Innovative Thinking Jobs in the North of England

Innovative Thinking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 276 253 327
Rank change year-on-year -23 +74 -5
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 52 139 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.79% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.95% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 103 18
10th Percentile £43,250 £28,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,329 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,084 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -28.16% +52.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £71,983 £95,629
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -15.38% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 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%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the North of England

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the North of England

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the North of England

Innovative 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 Innovative 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 -30 46 £48,750 -6.40% 22
Yorkshire +33 6 £70,000 +50.68% 7
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative 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 15 (28.85%) IBM Domino
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) SAS
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.69%) AWS
2 3 (5.77%) GitHub
3 1 (1.92%) Azure
3 1 (1.92%) GCP
3 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.77%) SQLite
2 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.85%) MySQL
2 2 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
1 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (36.54%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (34.62%) Manufacturing
3 8 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Marketing
4 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Automotive
5 3 (5.77%) Electronics
6 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Delivery Project Manager
1 20 (38.46%) Project Manager
2 15 (28.85%) QA Manager
2 15 (28.85%) Quality Manager
3 3 (5.77%) Analyst
3 3 (5.77%) Portfolio Manager
3 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Developer
4 2 (3.85%) Insight Analyst
4 2 (3.85%) Lead
4 2 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (1.92%) Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Bid Manager
5 1 (1.92%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Head of CRM
5 1 (1.92%) Lead Developer
5 1 (1.92%) Product Owner
5 1 (1.92%) Python Developer
5 1 (1.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) .NET
1 3 (5.77%) HTML
1 3 (5.77%) JSON
1 3 (5.77%) LINQ
1 3 (5.77%) Next.js
1 3 (5.77%) Node.js
1 3 (5.77%) WPF
2 2 (3.85%) FastAPI
2 2 (3.85%) Flask
2 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
1 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
1 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (40.38%) Project Delivery
2 21 (40.38%) Project Management
3 20 (38.46%) Programme Delivery
3 20 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (28.85%) Analytical Thinking
4 15 (28.85%) Logistics
5 12 (23.08%) Agile
6 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (9.62%) Mathematics
6 5 (9.62%) OO
6 5 (9.62%) OOP
6 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (7.69%) PRINCE2
8 3 (5.77%) Portfolio Management
8 3 (5.77%) Scrum
8 3 (5.77%) Software Engineering
8 3 (5.77%) TDD
8 3 (5.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) C#
1 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (3.85%) Java
3 2 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
2 18 (34.62%) Degree
3 3 (5.77%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (34.62%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Ansible
1 2 (3.85%) Grafana
1 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) EMC
2 1 (1.92%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
2 1 (1.92%) Sparx