Critical Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Critical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 293 451
Rank change year-on-year -196 +158 +15
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 305 621 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 1.12% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.18% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 184 195 235
10th Percentile £23,500 £29,400 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,188 £39,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,793 £51,350 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +28.38% -28.89%
75th Percentile £60,185 £70,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,618 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Critical 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England -117 60 £50,750 +19.41% 34
South East -109 59 £55,223 +7.54% 34
South West -62 57 £50,000 -25.93% 29
Midlands -79 52 £42,200 -23.96% 34
Scotland -61 46 £38,529 -32.09% 10
West Midlands -44 35 £24,000 -60.00% 12
North West -71 32 £40,000 -5.88% 20
Yorkshire +7 25 £52,500 +29.63% 8
East of England -23 22 £43,500 -47.27% 10
East Midlands -45 13 £44,250 -1.67% 22
Wales -6 9 £25,047 -44.34%
North East -50 3 £67,500 +100.00% 9
Critical Thinking
UK

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (5.90%) Confluence
2 16 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.97%) SAS
5 4 (1.31%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.98%) CMS
7 2 (0.66%) WordPress
8 1 (0.33%) Apache
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.33%) Luigi
Applications
1 29 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (7.87%) UserZoom
3 18 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (3.93%) Sketch
5 9 (2.95%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.66%) InDesign
8 2 (0.66%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.33%) 1Password
9 1 (0.33%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.64%) Odoo
2 3 (0.98%) Maximo
2 3 (0.98%) Shopify
3 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.33%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.74%) Azure
2 36 (11.80%) Figma
3 32 (10.49%) AWS
3 32 (10.49%) Power Platform
4 24 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (7.87%) SurveyMonkey
5 12 (3.93%) SaaS
6 10 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (2.30%) GCP
9 5 (1.64%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.64%) Miro
10 4 (1.31%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.31%) npm
10 4 (1.31%) PaaS
11 3 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.98%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.98%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.15%) Wi-Fi
2 26 (8.52%) Wireless
3 22 (7.21%) 5G
3 22 (7.21%) Bluetooth
3 22 (7.21%) GSM
3 22 (7.21%) ISDN
3 22 (7.21%) LTE
3 22 (7.21%) PSTN
3 22 (7.21%) UMTS
4 16 (5.25%) LAN
4 16 (5.25%) WAN
5 5 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.98%) DNS
6 3 (0.98%) Firewall
6 3 (0.98%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.98%) VLAN
7 2 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.66%) NAS
7 2 (0.66%) SAN
7 2 (0.66%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.51%) Power BI
2 17 (5.57%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.59%) Tableau
5 10 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.95%) GIS
7 7 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.64%) MySQL
10 4 (1.31%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (1.31%) Spatial Data
11 3 (0.98%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.98%) MS Access
11 3 (0.98%) Power Query
12 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (14.75%) JIRA
2 24 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.21%) LabVIEW
4 21 (6.89%) Git
5 4 (1.31%) Subversion
6 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.66%) git-flow
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.33%) Appium
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) Moq
7 1 (0.33%) NUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.33%) Protractor
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 179 (58.69%) Social Skills
2 92 (30.16%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (28.85%) Finance
4 72 (23.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (18.36%) Marketing
6 54 (17.70%) Law
7 30 (9.84%) Telecoms
8 26 (8.52%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (7.54%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (5.57%) Retail
11 12 (3.93%) Banking
12 11 (3.61%) Public Sector
13 10 (3.28%) Legal
14 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.97%) Publishing
15 5 (1.64%) Automotive
15 5 (1.64%) Games
16 4 (1.31%) Back Office
16 4 (1.31%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 56 (18.36%) Analyst
2 28 (9.18%) Lead
3 25 (8.20%) Developer
3 25 (8.20%) Project Manager
4 24 (7.87%) User Experience Researcher
5 19 (6.23%) Senior
6 17 (5.57%) Architect
7 15 (4.92%) Hardware Engineer
8 14 (4.59%) Data Analyst
9 12 (3.93%) Consultant
10 11 (3.61%) Test Engineer
11 10 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.28%) Coordinator
11 10 (3.28%) Help Desk Analyst
12 9 (2.95%) Business Analyst
12 9 (2.95%) Support Analyst
13 8 (2.62%) Hardware Test Engineer
14 7 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 7 (2.30%) Full Stack Engineer
14 7 (2.30%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.92%) React
2 11 (3.61%) CSS
2 11 (3.61%) Node.js
2 11 (3.61%) Vue
3 7 (2.30%) ADO
3 7 (2.30%) HTML
4 6 (1.97%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.97%) Django
4 6 (1.97%) GraphQL
5 5 (1.64%) .NET
6 4 (1.31%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.31%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.31%) React Native
6 4 (1.31%) REST
6 4 (1.31%) WPF
7 3 (0.98%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.98%) RESTful
7 3 (0.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (0.98%) WCF
7 3 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.16%) Management Information System
2 22 (7.21%) Acoustics
2 22 (7.21%) Satnav
3 21 (6.89%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.61%) Mobile App
6 10 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.62%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.97%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.97%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.31%) Social Media
11 3 (0.98%) PKI
11 3 (0.98%) Robotics
12 2 (0.66%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.61%) Android
2 10 (3.28%) Apple iOS
2 10 (3.28%) Windows
3 9 (2.95%) Linux
4 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.66%) VMS
5 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (49.51%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (47.21%) Agile
3 82 (26.89%) Mentoring
4 70 (22.95%) Project Management
5 68 (22.30%) Analytics
6 62 (20.33%) User Experience
7 57 (18.69%) DevOps
8 48 (15.74%) Data Management
9 45 (14.75%) Roadmaps
9 45 (14.75%) Visualisation
10 44 (14.43%) Data Visualisation
10 44 (14.43%) User Research
11 43 (14.10%) Coaching
12 40 (13.11%) Customer Service
13 39 (12.79%) Decision-Making
14 38 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (12.13%) Analytical Thinking
15 37 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (12.13%) Strategic Thinking
15 37 (12.13%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 62 (20.33%) Python
2 41 (13.44%) SQL
3 31 (10.16%) JavaScript
4 18 (5.90%) C#
5 12 (3.93%) PHP
5 12 (3.93%) R
6 9 (2.95%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.31%) Julia
9 3 (0.98%) Java
10 2 (0.66%) Bash
10 2 (0.66%) VB
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) Go
11 1 (0.33%) Groovy
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
11 1 (0.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 129 (42.30%) Degree
2 17 (5.57%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.92%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.62%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (0.98%) HND
8 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.98%) MCSE
9 2 (0.66%) CBAP
9 2 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.66%) GCFA
9 2 (0.66%) GCFE
9 2 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.66%) OSCP
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.87%) Actionable Recommendations
1 24 (7.87%) QA
2 15 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.30%) SLA
4 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.64%) GDPR
4 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.66%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.66%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) COSHH
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (5.57%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.95%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.92%) Terraform
2 7 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.98%) SCCM
5 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.66%) WSUS
6 1 (0.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 85 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.87%) Qualtrics
3 15 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.28%) Google
4 10 (3.28%) SAP
5 7 (2.30%) VMware
6 6 (1.97%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.97%) Databricks
6 6 (1.97%) Pega
6 6 (1.97%) Progress
6 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.97%) UiPath
7 4 (1.31%) Adobe
7 4 (1.31%) ESRI
7 4 (1.31%) Mapbox
8 3 (0.98%) IBM
8 3 (0.98%) Intel
8 3 (0.98%) NETGEAR
8 3 (0.98%) WatchGuard
9 2 (0.66%) Twitter