Critical Thinking Job Trends in Wiltshire

Critical Thinking
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 13 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 1.13% - 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% - 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £43,750
25th Percentile - - £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,227 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.55%
75th Percentile - - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £56,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.64% - -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

Critical 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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 777 381 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 67.27% 82.11% 73.29%
Number of salaries quoted 472 194 617
10th Percentile £31,026 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,683 £67,500 £81,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Critical Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Critical Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Swindon - 5 £26,227 - 4
Trowbridge - 4 £26,227 -
Warminster - 2 - - 1
Chippenham - 2 £26,227 -
Critical Thinking
South West

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) OCI
1 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Flink
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) Looker
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ER Studio
1 1 (7.69%) ERwin
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 7 (53.85%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Legal
4 3 (23.08%) Games
4 3 (23.08%) Military
5 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Compliance Officer
2 4 (30.77%) Risk Officer
3 3 (23.08%) Customer Service Specialist
3 3 (23.08%) Data Compliance Officer
3 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Officer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
2 3 (23.08%) Podcast
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (23.08%) Social Media
2 3 (23.08%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 7 (53.85%) Data Privacy
1 7 (53.85%) Due Diligence
2 6 (46.15%) Customer Experience
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
4 4 (30.77%) Business Development
4 4 (30.77%) Compliance Management
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Register
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Active Listening
5 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) Emotional Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) MODAF
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CISM
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
5 1 (7.69%) CRISC
5 1 (7.69%) OCP
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) OneTrust
2 1 (7.69%) Capita
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Sparx