Creative Thinking Job Trends in Leeds

Creative Thinking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 85 87
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +49
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 3 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.21% 0.49% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.54% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +26.67% -43.54%
75th Percentile £50,443 £48,750 £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £48,445 £71,069 £57,500
% change year-on-year -31.83% +23.60% -17.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,115 923 1,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 78.47% 89.70% 92.26%
Number of salaries quoted 740 521 1,039
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £41,074 £41,000 £42,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Leeds

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Navisworks
1 1 (33.33%) ProjectWise
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) NGFW
1 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Network Operations Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) 3D Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Building Information Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 19650
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Arista
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) NetScout
2 1 (33.33%) Autodesk