Critical Thinking Jobs in the Midlands

Critical Thinking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 291 212 276
Rank change year-on-year -79 +64 +2
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 52 98 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 1.15% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.20% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 47 34 58
10th Percentile £14,620 £40,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £23,500 £43,438 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,200 £55,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.96% +76.19% -30.00%
75th Percentile £62,245 £73,750 £52,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,250 £68,325
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.60% +13.38% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,125 8,190 10,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.22% 96.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,655 4,352 6,986
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,656 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,001
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the Midlands

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the Midlands

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the Midlands

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -44 35 £24,000 -60.00% 12
East Midlands -45 13 £44,250 -1.67% 22
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) Azure
2 7 (13.46%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.85%) AWS
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.92%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) LAN
1 12 (23.08%) WAN
2 10 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (3.85%) NAS
3 2 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.62%) Power BI
2 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (7.69%) GIS
3 4 (7.69%) Spatial Data
4 2 (3.85%) MySQL
4 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Moq
2 1 (1.92%) NUnit
2 1 (1.92%) Sourcetree
2 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 14 (26.92%) Retail
4 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Law
7 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.85%) Billing
8 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Analyst
2 10 (19.23%) Help Desk Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) Architect
4 6 (11.54%) Consultant
4 6 (11.54%) Graduate
4 6 (11.54%) Graduate Consultant
4 6 (11.54%) Graduate Support Consultant
4 6 (11.54%) Support Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Support Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Designer
6 4 (7.69%) GIS Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Principal Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Senior
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Designer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Service Designer
7 3 (5.77%) Service Designer
7 3 (5.77%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) CSS
1 4 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (3.85%) LDAP
2 2 (3.85%) Loki
2 2 (3.85%) SAML
2 2 (3.85%) ServiceStack
2 2 (3.85%) YAML
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.92%) FHIR
3 1 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.85%) PropTech
4 1 (1.92%) CMDB
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) NHS
4 1 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) VMS
1 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (40.38%) Mentoring
3 14 (26.92%) Asset Management
4 12 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 11 (21.15%) Agile
5 11 (21.15%) Project Management
6 10 (19.23%) Computer Science
6 10 (19.23%) ERP
7 9 (17.31%) Coaching
8 8 (15.38%) Task Automation
8 8 (15.38%) User Experience
9 7 (13.46%) Change Management
9 7 (13.46%) Mathematics
9 7 (13.46%) Time Management
10 6 (11.54%) Business Case
10 6 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (11.54%) ITIL
10 6 (11.54%) Project Planning
11 5 (9.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) SQL
2 9 (17.31%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.92%) ACCA
3 1 (1.92%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) ISO 9001
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
1 2 (3.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (48.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) Mapbox
3 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.85%) VMware
4 1 (1.92%) Google