Creative Thinking Jobs in the North of England

Creative Thinking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 319 294
Rank change year-on-year +164 -25 -53
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 249 80 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.13% 0.44% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 0.53% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 18 28 50
10th Percentile £18,500 £23,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £26,188 £44,359
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,445 £33,531 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +65.35% -47.63% +28.06%
75th Percentile £77,500 £56,276 £72,500
90th Percentile - £66,350 £81,725
England median annual salary £75,000 £48,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +54.64% -25.38% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,999 15,011 15,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.29% 81.77% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,481 11,439 7,819
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the North of England

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the North of England.

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the North of England

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the North of England

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North West +142 226 £50,890 +33.92% 113
Yorkshire +43 20 £82,319 +37.20% 123
North East +42 3 - - 32
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.80%) CMS
2 2 (0.80%) WordPress
3 1 (0.40%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.82%) Azure
2 7 (2.81%) AWS
2 7 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (2.81%) GCP
3 5 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (2.01%) Mimecast
4 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (1.61%) Serverless
5 2 (0.80%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) Intranet
2 5 (2.01%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (2.01%) Wireless
3 4 (1.61%) Broadband
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.80%) MySQL
2 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.40%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 174 (69.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 174 (69.88%) Law
1 174 (69.88%) Legal
2 46 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 45 (18.07%) Finance
4 44 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.04%) Marketing
6 6 (2.41%) Banking
7 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (0.80%) Billing
9 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (10.44%) Senior
2 10 (4.02%) Analyst
3 7 (2.81%) CRM Executive
3 7 (2.81%) Risk Manager
4 6 (2.41%) Project Manager
5 5 (2.01%) Bid Manager
5 5 (2.01%) IT Analyst
5 5 (2.01%) Radio Engineer
5 5 (2.01%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (2.01%) Service Analyst
5 5 (2.01%) Service Desk Analyst
5 5 (2.01%) Software Engineer
6 4 (1.61%) Assistant Project Manager
6 4 (1.61%) Bid Project Manager
6 4 (1.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 4 (1.61%) Senior Manager
7 3 (1.20%) IT Manager
7 3 (1.20%) Junior
7 3 (1.20%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (1.20%) Relationships Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.80%) AngularJS
1 2 (0.80%) CSS
1 2 (0.80%) Django
1 2 (0.80%) HTML
1 2 (0.80%) Node.js
1 2 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 172 (69.08%) Cyberattack
2 10 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.81%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.61%) Blog
5 4 (1.61%) Robotics
5 4 (1.61%) Social Media
6 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.80%) CMDB
7 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.80%) PMI
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.01%) Windows
1 5 (2.01%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (71.89%) Line Management
2 174 (69.88%) Cybersecurity
3 46 (18.47%) Agile
4 35 (14.06%) Risk Management
5 33 (13.25%) Coaching
6 26 (10.44%) Analytics
7 25 (10.04%) Mentoring
8 20 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (6.83%) Business Strategy
9 17 (6.83%) Strategic Thinking
10 16 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (6.43%) Time Management
11 15 (6.02%) Customer Service
11 15 (6.02%) Internal Audit
12 14 (5.62%) Data Analytics
13 13 (5.22%) Technology Strategy
14 12 (4.82%) Business Transformation
14 12 (4.82%) Customer Experience
15 11 (4.42%) Business Development
16 9 (3.61%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.41%) Python
2 4 (1.61%) TypeScript
3 2 (0.80%) C#
3 2 (0.80%) C++
3 2 (0.80%) Java
3 2 (0.80%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.80%) PHP
4 1 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 12 (4.82%) ACCA
1 12 (4.82%) CCAB
1 12 (4.82%) CIMA
1 12 (4.82%) CIPFA
1 12 (4.82%) ICAEW
2 9 (3.61%) Degree
3 4 (1.61%) PhD
4 3 (1.20%) CISA
4 3 (1.20%) CRISC
5 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.80%) PMP
5 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (69.08%) NCSC
2 5 (2.01%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.61%) ITGC
4 3 (1.20%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (2.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.01%) SCCM
2 1 (0.40%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 7 (2.81%) Microsoft
1 7 (2.81%) ServiceNow
2 5 (2.01%) Sophos
2 5 (2.01%) Xilinx
3 4 (1.61%) Twitter
4 2 (0.80%) Google
5 1 (0.40%) IBM
5 1 (0.40%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.40%) Splunk