Innovative Thinking Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Innovative Thinking
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Innovative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 72 67
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 +44
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 1 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.14% 0.64% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.74% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £44,000 -
South East median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% +50.00% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 531 679 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 71.95% 86.61% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 373 333 556
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,404
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £83,000 £81,000 £78,125
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Innovative Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Innovative Thinking job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Innovative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Innovative Thinking

Innovative Thinking
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Carterton - 1 - -
Innovative Thinking
South East

Innovative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Q-Pulse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality