Innovative Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 410 321
Rank change year-on-year +50 -89 +115
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 478 397 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.66% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.69% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 298 128 146
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,725 £27,844
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £47,500 £43,325
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% +9.64% -13.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,875 £81,250 £69,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Innovative 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 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +70 139 £52,084 -28.16% 38
South West +21 109 £60,000 +9.09% 18
South East 0 101 £40,000 +23.08% 47
North West +70 78 £52,084 -19.87% 30
Midlands +43 69 £52,500 -34.38% 24
West Midlands +51 42 £55,964 -30.04% 17
Yorkshire +39 40 £46,457 -41.01% 5
East of England -13 30 £29,000 -3.33% 24
East Midlands -8 27 £50,000 -41.18% 7
North East +11 21 £46,457 - 3
Scotland -61 17 £32,500 -31.58% 14
Northern Ireland +41 12 £57,276 +27.28% 1
Wales +9 1 £82,500 - 10
Innovative Thinking
UK

Innovative 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 (3.14%) IIS
2 8 (1.67%) Appian
3 4 (0.84%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (5.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.30%) Simulink
4 10 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.84%) Adobe Captivate
5 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.42%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (24.06%) AWS
2 114 (23.85%) Azure
3 96 (20.08%) GCP
4 18 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.63%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.42%) BrowserStack
8 2 (0.42%) Figma
8 2 (0.42%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.42%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.42%) SaaS
8 2 (0.42%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (0.42%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.21%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.77%) WAN
2 11 (2.30%) 5G
2 11 (2.30%) Firewall
2 11 (2.30%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.88%) Network Security
4 7 (1.46%) LAN
5 5 (1.05%) SAN
6 4 (0.84%) DNS
6 4 (0.84%) OSPF
6 4 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.63%) Internet
7 3 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.63%) VLAN
7 3 (0.63%) VPN
7 3 (0.63%) Wireless
8 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.21%) MPLS
9 1 (0.21%) MQTT
9 1 (0.21%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (20.29%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (20.08%) BigQuery
2 96 (20.08%) Looker
3 37 (7.74%) Tableau
4 13 (2.72%) Power BI
5 9 (1.88%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (1.46%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.42%) Power Query
11 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (2.09%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.63%) Postman
3 2 (0.42%) Appium
3 2 (0.42%) Axure RP
3 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.42%) JIRA
3 2 (0.42%) JMeter
3 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
3 2 (0.42%) Selenium
3 2 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 178 (37.24%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (36.40%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.09%) Retail
4 48 (10.04%) Finance
5 46 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (6.49%) Marketing
7 21 (4.39%) Military
8 20 (4.18%) Games
8 20 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (4.18%) Law
9 18 (3.77%) Banking
10 17 (3.56%) Public Sector
11 16 (3.35%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.72%) Electronics
12 13 (2.72%) Legal
13 12 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (2.30%) Aerospace
15 10 (2.09%) Aviation
16 9 (1.88%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (24.27%) Architect
2 112 (23.43%) Senior
3 96 (20.08%) Data Architect
4 59 (12.34%) Lead
5 52 (10.88%) Developer
6 40 (8.37%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 40 (8.37%) Delivery Manager
6 40 (8.37%) Software Engineer
7 37 (7.74%) Lead Developer
8 32 (6.69%) Team Leader
9 28 (5.86%) Business Developer
10 26 (5.44%) Field Engineer
10 26 (5.44%) Field Service Engineer
11 25 (5.23%) Analyst
12 24 (5.02%) Senior Field Engineer
12 24 (5.02%) Senior Field Service Engineer
13 20 (4.18%) Consultant
13 20 (4.18%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 20 (4.18%) Security Consultant
14 18 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.26%) React
2 5 (1.05%) .NET
3 4 (0.84%) Spring
3 4 (0.84%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.63%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (0.63%) Kafka
4 3 (0.63%) Node.js
5 2 (0.42%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.42%) CSS
5 2 (0.42%) Playwright
5 2 (0.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.21%) Django
6 1 (0.21%) HTML
6 1 (0.21%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (0.21%) jQuery
6 1 (0.21%) Sass
6 1 (0.21%) TypeORM
6 1 (0.21%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.21%) Vue
6 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (32.01%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (8.79%) Driving Licence
3 26 (5.44%) EPoS
4 22 (4.60%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.93%) CESG
6 10 (2.09%) GNSS
6 10 (2.09%) Low-Code
7 9 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
7 9 (1.88%) Virtual Reality
8 8 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.67%) Robotics
9 7 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.26%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.05%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.05%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.05%) FMCG
11 5 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.11%) Windows
2 13 (2.72%) Linux
3 5 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) AIX
5 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (37.87%) Problem-Solving
2 161 (33.68%) Mentoring
3 105 (21.97%) Data Security
4 103 (21.55%) Data Integration
5 101 (21.13%) ETL
6 100 (20.92%) Data Architecture
7 98 (20.50%) Data Modelling
8 96 (20.08%) Data Engineering
8 96 (20.08%) Data Governance
8 96 (20.08%) ERD
8 96 (20.08%) Platform Engineering
9 89 (18.62%) Agile
10 77 (16.11%) Project Management
11 58 (12.13%) Analytics
12 48 (10.04%) Customer Service
13 47 (9.83%) Software Engineering
14 46 (9.62%) Creative Thinking
14 46 (9.62%) Scrum
15 45 (9.41%) Coaching
16 43 (9.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 33 (6.90%) SQL
2 21 (4.39%) C++
2 21 (4.39%) Python
3 16 (3.35%) Java
4 14 (2.93%) MATLAB
5 10 (2.09%) Bash
5 10 (2.09%) Perl
6 5 (1.05%) C
6 5 (1.05%) R
6 5 (1.05%) Scala
7 4 (0.84%) C#
7 4 (0.84%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.21%) Rust
9 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 117 (24.48%) Degree
2 54 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (4.81%) HND
5 20 (4.18%) HNC
6 18 (3.77%) CISMP
6 18 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.51%) IISP
8 11 (2.30%) DBS Check
8 11 (2.30%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.88%) CISM
9 9 (1.88%) CISSP
10 7 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.46%) MRICS
11 6 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.05%) CISA
12 5 (1.05%) CRISC
12 5 (1.05%) SANS
13 4 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (20.29%) GDPR
2 96 (20.08%) Data Quality
3 29 (6.07%) SLA
4 24 (5.02%) NIST
5 21 (4.39%) PMO
6 14 (2.93%) JSP 440
7 12 (2.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 12 (2.51%) NIST 800
8 11 (2.30%) RMADS
9 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.05%) NCSC
10 4 (0.84%) GRC
10 4 (0.84%) QA
11 3 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.63%) JTAG
12 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (5.23%) Firmware
2 7 (1.46%) Hyper-V
2 7 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 97 (20.29%) Google
2 32 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.49%) Dell
4 26 (5.44%) HP
4 26 (5.44%) IBM
5 17 (3.56%) NetApp
6 13 (2.72%) VMware
7 9 (1.88%) Cisco
8 6 (1.26%) Adobe
9 5 (1.05%) Facebook
10 4 (0.84%) Oracle
11 1 (0.21%) Intel
11 1 (0.21%) Progress
11 1 (0.21%) Salesforce