Creative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 302 290
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 +133
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 1,002 1,161 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.17% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.22% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 389 427 753
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,283 £47,474 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,862 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% +3.78% +8.70%
75th Percentile £66,250 £87,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,920 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -21.96% -7.56% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +15 876 £48,750 -25.88% 318
UK excluding London +66 610 £42,920 -21.96% 172
Work from Home +21 379 £55,000 -17.80% 122
London -28 337 £53,000 -32.27% 161
Midlands +133 196 £44,000 -29.60% 23
West Midlands +125 151 £51,250 -21.15% 8
South East +28 109 £45,000 +2.86% 58
South West +21 104 £42,500 -15.40% 20
North of England -4 78 £33,000 -48.46% 51
Scotland -40 64 £60,000 +4.89% 7
East Midlands +27 45 £36,250 -21.62% 15
East of England -17 45 £40,000 -27.27% 13
Yorkshire +41 36 £62,250 -2.78% 19
North West -18 34 £38,000 -35.86% 28
Northern Ireland +6 9 £30,000 -40.00% 2
North East 0 8 £27,500 -55.35% 5
Wales +2 5 £47,029 +71.01% 1

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 55 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (2.79%) CMS
3 15 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.40%) IIS
5 4 (0.40%) Confluence
5 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.40%) WordPress
6 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.100%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.100%) Drupal
Applications
1 257 (25.65%) Microsoft Office
2 250 (24.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 88 (8.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (2.20%) AutoCAD
5 19 (1.90%) Photoshop
6 18 (1.80%) Adobe XD
7 16 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 12 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 12 (1.20%) InDesign
9 11 (1.10%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.40%) Maya
12 3 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.30%) SketchUp
12 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.20%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
14 1 (0.100%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.100%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 46 (4.59%) Endur
2 17 (1.70%) Unit4 Business World
3 13 (1.30%) SDL Web 8
4 11 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.60%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.30%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.100%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.100%) Magento
7 1 (0.100%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (4.59%) Azure
2 45 (4.49%) AWS
3 34 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 20 (2.00%) SaaS
6 19 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (1.80%) Figma
8 15 (1.50%) GCP
9 10 (1.00%) IaaS
9 10 (1.00%) PaaS
10 9 (0.90%) Google Analytics
10 9 (0.90%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.70%) Canva
12 6 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.60%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.60%) Serverless
13 5 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.50%) OneDrive
14 4 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.40%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.99%) WAN
2 25 (2.50%) Wireless
3 23 (2.30%) Firewall
4 21 (2.10%) 5G
5 20 (2.00%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.10%) Broadband
8 10 (1.00%) Internet
9 8 (0.80%) DNS
9 8 (0.80%) NGN
9 8 (0.80%) TACACS
9 8 (0.80%) VPN
10 7 (0.70%) DHCP
10 7 (0.70%) HTTP
10 7 (0.70%) MQTT
11 6 (0.60%) SAN
12 5 (0.50%) Network Security
12 5 (0.50%) VoIP
12 5 (0.50%) WebEx
12 5 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.09%) Relational Database
3 46 (4.59%) RDBMS
4 25 (2.50%) Power BI
5 17 (1.70%) DB2
6 13 (1.30%) Metadata
7 11 (1.10%) Tableau
8 9 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.90%) Data Mining
9 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.40%) Looker
11 4 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.30%) QlikView
13 2 (0.20%) GIS
Development Applications
1 35 (3.49%) Git
2 31 (3.09%) JIRA
3 19 (1.90%) GitLab
4 17 (1.70%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.40%) TeamCity
6 13 (1.30%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.30%) Balsamiq
6 13 (1.30%) Moq
6 13 (1.30%) NUnit
7 5 (0.50%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.20%) Ant
9 2 (0.20%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.20%) Subversion
10 1 (0.100%) Gradle
10 1 (0.100%) Mockito
10 1 (0.100%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.100%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.100%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 398 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 247 (24.65%) Finance
3 227 (22.65%) Marketing
4 169 (16.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (16.07%) Military
6 154 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
7 94 (9.38%) Public Sector
8 84 (8.38%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (6.89%) Banking
10 64 (6.39%) Legal
11 61 (6.09%) Games
12 60 (5.99%) Investment Banking
13 56 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (5.09%) Law
15 43 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
