Thought Leadership Jobs

Thought Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 247 243
Rank change year-on-year -115 -4 +91
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 768 1,406 2,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.48% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.55% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 414 494 929
10th Percentile £35,000 £56,219 £51,797
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,225 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,064 £99,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +9.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Thought Leadership 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 87,477 90,991 161,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.84% 95.49% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,023 54,512 83,003
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%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Salary trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Thought Leadership within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 -97 677 £79,632 -6.32% 387
London -12 367 £76,725 -9.74% 232
UK excluding London -140 355 £80,000 +14.29% 143
Work from Home -127 290 £72,500 -9.38% 177
North of England -93 101 £82,500 +37.50% 36
South East -5 73 £70,000 -13.85% 51
South West -44 66 £80,000 +28.00% 15
North West -113 58 £95,128 +46.35% 26
Midlands -6 51 £65,000 -10.34% 20
West Midlands +1 35 £66,000 -12.00% 13
Yorkshire +28 29 £82,500 +38.59% 7
Scotland -104 23 £99,500 +53.08% 4
Northern Ireland +32 17 - - 7
East Midlands -26 16 £50,000 -25.93% 7
North East +1 14 £57,500 -10.85% 5
East of England -10 14 £55,500 -37.46% 14
Wales +6 10 £55,000 -47.62% 1

Thought Leadership
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 31 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.60%) Apache
3 16 (2.08%) Jupyter
3 16 (2.08%) nginx
4 13 (1.69%) Confluence
5 8 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.04%) CMS
6 6 (0.78%) SAS
7 5 (0.65%) Appian
8 4 (0.52%) WordPress
9 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.39%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (1.95%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.91%) SPSS
5 6 (0.78%) Simulink
6 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.39%) Stata
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.26%) Sketch
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.13%) InDesign
9 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.56%) SAP SCM
3 9 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.65%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.65%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.52%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.39%) SAP Travel Management
8 2 (0.26%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.26%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.26%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.13%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 114 (14.84%) Azure
2 102 (13.28%) AWS
3 44 (5.73%) Power Platform
4 42 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (5.08%) GCP
6 38 (4.95%) SaaS
7 37 (4.82%) dbt
8 21 (2.73%) PaaS
9 20 (2.60%) IaaS
10 19 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 19 (2.47%) Serverless
11 18 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (2.21%) Amazon S3
13 16 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (2.08%) MinIO
13 16 (2.08%) OpenShift
14 13 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.26%) 5G
2 23 (2.99%) Broadband
3 16 (2.08%) Firewall
4 7 (0.91%) Wireless
5 5 (0.65%) VPN
6 4 (0.52%) SSL
7 3 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.26%) DNS
8 2 (0.26%) LTE
8 2 (0.26%) Network Security
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) LAN
9 1 (0.13%) NGFW
9 1 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.13%) SAN
9 1 (0.13%) WAN
9 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 36 (4.69%) Big Data
3 28 (3.65%) Power BI
4 26 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 23 (2.99%) Hadoop
5 23 (2.99%) Tableau
6 19 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.47%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.08%) Presto
7 16 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 14 (1.82%) BigQuery
8 14 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.78%) Flink
9 6 (0.78%) MySQL
9 6 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.65%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.65%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.65%) Looker
Development Applications
1 26 (3.39%) JIRA
2 22 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (2.08%) Git
4 15 (1.95%) Axure RP
5 13 (1.69%) Balsamiq
6 7 (0.91%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.65%) GitLab
8 5 (0.65%) Selenium
9 4 (0.52%) JMeter
9 4 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.26%) JUnit
11 2 (0.26%) Mockito
12 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 362 (47.14%) Social Skills
2 200 (26.04%) Finance
3 122 (15.89%) Marketing
4 120 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (13.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (8.85%) Public Sector
7 54 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (6.38%) Local Government
9 47 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (4.82%) Banking
10 37 (4.82%) Law
11 36 (4.69%) Legal
12 33 (4.30%) Manufacturing
13 27 (3.52%) Digital Economy
14 26 (3.39%) Back Office
15 25 (3.26%) Retail
16 22 (2.86%) Military
17 20 (2.60%) Aerospace
18 14 (1.82%) Aviation
19 10 (1.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 211 (27.47%) Architect
2 144 (18.75%) Lead
3 143 (18.62%) Solutions Architect
4 140 (18.23%) Senior
5 92 (11.98%) Presales Solution Architect
6 78 (10.16%) Consultant
7 32 (4.17%) Senior Manager
8 30 (3.91%) Senior Consultant
9 26 (3.39%) SAP Consultant
10 25 (3.26%) Lead Architect
10 25 (3.26%) Services Director
11 24 (3.13%) Senior Architect
12 23 (2.99%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.73%) Enterprise Architect
14 17 (2.21%) Analyst
15 16 (2.08%) Big Data Engineer
15 16 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (2.08%) Senior SAP Consultant
16 15 (1.95%) Senior Solutions Architect
17 14 (1.82%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.73%) .NET
2 25 (3.26%) HTML
2 25 (3.26%) React
3 20 (2.60%) CSS
4 19 (2.47%) .NET Core
5 16 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
5 16 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
5 16 (2.08%) YAML
6 14 (1.82%) JSON
6 14 (1.82%) Web Services
6 14 (1.82%) XML
7 12 (1.56%) SOAP
8 10 (1.30%) RESTful
9 9 (1.17%) Apache Beam
9 9 (1.17%) Kafka
9 9 (1.17%) Node.js
10 8 (1.04%) LDAP
10 8 (1.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (5.86%) Social Media
3 43 (5.60%) Management Information System
4 31 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.39%) Blog
6 25 (3.26%) Algorithms
7 24 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (2.99%) Cloud Native
9 18 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.08%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.82%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.56%) IoT
14 11 (1.43%) Mainframe
15 10 (1.30%) CMDB
15 10 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.17%) Client/Server
16 9 (1.17%) Credit Risk
16 9 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.65%) Linux
2 23 (2.99%) Windows
3 7 (0.91%) Unix
4 6 (0.78%) Android
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
2 166 (21.61%) Agile
2 166 (21.61%) Roadmaps
3 157 (20.44%) Presales
4 155 (20.18%) Analytics
5 141 (18.36%) Business Case
6 124 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
7 123 (16.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 121 (15.76%) Mentoring
9 115 (14.97%) IT Strategy
9 115 (14.97%) Technology Strategy
10 110 (14.32%) Data Analytics
11 106 (13.80%) DevOps
12 105 (13.67%) Project Management
13 99 (12.89%) Contract Negotiation
14 92 (11.98%) Commercial Awareness
15 89 (11.59%) Project Delivery
16 86 (11.20%) Business Development
17 81 (10.55%) Artificial Intelligence
17 81 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 98 (12.76%) Python
2 73 (9.51%) SQL
3 49 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 39 (5.08%) C#
5 23 (2.99%) Java
6 21 (2.73%) R
6 21 (2.73%) Shell Script
7 18 (2.34%) Go
7 18 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.08%) Bash
8 16 (2.08%) Bicep
9 12 (1.56%) Scala
10 10 (1.30%) Perl
11 9 (1.17%) VBA
12 8 (1.04%) C
13 7 (0.91%) C++
14 6 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.52%) RPG
16 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 171 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 164 (21.35%) Degree
3 122 (15.89%) SC Cleared
4 50 (6.51%) Master's Degree
5 32 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.26%) MBA
7 22 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.95%) CISSP
9 14 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.69%) CISM
11 8 (1.04%) CISA
12 7 (0.91%) ACCA
12 7 (0.91%) CREST Certified
13 6 (0.78%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (0.78%) CHECK Team Member
13 6 (0.78%) Cyber Scheme
13 6 (0.78%) OSCP
13 6 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.78%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.08%) QA
3 13 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.69%) PMO
3 13 (1.69%) WCAG
4 11 (1.43%) NIST
5 10 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.17%) COBIT
6 9 (1.17%) GRC
7 8 (1.04%) GDPR
7 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) GAAP
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
12 1 (0.13%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.13%) PMBOK
System Software
1 28 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) vCloud
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.60%) Terraform
3 18 (2.34%) Ansible
4 17 (2.21%) Functional Safety
5 16 (2.08%) Grafana
5 16 (2.08%) HAProxy
5 16 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.52%) HP UCMDB
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.13%) Core Impact
9 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.13%) Nagios
9 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.81%) SAP
3 35 (4.56%) Oracle
4 22 (2.86%) Virgin Media
5 21 (2.73%) Adobe
5 21 (2.73%) Databricks
5 21 (2.73%) Google
6 16 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.56%) Teradata
8 11 (1.43%) Pega
9 10 (1.30%) HP
10 9 (1.17%) BMC
10 9 (1.17%) Remedy
11 7 (0.91%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.78%) CA
12 6 (0.78%) UiPath
13 5 (0.65%) Duck Creek
13 5 (0.65%) Facebook
13 5 (0.65%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.52%) Dataiku