Creative Thinking Jobs with Work from Home Options

Creative Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Creative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 303 310
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 +88
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 379 431 863
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.06% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.11% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 207 236 385
10th Percentile £31,400 £38,958 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,311 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,731 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% -1.14% +12.50%
75th Percentile £74,500 £86,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,852 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £64,446 £62,500
% change year-on-year -22.42% +3.11% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Creative 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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,860 38,962 68,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 96.03% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,358 27,133 41,275
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Creative Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Creative Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

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 43 (11.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.90%) CMS
2 11 (2.90%) IIS
3 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 17 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.69%) Adobe XD
3 10 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.11%) Photoshop
5 7 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.06%) Maya
6 4 (1.06%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.79%) InDesign
7 3 (0.79%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.26%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 41 (10.82%) Endur
2 13 (3.43%) Unit4 Business World
3 11 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 40 (10.55%) AWS
2 27 (7.12%) Azure
3 16 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
3 16 (4.22%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.43%) GCP
5 7 (1.85%) Canva
5 7 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.32%) Serverless
7 4 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.06%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.79%) Figma
8 3 (0.79%) Google Analytics
8 3 (0.79%) IaaS
8 3 (0.79%) MailChimp
8 3 (0.79%) PaaS
8 3 (0.79%) SaaS
8 3 (0.79%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.43%) TCP/IP
1 13 (3.43%) Wireless
2 9 (2.37%) Broadband
2 9 (2.37%) WAN
3 8 (2.11%) Firewall
3 8 (2.11%) NGN
3 8 (2.11%) TACACS
4 7 (1.85%) HTTP
4 7 (1.85%) MQTT
5 5 (1.32%) DHCP
5 5 (1.32%) DNS
5 5 (1.32%) VoIP
5 5 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.79%) Internet
6 3 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.26%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) Intranet
7 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 45 (11.87%) Relational Database
3 41 (10.82%) RDBMS
4 13 (3.43%) DB2
5 9 (2.37%) Power BI
6 8 (2.11%) Metadata
7 6 (1.58%) Tableau
8 4 (1.06%) Looker
9 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (0.53%) QlikView
11 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.26%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (5.54%) Git
2 13 (3.43%) Axure RP
2 13 (3.43%) Balsamiq
3 5 (1.32%) GitLab
3 5 (1.32%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 166 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 113 (29.82%) Marketing
3 98 (25.86%) Finance
4 97 (25.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 82 (21.64%) Public Sector
6 57 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (14.51%) Games
8 27 (7.12%) Legal
9 26 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (6.60%) Retail
11 19 (5.01%) Law
12 18 (4.75%) Telecoms
13 17 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (4.22%) Aerospace
15 13 (3.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (2.64%) Advertising
17 10 (2.64%) Aviation
17 10 (2.64%) Military
18 8 (2.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (21.64%) Senior
2 41 (10.82%) Consultant
3 38 (10.03%) Architect
3 38 (10.03%) Lead
4 36 (9.50%) Analyst
5 28 (7.39%) Senior Manager
6 27 (7.12%) Development Manager
6 27 (7.12%) Project Manager
7 25 (6.60%) Developer
8 20 (5.28%) Endur Manager
8 20 (5.28%) OpenLink Manager
8 20 (5.28%) Senior Development Manager
8 20 (5.28%) Software Development Manager
8 20 (5.28%) Software Manager
9 19 (5.01%) Business Analyst
10 17 (4.49%) Endur Architect
10 17 (4.49%) OpenLink Architect
10 17 (4.49%) Software Architect
11 15 (3.96%) IT Manager
11 15 (3.96%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.50%) HTML
2 28 (7.39%) CSS
3 18 (4.75%) .NET
4 11 (2.90%) ASP.NET
4 11 (2.90%) React
5 10 (2.64%) Entity Framework
5 10 (2.64%) Node.js
5 10 (2.64%) Spring
6 9 (2.37%) .NET Core
6 9 (2.37%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (2.37%) Hibernate
6 9 (2.37%) Spring MVC
7 7 (1.85%) Django
7 7 (1.85%) Flask
8 6 (1.58%) Vue
9 4 (1.06%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.06%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.06%) AWS SAM
9 4 (1.06%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.51%) Product Ownership
2 41 (10.82%) Swaptions
3 37 (9.76%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.54%) Social Media
5 16 (4.22%) IoT
6 12 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.90%) CESG
8 10 (2.64%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.85%) Arduino
10 7 (1.85%) Raspberry Pi
11 6 (1.58%) Blog
11 6 (1.58%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.58%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.32%) CCTV
12 5 (1.32%) Photography
13 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.69%) Linux
1 14 (3.69%) Windows
2 13 (3.43%) Unix
2 13 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.79%) Android
3 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (35.36%) Agile
2 89 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (16.89%) Project Management
4 60 (15.83%) Roadmaps
5 59 (15.57%) Project Delivery
6 57 (15.04%) SDLC
7 55 (14.51%) Data Modelling
8 51 (13.46%) Workshop Facilitation
9 50 (13.19%) Decision-Making
10 49 (12.93%) Strategic Roadmap
11 46 (12.14%) Coaching
12 45 (11.87%) Business Transformation
13 44 (11.61%) Risk Management
14 43 (11.35%) Scrum
15 42 (11.08%) Analytics
16 41 (10.82%) IT Strategy
16 41 (10.82%) Mentoring
17 40 (10.55%) User Experience
18 38 (10.03%) Technology Strategy
19 34 (8.97%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 62 (16.36%) Java
2 41 (10.82%) VB
3 36 (9.50%) SQL
4 34 (8.97%) Python
5 30 (7.92%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.96%) C#
7 11 (2.90%) C
7 11 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.32%) Bash
8 5 (1.32%) R
9 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.79%) Swift
11 2 (0.53%) C++
11 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 101 (26.65%) Degree
2 70 (18.47%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.87%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.71%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.43%) CISA
7 13 (3.43%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.90%) CISMP
8 11 (2.90%) IISP
9 10 (2.64%) ACCA
9 10 (2.64%) CREST Certified
10 7 (1.85%) CIPD
11 4 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.53%) MOS
13 1 (0.26%) PhD
13 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.07%) PMO
1 23 (6.07%) QA
2 14 (3.69%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.69%) NIST
3 13 (3.43%) ITGC
3 13 (3.43%) WCAG
4 11 (2.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 11 (2.90%) JSP 440
4 11 (2.90%) NIST 800
4 11 (2.90%) RMADS
5 10 (2.64%) GDPR
6 7 (1.85%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (1.58%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.06%) SLA
9 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.79%) NCSC
10 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (3.69%) Docker
2 7 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.43%) SCOM
3 8 (2.11%) Ansible
4 4 (1.06%) Terraform
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.78%) Oracle
3 41 (10.82%) OpenLink
3 41 (10.82%) Sybase
3 41 (10.82%) TIBCO
4 24 (6.33%) Adobe
5 23 (6.07%) SAP
6 13 (3.43%) Google
6 13 (3.43%) Sage
7 8 (2.11%) Aruba
7 8 (2.11%) VMware
8 7 (1.85%) NVIDIA
8 7 (1.85%) TikTok
9 6 (1.58%) Facebook
10 5 (1.32%) Twitter
11 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.79%) Instagram
12 3 (0.79%) Qualtrics
12 3 (0.79%) YouTube
13 2 (0.53%) QinetiQ