16 41 (4.09%) Retail
17 34 (3.39%) Telecoms
18 26 (2.59%) Electronics
19 23 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
20 17 (1.70%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 152 (15.17%) Graduate
2 147 (14.67%) Senior
3 121 (12.08%) Analyst
4 93 (9.28%) Lead
5 69 (6.89%) Developer
6 57 (5.69%) Consultant
7 55 (5.49%) Architect
8 54 (5.39%) Business Strategy Analyst
8 54 (5.39%) Strategy Analyst
9 48 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 44 (4.39%) Designer
11 41 (4.09%) Project Manager
12 40 (3.99%) Senior Manager
13 34 (3.39%) Development Manager
14 31 (3.09%) IT Manager
15 27 (2.69%) Coordinator
16 25 (2.50%) Business Analyst
16 25 (2.50%) Endur Manager
16 25 (2.50%) OpenLink Manager
16 25 (2.50%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.29%) HTML
2 51 (5.09%) CSS
3 42 (4.19%) .NET
4 34 (3.39%) React
5 24 (2.40%) ASP.NET
6 23 (2.30%) Entity Framework
7 20 (2.00%) Web Services
8 19 (1.90%) .NET Framework
9 18 (1.80%) RESTful
10 17 (1.70%) SOAP
11 14 (1.40%) .NET Core
11 14 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (1.40%) jQuery
12 13 (1.30%) ASP.NET MVC 5
12 13 (1.30%) Classic ASP
12 13 (1.30%) Semantic HTML
13 11 (1.10%) Spring
13 11 (1.10%) Vue
14 10 (1.00%) Node.js
15 9 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 157 (15.67%) Onboarding
2 112 (11.18%) Self-Motivation
3 69 (6.89%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.89%) Management Information System
5 46 (4.59%) Swaptions
6 39 (3.89%) Social Media
7 23 (2.30%) ARM Cortex
7 23 (2.30%) Verilog
8 22 (2.20%) Virtual Team
9 21 (2.10%) CCTV
9 21 (2.10%) GNSS
10 20 (2.00%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.80%) Blog
12 17 (1.70%) IoT
13 14 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.40%) Housing Association
14 13 (1.30%) CESG
14 13 (1.30%) Legacy Code
15 11 (1.10%) FPGA
16 10 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.29%) Windows
2 43 (4.29%) Linux
3 27 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.10%) Unix
5 16 (1.60%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.60%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.50%) Android
9 5 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.100%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.100%) VMS
11 1 (0.100%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (22.95%) Agile
2 222 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 204 (20.36%) Customer Service
4 193 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
5 182 (18.16%) Customer Experience
6 172 (17.17%) Data Analysis
7 164 (16.37%) Process Improvement
8 159 (15.87%) Performance Metrics
9 156 (15.57%) Logistics
10 152 (15.17%) Project Management
11 149 (14.87%) Contingency Planning
12 110 (10.98%) SDLC
13 107 (10.68%) Mentoring
14 105 (10.48%) Computer Science
15 100 (9.98%) Roadmaps
16 92 (9.18%) Project Delivery
16 92 (9.18%) User Experience
17 88 (8.78%) Strategic Thinking
18 82 (8.18%) Decision-Making
19 78 (7.78%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 99 (9.88%) Python
2 93 (9.28%) Java
3 63 (6.29%) SQL
4 60 (5.99%) VB
5 56 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 41 (4.09%) C++
7 39 (3.89%) C#
8 33 (3.29%) TypeScript
9 31 (3.09%) Tcl
10 23 (2.30%) SystemVerilog
11 21 (2.10%) Perl
12 19 (1.90%) Bash
12 19 (1.90%) C
12 19 (1.90%) R
13 16 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.10%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.10%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.30%) Swift
16 2 (0.20%) Julia
Qualifications
1 394 (39.32%) Degree
2 91 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 53 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 47 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (1.90%) CISA
7 19 (1.90%) HND
8 18 (1.80%) ACCA
9 16 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.40%) CREST Certified
11 13 (1.30%) CISMP
11 13 (1.30%) DBS Check
12 12 (1.20%) HNC
12 12 (1.20%) IISP
13 10 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.80%) A+ Certification
14 8 (0.80%) CCNP
14 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.29%) QA
2 51 (5.09%) PMO
3 19 (1.90%) NIST
4 17 (1.70%) ITGC
5 15 (1.50%) SLA
6 14 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.30%) GDPR
7 13 (1.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (1.30%) JSP 440
7 13 (1.30%) WCAG
8 12 (1.20%) NIST 800
8 12 (1.20%) RMADS
9 8 (0.80%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.70%) Good Clinical Practice
11 4 (0.40%) NCSC
12 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.30%) JTAG
12 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (1.90%) Firmware
2 15 (1.50%) Docker
3 11 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.50%) vSphere
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.100%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.30%) SCOM
3 8 (0.80%) Ansible
4 5 (0.50%) NetCrunch
4 5 (0.50%) Terraform
5 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Cast Iron
6 1 (0.100%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.100%) SCCM
6 1 (0.100%) WSUS
6 1 (0.100%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 182 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.79%) Oracle
3 48 (4.79%) Adobe
4 46 (4.59%) OpenLink
4 46 (4.59%) Sybase
4 46 (4.59%) TIBCO
5 42 (4.19%) SAP
6 24 (2.40%) Google
7 22 (2.20%) VMware
8 17 (1.70%) Sage
9 16 (1.60%) Cisco
10 11 (1.10%) Facebook
11 9 (0.90%) TikTok
12 8 (0.80%) Altera
12 8 (0.80%) Aruba
12 8 (0.80%) Green Hills
12 8 (0.80%) Motorola
12 8 (0.80%) Xilinx
13 7 (0.70%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.70%) NVIDIA