Critical Thinking Jobs with Work from Home Options

Critical Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 432 417 456
Rank change year-on-year -15 +39 -3
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 174 223 538
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.60% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.62% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 143 135 246
10th Percentile £23,500 £37,885 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -20.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Critical Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Critical Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Critical 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 Critical Thinking.

Critical Thinking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Critical Thinking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Critical 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 9 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.30%) Confluence
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.57%) 1Password
5 1 (0.57%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (3.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (2.87%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.87%) Odoo
3 3 (1.72%) Shopify
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.99%) Azure
2 25 (14.37%) AWS
3 15 (8.62%) SaaS
4 12 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.75%) Serverless
6 9 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.45%) OCI
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 5 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.30%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.30%) PaaS
11 3 (1.72%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.72%) GCP
11 3 (1.72%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.37%) WAN
2 15 (8.62%) LAN
3 14 (8.05%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (6.32%) Wireless
5 8 (4.60%) BGP
5 8 (4.60%) NGN
5 8 (4.60%) OSPF
5 8 (4.60%) TACACS
5 8 (4.60%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.02%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.87%) EIGRP
7 5 (2.87%) MPLS
7 5 (2.87%) SNMP
7 5 (2.87%) VLAN
7 5 (2.87%) VPN
8 4 (2.30%) Firewall
8 4 (2.30%) Network Security
9 3 (1.72%) IGMP
9 3 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.72%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.17%) Power BI
2 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.45%) SAP BW
4 5 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.87%) Big Data
4 5 (2.87%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.87%) Tableau
5 4 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (1.15%) Redis
7 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.57%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.57%) MS Access
8 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.47%) JIRA
2 7 (4.02%) Git
3 3 (1.72%) Subversion
4 2 (1.15%) git-flow
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (60.92%) Social Skills
2 58 (33.33%) Finance
3 53 (30.46%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.22%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (10.92%) Marketing
6 15 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (7.47%) Retail
8 10 (5.75%) Tech for Good
9 9 (5.17%) Legal
10 8 (4.60%) Law
11 7 (4.02%) Health Technology
12 6 (3.45%) Back Office
12 6 (3.45%) General Ledger
13 5 (2.87%) Banking
13 5 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.72%) Local Government
16 2 (1.15%) Billing
16 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (17.82%) Analyst
2 19 (10.92%) Consultant
3 18 (10.34%) Developer
4 17 (9.77%) Lead
4 17 (9.77%) Project Manager
5 16 (9.20%) Senior
6 14 (8.05%) Architect
7 10 (5.75%) Help Desk Analyst
8 9 (5.17%) Designer
9 8 (4.60%) Full Stack Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Presales Consultant
9 8 (4.60%) Product Manager
10 7 (4.02%) AWS Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 6 (3.45%) Graduate Consultant
11 6 (3.45%) Graduate Support Consultant
11 6 (3.45%) Support Consultant
11 6 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.62%) Node.js
2 11 (6.32%) HTML
3 7 (4.02%) React
4 6 (3.45%) CSS
4 6 (3.45%) Django
4 6 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 6 (3.45%) Vue
5 4 (2.30%) Web Services
6 3 (1.72%) ADO
7 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.15%) D3.js
7 2 (1.15%) Sass
7 2 (1.15%) Unreal Engine
8 1 (0.57%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.57%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.57%) Laravel
8 1 (0.57%) Pandas
8 1 (0.57%) SignalR
8 1 (0.57%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.77%) Data Centre
1 17 (9.77%) Management Information System
2 16 (9.20%) Data Structures
3 15 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (7.47%) Algorithms
4 13 (7.47%) Client/Server
5 9 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 8 (4.60%) IoT
7 7 (4.02%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.45%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.45%) Reinsurance
9 5 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.87%) Robotics
10 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.72%) Smart City
12 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.15%) Driving Licence
12 2 (1.15%) NHS
12 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Android
1 5 (2.87%) Linux
2 4 (2.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (58.62%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (28.16%) Agile
3 40 (22.99%) Project Management
4 37 (21.26%) Mentoring
5 34 (19.54%) Computer Science
6 30 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 29 (16.67%) Analytics
7 29 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 26 (14.94%) Data Modelling
9 25 (14.37%) Decision-Making
10 24 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (13.79%) Customer Experience
10 24 (13.79%) ERP
11 23 (13.22%) Coaching
11 23 (13.22%) Machine Learning
12 22 (12.64%) Software Engineering
13 21 (12.07%) Data Science
14 18 (10.34%) Analytical Thinking
15 17 (9.77%) Data Analysis
15 17 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.99%) Python
2 23 (13.22%) SQL
3 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.75%) C#
4 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.30%) R
6 3 (1.72%) Julia
7 2 (1.15%) C
7 2 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (0.57%) Go
8 1 (0.57%) Groovy
8 1 (0.57%) Java
8 1 (0.57%) SOQL
8 1 (0.57%) XAML
Qualifications
1 53 (30.46%) Degree
2 19 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.72%) MCT
7 3 (1.72%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.15%) CCNP
8 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.15%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) ACCA
9 1 (0.57%) CIMA
9 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) QA
2 7 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.45%) GAAP
3 6 (3.45%) IFRS
4 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.30%) SLA
5 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.72%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.17%) Ansible
2 5 (2.87%) Terraform
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.72%) SCCM
4 2 (1.15%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.15%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 54 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.20%) SAP
3 8 (4.60%) Aruba
3 8 (4.60%) VMware
4 7 (4.02%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.45%) Oracle
5 6 (3.45%) PeopleSoft
5 6 (3.45%) Progress
6 5 (2.87%) Cisco
6 5 (2.87%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.87%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.30%) Databricks
8 3 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.72%) Google
8 3 (1.72%) Intel
8 3 (1.72%) Juniper
9 2 (1.15%) Adobe
10 1 (0.57%) Ariba
10 1 (0.57%) CA
10 1 (0.57%) Dell