Creative Thinking Jobs with Work from Home Options

Creative Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 297 302
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +88
Permanent jobs citing Creative Thinking 375 426 886
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 1.06% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.11% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 205 233 385
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,833 £40,608
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,550 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -1.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,852 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,945 38,441 70,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.67% 96.05% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 23,414 26,713 41,519
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Creative Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Creative Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative 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 Creative Thinking.

Creative Thinking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Creative Thinking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Creative 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 40 (10.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.93%) CMS
2 11 (2.93%) IIS
3 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 18 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.73%) Adobe XD
3 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.13%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.07%) Maya
7 3 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.80%) InDesign
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.80%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.27%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.27%) CapCut
Business Applications
1 38 (10.13%) Endur
2 13 (3.47%) Unit4 Business World
3 10 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.80%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 36 (9.60%) AWS
2 26 (6.93%) Azure
3 16 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 13 (3.47%) GCP
6 8 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.87%) Canva
8 4 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.07%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.07%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.07%) Serverless
9 3 (0.80%) Figma
9 3 (0.80%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.80%) IaaS
9 3 (0.80%) MailChimp
9 3 (0.80%) PaaS
9 3 (0.80%) SaaS
9 3 (0.80%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.47%) TCP/IP
1 13 (3.47%) Wireless
2 9 (2.40%) Broadband
3 8 (2.13%) Firewall
3 8 (2.13%) NGN
3 8 (2.13%) TACACS
3 8 (2.13%) WAN
4 7 (1.87%) HTTP
4 7 (1.87%) MQTT
5 5 (1.33%) DHCP
5 5 (1.33%) DNS
5 5 (1.33%) VoIP
5 5 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.80%) Internet
6 3 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 42 (11.20%) Relational Database
3 38 (10.13%) RDBMS
4 13 (3.47%) DB2
5 8 (2.13%) Power BI
6 6 (1.60%) Metadata
6 6 (1.60%) Tableau
7 4 (1.07%) Looker
8 3 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.53%) QlikView
10 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.27%) GIS
10 1 (0.27%) MySQL
10 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (5.60%) Git
2 13 (3.47%) Axure RP
2 13 (3.47%) Balsamiq
3 5 (1.33%) GitLab
3 5 (1.33%) LabVIEW
4 2 (0.53%) JIRA
4 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) Mockito
General
1 167 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 106 (28.27%) Marketing
3 96 (25.60%) Finance
4 93 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (21.07%) Public Sector
6 57 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (13.87%) Games
8 27 (7.20%) Legal
9 25 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (6.40%) Retail
11 19 (5.07%) Law
12 18 (4.80%) Telecoms
13 16 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (4.00%) Aerospace
15 13 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (2.67%) Advertising
17 10 (2.67%) Aviation
17 10 (2.67%) Military
18 8 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (21.07%) Senior
2 41 (10.93%) Consultant
3 37 (9.87%) Lead
4 34 (9.07%) Analyst
4 34 (9.07%) Architect
5 27 (7.20%) Project Manager
5 27 (7.20%) Senior Manager
6 26 (6.93%) Development Manager
7 23 (6.13%) Developer
8 19 (5.07%) Endur Manager
8 19 (5.07%) OpenLink Manager
8 19 (5.07%) Senior Development Manager
8 19 (5.07%) Software Development Manager
8 19 (5.07%) Software Manager
9 17 (4.53%) Business Analyst
10 16 (4.27%) Endur Architect
10 16 (4.27%) OpenLink Architect
10 16 (4.27%) Software Architect
11 15 (4.00%) IT Manager
12 14 (3.73%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.60%) HTML
2 28 (7.47%) CSS
3 17 (4.53%) .NET
4 11 (2.93%) Entity Framework
4 11 (2.93%) React
5 10 (2.67%) ASP.NET
5 10 (2.67%) Node.js
5 10 (2.67%) Spring
6 9 (2.40%) .NET Core
6 9 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (2.40%) Hibernate
6 9 (2.40%) Spring MVC
7 7 (1.87%) Django
7 7 (1.87%) Flask
8 6 (1.60%) Vue
9 4 (1.07%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.07%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.07%) AWS SAM
9 4 (1.07%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.07%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 57 (15.20%) Product Ownership
2 38 (10.13%) Swaptions
3 37 (9.87%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.60%) Social Media
5 16 (4.27%) IoT
6 13 (3.47%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.93%) CESG
8 10 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.67%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.87%) Arduino
9 7 (1.87%) Raspberry Pi
10 6 (1.60%) Blog
10 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.60%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.33%) CCTV
11 5 (1.33%) Photography
12 4 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.73%) Windows
2 13 (3.47%) Linux
2 13 (3.47%) Unix
2 13 (3.47%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.80%) Android
3 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (34.93%) Agile
2 92 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (17.07%) Project Management
4 59 (15.73%) Roadmaps
5 55 (14.67%) Project Delivery
6 53 (14.13%) SDLC
7 51 (13.60%) Data Modelling
7 51 (13.60%) Decision-Making
8 50 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
9 46 (12.27%) Coaching
9 46 (12.27%) Strategic Roadmap
10 44 (11.73%) Risk Management
11 43 (11.47%) Scrum
12 42 (11.20%) Analytics
12 42 (11.20%) Business Transformation
13 41 (10.93%) Mentoring
14 40 (10.67%) User Experience
15 39 (10.40%) IT Strategy
16 36 (9.60%) Technology Strategy
16 36 (9.60%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 59 (15.73%) Java
2 38 (10.13%) VB
3 36 (9.60%) SQL
4 33 (8.80%) Python
5 29 (7.73%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.73%) C#
7 11 (2.93%) C
7 11 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.33%) R
9 4 (1.07%) Bash
9 4 (1.07%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.80%) Swift
10 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 101 (26.93%) Degree
2 66 (17.60%) Security Cleared
3 41 (10.93%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.53%) DV Cleared
5 30 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.47%) CISA
7 13 (3.47%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.93%) CISMP
8 11 (2.93%) IISP
9 10 (2.67%) ACCA
9 10 (2.67%) CREST Certified
10 7 (1.87%) CIPD
11 5 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.53%) MOS
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.87%) PMO
1 22 (5.87%) QA
2 14 (3.73%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.73%) NIST
3 13 (3.47%) ITGC
3 13 (3.47%) WCAG
4 11 (2.93%) GDPR
4 11 (2.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 11 (2.93%) JSP 440
4 11 (2.93%) NIST 800
4 11 (2.93%) RMADS
5 7 (1.87%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (1.60%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.07%) SLA
8 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.80%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) COSHH
10 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (3.73%) Docker
2 7 (1.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.47%) SCOM
3 8 (2.13%) Ansible
4 4 (1.07%) Terraform
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 55 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 53 (14.13%) Oracle
3 38 (10.13%) OpenLink
3 38 (10.13%) Sybase
3 38 (10.13%) TIBCO
4 24 (6.40%) Adobe
5 23 (6.13%) SAP
6 13 (3.47%) Google
6 13 (3.47%) Sage
7 8 (2.13%) Aruba
7 8 (2.13%) VMware
8 7 (1.87%) NVIDIA
8 7 (1.87%) TikTok
9 6 (1.60%) Facebook
10 5 (1.33%) Twitter
11 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.80%) Instagram
12 3 (0.80%) Qualtrics
12 3 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.80%) YouTube