Critical Thinking Jobs in England

Critical Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 364 465
Rank change year-on-year -116 +101 +105
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 393 795 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.90% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.94% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 269 363 424
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,000 £28,519
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.36% - -10.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Critical 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in England.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +2 158 £75,000 +15.38% 129
North of England -68 61 £51,250 +13.89% 38
South East -66 54 £57,500 +11.98% 43
South West -44 49 £50,000 -39.39% 25
Midlands -52 46 £42,200 -19.62% 32
North West -36 34 £40,000 -11.11% 21
West Midlands -19 33 £24,000 -57.52% 16
Yorkshire +36 26 £52,500 +16.67% 9
East of England -2 20 £43,500 -47.27% 12
East Midlands -37 9 £46,000 +15.00% 16
North East -33 1 £67,500 +100.00% 8
Critical Thinking
UK

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.07%) Confluence
3 7 (1.78%) CMS
3 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.78%) SAS
4 4 (1.02%) WordPress
5 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.25%) Luigi
Applications
1 40 (10.18%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.76%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.76%) Sketch
5 2 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.51%) InDesign
5 2 (0.51%) InVision
5 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) 1Password
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.53%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (1.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.27%) Odoo
3 3 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.76%) Shopify
4 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.25%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 66 (16.79%) Azure
2 55 (13.99%) AWS
3 37 (9.41%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (4.33%) SaaS
6 11 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (2.80%) GCP
6 11 (2.80%) Serverless
7 10 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.53%) OCI
10 5 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.27%) PaaS
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.02%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.40%) Wi-Fi
2 29 (7.38%) Network Security
3 25 (6.36%) Wireless
4 24 (6.11%) 5G
5 22 (5.60%) Bluetooth
5 22 (5.60%) GSM
5 22 (5.60%) ISDN
5 22 (5.60%) LTE
5 22 (5.60%) PSTN
5 22 (5.60%) UMTS
6 16 (4.07%) WAN
7 14 (3.56%) LAN
8 11 (2.80%) Firewall
9 6 (1.53%) DNS
9 6 (1.53%) Internet
10 5 (1.27%) BGP
10 5 (1.27%) OSPF
10 5 (1.27%) SNMP
10 5 (1.27%) VLAN
11 4 (1.02%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.91%) Power BI
2 29 (7.38%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.82%) Tableau
5 11 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.29%) GIS
7 6 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.53%) MySQL
7 6 (1.53%) SAP BW
7 6 (1.53%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.27%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.27%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.02%) Big Data
9 4 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.02%) Spatial Data
9 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (9.92%) JIRA
2 28 (7.12%) Burp Suite
2 28 (7.12%) Metasploit
3 22 (5.60%) LabVIEW
4 21 (5.34%) Git
5 10 (2.54%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.53%) Selenium
8 5 (1.27%) Jaeger
8 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.02%) Appium
9 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.76%) GitLab
11 2 (0.51%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.51%) git-flow
11 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.25%) Maven
12 1 (0.25%) NUnit
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 233 (59.29%) Social Skills
2 142 (36.13%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (26.21%) Finance
4 51 (12.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (11.96%) Marketing
6 32 (8.14%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (7.89%) Telecoms
8 29 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
8 29 (7.38%) Retail
9 24 (6.11%) Law
10 23 (5.85%) Banking
11 19 (4.83%) Legal
12 15 (3.82%) Public Sector
13 14 (3.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (3.56%) Publishing
14 11 (2.80%) Tech for Good
15 8 (2.04%) French Language
16 7 (1.78%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.78%) Games
16 7 (1.78%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 48 (12.21%) Analyst
2 43 (10.94%) Senior
3 39 (9.92%) Developer
4 34 (8.65%) Tester
5 28 (7.12%) Penetration Tester
6 25 (6.36%) Architect
6 25 (6.36%) Lead
7 24 (6.11%) Project Manager
8 16 (4.07%) Consultant
9 15 (3.82%) Hardware Engineer
10 14 (3.56%) Designer
11 13 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.05%) Product Manager
12 12 (3.05%) Senior Manager
13 11 (2.80%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.80%) Test Engineer
14 10 (2.54%) Help Desk Analyst
15 9 (2.29%) IT Manager
16 8 (2.04%) Business Analyst
16 8 (2.04%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.60%) CSS
2 19 (4.83%) Node.js
3 17 (4.33%) React
4 15 (3.82%) HTML
5 14 (3.56%) .NET
6 10 (2.54%) Vue
6 10 (2.54%) Web Services
7 8 (2.04%) .NET Framework
7 8 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.04%) Django
8 6 (1.53%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.27%) Kafka
9 5 (1.27%) Middleware
9 5 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.27%) RESTful
9 5 (1.27%) Sass
9 5 (1.27%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.02%) LDAP
10 4 (1.02%) SOAP
10 4 (1.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.40%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (8.14%) Management Information System
3 25 (6.36%) Algorithms
4 22 (5.60%) Acoustics
4 22 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.60%) Satnav
5 19 (4.83%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.31%) Client/Server
7 12 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.05%) Social Media
8 9 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.53%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.53%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.53%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.27%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.21%) Linux
2 28 (7.12%) Kali Linux
3 14 (3.56%) Windows
4 10 (2.54%) Android
5 9 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (60.81%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (34.10%) Agile
3 95 (24.17%) Computer Science
4 89 (22.65%) Project Management
5 66 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
6 59 (15.01%) Mentoring
7 54 (13.74%) Coaching
8 50 (12.72%) Customer Service
9 47 (11.96%) Analytical Thinking
9 47 (11.96%) Data Management
10 46 (11.70%) Information Security
11 45 (11.45%) Test Automation
12 43 (10.94%) Roadmaps
13 41 (10.43%) Analytics
13 41 (10.43%) DevOps
14 40 (10.18%) Software Engineering
15 39 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (9.92%) Decision-Making
15 39 (9.92%) User Experience
16 38 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.10%) Python
2 59 (15.01%) SQL
3 39 (9.92%) JavaScript
4 30 (7.63%) C#
5 18 (4.58%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.56%) Java
7 13 (3.31%) PHP
8 12 (3.05%) R
9 10 (2.54%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.27%) Ruby
11 3 (0.76%) Bash
11 3 (0.76%) Scala
12 2 (0.51%) C
12 2 (0.51%) Go
12 2 (0.51%) VB
13 1 (0.25%) C++
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
13 1 (0.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 176 (44.78%) Degree
2 50 (12.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.80%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.02%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.76%) ISEB
9 3 (0.76%) MCSE
9 3 (0.76%) MCT
9 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.51%) CCNP
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.51%) CISM
10 2 (0.51%) CISSP
10 2 (0.51%) GCFA
10 2 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.89%) QA
2 15 (3.82%) GDPR
3 14 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.53%) GAAP
4 6 (1.53%) IFRS
4 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.27%) SLA
6 4 (1.02%) PMO
7 3 (0.76%) NIST
8 1 (0.25%) COSHH
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.31%) Docker
3 8 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.51%) NFS
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (3.05%) Kubernetes
1 12 (3.05%) Terraform
2 6 (1.53%) Ansible
3 5 (1.27%) Kiali
4 3 (0.76%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.51%) SCCM
5 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (0.51%) WSUS
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 91 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.36%) SAP
3 16 (4.07%) Google
4 12 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.54%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.78%) Oracle
7 6 (1.53%) Dell
7 6 (1.53%) Pega
7 6 (1.53%) PeopleSoft
7 6 (1.53%) Progress
7 6 (1.53%) Splunk
7 6 (1.53%) UiPath
8 5 (1.27%) Adobe
8 5 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.27%) Databricks
9 4 (1.02%) Intel
9 4 (1.02%) Mapbox
9 4 (1.02%) VMware
10 3 (0.76%) iManage
10 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow