Creative Thinking Job Trends in Reading

Creative Thinking
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 68 92
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 +16
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 5 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.87% 1.24% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.40% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £43,000 £23,000 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £27,253 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,675 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% - -
75th Percentile £46,250 £43,338 -
90th Percentile £47,000 £57,919 -
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £41,675 -
% change year-on-year +7.98% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Creative 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 454 641 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 78.82% 88.29% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 291 274 647
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,813 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +14.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,875 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £112,125 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Reading

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Canva
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (20.00%) React Developer
1 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
1 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Web Applications Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Web Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Web UI Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Web UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media
2 1 (20.00%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infographics
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft