Critical Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 333 454
Rank change year-on-year -153 +121 +13
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 294 553 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.93% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.98% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 172 213 252
10th Percentile £23,500 £30,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,313 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,529 £51,350 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% +16.70% -26.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £85,000 £61,313
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.36% - -11.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,715 56,667 67,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.64% 95.62% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,107 41,040
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 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
North of England -64 62 £51,250 +13.89% 36
Scotland -48 55 £45,000 -25.00% 13
South East -69 54 £57,500 +15.00% 35
South West -49 49 £50,000 -39.39% 22
Midlands -53 44 £42,200 -19.62% 22
North West -34 35 £40,000 -11.11% 21
West Midlands -22 31 £24,000 -57.52% 10
Yorkshire +32 26 £52,500 +16.67% 7
East of England -3 20 £43,500 -47.27% 12
Wales -6 9 £25,047 -54.36% 1
East Midlands -29 9 £46,000 +2.22% 12
Northern Ireland +26 1 - -
North East -37 1 £67,500 +68.75% 8
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 15 (5.10%) Confluence
2 11 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.04%) SAS
5 3 (1.02%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) WordPress
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) Luigi
Applications
1 32 (10.88%) UserZoom
2 24 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (4.08%) Sketch
5 9 (3.06%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.68%) InDesign
7 2 (0.68%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.34%) 1Password
8 1 (0.34%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.70%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.70%) Odoo
2 3 (1.02%) Shopify
3 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.34%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.97%) Figma
2 37 (12.59%) Azure
3 33 (11.22%) AWS
4 32 (10.88%) SurveyMonkey
5 28 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 22 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.06%) SaaS
9 6 (2.04%) GCP
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.36%) npm
11 3 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.02%) Slack
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.68%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.68%) Serverless
12 2 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.22%) Wi-Fi
2 25 (8.50%) Wireless
3 22 (7.48%) 5G
3 22 (7.48%) Bluetooth
3 22 (7.48%) GSM
3 22 (7.48%) ISDN
3 22 (7.48%) LTE
3 22 (7.48%) PSTN
3 22 (7.48%) UMTS
4 15 (5.10%) LAN
4 15 (5.10%) WAN
5 3 (1.02%) DNS
5 3 (1.02%) Firewall
5 3 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.02%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.02%) VLAN
6 2 (0.68%) NAS
6 2 (0.68%) SAN
6 2 (0.68%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.84%) Power BI
2 18 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 15 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.40%) Tableau
5 9 (3.06%) GIS
6 8 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.70%) MySQL
9 4 (1.36%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.36%) Spatial Data
10 3 (1.02%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.02%) MS Access
10 3 (1.02%) Power Query
11 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.34%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 42 (14.29%) JIRA
2 32 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.48%) LabVIEW
4 17 (5.78%) Git
5 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.68%) Appium
6 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.68%) git-flow
6 2 (0.68%) Selenium
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.68%) WiX
7 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Moq
7 1 (0.34%) NUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.34%) Protractor
7 1 (0.34%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 175 (59.52%) Social Skills
2 101 (34.35%) Finance
3 87 (29.59%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (27.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (21.77%) Marketing
6 61 (20.75%) Law
7 29 (9.86%) Telecoms
8 26 (8.84%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (5.78%) Retail
11 13 (4.42%) Banking
12 12 (4.08%) Public Sector
13 10 (3.40%) Legal
14 7 (2.38%) Investment Banking
15 6 (2.04%) Publishing
16 5 (1.70%) Automotive
16 5 (1.70%) Games
17 3 (1.02%) Local Government
17 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
18 2 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 52 (17.69%) Analyst
2 32 (10.88%) User Experience Researcher
3 27 (9.18%) Developer
4 24 (8.16%) Lead
5 21 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 20 (6.80%) Senior
7 15 (5.10%) Hardware Engineer
8 12 (4.08%) Consultant
9 11 (3.74%) Test Engineer
10 10 (3.40%) Architect
10 10 (3.40%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.40%) Coordinator
10 10 (3.40%) Help Desk Analyst
11 9 (3.06%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.06%) Support Analyst
12 8 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (2.72%) Hardware Test Engineer
13 7 (2.38%) Graduate
13 7 (2.38%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.44%) React
2 12 (4.08%) CSS
3 11 (3.74%) Node.js
3 11 (3.74%) Vue
4 8 (2.72%) HTML
5 6 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.04%) Django
5 6 (2.04%) GraphQL
6 5 (1.70%) .NET
7 4 (1.36%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.36%) Entity Framework
7 4 (1.36%) React Native
7 4 (1.36%) REST
7 4 (1.36%) RESTful
7 4 (1.36%) WPF
8 3 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (1.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 3 (1.02%) WCF
8 3 (1.02%) Web Services
8 3 (1.02%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.88%) Management Information System
2 22 (7.48%) Acoustics
2 22 (7.48%) Satnav
2 22 (7.48%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.40%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.38%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.04%) Credit Risk
8 6 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.04%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.70%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.70%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.02%) PKI
10 3 (1.02%) Robotics
10 3 (1.02%) Social Media
11 2 (0.68%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.40%) Android
1 10 (3.40%) Windows
2 9 (3.06%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.06%) Linux
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (49.32%) Agile
2 141 (47.96%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 72 (24.49%) User Experience
5 71 (24.15%) Analytics
6 64 (21.77%) Project Management
7 63 (21.43%) DevOps
8 57 (19.39%) Roadmaps
9 53 (18.03%) Visualisation
10 52 (17.69%) Data Visualisation
10 52 (17.69%) User Research
11 49 (16.67%) Data Management
12 45 (15.31%) Strategic Thinking
12 45 (15.31%) UX Research
13 41 (13.95%) Service Design
14 39 (13.27%) Data Analytics
14 39 (13.27%) SDLC
15 38 (12.93%) Analytical Thinking
15 38 (12.93%) Customer Service
16 37 (12.59%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (19.73%) Python
2 35 (11.90%) SQL
3 31 (10.54%) JavaScript
4 19 (6.46%) C#
5 12 (4.08%) PHP
6 8 (2.72%) R
7 7 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.02%) Java
10 2 (0.68%) Bash
10 2 (0.68%) C++
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) VB
11 1 (0.34%) Go
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.34%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 130 (44.22%) Degree
2 14 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.40%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.70%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.02%) HND
6 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.02%) MCSE
6 3 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.68%) CBAP
7 2 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) GCFA
7 2 (0.68%) GCFE
7 2 (0.68%) OSCP
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 26 (8.84%) QA
3 15 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.38%) SLA
5 4 (1.36%) GDPR
6 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) COSHH
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.06%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.40%) Terraform
2 5 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.68%) SCCM
4 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.68%) WSUS
5 1 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 76 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.88%) Qualtrics
3 15 (5.10%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.40%) SAP
5 9 (3.06%) Google
6 7 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.38%) VMware
7 6 (2.04%) Alteryx
7 6 (2.04%) Pega
7 6 (2.04%) Progress
7 6 (2.04%) UiPath
8 5 (1.70%) Intel
9 4 (1.36%) Adobe
9 4 (1.36%) Mapbox
10 3 (1.02%) NETGEAR
10 3 (1.02%) WatchGuard
11 2 (0.68%) Cisco
11 2 (0.68%) Oracle
11 2 (0.68%) Sage
11 2 (0.68%) Twitter