Creative Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 292 385
Rank change year-on-year +103 +93 -114
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 649 661 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.64% 0.88% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.07% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 36 189 161
10th Percentile £21,563 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £30,750 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -6.78%
75th Percentile £71,875 £58,750 £71,652
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,150 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +157 249 £55,445 +65.35% 59
North West +135 226 £50,890 +33.92% 36
South East +152 218 £32,500 -27.78% 46
Midlands -64 69 - - 30
East of England +56 53 £55,000 +37.50% 21
West Midlands -48 52 - - 17
Scotland +94 35 £70,000 +16.67% 25
South West +33 25 £66,367 +56.16% 29
Yorkshire +39 20 £82,319 +37.20% 22
East Midlands +8 17 - - 13
North East +45 3 - - 2
Creative Thinking
UK

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (3.39%) CMS
2 15 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.92%) WordPress
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.15%) CICS
5 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.77%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.77%) Trello
4 4 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.31%) InDesign
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (3.08%) Dynamics AX
2 9 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.77%) PeopleSoft Financials
Cloud Services
1 144 (22.19%) Azure
2 75 (11.56%) AWS
3 71 (10.94%) Serverless
4 70 (10.79%) GCP
5 66 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (6.47%) PaaS
7 22 (3.39%) SaaS
8 21 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.24%) Power Platform
9 17 (2.62%) iPaaS
10 13 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.08%) Figma
11 7 (1.08%) IBM Watson
12 6 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (0.92%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.77%) Azure Functions
13 5 (0.77%) Google Analytics
13 5 (0.77%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 65 (10.02%) Broadband
2 8 (1.23%) 5G
2 8 (1.23%) SD-WAN
2 8 (1.23%) WAN
3 7 (1.08%) Intranet
4 5 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
4 5 (0.77%) Wireless
5 2 (0.31%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.31%) DNS
5 2 (0.31%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.31%) Firewall
5 2 (0.31%) Network Security
5 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.31%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.15%) Modbus
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.31%) Power BI
2 12 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.08%) QlikView
5 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.31%) KDB
7 2 (0.31%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.31%) MySQL
8 1 (0.15%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.15%) DB2
8 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (0.92%) JIRA
2 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.15%) Git
3 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.15%) Moq
3 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 288 (44.38%) Legal
2 247 (38.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 239 (36.83%) Law
4 220 (33.90%) Finance
5 190 (29.28%) Social Skills
6 164 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (16.80%) Marketing
8 56 (8.63%) Retail
9 52 (8.01%) Telecoms
10 36 (5.55%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (4.01%) Manufacturing
13 22 (3.39%) Advertising
14 20 (3.08%) Banking
14 20 (3.08%) Games
15 18 (2.77%) Electronics
16 14 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.62%) Automotive
17 4 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 157 (24.19%) Senior
2 65 (10.02%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 56 (8.63%) Risk Manager
4 36 (5.55%) Lead
5 35 (5.39%) Analyst
5 35 (5.39%) Technology Risk Manager
6 27 (4.16%) Architect
7 20 (3.08%) Account Manager
7 20 (3.08%) Strategic Account Manager
8 18 (2.77%) Senior Manager
9 17 (2.62%) Applications Architect
9 17 (2.62%) Audit Manager
9 17 (2.62%) IT Architect
10 15 (2.31%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.00%) Designer
11 13 (2.00%) Product Owner
12 12 (1.85%) Junior
13 11 (1.69%) Developer
14 10 (1.54%) Project Manager
14 10 (1.54%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.47%) .NET
2 15 (2.31%) .NET Framework
2 15 (2.31%) YAML
3 11 (1.69%) HTML
4 7 (1.08%) CSS
4 7 (1.08%) React
5 2 (0.31%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.31%) Django
5 2 (0.31%) Node.js
6 1 (0.15%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.15%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.15%) REST
6 1 (0.15%) RESTful
6 1 (0.15%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.15%) Swagger
6 1 (0.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 235 (36.21%) Cyberattack
2 81 (12.48%) Self-Motivation
3 54 (8.32%) Robotics
4 51 (7.86%) Management Information System
5 50 (7.70%) Blockchain
6 37 (5.70%) Product Ownership
7 25 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (3.39%) Security Posture
9 20 (3.08%) Digital Media
9 20 (3.08%) Marketing Technology
10 12 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.39%) Social Media
12 8 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.23%) Self-Driving Car
13 7 (1.08%) Blog
13 7 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
13 7 (1.08%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
14 5 (0.77%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.00%) Windows
2 7 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.77%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.46%) Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (48.38%) Agile
2 295 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 260 (40.06%) Cybersecurity
4 243 (37.44%) Line Management
5 211 (32.51%) Coaching
6 149 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (17.26%) Risk Management
8 110 (16.95%) Analytics
9 81 (12.48%) Data Science
10 80 (12.33%) CI/CD
11 78 (12.02%) Machine Learning
12 76 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (11.25%) Artificial Intelligence
13 73 (11.25%) Data Analytics
14 67 (10.32%) Personalization
15 66 (10.17%) Clean Code
15 66 (10.17%) Performance Metrics
16 52 (8.01%) Project Management
17 51 (7.86%) Strategic Thinking
18 50 (7.70%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (13.87%) Python
2 65 (10.02%) TypeScript
3 22 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 19 (2.93%) SQL
5 16 (2.47%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.00%) C#
6 13 (2.00%) R
7 7 (1.08%) C++
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
9 3 (0.46%) C
10 2 (0.31%) Bash
10 2 (0.31%) Java
10 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.31%) Perl
10 2 (0.31%) PHP
10 2 (0.31%) Tcl
10 2 (0.31%) VB
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 116 (17.87%) Degree
2 69 (10.63%) PhD
3 33 (5.08%) CISA
4 26 (4.01%) CISSP
5 21 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.24%) CRISC
5 21 (3.24%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.08%) ISACA
7 19 (2.93%) CISM
8 12 (1.85%) ACCA
8 12 (1.85%) CCAB
8 12 (1.85%) CIMA
8 12 (1.85%) CIPFA
8 12 (1.85%) ICAEW
9 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) CEH
10 2 (0.31%) ISSAP
10 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (38.52%) NCSC
2 50 (7.70%) ITGC
3 43 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.77%) SOC 2
5 17 (2.62%) NIST
6 15 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.23%) GDPR
8 8 (1.23%) PMO
9 7 (1.08%) COBIT
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.31%) JTAG
10 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.77%) CASB
2 5 (0.77%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) Ansible
3 1 (0.15%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (0.15%) Grafana
3 1 (0.15%) Nagios
3 1 (0.15%) Nessus
3 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.39%) Oracle
2 22 (3.39%) SAP
3 17 (2.62%) ServiceNow
4 12 (1.85%) Databricks
5 11 (1.69%) Adobe
6 10 (1.54%) Workday
7 8 (1.23%) IBM
8 7 (1.08%) Citrix
8 7 (1.08%) Google
8 7 (1.08%) Xilinx
9 6 (0.92%) Apple
10 5 (0.77%) Intapp
10 5 (0.77%) PeopleSoft
10 5 (0.77%) Sophos
11 4 (0.62%) Twitter
12 2 (0.31%) Altera
12 2 (0.31%) Dell
12 2 (0.31%) Green Hills
13 1 (0.15%) Salesforce