Critical Thinking Jobs in the North West

Critical Thinking
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 257 235
Rank change year-on-year 0 -22 +58
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 22 35 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.28% 0.36% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.43% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 33
10th Percentile £46,525 £27,750 £22,850
25th Percentile £53,125 £34,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,938 £49,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,573 8,141 7,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.73% 82.81% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,126 6,183 3,906
10th Percentile £26,943 £27,500 £30,791
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester +57 9 £75,000 +100.00% 28
Merseyside +46 8 £57,500 +17.35% 1
Cheshire +13 4 - - 23
Lancashire -61 1 £52,500 +41.43% 14
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 4 (18.18%) Tableau
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.55%) GIS
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) Neo4j
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) Babel
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 4 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Games
6 1 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Database Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Database Developer
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Operations Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 3 (13.64%) Middleware
2 3 (13.64%) Svelte
3 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) EDI
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Laravel
4 1 (4.55%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (4.55%) Next.js
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Digital Media
1 4 (18.18%) NHS
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
4 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 4 (18.18%) Adaptive Web Design
6 4 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Co-Creation
6 4 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (18.18%) Customer Insight
6 4 (18.18%) Data Architecture
6 4 (18.18%) Data Management
6 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 4 (18.18%) IT Strategy
6 4 (18.18%) Personalization
6 4 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
1 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
2 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.55%) PHP
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) DBS Check
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) CBAP
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
1 3 (13.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Grafana
1 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Informatica
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) StreamSets