Critical Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 369 469
Rank change year-on-year -113 +100 +97
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 480 887 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.89% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.93% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 294 414 464
10th Percentile £25,047 £35,000 £28,700
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £51,350 £41,412
% change year-on-year -7.39% +24.00% -30.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Critical 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 85,150 95,114 154,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 95.57% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59,851 56,202 82,517
10th Percentile £29,079 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.43%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the UK

Critical 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 Critical Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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 -127 393 £56,500 +2.73% 269
UK excluding London -147 294 £47,557 -7.39% 157
Work from Home +15 175 £55,750 -3.04% 114
London -6 160 £75,000 +15.38% 123
North of England -63 62 £51,250 +13.89% 38
Scotland -51 55 £45,000 -25.00% 14
South East -80 54 £57,500 +11.98% 40
South West -32 48 £50,000 -39.39% 25
Midlands -47 45 £42,350 -19.33% 30
North West -32 35 £40,000 -11.11% 21
West Midlands -19 32 £24,000 -57.52% 15
Yorkshire +36 26 £52,500 +16.67% 9
East of England -7 20 £43,500 -47.27% 12
Wales -9 9 £25,047 -54.36% 1
East Midlands -30 9 £46,000 +15.00% 15
Northern Ireland +24 1 - -
North East -34 1 £67,500 +100.00% 8

Critical 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 20 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.54%) Confluence
3 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.46%) CMS
4 7 (1.46%) SAS
5 4 (0.83%) WordPress
6 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.21%) Drupal
7 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.21%) Luigi
Applications
1 40 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (6.67%) UserZoom
3 24 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.92%) Sketch
5 10 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.42%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) 1Password
9 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.21%) InVision
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (1.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.04%) Odoo
3 3 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.63%) Shopify
4 2 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.21%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 72 (15.00%) Azure
2 62 (12.92%) AWS
3 46 (9.58%) Figma
4 41 (8.54%) Power Platform
5 34 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (6.67%) SurveyMonkey
7 17 (3.54%) SaaS
8 13 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (2.29%) GCP
10 11 (2.29%) Serverless
11 10 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.46%) OCI
14 6 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (1.04%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 5 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.04%) PaaS
16 4 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
16 4 (0.83%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
1 36 (7.50%) Wireless
2 33 (6.88%) Network Security
3 30 (6.25%) WAN
4 24 (5.00%) 5G
5 22 (4.58%) Bluetooth
5 22 (4.58%) GSM
5 22 (4.58%) ISDN
5 22 (4.58%) LTE
5 22 (4.58%) PSTN
5 22 (4.58%) UMTS
6 20 (4.17%) LAN
7 15 (3.13%) Firewall
8 10 (2.08%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.67%) BGP
9 8 (1.67%) NGN
9 8 (1.67%) OSPF
9 8 (1.67%) TACACS
9 8 (1.67%) VLAN
10 7 (1.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.13%) Power BI
2 32 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.13%) Tableau
5 12 (2.50%) GIS
6 10 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.46%) Spatial Data
8 7 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.25%) Big Data
9 6 (1.25%) MySQL
9 6 (1.25%) SAP BW
9 6 (1.25%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.04%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.04%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.83%) Power Query
11 4 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (11.25%) JIRA
2 42 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.83%) Burp Suite
3 28 (5.83%) Metasploit
4 22 (4.58%) LabVIEW
5 20 (4.17%) Git
6 7 (1.46%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.25%) Selenium
8 5 (1.04%) Jaeger
8 5 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.83%) Appium
9 4 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.63%) GitLab
11 2 (0.42%) git-flow
11 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.42%) WiX
12 1 (0.21%) Maven
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 289 (60.21%) Social Skills
2 169 (35.21%) Finance
3 157 (32.71%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (20.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (19.58%) Marketing
6 76 (15.83%) Law
7 33 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (6.46%) Telecoms
10 30 (6.25%) Retail
11 26 (5.42%) Banking
12 25 (5.21%) Legal
13 18 (3.75%) Public Sector
