rank change year-on-year +43 -38 +28
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 10 9 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% 0.20% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.26% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 16
10th Percentile - £34,680 £35,375
25th Percentile £25,875 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +2.22% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 - £62,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.04% +2.73% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,457 3,525 2,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.51% 80.11% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 986 2,494 1,287
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,553 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -10.89% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the East Midlands

Critical 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 Critical Thinking within the East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire +23 5 £57,500 +25.00% 4
Lincolnshire - 4 £26,250 - 3
Leicestershire - 1 £80,000 - 1
Critical Thinking
England

Critical 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Coordinator
1 3 (30.00%) Database Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Project Coordinator
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Database Developer
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Database Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) Time Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Insight
4 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Market Research
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
1 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce