Innovative Thinking Jobs

Innovative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 462 325
Rank change year-on-year +56 -137 +247
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 640 610 2,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.65% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.68% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 375 245 288
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,675
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £101,600 £85,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £49,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.51% +10.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Innovative 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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £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%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +58 606 £55,000 -15.38% 197
UK excluding London +20 464 £51,000 +2.51% 148
Work from Home -64 202 £60,000 -12.82% 95
London +99 165 £68,750 -1.79% 61
North of England +22 116 £46,457 -31.18% 47
South West +26 114 £60,000 +6.67% 16
South East -14 100 £40,000 +23.08% 30
Midlands +34 71 £50,000 -37.50% 33
North West +20 57 £49,228 -22.78% 31
West Midlands +14 44 £55,000 -31.25% 16
Yorkshire +28 41 £46,457 -40.06% 11
East of England -44 30 £29,000 -53.60% 11
East Midlands -15 27 £50,000 -41.18% 17
Scotland -66 20 £32,500 -31.58% 7
North East -6 18 £46,457 - 8
Northern Ireland +32 12 £57,276 +27.28% 1
Wales +7 1 £82,500 - 11

Innovative 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 12 (1.88%) IIS
2 8 (1.25%) Appian
2 8 (1.25%) Confluence
3 7 (1.09%) CMS
4 5 (0.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.47%) SAS
6 3 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.47%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 51 (7.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 31 (4.84%) Spreadsheet
3 24 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.72%) Simulink
5 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.63%) Adobe Captivate
7 3 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.47%) Trello
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.31%) Sketch
9 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.31%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 165 (25.78%) AWS
1 165 (25.78%) Azure
2 130 (20.31%) GCP
3 52 (8.13%) Power Platform
4 15 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.25%) SaaS
6 7 (1.09%) Figma
7 5 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.78%) Serverless
7 5 (0.78%) WhatsApp
8 4 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.63%) GitHub
8 4 (0.63%) OpenShift
8 4 (0.63%) Route 53
8 4 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.81%) WAN
2 12 (1.88%) Wireless
3 11 (1.72%) 5G
3 11 (1.72%) Firewall
3 11 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 9 (1.41%) Network Security
5 7 (1.09%) LAN
6 5 (0.78%) SAN
7 4 (0.63%) DNS
7 4 (0.63%) OSPF
7 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.47%) VLAN
9 2 (0.31%) Broadband
9 2 (0.31%) Internet
9 2 (0.31%) Modbus
9 2 (0.31%) MQTT
9 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.16%) GPRS
10 1 (0.16%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (17.34%) BigQuery
2 111 (17.34%) Looker
3 47 (7.34%) Power BI
4 18 (2.81%) Data Lake
5 17 (2.66%) Metadata
5 17 (2.66%) Tableau
6 9 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.78%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.31%) Big Data
10 2 (0.31%) GIS
11 1 (0.16%) Power Query
11 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.16%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.81%) JIRA
2 12 (1.88%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.78%) Postman
4 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.63%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.63%) Subversion
5 3 (0.47%) Appium
5 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.47%) Git
5 3 (0.47%) JMeter
5 3 (0.47%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.47%) Selenium
5 3 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
5 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.31%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.16%) JUnit
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 239 (37.34%) Analytical Skills
2 208 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 85 (13.28%) Retail
4 84 (13.13%) Finance
5 69 (10.78%) Marketing
6 49 (7.66%) Organisational Skills
7 45 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (5.78%) Banking
9 26 (4.06%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.28%) Games
10 21 (3.28%) Law
10 21 (3.28%) Military
10 21 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.81%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.66%) Retail Banking
12 17 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 16 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.34%) Electronics
14 15 (2.34%) Legal
15 11 (1.72%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 165 (25.78%) Senior
2 156 (24.38%) Architect
