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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 330 274
Rank change year-on-year +40 -56 +107
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 38 61 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.35% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.42% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 19 45 53
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,000 £25,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,834 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.04% +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 10,969 14,596 16,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.96% 83.43% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,881 11,211 7,960
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £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 £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
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 11 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 11 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 -11 22 £57,500 +43.75% 56
Yorkshire +53 11 £65,759 +25.25% 13
North East +55 5 £57,500 -14.81% 7
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 (5.26%) ArcGIS
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (5.26%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Power BI
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
3 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.53%) MySQL
4 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.53%) Tableau
5 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.63%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.63%) GIS
6 1 (2.63%) Metadata
6 1 (2.63%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) Babel
4 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Banking
5 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Marketing
5 4 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (7.89%) Games
6 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) Cantonese Language
7 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Law
7 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Lead
2 11 (28.95%) Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Database Developer
3 6 (15.79%) SQL Database Developer
3 6 (15.79%) SQL Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Data Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Strategy Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Operations Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Node.js
2 3 (7.89%) Middleware
2 3 (7.89%) Svelte
3 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.63%) CSS
4 1 (2.63%) EDI
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) Kafka
4 1 (2.63%) Laravel
4 1 (2.63%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (2.63%) Next.js
4 1 (2.63%) React
4 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (2.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (2.63%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) NHS
2 4 (10.53%) Digital Media
2 4 (10.53%) Hackathon
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.26%) ASTM
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.63%) Robotics
5 1 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (31.58%) Analytics
3 12 (31.58%) Decision-Making
4 11 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (28.95%) Mentoring
5 10 (26.32%) Agile
6 8 (21.05%) Line Management
7 7 (18.42%) Visualisation
8 6 (15.79%) Database Optimisation
8 6 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (13.16%) Business Strategy
9 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.16%) IT Strategy
9 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
9 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 5 (13.16%) Technology Strategy
9 5 (13.16%) User Experience
10 4 (10.53%) Customer Insight
10 4 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) T-SQL
3 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.63%) ActionScript
4 1 (2.63%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (2.63%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) PHP
4 1 (2.63%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.63%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) DBS Check
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) CBAP
4 1 (2.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) GDPR
2 4 (10.53%) QA
3 3 (7.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Ansible
1 2 (5.26%) Grafana
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Informatica
3 2 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) StreamSets