Critical Thinking Job Trends in Merseyside

Critical Thinking
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 54 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +32
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 4 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.65% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £58,125 - £52,500
90th Percentile £59,250 - -
North West median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +57.89% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 464 458 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 75.69% 89.80% 85.40%
Number of salaries quoted 272 202 369
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,275
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,000 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.26% -1.05%
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,438 £61,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Critical Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Liverpool +2 4 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Critical Thinking
North West

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (100.00%) Looker
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) CRM
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 4 (100.00%) Economics
1 4 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Statistics
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) HubSpot