Creative Thinking Jobs in the South West

Creative Thinking
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Creative 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 154 184 211
Rank change year-on-year +30 +27 +49
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 25 102 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.70% 1.10% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.31% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 13
10th Percentile £45,250 £30,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,280 £31,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £42,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +56.16% -15.40% +13.34%
75th Percentile £78,903 £60,000 £53,029
90th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £65,500
England median annual salary £66,934 £49,000 £66,911
% change year-on-year +36.60% -26.77% +7.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,345 7,760 6,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.28% 83.57% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,940 5,572 3,564
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,163
90th Percentile £77,625 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the South West

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South West.

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the South West

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the South West

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the South West 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
Devon +12 15 £45,000 - 1
Bristol +27 8 £66,367 +104.21% 14
Wiltshire +39 1 - - 2
Somerset - 1 - - 3
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (8.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (8.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Figma
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) 5G
1 8 (32.00%) SD-WAN
1 8 (32.00%) WAN
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 17 (68.00%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (56.00%) Electronics
2 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (36.00%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (36.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Finance
5 3 (12.00%) Banking
6 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (8.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Senior
2 8 (32.00%) Lead
2 8 (32.00%) Project Leader
2 8 (32.00%) Senior Project Leader
2 8 (32.00%) Software Project Leader
2 8 (32.00%) Technical Leader
2 8 (32.00%) Technical Project Leader
3 6 (24.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Senior VHDL Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) VHDL Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Designer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Digital Designer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) UX Designer
5 2 (8.00%) Visual Designer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Self-Driving Car
1 8 (32.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (24.00%) FPGA
2 6 (24.00%) GNSS
2 6 (24.00%) MicroBlaze
2 6 (24.00%) Satnav
2 6 (24.00%) VHDL
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (60.00%) B2B
3 14 (56.00%) Agile
3 14 (56.00%) Computer Science
3 14 (56.00%) Defect Tracking
3 14 (56.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 14 (56.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 10 (40.00%) Programme Management
5 9 (36.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (36.00%) Product Management
6 8 (32.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 8 (32.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (32.00%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (32.00%) Project Delivery
6 8 (32.00%) Project Management
6 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (32.00%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (32.00%) Validation
6 8 (32.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) C
1 6 (24.00%) C++
1 6 (24.00%) MATLAB
1 6 (24.00%) Perl
1 6 (24.00%) Tcl
1 6 (24.00%) VB
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) CEH
2 2 (8.00%) CISM
2 2 (8.00%) CISSP
2 2 (8.00%) GIAC
2 2 (8.00%) ISSAP
2 2 (8.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) PMO
2 4 (16.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) COBIT
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (24.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Nagios
1 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Altera
1 6 (24.00%) Green Hills
1 6 (24.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (8.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) Google