14 14 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (2.92%) Publishing
15 11 (2.29%) Tech for Good
16 8 (1.67%) French Language
17 7 (1.46%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.46%) Games
17 7 (1.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (13.13%) Analyst
2 46 (9.58%) Senior
3 43 (8.96%) Developer
4 36 (7.50%) Lead
5 34 (7.08%) Tester
6 32 (6.67%) User Experience Researcher
7 30 (6.25%) Architect
8 28 (5.83%) Penetration Tester
9 25 (5.21%) Consultant
10 24 (5.00%) Project Manager
11 15 (3.13%) Hardware Engineer
12 13 (2.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (2.71%) Designer
12 13 (2.71%) Product Manager
12 13 (2.71%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.50%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.29%) Test Engineer
15 10 (2.08%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.08%) Help Desk Analyst
15 10 (2.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.42%) HTML
2 25 (5.21%) CSS
3 19 (3.96%) Node.js
4 18 (3.75%) React
5 14 (2.92%) .NET
6 11 (2.29%) Vue
6 11 (2.29%) Web Services
7 8 (1.67%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.67%) Django
8 6 (1.25%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.25%) RESTful
9 5 (1.04%) Kafka
9 5 (1.04%) Middleware
9 5 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.04%) Sass
9 5 (1.04%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.83%) LDAP
10 4 (0.83%) SOAP
10 4 (0.83%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.83%) Management Information System
2 33 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (5.21%) Algorithms
4 24 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.58%) Acoustics
5 22 (4.58%) Satnav
6 18 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.71%) Client/Server
8 12 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.29%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.29%) Social Media
10 9 (1.88%) IoT
10 9 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.88%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.25%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.25%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.25%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.00%) Linux
2 28 (5.83%) Kali Linux
3 15 (3.13%) Windows
4 10 (2.08%) Android
5 9 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (54.58%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (39.17%) Agile
3 106 (22.08%) Mentoring
4 100 (20.83%) Computer Science
5 96 (20.00%) Project Management
6 89 (18.54%) Analytics
7 87 (18.13%) User Experience
8 86 (17.92%) DevOps
9 81 (16.88%) Roadmaps
10 68 (14.17%) Cybersecurity
11 61 (12.71%) Data Management
11 61 (12.71%) Visualisation
12 60 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
13 57 (11.88%) Customer Service
13 57 (11.88%) Strategic Thinking
14 55 (11.46%) User Research
15 54 (11.25%) Analytical Thinking
16 53 (11.04%) Coaching
17 47 (9.79%) Decision-Making
18 46 (9.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.96%) Python
2 65 (13.54%) SQL
3 42 (8.75%) JavaScript
4 32 (6.67%) C#
5 18 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.92%) Java
7 13 (2.71%) PHP
8 11 (2.29%) R
9 10 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.04%) Ruby
11 3 (0.63%) Bash
11 3 (0.63%) Scala
12 2 (0.42%) C
12 2 (0.42%) Go
12 2 (0.42%) VB
13 1 (0.21%) Bicep
13 1 (0.21%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.21%) SOQL
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 230 (47.92%) Degree
2 52 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.71%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.04%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.63%) HND
11 3 (0.63%) ISEB
11 3 (0.63%) MCSE
11 3 (0.63%) MCT
11 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.63%) PMP
11 3 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.71%) Actionable Recommendations
2 35 (7.29%) QA
3 18 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.13%) GDPR
5 9 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.88%) SLA
6 6 (1.25%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.25%) GAAP
6 6 (1.25%) IFRS
7 4 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.83%) PMO
8 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.63%) NIST
9 1 (0.21%) COSHH
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.92%) Docker
3 11 (2.29%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) NFS
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.92%) Ansible
2 12 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.50%) Terraform
3 5 (1.04%) Kiali
4 3 (0.63%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.42%) SCCM
5 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (0.42%) WSUS
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 115 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.67%) Qualtrics
3 25 (5.21%) SAP
4 15 (3.13%) Google
4 15 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.13%) VMware
5 13 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.08%) Alteryx
7 9 (1.88%) Aruba
8 8 (1.67%) Oracle
9 7 (1.46%) Cisco
9 7 (1.46%) Mapbox
10 6 (1.25%) Dell
10 6 (1.25%) Pega
10 6 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
10 6 (1.25%) Progress
10 6 (1.25%) Splunk
10 6 (1.25%) UiPath
11 5 (1.04%) Intel
11 5 (1.04%) SolarWinds