Innovative Thinking Jobs in the West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 266 242
Rank change year-on-year +66 -24 -24
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 42 10 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.15% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.15% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 34 7 7
10th Percentile £37,000 £52,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,329 £62,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,964 £65,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +71.05% -15.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £66,000 £89,300 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,883 6,670 6,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.15% 96.93% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,509 3,312 4,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the West Midlands

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Birmingham +23 34 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Staffordshire - 7 £39,000 -
Solihull - 1 £56,929 -
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (4.76%) Adobe XD
1 2 (4.76%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) GCP
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Figma
5 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Firewall
1 5 (11.90%) Network Security
1 5 (11.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) BigQuery
1 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (19.05%) Looker
2 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Axure RP
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 17 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Games
4 5 (11.90%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Local Government
6 2 (4.76%) Finance
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing
6 2 (4.76%) Multimedia
6 2 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Senior
2 8 (19.05%) Appian Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Applications Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Data Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Lead
2 8 (19.05%) Lead Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Low-Code Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Field Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Field Service Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (19.05%) Low-Code
3 6 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
3 6 (14.29%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.76%) EPoS
4 2 (4.76%) Graphic Design
4 2 (4.76%) Life Science
4 2 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.76%) Photography
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
2 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Data Integration
2 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.81%) Customer Service
5 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 9 (21.43%) ETL
6 8 (19.05%) Agile
6 8 (19.05%) Analytics
6 8 (19.05%) Data Architecture
6 8 (19.05%) Data Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) Data Governance
6 8 (19.05%) Data Security
6 8 (19.05%) ERD
6 8 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 6 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (14.29%) Mobile First
8 6 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) Data Quality
1 8 (19.05%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) NCSC
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Hyper-V
1 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.76%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Google
2 5 (11.90%) Cisco
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) VMware
3 2 (4.76%) Adobe
3 2 (4.76%) Dell
3 2 (4.76%) HP
3 2 (4.76%) IBM
3 2 (4.76%) NetApp