Innovative Thinking Jobs in the East of England

Innovative Thinking
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 157 188 179
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 -101
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 15 30 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.45% 0.49% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.61% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 30
10th Percentile £27,000 - £24,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £27,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £29,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +89.66% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,693 £63,750
90th Percentile £59,000 - £67,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -15.38% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,152 4,941 5,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.01% 80.59% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 3,708 2,173
10th Percentile £28,125 £25,809 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the East of England

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the East of England

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the East of England

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +28 7 £55,000 - 6
Essex +21 6 £41,500 +48.21% 2
Cambridgeshire +34 1 £62,500 +12.97% 4
East Anglia - 1 £55,000 - 6
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 15 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (73.33%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (73.33%) Influencing Skills
2 11 (73.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Police
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Supplier Manager
2 6 (40.00%) Relationships Manager
2 6 (40.00%) Supplier Relationship Manager
3 3 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (20.00%) IT Support
3 3 (20.00%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (6.67%) Commercial Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Time Management
2 11 (73.33%) Contract Management
2 11 (73.33%) Performance Management
2 11 (73.33%) Project Management
2 11 (73.33%) Risk Management
2 11 (73.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 11 (73.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 11 (73.33%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 3 (20.00%) Data Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Ticket Management
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) ITSM
4 1 (6.67%) Service Management
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Avamar
1 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (6.67%) Puppet
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Aruba
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco
1 1 (6.67%) Dell
1 1 (6.67%) EMC
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) VMware