3 128 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 53 (8.28%) Lead
5 49 (7.66%) Developer
6 45 (7.03%) Software Engineer
7 42 (6.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 42 (6.56%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (5.00%) Senior Architect
9 27 (4.22%) Consultant
9 27 (4.22%) Field Engineer
9 27 (4.22%) Field Service Engineer
10 25 (3.91%) Senior Field Engineer
10 25 (3.91%) Senior Field Service Engineer
11 24 (3.75%) Analyst
12 22 (3.44%) Project Manager
13 21 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 21 (3.28%) Security Consultant
13 21 (3.28%) Senior Manager
14 20 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.66%) React
2 16 (2.50%) .NET
3 8 (1.25%) AngularJS
4 7 (1.09%) HTML
4 7 (1.09%) Spring Boot
5 6 (0.94%) Node.js
5 6 (0.94%) Vue
6 5 (0.78%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.78%) CSS
6 5 (0.78%) Spring
7 4 (0.63%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (0.63%) Kafka
8 3 (0.47%) Playwright
9 2 (0.31%) D3.js
9 2 (0.31%) DOM
9 2 (0.31%) Express.js
9 2 (0.31%) Pandas
9 2 (0.31%) SAP TM
9 2 (0.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (0.31%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 205 (32.03%) Self-Motivation
2 44 (6.88%) Driving Licence
3 27 (4.22%) EPoS
4 25 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.34%) CESG
7 13 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.88%) GNSS
9 10 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
10 9 (1.41%) Virtual Reality
11 8 (1.25%) CCTV
11 8 (1.25%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.25%) Robotics
12 7 (1.09%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.94%) Life Science
14 5 (0.78%) FMCG
14 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.88%) Windows
2 19 (2.97%) Linux
3 12 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
7 1 (0.16%) Unix
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (35.31%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (29.38%) Mentoring
3 150 (23.44%) Agile
4 133 (20.78%) Data Architecture
5 129 (20.16%) Data Modelling
6 122 (19.06%) Data Security
7 120 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
8 118 (18.44%) ETL
9 117 (18.28%) Data Integration
10 112 (17.50%) Data Engineering
10 112 (17.50%) Data Governance
11 111 (17.34%) ERD
12 100 (15.63%) Project Management
13 66 (10.31%) Creative Thinking
14 65 (10.16%) Scrum
15 59 (9.22%) Customer Service
16 57 (8.91%) Coaching
17 55 (8.59%) Software Engineering
18 53 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
19 51 (7.97%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 41 (6.41%) Python
2 38 (5.94%) SQL
3 31 (4.84%) Java
4 24 (3.75%) C++
5 17 (2.66%) Perl
6 14 (2.19%) MATLAB
7 12 (1.88%) Bash
8 11 (1.72%) C#
9 10 (1.56%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.25%) Scala
11 7 (1.09%) C
11 7 (1.09%) R
12 5 (0.78%) Delphi
13 4 (0.63%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.16%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.16%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Rust
15 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (20.78%) Degree
2 56 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 40 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.75%) HND
5 21 (3.28%) HNC
6 20 (3.13%) DBS Check
7 19 (2.97%) CISMP
8 18 (2.81%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.66%) Azure Certification
10 14 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.88%) IISP
11 12 (1.88%) SC Cleared
12 10 (1.56%) CCNP
12 10 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.41%) CISM
13 9 (1.41%) CISSP
14 8 (1.25%) A+ Certification
14 8 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (1.09%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (17.66%) Data Quality
2 112 (17.50%) GDPR
3 31 (4.84%) SLA
4 25 (3.91%) NIST
5 23 (3.59%) PMO
6 15 (2.34%) JSP 440
7 13 (2.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 12 (1.88%) NIST 800
8 12 (1.88%) RMADS
9 10 (1.56%) QA
10 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.78%) NCSC
12 4 (0.63%) GRC
13 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.47%) JTAG
14 2 (0.31%) GLP
15 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (5.00%) Firmware
2 15 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.25%) Docker
4 7 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.56%) Terraform
3 4 (0.63%) Ansible
3 4 (0.63%) Packer
3 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.63%) Puppet
3 4 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 114 (17.81%) Google
2 65 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.63%) Dell
4 27 (4.22%) HP
4 27 (4.22%) IBM
5 24 (3.75%) NetApp
6 21 (3.28%) VMware
7 17 (2.66%) Cisco
8 6 (0.94%) Adobe
8 6 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.78%) Facebook
9 5 (0.78%) SAP
10 4 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.63%) Progress
11 3 (0.47%) Databricks
11 3 (0.47%) Mercator
11 3 (0.47%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.47%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.31%) Charles River
12 2 (0.31%) HubSpot