Creative Thinking Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 303 276
Rank change year-on-year +64 -27 +152
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 1,263 1,117 2,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.20% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.26% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 378 417 781
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £47,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,930 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +0.69% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,920 £55,000 £57,655
% change year-on-year -21.96% -4.60% +15.31%

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +56 1,144 £48,500 -25.38% 305
UK excluding London +122 910 £42,920 -21.96% 170
Work from Home +22 375 £55,000 -15.38% 135
North of England +138 292 £33,531 -47.63% 53
London -84 288 £52,500 -30.00% 135
Midlands +146 258 £44,000 -32.31% 25
North West +120 222 £38,000 -35.04% 29
West Midlands +131 201 £55,000 -15.38% 11
South West +35 121 £42,500 -15.40% 28
South East +11 119 £43,960 +3.44% 45
Scotland -42 58 £60,000 +19.43% 6
East Midlands +18 57 £36,250 - 14
Yorkshire +40 49 £60,000 -7.69% 22
East of England -20 48 £40,000 -27.27% 15
North East +4 21 £27,500 -55.35% 5
Northern Ireland +1 9 £30,000 -40.00% 3
Wales +8 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 48 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (2.53%) CMS
3 15 (1.19%) IIS
3 15 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.48%) Confluence
5 4 (0.32%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.32%) WordPress
6 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 294 (23.28%) Microsoft Office
2 289 (22.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (4.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.74%) AutoCAD
5 19 (1.50%) Photoshop
6 18 (1.43%) Adobe XD
7 16 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 14 (1.11%) MS Visio
9 12 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
9 12 (0.95%) InDesign
10 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.32%) Maya
12 3 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.24%) SketchUp
12 3 (0.24%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.16%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.16%) CINEMA 4D
14 1 (0.079%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.079%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 39 (3.09%) Endur
2 17 (1.35%) SDL Web 8
2 17 (1.35%) Unit4 Business World
3 10 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.32%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (0.24%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.079%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.079%) Magento
6 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (3.56%) Azure
2 40 (3.17%) AWS
3 37 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (2.30%) Power Platform
5 20 (1.58%) SaaS
6 19 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (1.43%) Figma
8 16 (1.27%) GCP
9 10 (0.79%) IaaS
9 10 (0.79%) PaaS
10 9 (0.71%) Google Analytics
10 9 (0.71%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.55%) Canva
12 6 (0.48%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.40%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.40%) Serverless
14 4 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.32%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.45%) WAN
2 25 (1.98%) Wireless
3 24 (1.90%) Firewall
4 20 (1.58%) 5G
4 20 (1.58%) SD-WAN
5 17 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.87%) Broadband
7 10 (0.79%) Internet
8 8 (0.63%) DNS
8 8 (0.63%) NGN
8 8 (0.63%) TACACS
8 8 (0.63%) VPN
9 7 (0.55%) DHCP
10 6 (0.48%) HTTP
10 6 (0.48%) MQTT
10 6 (0.48%) Network Security
10 6 (0.48%) SAN
10 6 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 44 (3.48%) Relational Database
3 39 (3.09%) RDBMS
4 22 (1.74%) Power BI
5 17 (1.35%) DB2
6 9 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.71%) Data Mining
6 9 (0.71%) Metadata
7 8 (0.63%) Tableau
8 6 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.24%) Looker
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.24%) QlikView
12 2 (0.16%) GIS
12 2 (0.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 38 (3.01%) Git
2 36 (2.85%) JIRA
3 23 (1.82%) GitLab
4 18 (1.43%) TeamCity
5 17 (1.35%) Moq
5 17 (1.35%) NUnit
6 16 (1.27%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.03%) Axure RP
7 13 (1.03%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.40%) LabVIEW
9 3 (0.24%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.16%) Ant
10 2 (0.16%) PowerBuilder
10 2 (0.16%) Subversion
11 1 (0.079%) Gradle
11 1 (0.079%) Mockito
11 1 (0.079%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.079%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 402 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 396 (31.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 225 (17.81%) Military
4 214 (16.94%) Marketing
5 207 (16.39%) Finance
6 154 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (6.81%) Public Sector
8 79 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (5.30%) Legal
10 55 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (4.28%) Games
12 45 (3.56%) Law
13 41 (3.25%) Banking
13 41 (3.25%) Retail
14 37 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (2.77%) Telecoms
16 32 (2.53%) Investment Banking
17 26 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (1.98%) Electronics
