Creative Thinking Jobs in the East of England

Creative Thinking
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 178 162
Rank change year-on-year +53 -16 -37
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 53 47 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.60% 0.73% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 0.93% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 10
10th Percentile £24,625 £25,625 £35,592
25th Percentile £38,563 £26,750 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.58% -14.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,500 £56,693 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £48,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +54.64% -25.38% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,129 5,057 4,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.19% 78.83% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 3,787 2,069
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the East of England

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the East of England.

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the East of England

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the East of England

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hertfordshire +38 21 - - 48
Essex +38 19 £25,250 +5.21% 47
Suffolk -16 6 £55,000 +115.69% 14
Norfolk +21 3 - - 14
Cambridgeshire +20 2 £80,000 +44.61% 30
Bedfordshire -2 2 - - 28
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 27 (50.94%) Azure
2 26 (49.06%) AWS
2 26 (49.06%) AWS Lambda
2 26 (49.06%) GCP
2 26 (49.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (49.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.89%) Moq
2 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
General
1 30 (56.60%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Advertising
3 10 (18.87%) Marketing
4 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (13.21%) Law
4 7 (13.21%) Legal
5 3 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Electronics
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (56.60%) Senior
2 26 (49.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 10 (18.87%) Account Manager
3 10 (18.87%) Strategic Account Manager
4 4 (7.55%) Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Applications Support
4 4 (7.55%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Senior Applications Support
4 4 (7.55%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Senior Support Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Support Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Product Owner
6 2 (3.77%) Test Technician
7 1 (1.89%) Lead
7 1 (1.89%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) HTML
2 1 (1.89%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) RESTful
2 1 (1.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (52.83%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (24.53%) Product Ownership
3 10 (18.87%) Digital Media
3 10 (18.87%) Marketing Technology
4 7 (13.21%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (77.36%) Mentoring
2 31 (58.49%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (54.72%) Agile
3 29 (54.72%) Data Science
4 27 (50.94%) Clean Code
5 26 (49.06%) CI/CD
5 26 (49.06%) Machine Learning
5 26 (49.06%) Performance Metrics
5 26 (49.06%) Personalization
6 10 (18.87%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (18.87%) Digital Marketing
6 10 (18.87%) Digital Strategy
6 10 (18.87%) Project Management
6 10 (18.87%) Strategic Thinking
7 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (13.21%) Line Management
8 4 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (5.66%) Analytics
9 3 (5.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) Python
1 26 (49.06%) TypeScript
2 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.55%) SQL
3 2 (3.77%) C++
4 1 (1.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) Degree
2 26 (49.06%) PhD
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) NCSC