Innovative Thinking Jobs in Oxfordshire

Innovative Thinking
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 99 76
Rank change year-on-year +40 -23 +48
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 10 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.41% 0.29% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.37% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £38,625
25th Percentile - - £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,652 - £71,250
75th Percentile £73,576 - £74,063
90th Percentile £81,930 - £74,625
South East median annual salary £59,652 £36,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +65.70% +10.77% -27.78%

All Process and 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 646 1,083 901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 91.24% 79.05% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 357 713 670
10th Percentile £26,050 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,620 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,750 £70,094
90th Percentile £75,500 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking 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
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in Oxfordshire

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 21 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Carterton - 7 - -
Oxford +15 2 £59,652 -
Innovative Thinking
South East

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Q-Pulse
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Aerospace
2 7 (70.00%) Aviation
2 7 (70.00%) Military
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Local Government
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Business Development Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Business Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) e-Learning
1 7 (70.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Customer Requirements
1 7 (70.00%) Data Analysis
1 7 (70.00%) Migration
1 7 (70.00%) Regression Testing
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (20.00%) Business Development
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Budget Control
3 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (10.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PL/SQL
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA