Creative Thinking Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Creative Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 276 300
Rank change year-on-year +156 +24 +3
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 418 374 452
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.76% 1.11% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 1.21% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41 208 250
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,675 £41,117
25th Percentile £57,000 £45,000 £55,414
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,684 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.11% -19.23% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Creative Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Creative Thinking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Creative Thinking.

Creative Thinking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Creative Thinking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.96%) CMS
3 2 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.48%) WordPress
4 1 (0.24%) CICS
4 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 16 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.20%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.48%) InDesign
5 2 (0.48%) Sketch
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (3.11%) Azure
2 11 (2.63%) AWS
3 9 (2.15%) Figma
4 7 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.20%) GitHub
5 5 (1.20%) Mimecast
6 3 (0.72%) GCP
7 2 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.48%) Canva
7 2 (0.48%) Serverless
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.24%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
1 5 (1.20%) Wireless
2 4 (0.96%) 5G
2 4 (0.96%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.96%) WAN
3 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) Network Security
3 2 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.48%) Tableau
2 1 (0.24%) Big Data
2 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.24%) DB2
2 1 (0.24%) GIS
2 1 (0.24%) Metadata
2 1 (0.24%) MySQL
2 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.24%) Power BI
2 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Git
2 5 (1.20%) Axure RP
3 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.72%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.24%) Babel
5 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 305 (72.97%) Legal
2 296 (70.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 287 (68.66%) Law
4 78 (18.66%) Social Skills
5 54 (12.92%) Marketing
6 53 (12.68%) Finance
7 34 (8.13%) Advertising
8 14 (3.35%) Banking
9 13 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (1.91%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Retail
14 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.24%) Electronics
15 1 (0.24%) Local Government
15 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (8.13%) Account Manager
1 34 (8.13%) Strategic Account Manager
2 17 (4.07%) Senior
3 14 (3.35%) Development Manager
4 10 (2.39%) Software Engineer
5 9 (2.15%) Audit Manager
5 9 (2.15%) IT Audit Manager
5 9 (2.15%) IT Manager
5 9 (2.15%) Senior Audit Manager
5 9 (2.15%) Senior IT Audit Manager
5 9 (2.15%) Senior IT Manager
5 9 (2.15%) Senior Manager
6 8 (1.91%) Designer
7 6 (1.44%) Analyst
8 5 (1.20%) Architect
8 5 (1.20%) Project Manager
8 5 (1.20%) Radio Engineer
8 5 (1.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (1.20%) Service Analyst
8 5 (1.20%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.20%) CSS
1 5 (1.20%) HTML
2 2 (0.48%) .NET
2 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.48%) React
3 1 (0.24%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.24%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.24%) Blazor
3 1 (0.24%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.24%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (0.24%) Next.js
3 1 (0.24%) Node.js
3 1 (0.24%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.24%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.24%) Spring
3 1 (0.24%) Spring MVC
3 1 (0.24%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (0.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 283 (67.70%) Cyberattack
2 41 (9.81%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.13%) Digital Media
3 34 (8.13%) Marketing Technology
4 26 (6.22%) Social Media
5 9 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (0.96%) GNSS
8 4 (0.96%) Reinsurance
8 4 (0.96%) Self-Driving Car
8 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.72%) Animation
9 3 (0.72%) Blog
10 2 (0.48%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.48%) Video Editing
11 1 (0.24%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.55%) Windows
2 14 (3.35%) Windows Vista
3 5 (1.20%) Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (69.62%) Line Management
2 284 (67.94%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (13.88%) Project Management
4 51 (12.20%) Mentoring
5 50 (11.96%) Strategic Thinking
6 45 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (9.81%) Collaborative Working
8 38 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
9 36 (8.61%) Digital Strategy
10 35 (8.37%) Budgeting
11 32 (7.66%) Agile
12 28 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (6.22%) Analytics
14 20 (4.78%) Project Delivery
15 17 (4.07%) Decision-Making
16 16 (3.83%) Budget Management
16 16 (3.83%) User Experience
17 14 (3.35%) Business Case
17 14 (3.35%) Contract Management
17 14 (3.35%) Cost Control
Programming Languages
1 7 (1.67%) Python
2 6 (1.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (0.96%) Bash
3 4 (0.96%) C
3 4 (0.96%) C++
3 4 (0.96%) Perl
3 4 (0.96%) SQL
4 2 (0.48%) C#
5 1 (0.24%) JCL
5 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (4.78%) Degree
2 17 (4.07%) DBS Check
3 11 (2.63%) CISSP
4 9 (2.15%) CISA
5 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.96%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.96%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.48%) CEH
7 2 (0.48%) CISM
7 2 (0.48%) GIAC
7 2 (0.48%) ISSAP
7 2 (0.48%) SANS
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.24%) MBA
8 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.24%) PMP
8 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (68.18%) NCSC
2 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.15%) ITGC
3 4 (0.96%) PMO
4 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.72%) QA
4 3 (0.72%) WCAG
5 2 (0.48%) COBIT
5 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.48%) GDPR
5 2 (0.48%) NIST
5 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.20%) SCCM
2 1 (0.24%) CA Service Virtualization
2 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (6.70%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.63%) Adobe
3 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
3 5 (1.20%) Sophos
3 5 (1.20%) Xilinx
4 3 (0.72%) Google
5 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.24%) IBM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP
6 1 (0.24%) TippingPoint