Critical Thinking Jobs in the North of England

Critical Thinking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Critical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Critical 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 310 339 247
Rank change year-on-year +29 -92 +144
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 37 60 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.33% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.40% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18 45 52
10th Percentile £40,125 £30,000 £25,100
25th Percentile £51,875 £37,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £68,438 £58,750 £57,931
90th Percentile £70,834 - £80,125
England median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +11.36% -2.65% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 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%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the North of England

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the North of England

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the North of England

Critical 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 Critical 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 -3 22 £57,500 +43.75% 109
Yorkshire +45 10 £65,000 +23.81% 105
North East +51 5 £57,500 -14.81% 26
Critical Thinking
England

Critical 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 2 (5.41%) ArcGIS
1 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (5.41%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.70%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
1 8 (21.62%) Power Platform
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) GCP
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) Google Sheets
4 1 (2.70%) NuGet
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Power BI
1 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.22%) MySQL
2 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.70%) GIS
3 1 (2.70%) Looker
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power Query
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Mocha
3 1 (2.70%) Sinon.JS
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Finance
4 6 (16.22%) Banking
5 5 (13.51%) Marketing
6 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.70%) Advertising
9 1 (2.70%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (2.70%) Games
9 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Law
9 1 (2.70%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Lead
3 6 (16.22%) Database Developer
3 6 (16.22%) SQL Database Developer
3 6 (16.22%) SQL Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Data Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Strategy Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Operations Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Node.js
2 4 (10.81%) Middleware
2 4 (10.81%) Svelte
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.70%) EDI
4 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Laravel
4 1 (2.70%) MSMQ
4 1 (2.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) NHS
2 4 (10.81%) Digital Media
2 4 (10.81%) Hackathon
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.41%) ASTM
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) New Media
5 1 (2.70%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.70%) Robotics
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (45.95%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (37.84%) Decision-Making
4 13 (35.14%) Analytics
5 12 (32.43%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (27.03%) Agile
7 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (21.62%) Mentoring
9 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
9 7 (18.92%) Line Management
10 6 (16.22%) Database Optimisation
10 6 (16.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 6 (16.22%) Visualisation
11 5 (13.51%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
12 4 (10.81%) Co-Creation
12 4 (10.81%) Front End Development
12 4 (10.81%) Secure Coding
12 4 (10.81%) Storytelling
12 4 (10.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) T-SQL
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.11%) Python
6 1 (2.70%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.70%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.70%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) Java
6 1 (2.70%) PHP
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.70%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.70%) VBA
6 1 (2.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) DBS Check
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) CBAP
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Adobe
2 2 (5.41%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.70%) IBM
3 1 (2.70%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk