Innovative Thinking Jobs in London

Innovative Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 408 420
Rank change year-on-year +126 +12 -149
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 118 74 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.41% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 51 39 69
10th Percentile £56,250 £37,283 £48,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £39,266 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £66,690 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.94% -23.78% +16.67%
75th Percentile £126,250 £75,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £89,500 £115,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,161 £63,750
% change year-on-year +17.84% -13.47% -1.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,205 18,039 23,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.61% 89.51% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,270 11,654 18,654
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in London

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking in London.

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in London

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in London

Innovative Thinking
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the London region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Central London +37 9 £82,500 +35.59% 11
East London - 1 - -
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.54%) nginx
2 3 (2.54%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Mule
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.85%) InDesign
1 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.98%) AWS
2 27 (22.88%) Azure
3 25 (21.19%) GCP
4 10 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (5.08%) Figma
6 4 (3.39%) Google Docs
6 4 (3.39%) Google Sheets
6 4 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.39%) Miro
6 4 (3.39%) Slack
7 3 (2.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (2.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.54%) PaaS
7 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.54%) SaaS
8 2 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.69%) Collibra
8 2 (1.69%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) Broadband
1 4 (3.39%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) Intranet
2 3 (2.54%) VPN
3 2 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.69%) Multicast
3 2 (1.69%) Network Security
3 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.85%) DHCP
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.85%) MPLS
4 1 (0.85%) OSPF
4 1 (0.85%) SSH
4 1 (0.85%) Unicast
4 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.49%) Metadata
2 22 (18.64%) Data Lake
3 13 (11.02%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.39%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.39%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.54%) Power BI
6 2 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) IntelliJ
2 3 (2.54%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.54%) JUnit
2 3 (2.54%) Maven
2 3 (2.54%) Mockito
2 3 (2.54%) Postman
2 3 (2.54%) Selenium
2 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
2 3 (2.54%) TestNG
General
1 43 (36.44%) Finance
2 34 (28.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (27.97%) Banking
4 30 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
6 28 (23.73%) Retail Banking
7 26 (22.03%) Financial Institution
8 7 (5.93%) Marketing
9 6 (5.08%) Law
10 5 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (4.24%) Legal
10 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.69%) Local Government
13 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (22.03%) Architect
2 22 (18.64%) Data Architect
3 21 (17.80%) Lead
4 19 (16.10%) Associate Director
5 13 (11.02%) Java Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Lead Java Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Senior
8 6 (5.08%) Team Leader
9 5 (4.24%) Change Portfolio Manager
9 5 (4.24%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.24%) Portfolio Manager
10 4 (3.39%) Content Strategist
10 4 (3.39%) Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.39%) Systems Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Administrator
11 3 (2.54%) Digital Product Owner
11 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
11 3 (2.54%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.02%) RESTful
2 10 (8.47%) React
3 6 (5.08%) Flutter
3 6 (5.08%) React Native
4 4 (3.39%) Keras
4 4 (3.39%) Node.js
4 4 (3.39%) NumPy
4 4 (3.39%) SciPy
4 4 (3.39%) SpaCy
4 4 (3.39%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.54%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.54%) JAX-RS
5 3 (2.54%) Kafka
5 3 (2.54%) Mustache
5 3 (2.54%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.54%) REST
5 3 (2.54%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.54%) Swagger
5 3 (2.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.39%) IoT
3 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.39%) Smart Home
4 3 (2.54%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (2.54%) Life Science
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.85%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Social Media
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.37%) Agile
2 43 (36.44%) Business Development
3 40 (33.90%) Data Strategy
4 32 (27.12%) Analytics
4 32 (27.12%) Artificial Intelligence
5 28 (23.73%) Data Management
5 28 (23.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (22.03%) Asset Management
6 26 (22.03%) Collaborative Culture
6 26 (22.03%) Commercialisation
6 26 (22.03%) Data Privacy
7 25 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (19.49%) DevOps
8 23 (19.49%) Project Delivery
9 22 (18.64%) Data Architecture
9 22 (18.64%) Data Migration
9 22 (18.64%) Logical Data Model
9 22 (18.64%) Metadata Management
9 22 (18.64%) Migration
9 22 (18.64%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.02%) Java
2 10 (8.47%) Python
3 7 (5.93%) SQL
4 5 (4.24%) Ruby
5 4 (3.39%) PHP
5 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.85%) Bash
6 1 (0.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (18.64%) AWS Certification
1 22 (18.64%) Azure Certification
2 16 (13.56%) Degree
3 12 (10.17%) Master's Degree
4 11 (9.32%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.39%) PhD
6 3 (2.54%) CCIE
6 3 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.69%) CCNP
7 2 (1.69%) CEH
7 2 (1.69%) CISM
7 2 (1.69%) CISSP
7 2 (1.69%) CRISC
7 2 (1.69%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.69%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.69%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) GDPR
1 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.39%) NIST
2 3 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.69%) GRC
3 2 (1.69%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.69%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (14.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) Ansible
2 3 (2.54%) Kustomize
2 3 (2.54%) Packer
2 3 (2.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) Google
3 3 (2.54%) Adobe
3 3 (2.54%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.85%) Aderant
4 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.85%) Cisco
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle
4 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud