Creative Thinking Jobs in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 170 249
Rank change year-on-year +114 +79 -17
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 233 27 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.85% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 0.74% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 31
10th Percentile - £52,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £53,438 £35,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £74,378 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +14.43% +30.00%
75th Percentile £73,525 £97,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,430 - £135,693
England median annual salary £52,500 £61,250 £64,590
% change year-on-year -14.29% -5.17% +9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,837 3,643 8,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 79.96% 94.18% 96.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,504 2,761 5,019
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £66,650 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% +4.35%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Warwickshire +42 130 - - 4
Birmingham +1 31 £34,000 -42.37% 4
Coventry +38 28 £85,000 +47.83% 1
Solihull - 14 £67,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 13 - -
Staffordshire - 13 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £78,700 -
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 203 (87.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 203 (87.12%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.58%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (1.72%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.72%) Power BI
1 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
General
1 203 (87.12%) Military
2 11 (4.72%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.86%) Finance
3 9 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.58%) Legal
5 6 (2.58%) Local Government
5 6 (2.58%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.86%) Marketing
6 2 (0.86%) Retail
7 1 (0.43%) Police
7 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (87.12%) Graduate
2 9 (3.86%) Forensic Manager
3 6 (2.58%) Coordinator
3 6 (2.58%) Technical Coordinator
4 4 (1.72%) Analyst
4 4 (1.72%) Data Analyst
5 3 (1.29%) Information Manager
5 3 (1.29%) Information Security Manager
5 3 (1.29%) Project Manager
5 3 (1.29%) Security Manager
6 2 (0.86%) Designer
6 2 (0.86%) Graphic Designer
7 1 (0.43%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (0.43%) Head of Software Engineering
7 1 (0.43%) Lead
7 1 (0.43%) Lead Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Senior
7 1 (0.43%) Senior Designer
7 1 (0.43%) Senior Graphic Designer
Miscellaneous
1 203 (87.12%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.58%) CCTV
3 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.43%) FMCG
4 1 (0.43%) IoT
4 1 (0.43%) Photography
4 1 (0.43%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (88.84%) Data Analysis
2 206 (88.41%) Process Improvement
3 203 (87.12%) Contingency Planning
3 203 (87.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 203 (87.12%) Customer Experience
3 203 (87.12%) Customer Service
3 203 (87.12%) Logistics
3 203 (87.12%) Performance Metrics
4 20 (8.58%) Agile
5 15 (6.44%) Time Management
6 13 (5.58%) Project Management
7 9 (3.86%) Business Development
7 9 (3.86%) Coaching
7 9 (3.86%) Financial Analysis
7 9 (3.86%) Forensic Accounting
7 9 (3.86%) Technical Analysis
8 7 (3.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (1.72%) Customer Engagement
9 4 (1.72%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (1.72%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 4 (1.72%) SQL
2 1 (0.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 210 (90.13%) Degree
2 9 (3.86%) ACCA
3 6 (2.58%) HND
4 3 (1.29%) CISM
4 3 (1.29%) CISSP
4 3 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.29%) GDPR
2 3 (1.29%) GRC
2 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (1.72%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe