Innovative Thinking Jobs in the Midlands

Innovative Thinking
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 249 288
Rank change year-on-year +3 +39 -9
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 10 71 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.60% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.73% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9 50 6
10th Percentile £28,200 £27,500 £49,375
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,329 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -37.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £66,000 £67,750 £92,875
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -15.38% +26.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,477 9,753 8,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.63% 81.88% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 7,144 4,454
10th Percentile £27,331 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £34,959 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
West Midlands +20 7 £37,500 -31.82% 14
East Midlands +8 3 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Digital Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation
1 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Business Development Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior PHP Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Laravel
1 1 (10.00%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) HND
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Zoho