Critical Thinking Jobs in England

Critical Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 363 464
Rank change year-on-year -111 +101 +117
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 392 814 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.90% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.95% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 267 371 438
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,000 £28,545
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -11.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Critical Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,254 86,133 128,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 53,821 51,154 73,474
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 -2 161 £75,000 +15.38% 119
North of England -52 61 £52,500 +16.67% 39
South East -61 55 £55,223 +10.45% 36
South West -44 46 £50,000 -39.39% 27
Midlands -52 45 £42,350 -19.33% 22
North West -31 35 £40,000 -11.11% 22
West Midlands -18 32 £24,000 -56.36% 11
Yorkshire +36 25 £52,500 +5.12% 11
East of England +9 20 £43,500 -47.27% 9
East Midlands -28 9 £46,000 +2.22% 11
North East -34 1 £67,500 +68.75% 6
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 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.83%) Confluence
3 7 (1.79%) CMS
3 7 (1.79%) SAS
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.02%) WordPress
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) Drupal
5 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.26%) Luigi
Applications
1 37 (9.44%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.77%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.77%) Sketch
5 2 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.51%) InDesign
5 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.26%) 1Password
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) InVision
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.53%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (1.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.28%) Odoo
3 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.77%) Shopify
4 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.26%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 66 (16.84%) Azure
2 56 (14.29%) AWS
3 38 (9.69%) Power Platform
4 30 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.59%) SaaS
6 11 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (2.81%) GCP
6 11 (2.81%) Serverless
7 10 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.53%) OCI
10 5 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.28%) PaaS
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.02%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.42%) Wi-Fi
2 29 (7.40%) Network Security
3 25 (6.38%) Wireless
4 24 (6.12%) 5G
5 22 (5.61%) Bluetooth
5 22 (5.61%) GSM
5 22 (5.61%) ISDN
5 22 (5.61%) LTE
5 22 (5.61%) PSTN
5 22 (5.61%) UMTS
6 16 (4.08%) WAN
7 14 (3.57%) LAN
8 11 (2.81%) Firewall
9 6 (1.53%) Internet
10 5 (1.28%) BGP
10 5 (1.28%) DNS
10 5 (1.28%) OSPF
10 5 (1.28%) SNMP
10 5 (1.28%) VLAN
10 5 (1.28%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.18%) Power BI
2 29 (7.40%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.83%) Tableau
5 10 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.30%) GIS
7 6 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.53%) MySQL
7 6 (1.53%) SAP BW
7 6 (1.53%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.28%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.28%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.02%) Big Data
9 4 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.02%) Spatial Data
9 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (10.20%) JIRA
2 28 (7.14%) Burp Suite
2 28 (7.14%) Metasploit
3 22 (5.61%) LabVIEW
4 20 (5.10%) Git
5 10 (2.55%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.53%) Selenium
8 5 (1.28%) Jaeger
8 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.02%) Appium
9 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.77%) GitLab
11 2 (0.51%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.51%) git-flow
11 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.51%) WiX
12 1 (0.26%) Moq
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 229 (58.42%) Social Skills
2 139 (35.46%) Analytical Skills
3 107 (27.30%) Finance
4 50 (12.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (11.99%) Marketing
6 31 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
6 31 (7.91%) Telecoms
7 29 (7.40%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (7.40%) Retail
8 23 (5.87%) Law
9 22 (5.61%) Banking
10 19 (4.85%) Legal
11 15 (3.83%) Publishing
12 14 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (3.57%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.81%) Tech for Good
14 8 (2.04%) French Language
15 7 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.79%) Games
15 7 (1.79%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 48 (12.24%) Analyst
2 45 (11.48%) Senior
