Creative Thinking Jobs

Creative Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 258 315
Rank change year-on-year +51 +57 +28
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 942 818 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.44% 1.23% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.37% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 105 287 464
10th Percentile £35,443 £32,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £45,105 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £66,956
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.39% +7.62%
75th Percentile £79,050 £89,375 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,084 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £47,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +17.89% -20.20% +8.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,309 59,780 102,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.34% 89.55% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25,978 43,902 64,334
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking.

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 January 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
England +54 878 £61,750 +2.92% 169
UK excluding London +122 618 £56,000 +17.89% 78
London -50 314 £77,500 -3.13% 101
Midlands +149 244 £57,000 +11.22% 10
West Midlands +117 191 £57,000 +3.64% 7
Work from Home -110 160 £57,001 -1.72% 100
North of England +82 145 £54,793 +24.53% 36
North West +58 106 £60,000 +36.36% 27
South East -39 101 £53,500 +12.63% 11
South West +39 64 £42,453 -5.66% 9
East Midlands +44 53 £37,500 -4.00% 3
Scotland +40 44 £45,961 -8.08% 5
Yorkshire +10 20 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North East +11 19 £45,000 - 2
East of England -20 17 £57,500 +21.05% 4
Northern Ireland +21 3 £90,000 +24.14% 1

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.17%) CMS
3 6 (0.64%) WordPress
4 3 (0.32%) Camunda
4 3 (0.32%) Confluence
5 2 (0.21%) Drupal
5 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) CICS
6 1 (0.11%) Kentico
6 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 215 (22.82%) Microsoft Office
2 208 (22.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.11%) InVision
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (4.67%) Azure
1 44 (4.67%) Power Platform
2 38 (4.03%) AWS
3 17 (1.80%) GCP
3 17 (1.80%) SaaS
4 16 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (1.27%) IBM Watson
6 10 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (0.74%) Canva
9 6 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (0.64%) Google Analytics
10 5 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.53%) Figma
10 5 (0.53%) GitHub
10 5 (0.53%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.42%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.42%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 100 (10.62%) Intrusion Detection
2 14 (1.49%) Firewall
3 12 (1.27%) Wireless
4 11 (1.17%) Broadband
5 9 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.85%) VoIP
6 8 (0.85%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.64%) PPP
8 5 (0.53%) 5G
8 5 (0.53%) Internet
8 5 (0.53%) Network Security
8 5 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.53%) VPN
8 5 (0.53%) WAN
9 4 (0.42%) DHCP
9 4 (0.42%) DNS
10 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.21%) FlexRay
11 2 (0.21%) OSPF
11 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.46%) Power BI
2 26 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.38%) QlikView
6 11 (1.17%) MySQL
7 9 (0.96%) Tableau
8 8 (0.85%) DB2
9 6 (0.64%) Big Data
9 6 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.42%) Looker
12 3 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.32%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.21%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 21 (2.23%) Git
2 8 (0.85%) Burp Suite
2 8 (0.85%) JIRA
2 8 (0.85%) Metasploit
3 6 (0.64%) IntelliJ
4 5 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.11%) Babel
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.11%) Rational Performance Tester
7 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 432 (45.86%) Finance
2 358 (38.00%) Social Skills
3 236 (25.05%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (20.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (15.18%) Telecoms
6 116 (12.31%) Marketing
7 59 (6.26%) Legal
8 51 (5.41%) Retail
9 45 (4.78%) Banking
10 44 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (3.50%) Military
12 32 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (3.29%) Law
14 24 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.91%) Games
15 18 (1.91%) Public Sector
16 15 (1.59%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.27%) Electronics
18 9 (0.96%) Multimedia
19 8 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 235 (24.95%) Audit Manager
2 173 (18.37%) Senior
3 172 (18.26%) Graduate
4 125 (13.27%) Architect
5 121 (12.85%) Senior Manager
6 105 (11.15%) Senior Audit Manager
7 102 (10.83%) Security Architect
8 80 (8.49%) Quality Manager
9 44 (4.67%) Analyst
10 36 (3.82%) Risk Manager
11 30 (3.18%) Lead
12 26 (2.76%) Report Manager
12 26 (2.76%) Software Engineer
13 23 (2.44%) Technology Risk Manager
14 22 (2.34%) Development Manager
15 21 (2.23%) Forensic Manager
16 20 (2.12%) Analytics Manager
16 20 (2.12%) Developer
16 20 (2.12%) Senior Service Manager
17 18 (1.91%) Data Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (12.63%) HTML
2 20 (2.12%) CSS
3 16 (1.70%) .NET
3 16 (1.70%) React
4 12 (1.27%) .NET Framework
4 12 (1.27%) Spring
5 11 (1.17%) Entity Framework
6 9 (0.96%) ASP.NET
7 8 (0.85%) AngularJS
7 8 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (0.85%) Node.js
7 8 (0.85%) REST
7 8 (0.85%) Spring MVC
8 5 (0.53%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.53%) CSS3
8 5 (0.53%) HTML5
8 5 (0.53%) Vue
9 4 (0.42%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.42%) Web Services
9 4 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 150 (15.92%) Cyberattack
2 129 (13.69%) Management Information System
3 41 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 41 (4.35%) Social Media
4 34 (3.61%) Blockchain
5 28 (2.97%) Robotics
6 24 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
7 21 (2.23%) Derivative
8 20 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.91%) Blog
10 17 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (1.70%) Hedge funds
12 13 (1.38%) GNSS
13 10 (1.06%) FPGA
13 10 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 9 (0.96%) e-Learning
14 9 (0.96%) IoT
14 9 (0.96%) MicroBlaze
14 9 (0.96%) Satnav
14 9 (0.96%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.56%) Linux
1 43 (4.56%) Windows
2 16 (1.70%) Unix
3 14 (1.49%) Windows Vista
4 11 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.85%) Kali Linux
6 5 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.42%) AIX
7 4 (0.42%) CentOS
7 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Solaris
7 4 (0.42%) SUSE
7 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.21%) Android
9 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 427 (45.33%) Agile
3 316 (33.55%) Coaching
4 313 (33.23%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (23.35%) Risk Management
6 214 (22.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 199 (21.13%) Data Analysis
8 193 (20.49%) Customer Service
9 182 (19.32%) Customer Experience
10 178 (18.90%) Logistics
11 177 (18.79%) Performance Metrics
11 177 (18.79%) Process Improvement
12 176 (18.68%) Project Management
13 172 (18.26%) Contingency Planning
14 160 (16.99%) Artificial Intelligence
15 127 (13.48%) Information Security
16 126 (13.38%) Cybersecurity
17 115 (12.21%) Security Testing
18 114 (12.10%) Analytics
19 105 (11.15%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 50 (5.31%) SQL
2 42 (4.46%) Python
3 24 (2.55%) Java
4 19 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.70%) C#
5 16 (1.70%) C++
6 15 (1.59%) R
7 14 (1.49%) C
8 13 (1.38%) Perl
9 9 (0.96%) MATLAB
9 9 (0.96%) Tcl
9 9 (0.96%) VB
10 8 (0.85%) Bash
11 7 (0.74%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.21%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.21%) Go
14 2 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 260 (27.60%) Degree
2 123 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 107 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 105 (11.15%) ACCA
5 34 (3.61%) CISA
6 26 (2.76%) CFA
7 23 (2.44%) DBS Check
7 23 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.70%) CISSP
9 11 (1.17%) ICAEW
10 10 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.06%) PMP
10 10 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 9 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (0.96%) SC Cleared
12 8 (0.85%) CREST Certified
12 8 (0.85%) Cyber Scheme
12 8 (0.85%) GIAC
12 8 (0.85%) GPEN
12 8 (0.85%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (10.30%) IFRS
2 96 (10.19%) GAAP
3 45 (4.78%) ITGC
4 44 (4.67%) QA
5 21 (2.23%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 20 (2.12%) PMO
7 18 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.70%) GDPR
9 15 (1.59%) IFRS 17
9 15 (1.59%) IFRS 9
10 12 (1.27%) NCSC
11 10 (1.06%) NIST
12 9 (0.96%) GRC
13 8 (0.85%) SLA
14 6 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 2 (0.21%) JTAG
System Software
1 15 (1.59%) Docker
2 11 (1.17%) Firmware
3 9 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.96%) Ansible
3 8 (0.85%) Nessus
3 8 (0.85%) Nmap
4 4 (0.42%) Graylog
4 4 (0.42%) Nagios
4 4 (0.42%) Opsgenie
4 4 (0.42%) Terraform
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.21%) MIIS
6 1 (0.11%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.11%) Kibana
6 1 (0.11%) SCCM
6 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.02%) Databricks
3 18 (1.91%) Google
3 18 (1.91%) Oracle
3 18 (1.91%) SAP
4 17 (1.80%) IBM
5 12 (1.27%) Xilinx
6 10 (1.06%) QAD
7 9 (0.96%) Altera
7 9 (0.96%) Green Hills
8 7 (0.74%) Adobe
8 7 (0.74%) Sage
9 5 (0.53%) Cisco
9 5 (0.53%) YouTube
10 4 (0.42%) HP
10 4 (0.42%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.42%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.32%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.32%) Twitter