Critical Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Critical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Critical 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 439 482 316
Rank change year-on-year +43 -166 +142
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 141 299 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.40% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.49% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 80 178 202
10th Percentile £38,492 £23,500 £29,100
25th Percentile £44,000 £34,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,557 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% -7.39% +28.38%
75th Percentile £68,114 £58,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £82,000 £72,875 £89,875
UK median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Critical 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%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Critical 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 Critical 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
Midlands +55 37 £57,500 +35.77% 27
North of England +15 37 £57,500 +15.00% 38
South East +50 27 £50,000 -13.04% 57
East of England +54 25 £44,000 +1.15% 28
West Midlands +47 25 £57,500 +139.58% 21
North West -10 22 £57,500 +43.75% 31
East Midlands +46 12 £57,500 +25.00% 6
South West +69 11 £70,000 +40.00% 43
Yorkshire +41 10 £65,000 +23.81% 4
North East +54 5 £57,500 -14.81% 3
Scotland +72 3 £103,500 +168.63% 21
Wales +33 1 £65,000 +159.51% 10
Critical Thinking
UK

Critical 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 11 (7.80%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.42%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.42%) CMS
2 2 (1.42%) IIS
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) Luigi
3 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.42%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.71%) Pipeline Pilot
5 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.71%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.24%) Azure
2 33 (23.40%) Power Platform
3 18 (12.77%) SaaS
4 10 (7.09%) AWS
5 9 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.38%) IaaS
5 9 (6.38%) PaaS
5 9 (6.38%) Power Automate
5 9 (6.38%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.84%) GCP
7 2 (1.42%) Figma
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.71%) Asana
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.71%) NuGet
8 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.42%) DHCP
3 2 (1.42%) DNS
3 2 (1.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (23.40%) Power BI
2 20 (14.18%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (7.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (6.38%) Star Schema
5 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.26%) MySQL
7 5 (3.55%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.84%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (2.84%) Tableau
9 2 (1.42%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.71%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.71%) Metadata
10 1 (0.71%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (7.80%) Git
2 9 (6.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.55%) GitLab
4 4 (2.84%) JIRA
4 4 (2.84%) Subversion
5 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.71%) Mocha
5 1 (0.71%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (35.46%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 41 (29.08%) Finance
4 17 (12.06%) Banking
5 12 (8.51%) Law
6 9 (6.38%) Marketing
7 8 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.26%) Retail
9 5 (3.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.13%) Advertising
10 3 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.42%) Automotive
11 2 (1.42%) Legal
11 2 (1.42%) Local Government
11 2 (1.42%) Military
12 1 (0.71%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.71%) Games
12 1 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (24.11%) Developer
2 30 (21.28%) Analyst
3 25 (17.73%) SQL Developer
4 16 (11.35%) Database Developer
4 16 (11.35%) SQL Database Developer
5 12 (8.51%) Lead
6 9 (6.38%) Business Developer
6 9 (6.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (6.38%) Data Manager
6 9 (6.38%) ETL Developer
6 9 (6.38%) Graduate
6 9 (6.38%) Power BI Developer
6 9 (6.38%) Senior
6 9 (6.38%) SQL BI Developer
6 9 (6.38%) Telesales Specialist
7 5 (3.55%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.55%) SSIS Developer
8 4 (2.84%) Analytics Manager
8 4 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (2.84%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.55%) Node.js
2 4 (2.84%) Middleware
2 4 (2.84%) Svelte
3 3 (2.13%) .NET
3 3 (2.13%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.42%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.42%) CSS
4 2 (1.42%) HTML
4 2 (1.42%) MSMQ
4 2 (1.42%) PySpark
4 2 (1.42%) React
5 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.71%) EDI
5 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.71%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.71%) Laravel
5 1 (0.71%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (7.09%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.96%) NHS
4 6 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.84%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.84%) Digital Media
5 4 (2.84%) Hackathon
5 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.84%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.13%) Robotics
6 3 (2.13%) Tandem
7 2 (1.42%) ASTM
7 2 (1.42%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.71%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.84%) Linux
2 3 (2.13%) Windows
3 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (70.21%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (31.21%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (30.50%) Analytics
4 39 (27.66%) Artificial Intelligence
5 36 (25.53%) Decision-Making
6 30 (21.28%) Project Management
7 23 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (15.60%) Business Analysis
9 20 (14.18%) Customer Service
9 20 (14.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 19 (13.48%) PRINCE2
11 18 (12.77%) Mentoring
11 18 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (12.06%) Agile
12 17 (12.06%) Business Enablement
12 17 (12.06%) Technology Enablement
13 16 (11.35%) Database Optimisation
14 12 (8.51%) Visualisation
15 11 (7.80%) Kimball Methodology
15 11 (7.80%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.53%) SQL
2 16 (11.35%) T-SQL
3 13 (9.22%) Python
4 7 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.55%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.55%) VBA
6 4 (2.84%) Julia
6 4 (2.84%) R
7 3 (2.13%) Java
8 2 (1.42%) C#
8 2 (1.42%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.71%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.71%) PHP
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.71%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (22.70%) Degree
2 21 (14.89%) CBAP
3 19 (13.48%) DBS Check
3 19 (13.48%) Master's Degree
3 19 (13.48%) PMP
4 17 (12.06%) PMI Certification
5 7 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.96%) GDPR
2 7 (4.96%) QA
3 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.71%) COSHH
4 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.84%) Terraform
2 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.71%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.06%) YouTube
3 10 (7.09%) Dell
4 4 (2.84%) Adobe
4 4 (2.84%) SAP
5 3 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.42%) Databricks
6 2 (1.42%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.42%) Google
6 2 (1.42%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle
6 2 (1.42%) Veritas
7 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.71%) IBM
7 1 (0.71%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (0.71%) Splunk