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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 353 449
Rank change year-on-year +60 +96 -167
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 113 164 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.67% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.74% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 51 96 92
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,283 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,652 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £68,750 £70,588
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -2.60% +0.84%
75th Percentile £115,000 £77,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £95,000 £107,000
England median annual salary £59,652 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.46% -15.38% +8.33%

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 12,365 22,024 29,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.05% 89.45% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,970 15,999 21,947
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +29 13 £67,500 +1.22% 5
East London -24 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 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.65%) nginx
2 3 (2.65%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.77%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Mule
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.88%) InDesign
1 1 (0.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.05%) AWS
2 25 (22.12%) Azure
3 23 (20.35%) GCP
4 8 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (5.31%) Figma
6 4 (3.54%) Google Docs
6 4 (3.54%) Google Sheets
6 4 (3.54%) Miro
6 4 (3.54%) Slack
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.65%) Serverless
8 2 (1.77%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.77%) Collibra
8 2 (1.77%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.77%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.77%) Multicast
3 2 (1.77%) Network Security
3 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) BGP
4 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) DNS
4 1 (0.88%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.88%) MPLS
4 1 (0.88%) OSPF
4 1 (0.88%) SSH
4 1 (0.88%) Unicast
4 1 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.58%) Metadata
2 20 (17.70%) Data Lake
3 11 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.54%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.65%) Power BI
6 2 (1.77%) MySQL
6 2 (1.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) IntelliJ
2 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
2 5 (4.42%) Maven
3 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.65%) JUnit
3 3 (2.65%) Mockito
3 3 (2.65%) Postman
3 3 (2.65%) Selenium
3 3 (2.65%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.65%) TestNG
4 2 (1.77%) Git
General
1 41 (36.28%) Finance
2 32 (28.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (27.43%) Banking
4 30 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (23.89%) Social Skills
6 26 (23.01%) Retail Banking
7 24 (21.24%) Financial Institution
8 7 (6.19%) Marketing
9 5 (4.42%) Law
9 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.65%) Legal
10 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.77%) German Language
11 2 (1.77%) Local Government
11 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (18.58%) Architect
1 21 (18.58%) Lead
2 20 (17.70%) Data Architect
3 19 (16.81%) Associate Director
4 13 (11.50%) Java Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Team Leader
6 8 (7.08%) Lead Java Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Senior
8 5 (4.42%) Change Portfolio Manager
8 5 (4.42%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.42%) Portfolio Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Content Strategist
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (2.65%) Business Manager
10 3 (2.65%) Consultant
10 3 (2.65%) Digital Product Owner
10 3 (2.65%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (2.65%) Product Owner
10 3 (2.65%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.65%) SEO Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.50%) React
2 11 (9.73%) RESTful
3 9 (7.96%) Flutter
3 9 (7.96%) React Native
4 5 (4.42%) REST
5 4 (3.54%) Keras
5 4 (3.54%) NumPy
5 4 (3.54%) SciPy
5 4 (3.54%) SpaCy
5 4 (3.54%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.65%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.65%) Guice
6 3 (2.65%) Kafka
6 3 (2.65%) Mustache
6 3 (2.65%) Node.js
6 3 (2.65%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.65%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.65%) Swagger
6 3 (2.65%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
1 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.65%) Life Science
3 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.88%) Graphic Design
4 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Social Media
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.71%) Agile
2 41 (36.28%) Business Development
3 38 (33.63%) Data Strategy
4 31 (27.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (25.66%) Collaborative Culture
6 28 (24.78%) Analytics
7 26 (23.01%) Data Management
8 24 (21.24%) Asset Management
8 24 (21.24%) Commercialisation
8 24 (21.24%) Data Privacy
8 24 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (20.35%) Project Delivery
10 21 (18.58%) DevOps
10 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (17.70%) Data Architecture
11 20 (17.70%) Data Migration
11 20 (17.70%) Logical Data Model
11 20 (17.70%) Metadata Management
11 20 (17.70%) Migration
11 20 (17.70%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.50%) Java
2 7 (6.19%) SQL
3 6 (5.31%) Python
4 5 (4.42%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.77%) PHP
7 1 (0.88%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) Perl
7 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) AWS Certification
1 20 (17.70%) Azure Certification
2 16 (14.16%) Degree
3 11 (9.73%) DBS Check
4 8 (7.08%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.54%) PhD
7 3 (2.65%) CCIE
7 3 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.77%) CCNP
8 2 (1.77%) JNCIE
8 2 (1.77%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.77%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) MBA
9 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.88%) PMP
9 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.54%) GDPR
2 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.77%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.77%) NIST
2 2 (1.77%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
3 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 11 (9.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.65%) Ansible
2 3 (2.65%) Kustomize
2 3 (2.65%) Packer
2 3 (2.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.08%) Google
3 3 (2.65%) Adobe
3 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.88%) Aderant
4 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.88%) Cisco
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud