Strategic Planning Job Trends in Manchester

Strategic Planning
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Strategic Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 129 199
Rank change year-on-year -11 +70 +28
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Planning 19 17 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.38% 0.83% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.87% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 7
10th Percentile £31,500 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,592 £48,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £73,417 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 - £78,000
North West median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% -18.46% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Strategic Planning 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,648 1,959 4,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.30% 95.42% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,494 1,259 3,381
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,181 £90,907 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -9.09%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Strategic Planning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Strategic Planning job vacancy trend in Manchester

Strategic Planning
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Strategic Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Strategic Planning in Manchester

Strategic Planning
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Stockport -1 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 £33,000 -
Strategic Planning
North West

Strategic Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Confluence
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) CMS
3 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Dropbox
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Copilot
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Purview
2 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (15.79%) Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Advertising
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Head of Digital
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Development Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Business Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Client Services Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Development Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Software Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) Head of IT
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) Backbone.js
1 3 (15.79%) Node.js
1 3 (15.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Decision-Making
1 8 (42.11%) User Experience
2 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Budget Management
4 4 (21.05%) Budgeting
4 4 (21.05%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) ITSM
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Service Management
5 3 (15.79%) AI
5 3 (15.79%) Cryptography
5 3 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (15.79%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (15.79%) Security Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) C#
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe