Critical Thinking Jobs in England

Critical Thinking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 471 362
Rank change year-on-year +6 -109 +97
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 226 395 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.46% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.54% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 117 271 379
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +14.04% +3.86% -0.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,406 73,310 86,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.00% 85.47% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,165 53,944 51,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,332 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in England.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +37 92 £72,500 -3.33% 324
North of England +36 38 £57,500 +9.52% 74
Midlands +56 31 £57,500 +36.26% 36
East of England +47 25 £44,000 +1.15% 35
South East +66 23 £65,000 +13.04% 94
North West 0 22 £57,500 +43.75% 57
West Midlands +46 21 £57,500 +139.58% 25
South West +81 16 £70,000 +40.00% 29
Yorkshire +47 11 £65,759 +25.25% 11
East Midlands +46 10 £57,500 +25.00% 9
North East +55 5 £57,500 -14.81% 7
Critical Thinking
UK

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.33%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.44%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.44%) Luigi
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.77%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.33%) Trello
5 2 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.44%) Pipeline Pilot
6 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.76%) Azure
2 47 (20.80%) Power Platform
3 45 (19.91%) AWS
4 19 (8.41%) SaaS
5 15 (6.64%) GCP
6 13 (5.75%) Snowflake
7 11 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (4.87%) PaaS
7 11 (4.87%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.42%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.98%) IaaS
10 7 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.77%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.77%) Serverless
13 3 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.33%) Figma
14 2 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.21%) DHCP
2 5 (2.21%) DNS
3 4 (1.77%) Firewall
3 4 (1.77%) VPN
4 3 (1.33%) LAN
5 2 (0.88%) BGP
5 2 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.88%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.88%) MPLS
5 2 (0.88%) Network Security
5 2 (0.88%) OSPF
5 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.88%) WAN
6 1 (0.44%) Skype
6 1 (0.44%) SWIFTNet
6 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.44%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (19.91%) Power BI
2 28 (12.39%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.85%) SQL Server
4 14 (6.19%) Tableau
5 13 (5.75%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.42%) Data Lake
6 10 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.98%) Star Schema
8 7 (3.10%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.10%) MySQL
9 6 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.65%) Data Vault
10 5 (2.21%) Metadata
11 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (6.19%) Git
2 10 (4.42%) JIRA
3 9 (3.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.77%) GitLab
6 3 (1.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.44%) Babel
7 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 92 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 89 (39.38%) Finance
3 83 (36.73%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.95%) Law
5 21 (9.29%) Banking
6 20 (8.85%) Marketing
7 19 (8.41%) Retail
8 12 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (4.42%) Legal
11 9 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (2.21%) Games
13 5 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.21%) Social Housing
14 4 (1.77%) Local Government
14 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.33%) Military
16 2 (0.88%) Advertising
16 2 (0.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 44 (19.47%) Developer
2 32 (14.16%) Senior
3 31 (13.72%) Analyst
4 25 (11.06%) SQL Developer
5 22 (9.73%) Lead
6 16 (7.08%) Database Developer
6 16 (7.08%) SQL Database Developer
7 12 (5.31%) Architect
8 11 (4.87%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.42%) Designer
9 10 (4.42%) Graduate
9 10 (4.42%) Senior Manager
10 9 (3.98%) Business Developer
10 9 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (3.98%) ETL Developer
10 9 (3.98%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.98%) Power BI Developer
10 9 (3.98%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) SQL BI Developer
11 8 (3.54%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.65%) AngularJS
1 6 (2.65%) Middleware
1 6 (2.65%) PySpark
2 5 (2.21%) CSS
2 5 (2.21%) HTML
2 5 (2.21%) React
3 4 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.77%) LangChain
3 4 (1.77%) Node.js
3 4 (1.77%) RESTful
4 3 (1.33%) .NET
4 3 (1.33%) pytest
4 3 (1.33%) REST
4 3 (1.33%) Svelte
5 2 (0.88%) CSS3
5 2 (0.88%) HTML5
5 2 (0.88%) OpenID
5 2 (0.88%) ServiceStack
5 2 (0.88%) Visualforce
5 2 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.54%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.10%) NHS
4 7 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.65%) Housing Association
5 6 (2.65%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.21%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.77%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.77%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.77%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.10%) Windows
2 6 (2.65%) Linux
3 3 (1.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (60.62%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (22.57%) Analytics
3 49 (21.68%) Business Intelligence
4 47 (20.80%) Artificial Intelligence
5 40 (17.70%) Agile
5 40 (17.70%) Decision-Making
5 40 (17.70%) Project Management
6 29 (12.83%) Mentoring
7 25 (11.06%) Analytical Thinking
7 25 (11.06%) CI/CD
7 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (11.06%) Customer Service
7 25 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (10.62%) Business Analysis
8 24 (10.62%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 23 (10.18%) Data Management
9 23 (10.18%) Roadmaps
10 20 (8.85%) CRM
10 20 (8.85%) Thought Leadership
11 19 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (26.55%) SQL
2 43 (19.03%) Python
3 16 (7.08%) T-SQL
4 14 (6.19%) Java
5 9 (3.98%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.21%) C#
7 5 (2.21%) R
8 4 (1.77%) C
8 4 (1.77%) C++
9 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.33%) Julia
9 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.33%) VBA
10 2 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.88%) Bash
10 2 (0.88%) Delphi
11 1 (0.44%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.44%) PHP
11 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (26.11%) Degree
2 22 (9.73%) CBAP
3 21 (9.29%) PMI Certification
4 20 (8.85%) PMP
5 19 (8.41%) DBS Check
5 19 (8.41%) Master's Degree
6 16 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.87%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.88%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.64%) GDPR
3 12 (5.31%) QA
4 10 (4.42%) PCI DSS
5 9 (3.98%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.77%) SLA
9 1 (0.44%) COSHH
9 1 (0.44%) DICOM
9 1 (0.44%) HL7
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 16 (7.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (10.62%) Terraform
2 14 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.33%) Ansible
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
4 2 (0.88%) MIIS
4 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 39 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.52%) YouTube
3 14 (6.19%) Google
4 11 (4.87%) Adobe
5 10 (4.42%) Databricks
6 9 (3.98%) Dell
7 8 (3.54%) SAP
8 7 (3.10%) TikTok
9 6 (2.65%) Informatica
10 5 (2.21%) Ariba
10 5 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.21%) Splunk
11 4 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.77%) Remedy
11 4 (1.77%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.33%) Cisco
12 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
13 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.88%) Veeam