Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 313 324
Rank change year-on-year +51 +11 +29
Permanent jobs citing Technology Strategy 1,114 1,083 2,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.11% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.17% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 479 555 908
10th Percentile £46,250 £54,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,555 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +6.74% +6.18%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £126,250 £110,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,750 £77,500 £65,107
% change year-on-year -21.61% +19.03% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technology Strategy 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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technology Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy.

Salary trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +65 955 £70,438 -17.13% 198
Work from Home +35 608 £68,200 -19.76% 98
UK excluding London -4 545 £60,750 -21.61% 95
London +100 507 £91,250 -2.93% 97
South East +10 135 £61,500 -29.71% 23
North of England -8 127 £65,000 -18.75% 19
Scotland -66 93 £101,250 +44.64% 5
Midlands +20 90 £60,000 -21.31% 17
North West +1 78 £62,500 -32.43% 12
West Midlands +43 68 £60,000 -19.33% 9
South West -7 66 £57,500 -8.00% 17
Yorkshire +29 36 £77,500 -3.13% 6
East of England +7 18 £55,000 -26.67% 11
East Midlands -37 18 £50,000 -41.18% 8
North East +9 13 £70,000 -21.13% 1
Northern Ireland +23 9 - - 1
Wales -11 6 - - 1
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Technology Strategy
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 55 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.69%) Confluence
3 22 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.81%) CMS
4 9 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.54%) SAS
6 5 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.36%) WordPress
8 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.090%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (0.72%) AutoCAD
2 7 (0.63%) Revit
3 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (3.32%) Endur
2 11 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.54%) thinkFolio
4 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.27%) HFM
6 3 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
7 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.090%) Primavera
8 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 387 (34.74%) Azure
2 231 (20.74%) Entra ID
3 129 (11.58%) AWS
4 41 (3.68%) SaaS
5 40 (3.59%) GCP
6 38 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (2.06%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.80%) Serverless
10 19 (1.71%) GitHub
10 19 (1.71%) PaaS
11 16 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (1.44%) IaaS
12 11 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (0.99%) OCI
13 8 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 7 (0.63%) Azure Stack
14 7 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 210 (18.85%) 5G
1 210 (18.85%) Broadband
2 31 (2.78%) Firewall
3 19 (1.71%) WAN
4 15 (1.35%) Unified Communications
4 15 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (1.08%) LAN
5 12 (1.08%) MPLS
6 11 (0.99%) VPN
7 10 (0.90%) SAN
7 10 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.72%) Network Security
9 7 (0.63%) BGP
9 7 (0.63%) DNS
9 7 (0.63%) HSRP
9 7 (0.63%) OSPF
9 7 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.45%) DHCP
11 3 (0.27%) Internet
11 3 (0.27%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.55%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.66%) Relational Database
3 38 (3.41%) RDBMS
4 23 (2.06%) MySQL
5 21 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.80%) Data Mining
7 19 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (1.71%) Hadoop
8 18 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.53%) Apache Ignite
10 15 (1.35%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (1.26%) Power BI
12 11 (0.99%) Big Data
13 10 (0.90%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.72%) CockroachDB
15 7 (0.63%) Ingres
16 6 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
17 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (4.49%) JIRA
2 29 (2.60%) Git
3 22 (1.97%) Maven
4 13 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.72%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.27%) Appium
6 3 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.27%) JMeter
6 3 (0.27%) JUnit
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
General
1 333 (29.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 310 (27.83%) Analytical Skills
3 279 (25.04%) Social Skills
4 260 (23.34%) Finance
5 137 (12.30%) Marketing
6 91 (8.17%) Law
7 61 (5.48%) Banking
7 61 (5.48%) Games
8 49 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 35 (3.14%) Retail
11 30 (2.69%) Legal
12 28 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.89%) Advertising
14 20 (1.80%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.35%) Publishing
16 14 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.90%) Front Office
17 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
18 9 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 267 (23.97%) Architect
2 249 (22.35%) Senior
3 210 (18.85%) Linux Specialist
3 210 (18.85%) Technical Specialist
