Creative Thinking Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 43 83
Rank change year-on-year -29 +40 +43
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 1 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.11% 0.84% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.88% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £69,600
25th Percentile £105,000 - £69,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -21.43% +86.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 - £70,250
90th Percentile - - £70,400
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.92% -4.35% -10.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 341 1,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 71.37% 94.99% 84.69%
Number of salaries quoted 477 177 821
10th Percentile £27,900 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA