Creative Thinking Job Trends in Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 129 141
Rank change year-on-year -27 +12 +45
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 6 22 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.18% 0.70% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.78% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £48,801 £48,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £52,334 £50,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,222 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -4.35% -8.49%
75th Percentile £65,111 £76,737 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,044 £89,779 -
England median annual salary £45,000 £61,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -26.23% -4.31% -1.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,661 2,836 2,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 78.15% 90.69% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 1,096 2,302
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Creative Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
West Yorkshire -21 5 £59,222 -16.67% 6
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Navisworks
1 1 (16.67%) ProjectWise
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) NGFW
1 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GIS Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) GIS Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Network Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Network Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 19650
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Arista
1 1 (16.67%) Aruba
1 1 (16.67%) Autodesk
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) ESRI
1 1 (16.67%) NetScout