4 141 (12.66%) Solutions Architect
5 127 (11.40%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 127 (11.40%) Senior Linux Specialist
5 127 (11.40%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 127 (11.40%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 112 (10.05%) Lead
7 91 (8.17%) Presales Solution Architect
8 61 (5.48%) Developer
9 42 (3.77%) Senior Manager
10 41 (3.68%) Software Engineer
11 40 (3.59%) Enterprise Architect
12 35 (3.14%) IT Manager
13 34 (3.05%) Senior Architect
14 32 (2.87%) Lead Architect
15 28 (2.51%) Software Manager
16 27 (2.42%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.77%) React
2 39 (3.50%) .NET
3 32 (2.87%) HTML
4 31 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 29 (2.60%) Kafka
6 24 (2.15%) Spring
7 22 (1.97%) Node.js
8 19 (1.71%) GraphQL
9 18 (1.62%) EDI
10 15 (1.35%) CSS
10 15 (1.35%) Middleware
11 10 (0.90%) ASP.NET
12 8 (0.72%) HTML5
12 8 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.63%) Laravel
13 7 (0.63%) RESTful
13 7 (0.63%) Unreal Engine
13 7 (0.63%) V-Ray
14 6 (0.54%) AngularJS
15 5 (0.45%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 210 (18.85%) Social Media
2 60 (5.39%) Cloud Native
3 57 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.32%) Swaptions
6 25 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 18 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
10 15 (1.35%) Taxonomies
11 14 (1.26%) Cyberattack
11 14 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.17%) IoT
13 11 (0.99%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.99%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.90%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.90%) Onboarding
15 8 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 238 (21.36%) Linux
2 213 (19.12%) Ubuntu
3 35 (3.14%) Windows
4 19 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.81%) CentOS
6 7 (0.63%) Debian
6 7 (0.63%) SUSE
6 7 (0.63%) Unix
7 1 (0.090%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (79.17%) IT Strategy
2 320 (28.73%) Agile
3 313 (28.10%) Artificial Intelligence
4 305 (27.38%) Cybersecurity
5 282 (25.31%) Roadmaps
6 239 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
7 238 (21.36%) CRM
8 164 (14.72%) Business Strategy
9 155 (13.91%) Mentoring
10 153 (13.73%) Analytics
11 151 (13.55%) Business Case
12 115 (10.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 115 (10.32%) Thought Leadership
13 109 (9.78%) Strategic Roadmap
14 108 (9.69%) Presales
15 103 (9.25%) Data Analytics
16 102 (9.16%) Contract Negotiation
17 101 (9.07%) Software Engineering
18 100 (8.98%) DevOps
19 98 (8.80%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 218 (19.57%) Bash
2 87 (7.81%) Java
3 68 (6.10%) SQL
4 63 (5.66%) Python
5 46 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 43 (3.86%) C#
7 39 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 37 (3.32%) VB
9 21 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.35%) Groovy
12 8 (0.72%) C
13 7 (0.63%) PHP
14 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.27%) AWK
14 3 (0.27%) C++
14 3 (0.27%) R
14 3 (0.27%) sed
15 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 182 (16.34%) Degree
2 135 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 99 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.97%) CISSP
6 20 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.90%) CISM
8 10 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.72%) Postgraduate
11 7 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.63%) MBA
11 7 (0.63%) RIBA
12 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.45%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.36%) CISA
14 4 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (1.62%) QA
3 17 (1.53%) GDPR
4 16 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.17%) NIST
6 10 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.54%) GRC
8 6 (0.54%) SLA
8 6 (0.54%) SOC 1
9 5 (0.45%) COBIT
10 3 (0.27%) CRD IV
10 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.27%) HMG Infosec
10 3 (0.27%) IFRS
10 3 (0.27%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.27%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.27%) PMO
10 3 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 226 (20.29%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.35%) Docker
3 12 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.45%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 219 (19.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (18.85%) Jamf Pro
3 43 (3.86%) Terraform
4 34 (3.05%) Kubernetes
5 15 (1.35%) Ansible
6 8 (0.72%) Kiali
7 7 (0.63%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.45%) NetBackup
8 5 (0.45%) Puppet
8 5 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.27%) SCCM
10 1 (0.090%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.090%) Grafana
10 1 (0.090%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 329 (29.53%) Microsoft
2 210 (18.85%) CyberArk
2 210 (18.85%) Tanium
3 64 (5.75%) Oracle
4 37 (3.32%) OpenLink
4 37 (3.32%) Sybase
4 37 (3.32%) TIBCO
5 24 (2.15%) Google
6 22 (1.97%) VMware
7 21 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.71%) Cisco
9 15 (1.35%) Adobe
10 13 (1.17%) Splunk
11 12 (1.08%) Citrix
12 11 (0.99%) Juniper
12 11 (0.99%) Veeam
13 10 (0.90%) Meraki
14 8 (0.72%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.63%) Autodesk
15 7 (0.63%) MuleSoft