19 16 (1.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 216 (17.10%) Graduate
2 155 (12.27%) Lead
3 141 (11.16%) Senior
4 125 (9.90%) Architect
5 122 (9.66%) Software Engineer
6 94 (7.44%) Software Architect
7 86 (6.81%) Analyst
8 85 (6.73%) Programmer
8 85 (6.73%) Software Programmer
9 84 (6.65%) Lead Software Engineer
10 69 (5.46%) Developer
11 57 (4.51%) Consultant
12 45 (3.56%) Designer
12 45 (3.56%) Project Manager
13 38 (3.01%) Senior Manager
14 31 (2.45%) Development Manager
14 31 (2.45%) IT Manager
15 27 (2.14%) Coordinator
16 26 (2.06%) Business Strategy Analyst
16 26 (2.06%) Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.23%) HTML
2 54 (4.28%) CSS
3 44 (3.48%) .NET
4 28 (2.22%) Entity Framework
5 27 (2.14%) ASP.NET
6 26 (2.06%) React
7 24 (1.90%) Web Services
8 22 (1.74%) .NET Framework
8 22 (1.74%) RESTful
9 21 (1.66%) SOAP
10 18 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
10 18 (1.43%) jQuery
11 17 (1.35%) ASP.NET MVC 5
11 17 (1.35%) Classic ASP
11 17 (1.35%) Semantic HTML
12 14 (1.11%) .NET Core
13 11 (0.87%) Spring
14 10 (0.79%) Node.js
14 10 (0.79%) Vue
15 9 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 238 (18.84%) Cyberattack
2 221 (17.50%) Onboarding
3 87 (6.89%) Self-Motivation
4 67 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 49 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 39 (3.09%) Swaptions
7 38 (3.01%) Social Media
8 24 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.82%) ARM Cortex
9 23 (1.82%) Verilog
10 22 (1.74%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.66%) CCTV
12 20 (1.58%) GNSS
13 17 (1.35%) Blog
13 17 (1.35%) Legacy Code
14 16 (1.27%) IoT
15 14 (1.11%) Housing Association
16 13 (1.03%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.03%) CESG
17 11 (0.87%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.28%) Windows
2 42 (3.33%) Linux
3 28 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.74%) Unix
5 16 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.40%) Android
9 5 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.079%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.079%) VMS
11 1 (0.079%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (35.79%) Agile
2 437 (34.60%) Problem-Solving
3 346 (27.40%) Mentoring
4 321 (25.42%) User Experience
5 292 (23.12%) Software Engineering
6 290 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 267 (21.14%) Customer Service
8 265 (20.98%) Machine Learning
9 244 (19.32%) Customer Experience
10 242 (19.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 240 (19.00%) Data Engineering
12 233 (18.45%) Data Analysis
13 228 (18.05%) Process Improvement
14 223 (17.66%) Performance Metrics
15 220 (17.42%) Logistics
16 213 (16.86%) Contingency Planning
17 154 (12.19%) Project Management
18 106 (8.39%) Computer Science
19 96 (7.60%) Roadmaps
20 95 (7.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 92 (7.28%) Python
2 80 (6.33%) Java
3 63 (4.99%) SQL
4 57 (4.51%) JavaScript
5 53 (4.20%) VB
6 41 (3.25%) C#
6 41 (3.25%) C++
7 31 (2.45%) Tcl
8 26 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.82%) SystemVerilog
10 21 (1.66%) Perl
10 21 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.50%) C
12 18 (1.43%) Bash
12 18 (1.43%) R
13 11 (0.87%) MATLAB
13 11 (0.87%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.24%) Swift
15 2 (0.16%) Julia
Qualifications
1 461 (36.50%) Degree
2 84 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 45 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (3.56%) SC Cleared
4 32 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 19 (1.50%) CISA
5 19 (1.50%) HND
6 18 (1.43%) ACCA
7 16 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.11%) CREST Certified
8 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.03%) CISMP
9 13 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 13 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 12 (0.95%) HNC
10 12 (0.95%) IISP
11 8 (0.63%) A+ Certification
11 8 (0.63%) CCNP
11 8 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.12%) QA
2 49 (3.88%) PMO
3 19 (1.50%) NIST
4 17 (1.35%) ITGC
5 16 (1.27%) GDPR
5 16 (1.27%) SLA
6 14 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (1.03%) JSP 440
7 13 (1.03%) WCAG
8 12 (0.95%) NIST 800
8 12 (0.95%) RMADS
9 7 (0.55%) Data Quality
9 7 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
10 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.32%) NCSC
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.24%) JTAG
12 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (1.50%) Firmware
2 15 (1.19%) Docker
3 11 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.079%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.27%) SCOM
3 8 (0.63%) Ansible
4 5 (0.40%) NetCrunch
4 5 (0.40%) Terraform
5 2 (0.16%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Cast Iron
6 1 (0.079%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.079%) SCCM
6 1 (0.079%) WSUS
6 1 (0.079%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 147 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.83%) Oracle
3 48 (3.80%) Adobe
4 41 (3.25%) SAP
5 39 (3.09%) OpenLink
5 39 (3.09%) Sybase
5 39 (3.09%) TIBCO
6 24 (1.90%) Google
7 22 (1.74%) VMware
8 17 (1.35%) Sage
9 16 (1.27%) Cisco
10 10 (0.79%) Facebook
11 8 (0.63%) Altera
11 8 (0.63%) Aruba
11 8 (0.63%) Computacenter
11 8 (0.63%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.63%) Motorola
11 8 (0.63%) TikTok
11 8 (0.63%) Xilinx
12 6 (0.48%) Salesforce