Critical Thinking Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Critical Thinking
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 74 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.31% 0.30% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £49,250 - -
25th Percentile £51,875 £77,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £69,375 £82,500 -
90th Percentile £72,750 - -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% -37.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 605 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.20% 91.81% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 344 259 494
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £35,536 £42,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £66,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,525
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +7.49%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Critical Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Critical Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in Gloucestershire

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
Critical Thinking
South West

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CAD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware