Innovative Thinking Jobs in the Thames Valley

Innovative Thinking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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 164 208 214
Rank change year-on-year +44 +6 +31
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 22 34 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.65% 0.51% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.60% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,000 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £54,995 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.90% +69.22% -18.75%
75th Percentile £41,250 £67,500 £33,750
90th Percentile £54,750 - £46,700
South East median annual salary £49,134 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +22.84% +23.08% -22.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,188 5,701 5,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.90% 84.81% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 3,924 3,074
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the Thames Valley

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the Thames Valley

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the Thames Valley

Innovative Thinking
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +41 15 £32,500 -28.57% 10
Oxfordshire +29 5 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +31 2 £62,500 +31.58%
Innovative Thinking
South East

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) IaaS
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (59.09%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Influencing Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Law
2 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Aerospace
3 5 (22.73%) Aviation
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) XML
2 3 (13.64%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) GStreamer
3 1 (4.55%) Laravel
3 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (22.73%) e-Learning
2 5 (22.73%) Reference Data
3 3 (13.64%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (63.64%) Data Science
3 13 (59.09%) Actionable Insight
3 13 (59.09%) Analytics
3 13 (59.09%) Machine Learning
4 12 (54.55%) Agile
4 12 (54.55%) Co-Creation
4 12 (54.55%) People Analytics
4 12 (54.55%) Predictive Modelling
4 12 (54.55%) Roadmaps
4 12 (54.55%) Scorecard
4 12 (54.55%) Strategic Roadmap
4 12 (54.55%) Thought Leadership
5 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
6 5 (22.73%) Migration
6 5 (22.73%) Regression Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.64%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) C++
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.64%) CCNA
2 3 (13.64%) CCNP
2 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) SLA
3 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
1 3 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) Veeam
1 3 (13.64%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA