Critical Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 331 377 478
Rank change year-on-year +46 +101 +75
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 492 1,114 819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.89% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.93% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 234 493 388
10th Percentile £32,575 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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 +60 427 £65,000 +4.00% 316
UK excluding London +57 293 £52,500 -16.00% 189
London +61 166 £70,000 +12.00% 139
Work from Home +50 135 £60,249 -13.93% 142
North of England +96 90 £55,000 +10.00% 42
South East +91 58 £60,000 -14.29% 54
Midlands +64 48 £50,000 -14.16% 28
South West +68 45 £60,249 -13.93% 29
North West +87 43 £48,750 -13.33% 22
West Midlands +65 36 £50,000 -16.67% 19
Yorkshire +84 35 £67,500 +95.65% 12
Scotland +15 19 £44,033 -29.55% 12
East of England +87 14 £55,000 -23.61% 26
Wales +13 14 £42,250 -26.52% 4
North East +41 12 £27,690 - 8
East Midlands +33 12 £67,500 +28.57% 9
Northern Ireland +4 5 £80,000 +33.33% 2

Critical 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 16 (3.25%) Confluence
2 10 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.02%) Apache
3 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.02%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (0.81%) Luigi
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 40 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.02%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.02%) Adobe Premiere
4 5 (1.02%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.41%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.20%) InDesign
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.20%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.20%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.82%) Azure
2 53 (10.77%) AWS
3 37 (7.52%) Power Platform
4 33 (6.71%) GCP
5 13 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (2.64%) Google Analytics
5 13 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (2.44%) SaaS
7 11 (2.24%) GitHub
8 10 (2.03%) Firebase
9 9 (1.83%) Power Automate
9 9 (1.83%) WhatsApp
10 8 (1.63%) Serverless
10 8 (1.63%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.42%) dbt
11 7 (1.42%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.81%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.05%) Internet
2 10 (2.03%) Network Security
3 9 (1.83%) Firewall
4 8 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.81%) DNS
5 4 (0.81%) VPN
5 4 (0.81%) WebEx
6 3 (0.61%) BGP
6 3 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) OSPF
7 2 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.41%) Wireless
7 2 (0.41%) Wireless Security
7 2 (0.41%) WPA
8 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.20%) SSH
8 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.52%) Power BI
2 31 (6.30%) Tableau
3 30 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.05%) BigQuery
5 14 (2.85%) Hadoop
6 12 (2.44%) Big Data
7 11 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.24%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.22%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.02%) Redis
11 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.81%) Bigtable
12 4 (0.81%) CouchDB
12 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.81%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (5.28%) JIRA
2 13 (2.64%) Git
3 7 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.02%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (1.02%) LoadRunner
4 5 (1.02%) Selenium
5 3 (0.61%) ERwin
6 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.41%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
7 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.20%) Snyk
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 167 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (21.34%) Finance
4 49 (9.96%) Banking
5 31 (6.30%) Marketing
6 27 (5.49%) Retail
7 26 (5.28%) Legal
8 21 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.44%) Law
12 11 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.83%) Advertising
13 9 (1.83%) Publishing
14 6 (1.22%) French Language
14 6 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.22%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (35.77%) Architect
2 162 (32.93%) Solutions Architect
3 81 (16.46%) Analyst
4 52 (10.57%) Senior
5 43 (8.74%) Lead
6 41 (8.33%) Developer
7 26 (5.28%) Business Analyst
8 20 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
9 19 (3.86%) Data Manager
10 15 (3.05%) Team Leader
11 13 (2.64%) Administrator
11 13 (2.64%) Data Engineer
11 13 (2.64%) Lead Business Analyst
12 11 (2.24%) Senior Developer
13 10 (2.03%) Backend Developer
13 10 (2.03%) Business Analyst Team Leader
13 10 (2.03%) Consultant
13 10 (2.03%) Data Analyst
14 9 (1.83%) Senior Backend Developer
14 9 (1.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (32.32%) Middleware
2 27 (5.49%) HTML
3 21 (4.27%) CSS
4 19 (3.86%) React
5 15 (3.05%) .NET
6 13 (2.64%) Node.js
7 9 (1.83%) PySpark
8 8 (1.63%) Pandas
9 7 (1.42%) CSS3
9 7 (1.42%) HTML5
9 7 (1.42%) SOAP
10 6 (1.22%) NumPy
10 6 (1.22%) RESTful
11 5 (1.02%) Jest
11 5 (1.02%) Laravel
11 5 (1.02%) Redux
11 5 (1.02%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.02%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (1.02%) Web Services
11 5 (1.02%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.89%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.05%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.42%) IoT
8 7 (1.42%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.42%) Social Media
9 6 (1.22%) Animation
9 6 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.22%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.02%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.02%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.81%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.83%) Unix
2 8 (1.63%) Linux
2 8 (1.63%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.41%) Kali Linux
3 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (51.83%) Agile
2 182 (36.99%) Software Engineering
3 179 (36.38%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (33.54%) Enterprise Architecture
5 162 (32.93%) TOGAF
6 85 (17.28%) Analytics
7 52 (10.57%) Project Management
8 51 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
8 51 (10.37%) Computer Science
9 48 (9.76%) Analytical Thinking
9 48 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (8.74%) Decision-Making
11 41 (8.33%) Visualisation
12 39 (7.93%) Project Delivery
13 35 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (6.71%) Business Strategy
14 33 (6.71%) Coaching
14 33 (6.71%) Data Visualisation
14 33 (6.71%) Mentoring
15 31 (6.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 68 (13.82%) Python
1 68 (13.82%) SQL
2 25 (5.08%) JavaScript
3 23 (4.67%) C#
4 15 (3.05%) Go
5 12 (2.44%) Java
5 12 (2.44%) PHP
6 8 (1.63%) R
7 6 (1.22%) Bash
7 6 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.81%) C++
8 4 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.41%) C
9 2 (0.41%) Scala
9 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.20%) Dart
10 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) VB
10 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (17.48%) Degree
2 25 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.46%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.25%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.64%) CISSP
5 13 (2.64%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.03%) CISM
7 8 (1.63%) CCNA
7 8 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.63%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.63%) GSEC
8 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.02%) OSCP
10 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.61%) CEH
11 3 (0.61%) CISA
11 3 (0.61%) ISEB
11 3 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.61%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.28%) QA
3 12 (2.44%) GDPR
4 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.22%) NIST
6 5 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.61%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) COBIT
8 2 (0.41%) COSO
8 2 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.41%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (3.46%) Docker
2 3 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.20%) NFS
4 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.83%) Terraform
3 3 (0.61%) Ansible
4 2 (0.41%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.41%) Nmap
4 2 (0.41%) Packer
4 2 (0.41%) SCCM
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.20%) Consul
5 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.20%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.71%) Google
3 17 (3.46%) Databricks
4 12 (2.44%) Cisco
5 11 (2.24%) Splunk
6 7 (1.42%) Adobe
6 7 (1.42%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.42%) Dell
7 6 (1.22%) Oracle
8 5 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.02%) HP
8 5 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.02%) SAP
9 4 (0.81%) VMware
10 3 (0.61%) Citrix
10 3 (0.61%) Mercator
10 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.61%) Teradata
11 2 (0.41%) New Relic