Strategic Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Strategic Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 299 323
Rank change year-on-year +17 +24 +132
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 663 662 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.10% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.15% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 413 265 268
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,116 £54,416 £43,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,773 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,276
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,472 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Strategic 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -39 167 £73,805 +5.44% 85
South West +43 130 £60,000 +0.40% 29
Scotland -13 126 £75,000 +24.90% 26
Midlands +40 104 £59,556 -14.92% 50
North West -42 90 £70,000 - 45
South East +19 85 £40,000 -42.86% 53
West Midlands +45 74 £61,028 -12.82% 27
Yorkshire +8 55 £73,805 +5.44% 27
East Midlands +1 30 £50,000 -28.57% 23
East of England +25 28 £49,000 -30.00% 26
North East +10 22 £73,805 +5.44% 17
Wales -55 13 £61,312 -12.41% 4
Northern Ireland +32 10 £42,000 - 4
Strategic Thinking
UK

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 37 (5.58%) SharePoint
1 37 (5.58%) Tuxedo
2 19 (2.87%) Confluence
3 5 (0.75%) CMS
3 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 38 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (5.28%) UserZoom
3 30 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.81%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.81%) Sketch
6 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.30%) Gliffy
7 2 (0.30%) Revit
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) InDesign
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.45%) SAP IBP
1 3 (0.45%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.15%) HFM
2 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (8.75%) AWS
2 44 (6.64%) Figma
3 32 (4.83%) SaaS
3 32 (4.83%) SurveyMonkey
4 31 (4.68%) Azure
5 26 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (3.32%) Power Platform
7 10 (1.51%) GCP
8 6 (0.90%) dbt
8 6 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.60%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.45%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.30%) Canva
11 2 (0.30%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.30%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.30%) Serverless
11 2 (0.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.96%) Internet
2 12 (1.81%) Firewall
3 10 (1.51%) Network Security
4 6 (0.90%) Broadband
4 6 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.75%) VoIP
6 4 (0.60%) DHCP
6 4 (0.60%) DNS
6 4 (0.60%) LAN
6 4 (0.60%) WAN
7 2 (0.30%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.30%) Extranet
7 2 (0.30%) Intranet
8 1 (0.15%) ADSL
8 1 (0.15%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (1.66%) Power BI
3 8 (1.21%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.21%) Tableau
4 7 (1.06%) MySQL
5 5 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.45%) Big Data
6 3 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.30%) DTS
7 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.30%) Metadata
7 2 (0.30%) Power Query
8 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.15%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (5.43%) JIRA
2 35 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.60%) Git
3 4 (0.60%) NUnit
3 4 (0.60%) Selenium
4 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.45%) GitLab
4 3 (0.45%) JMeter
4 3 (0.45%) JUnit
4 3 (0.45%) Mockito
4 3 (0.45%) Moq
4 3 (0.45%) Postman
4 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.30%) CANoe
6 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
General
1 281 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 231 (34.84%) Finance
3 162 (24.43%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (22.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 132 (19.91%) Marketing
6 120 (18.10%) Law
7 82 (12.37%) Retail
8 77 (11.61%) Banking
9 45 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (6.18%) Investment Banking
11 38 (5.73%) Legal
12 32 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (4.07%) Telecoms
14 16 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (2.11%) Local Government
16 12 (1.81%) Retail Banking
17 11 (1.66%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.66%) Public Sector
18 10 (1.51%) Fire and Rescue
19 7 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 135 (20.36%) Lead
2 93 (14.03%) Senior
3 70 (10.56%) Technical Leader
4 48 (7.24%) Analyst
5 39 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 35 (5.28%) User Experience Researcher
7 33 (4.98%) Business Manager
7 33 (4.98%) Designer
8 27 (4.07%) IT Manager
9 26 (3.92%) Development Manager
10 21 (3.17%) Business Development Manager
10 21 (3.17%) Product Manager
11 20 (3.02%) Service Designer
12 19 (2.87%) Senior Manager
13 18 (2.71%) Consultant
14 17 (2.56%) Services Director
15 16 (2.41%) Head of IT
16 15 (2.26%) Architect
16 15 (2.26%) Procurement Manager
17 14 (2.11%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.49%) RESTful
2 14 (2.11%) React
3 9 (1.36%) CSS
3 9 (1.36%) HTML
4 8 (1.21%) .NET
5 7 (1.06%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.90%) Symfony
6 6 (0.90%) Web Services
7 4 (0.60%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.60%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (0.60%) Playwright
8 3 (0.45%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.45%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 3 (0.45%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.45%) jQuery
8 3 (0.45%) Laravel
8 3 (0.45%) Node.js
8 3 (0.45%) Semantic HTML
8 3 (0.45%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.54%) Management Information System
2 30 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (3.62%) Social Media
5 19 (2.87%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.96%) Fixed Income
7 13 (1.96%) PMI
8 12 (1.81%) Blog
8 12 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.36%) e-Learning
9 9 (1.36%) NHS
9 9 (1.36%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.21%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.21%) Cyberattack
10 8 (1.21%) Derivative
10 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.06%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.17%) Windows
2 17 (2.56%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.41%) Linux
4 4 (0.60%) Android
4 4 (0.60%) VMS
4 4 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (38.46%) Agile
2 187 (28.21%) Mentoring
3 176 (26.55%) Roadmaps
4 153 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (15.38%) Analytics
7 99 (14.93%) Project Management
8 92 (13.88%) Product Roadmap
9 89 (13.42%) User Research
10 81 (12.22%) Coaching
11 74 (11.16%) Decision-Making
12 73 (11.01%) User Experience
13 72 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
14 68 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
15 63 (9.50%) DevOps
16 61 (9.20%) Strategic Roadmap
17 60 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
17 60 (9.05%) SDLC
17 60 (9.05%) Service Design
18 55 (8.30%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (9.95%) COBOL
1 66 (9.95%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 49 (7.39%) Java
3 46 (6.94%) Python
4 38 (5.73%) C
5 36 (5.43%) SQL
6 33 (4.98%) C++
7 10 (1.51%) R
7 10 (1.51%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.36%) C#
8 9 (1.36%) PHP
9 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.75%) Scala
10 3 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.30%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 179 (27.00%) Degree
2 49 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 37 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.56%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.26%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.36%) CISM
9 9 (1.36%) CISSP
9 9 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.06%) CCNP
10 7 (1.06%) HNC
10 7 (1.06%) MBA
11 6 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.90%) CSPO
11 6 (0.90%) IIBA
11 6 (0.90%) Tableau Certification
12 5 (0.75%) CRISC
12 5 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.09%) QA
2 39 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 35 (5.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.21%) SLA
6 7 (1.06%) GDPR
6 7 (1.06%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.75%) NIST
8 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.45%) PMO
9 2 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.36%) Docker
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.45%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.15%) Netcool
4 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 96 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.95%) Micro Focus
3 51 (7.69%) Oracle
4 35 (5.28%) Qualtrics
5 29 (4.37%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.26%) Cisco
7 12 (1.81%) Google
8 11 (1.66%) BiZZdesign
9 10 (1.51%) Citrix
9 10 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.36%) Facebook
11 8 (1.21%) YouTube
12 7 (1.06%) SAP
13 6 (0.90%) Veeam
14 5 (0.75%) Freshdesk
15 4 (0.60%) Aruba
15 4 (0.60%) Juniper
15 4 (0.60%) Zoho
16 3 (0.45%) VMware
17 2 (0.30%) QNX