Critical Thinking Jobs in the South West

Critical Thinking
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 197 254
Rank change year-on-year -48 +57 -26
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 47 73 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.51% 1.06% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.12% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 32 32 25
10th Percentile £20,400 £39,575 £36,150
25th Percentile £42,857 £54,208 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +73.68% -9.52%
75th Percentile £61,250 £97,290 £55,000
90th Percentile £89,000 - £71,782
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,882 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.77% -0.21% -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Critical Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,753 6,536 7,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.05% 94.48% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,554 3,644 5,025
10th Percentile £28,833 £30,500 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,238 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the South West

Critical 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 Critical Thinking within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Bristol +14 24 £50,000 -34.43% 6
Dorset -14 13 £21,500 -50.86% 2
Devon -15 3 - - 4
Wiltshire - 3 £55,000 - 8
Somerset -2 2 £42,000 -54.43% 2
Gloucestershire -29 1 £47,500 -58.18% 1
Critical Thinking
England

Critical 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 6 (12.77%) SAS
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.13%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) Power Platform
2 7 (14.89%) SaaS
3 5 (10.64%) Azure
4 4 (8.51%) AWS
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) IaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.13%) Serverless
7 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) Internet
1 1 (2.13%) OpenVPN
1 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.13%) Wireless
1 1 (2.13%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) Power BI
2 8 (17.02%) Tableau
3 5 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.13%) Bigtable
7 1 (2.13%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.13%) Redis
7 1 (2.13%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Appium
2 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 28 (59.57%) Social Skills
2 22 (46.81%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Banking
3 10 (21.28%) Finance
4 9 (19.15%) Law
5 7 (14.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (14.89%) Marketing
6 6 (12.77%) Investment Banking
6 6 (12.77%) Legal
7 4 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
8 3 (6.38%) Automotive
8 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.13%) International Banking
9 1 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (2.13%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Analyst
2 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Analytics Manager
3 6 (12.77%) Data Analytics Manager
3 6 (12.77%) Full Stack Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Testing Manager
4 5 (10.64%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Research Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Senior User Researcher
5 4 (8.51%) User Researcher
6 3 (6.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Coordinator
6 3 (6.38%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Systems Engineering Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) React
2 6 (12.77%) Django
2 6 (12.77%) GraphQL
2 6 (12.77%) Node.js
2 6 (12.77%) Vue
3 1 (2.13%) CSS
3 1 (2.13%) HTML
3 1 (2.13%) Next.js
3 1 (2.13%) Pandas
3 1 (2.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
3 1 (2.13%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Onboarding
2 7 (14.89%) Management Information System
3 6 (12.77%) Algorithms
3 6 (12.77%) Credit Risk
3 6 (12.77%) Market Risk
4 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (6.38%) Driving Licence
6 3 (6.38%) Robotics
7 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
7 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.13%) Digital Currency
8 1 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (2.13%) iPhone
8 1 (2.13%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Android
2 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.13%) Kali Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (72.34%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (40.43%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (29.79%) Project Management
4 13 (27.66%) Analytics
5 12 (25.53%) Machine Learning
6 10 (21.28%) Analytical Thinking
6 10 (21.28%) Decision-Making
6 10 (21.28%) Risk Management
6 10 (21.28%) Roadmaps
7 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
8 8 (17.02%) Client Onboarding
9 7 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (14.89%) Data Analytics
9 7 (14.89%) Process Improvement
9 7 (14.89%) Scrum
9 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
9 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
9 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.89%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) SQL
3 7 (14.89%) R
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.26%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) VB
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) C++
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) Java
6 1 (2.13%) Ruby
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (36.17%) Degree
2 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.13%) CBAP
3 1 (2.13%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (2.13%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) ISEB
3 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (2.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) PMO
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Ansible
1 1 (2.13%) Nmap
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Alteryx
2 6 (12.77%) Pega
2 6 (12.77%) UiPath
3 2 (4.26%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Apple
4 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.13%) CA
4 1 (2.13%) Dell
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Thales