Innovative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 468 318
Rank change year-on-year +82 -150 +237
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 678 635 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.63% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.66% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 420 255 273
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,900 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £92,500 £72,647
90th Percentile £80,125 £104,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,084 £47,500 £43,325
% change year-on-year +9.65% +9.64% -13.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +124 644 £55,000 -15.38% 198
UK excluding London +48 479 £52,084 +9.65% 153
Work from Home -37 207 £60,000 -12.82% 77
London +124 185 £70,000 - 58
North of England +80 139 £52,084 -28.16% 34
South West +33 109 £60,000 +9.09% 16
South East -21 102 £40,000 +23.08% 44
North West +70 78 £52,084 -19.87% 27
Midlands +31 69 £52,500 -34.38% 23
West Midlands +46 42 £55,964 -30.04% 15
Yorkshire +49 40 £46,457 -41.01% 4
East of England -9 30 £29,000 -3.33% 22
East Midlands -9 27 £50,000 -41.18% 8
North East +10 21 £46,457 - 4
Scotland -64 17 £32,500 -31.58% 13
Northern Ireland +38 12 £57,276 +27.28% 1
Wales +1 1 £82,500 - 6

Innovative 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 15 (2.21%) IIS
2 9 (1.33%) Confluence
3 8 (1.18%) Appian
4 7 (1.03%) CMS
5 5 (0.74%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 3 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.44%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 51 (7.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 31 (4.57%) Spreadsheet
3 24 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.62%) Simulink
5 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.59%) Adobe Captivate
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.44%) Trello
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.29%) Sketch
9 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 166 (24.48%) AWS
1 166 (24.48%) Azure
2 127 (18.73%) GCP
3 51 (7.52%) Power Platform
4 15 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.18%) SaaS
6 7 (1.03%) Serverless
7 6 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (0.74%) Amazon S3
8 5 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.74%) Figma
8 5 (0.74%) GitHub
8 5 (0.74%) Route 53
8 5 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (0.74%) WhatsApp
9 4 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.10%) WAN
2 14 (2.06%) 5G
2 14 (2.06%) SD-WAN
3 11 (1.62%) Firewall
3 11 (1.62%) Wireless
4 10 (1.47%) Network Security
5 7 (1.03%) LAN
6 5 (0.74%) DNS
6 5 (0.74%) Internet
6 5 (0.74%) SAN
6 5 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.59%) OSPF
8 3 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.44%) VLAN
8 3 (0.44%) VPN
9 2 (0.29%) Broadband
9 2 (0.29%) MQTT
9 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.15%) DHCP
10 1 (0.15%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (16.52%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (16.37%) BigQuery
2 111 (16.37%) Looker
3 46 (6.78%) Power BI
4 37 (5.46%) Tableau
5 15 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 14 (2.06%) Metadata
7 10 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.29%) GIS
12 2 (0.29%) Power Query
13 1 (0.15%) Big Data
13 1 (0.15%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
13 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.65%) JIRA
2 13 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.74%) Subversion
5 4 (0.59%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.59%) Postman
6 2 (0.29%) Appium
6 2 (0.29%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.29%) Git
6 2 (0.29%) JMeter
6 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 238 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 233 (34.37%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (12.83%) Retail
4 86 (12.68%) Finance
5 67 (9.88%) Marketing
6 51 (7.52%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (5.16%) Banking
9 23 (3.39%) Financial Institution
10 22 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (3.10%) Games
11 21 (3.10%) Law
11 21 (3.10%) Military
12 20 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.95%) Public Sector
13 16 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 14 (2.06%) Aerospace
14 14 (2.06%) Electronics
14 14 (2.06%) Retail Banking
15 13 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 161 (23.75%) Senior
2 157 (23.16%) Architect
3 126 (18.58%) Data Architect
4 74 (10.91%) Lead
5 68 (10.03%) Developer
6 45 (6.64%) Software Engineer
7 43 (6.34%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 43 (6.34%) Delivery Manager
8 40 (5.90%) Lead Developer
9 38 (5.60%) Team Leader
10 29 (4.28%) Senior Architect
11 28 (4.13%) Analyst
11 28 (4.13%) Business Developer
11 28 (4.13%) Consultant
12 26 (3.83%) Field Engineer
12 26 (3.83%) Field Service Engineer
13 24 (3.54%) Senior Field Engineer
13 24 (3.54%) Senior Field Service Engineer
14 22 (3.24%) Project Manager
14 22 (3.24%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.80%) .NET
1 19 (2.80%) React
2 8 (1.18%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.03%) HTML
4 6 (0.88%) Spring Boot
4 6 (0.88%) Vue
5 5 (0.74%) ASP.NET
5 5 (0.74%) CSS
5 5 (0.74%) Node.js
5 5 (0.74%) Spring
6 4 (0.59%) Kafka
7 3 (0.44%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.44%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.29%) DOM
8 2 (0.29%) Express.js
8 2 (0.29%) JSON
8 2 (0.29%) JWT
8 2 (0.29%) RESTful
8 2 (0.29%) SAP TM
8 2 (0.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 205 (30.24%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (6.19%) Driving Licence
3 26 (3.83%) EPoS
4 25 (3.69%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.21%) CESG
8 13 (1.92%) GNSS
9 12 (1.77%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.47%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (1.33%) Virtual Reality
12 8 (1.18%) CCTV
12 8 (1.18%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.18%) Robotics
13 7 (1.03%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.23%) Windows
2 29 (4.28%) Linux
3 12 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (33.19%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (27.73%) Mentoring
3 162 (23.89%) Agile
4 130 (19.17%) Data Architecture
5 127 (18.73%) Data Modelling
5 127 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
6 124 (18.29%) Data Integration
7 122 (17.99%) Data Security
8 120 (17.70%) ETL
9 113 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 112 (16.52%) Data Governance
11 111 (16.37%) ERD
12 101 (14.90%) Project Management
13 66 (9.73%) Creative Thinking
14 63 (9.29%) Scrum
15 62 (9.14%) Analytics
16 61 (9.00%) Customer Service
17 57 (8.41%) Coaching
18 55 (8.11%) Software Engineering
19 51 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 50 (7.37%) Python
2 40 (5.90%) Java
2 40 (5.90%) SQL
3 24 (3.54%) C++
4 23 (3.39%) Perl
5 14 (2.06%) C#
5 14 (2.06%) MATLAB
6 13 (1.92%) Bash
7 10 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.18%) Scala
9 7 (1.03%) C
9 7 (1.03%) R
10 5 (0.74%) Delphi
11 4 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.15%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.15%) Rust
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 154 (22.71%) Degree
2 56 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 33 (4.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.54%) HND
5 21 (3.10%) HNC
6 20 (2.95%) DBS Check
7 19 (2.80%) CISMP
8 18 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 14 (2.06%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.77%) IISP
11 12 (1.77%) SC Cleared
12 10 (1.47%) CCNP
12 10 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.33%) CISM
13 9 (1.33%) CISSP
14 8 (1.18%) A+ Certification
14 8 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (16.52%) Data Quality
1 112 (16.52%) GDPR
2 36 (5.31%) SLA
3 25 (3.69%) NIST
4 24 (3.54%) PMO
5 15 (2.21%) JSP 440
6 13 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 12 (1.77%) NIST 800
7 12 (1.77%) RMADS
8 7 (1.03%) QA
9 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.59%) GRC
12 3 (0.44%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.44%) JTAG
13 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (3.69%) Firmware
2 18 (2.65%) Docker
3 15 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.51%) Terraform
3 10 (1.47%) Ansible
3 10 (1.47%) Progress Chef
3 10 (1.47%) Puppet
3 10 (1.47%) Salt
4 5 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 114 (16.81%) Google
2 63 (9.29%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.16%) Dell
4 26 (3.83%) HP
4 26 (3.83%) IBM
5 21 (3.10%) VMware
6 17 (2.51%) Cisco
6 17 (2.51%) NetApp
7 6 (0.88%) Adobe
8 5 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 5 (0.74%) Facebook
8 5 (0.74%) Oracle
8 5 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.59%) Progress
9 4 (0.59%) SAP
10 3 (0.44%) Mercator
10 3 (0.44%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.44%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.29%) Databricks
11 2 (0.29%) HubSpot