3 40 (10.20%) Developer
4 34 (8.67%) Tester
5 28 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
6 25 (6.38%) Architect
7 24 (6.12%) Project Manager
8 23 (5.87%) Lead
9 16 (4.08%) Consultant
10 15 (3.83%) Hardware Engineer
11 14 (3.57%) Designer
12 13 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (3.32%) Product Manager
13 12 (3.06%) Senior Manager
13 12 (3.06%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.55%) Help Desk Analyst
14 10 (2.55%) IT Manager
14 10 (2.55%) Test Engineer
15 8 (2.04%) Business Analyst
15 8 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.87%) CSS
2 19 (4.85%) Node.js
2 19 (4.85%) React
3 16 (4.08%) HTML
4 14 (3.57%) .NET
5 11 (2.81%) Web Services
6 10 (2.55%) Vue
7 8 (2.04%) .NET Framework
7 8 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.04%) Django
8 6 (1.53%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.28%) Kafka
9 5 (1.28%) Middleware
9 5 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.28%) RESTful
9 5 (1.28%) Sass
9 5 (1.28%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.02%) LDAP
10 4 (1.02%) REST
10 4 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.42%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (7.91%) Management Information System
3 24 (6.12%) Algorithms
3 24 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.61%) Acoustics
4 22 (5.61%) Satnav
5 18 (4.59%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.32%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.81%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.81%) Social Media
8 9 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.53%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.53%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.53%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.28%) Robotics
11 5 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.24%) Linux
2 28 (7.14%) Kali Linux
3 11 (2.81%) Windows
4 10 (2.55%) Android
5 9 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (60.97%) Problem-Solving
2 135 (34.44%) Agile
3 94 (23.98%) Computer Science
4 90 (22.96%) Project Management
5 65 (16.58%) Cybersecurity
6 59 (15.05%) Mentoring
7 54 (13.78%) Coaching
8 49 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 49 (12.50%) Data Management
9 48 (12.24%) Analytical Thinking
10 47 (11.99%) Information Security
11 45 (11.48%) Test Automation
12 44 (11.22%) Roadmaps
13 42 (10.71%) Analytics
14 41 (10.46%) DevOps
14 41 (10.46%) User Experience
15 40 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (10.20%) Software Engineering
16 38 (9.69%) Decision-Making
17 37 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.15%) Python
2 56 (14.29%) SQL
3 39 (9.95%) JavaScript
4 32 (8.16%) C#
5 18 (4.59%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.57%) Java
7 13 (3.32%) PHP
8 10 (2.55%) R
9 8 (2.04%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.28%) Ruby
11 4 (1.02%) Scala
12 3 (0.77%) Bash
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) C++
13 2 (0.51%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) VB
14 1 (0.26%) Bicep
14 1 (0.26%) SOQL
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 177 (45.15%) Degree
2 50 (12.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.81%) Master's Degree
3 11 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.77%) CISM
8 3 (0.77%) ISEB
8 3 (0.77%) MCT
8 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.51%) CCNP
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) CISSP
9 2 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.51%) GCFA
9 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.42%) QA
2 15 (3.83%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.83%) GDPR
3 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.53%) GAAP
3 6 (1.53%) IFRS
3 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.28%) SLA
5 4 (1.02%) PMO
6 3 (0.77%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) COBIT
7 1 (0.26%) COSHH
7 1 (0.26%) COSO
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) SEPA
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.57%) Docker
3 8 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.51%) NFS
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (3.06%) Kubernetes
1 12 (3.06%) Terraform
2 6 (1.53%) Ansible
3 5 (1.28%) Kiali
4 3 (0.77%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.51%) SCCM
5 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 89 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.38%) SAP
3 15 (3.83%) Google
4 13 (3.32%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.81%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.04%) Oracle
7 6 (1.53%) Databricks
7 6 (1.53%) Dell
7 6 (1.53%) Pega
7 6 (1.53%) PeopleSoft
7 6 (1.53%) Progress
7 6 (1.53%) Splunk
7 6 (1.53%) UiPath
8 5 (1.28%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.28%) Intel
9 4 (1.02%) Adobe
9 4 (1.02%) Mapbox
10 3 (0.77%) iManage
10 3 (0.77%) OneTrust
10 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow