IT/Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy 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 182 217 260
Rank change year-on-year +35 +43 -4
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 1,600 1,743 2,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.72% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.80% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 937 897 1,472
10th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,219 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,800 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

IT 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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the UK 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
England +47 1,384 £65,000 -17.72% 229
UK excluding London -2 960 £57,500 -14.81% 138
Work from Home +40 752 £65,000 -18.75% 106
London +84 544 £82,500 -2.94% 102
North of England +30 280 £56,250 -6.25% 44
South East -2 209 £60,000 -25.00% 30
Midlands +15 175 £55,000 -26.05% 16
North West +1 132 £55,000 -8.43% 22
West Midlands +45 131 £57,500 -17.27% 9
Yorkshire +66 122 £62,500 +4.17% 17
Scotland -66 110 £50,000 -23.08% 13
South West -22 89 £67,500 +30.01% 14
East of England +1 67 £67,500 -20.59% 16
East Midlands -27 42 £49,329 -38.34% 7
North East +4 26 £47,500 -2.56% 5
Northern Ireland +21 15 £37,500 -25.00% 1
Wales -19 13 £51,528 -56.26% 6
Isle of Man - 1 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

IT 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 78 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.88%) Confluence
5 23 (1.44%) Apache
5 23 (1.44%) CMS
6 17 (1.06%) SAS
7 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 5 (0.31%) WordPress
9 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.69%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.63%) Revit
5 9 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 33 (2.06%) Endur
2 16 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.44%) thinkFolio
6 6 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.25%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.063%) Magento
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.063%) Primavera
10 1 (0.063%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.063%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 547 (34.19%) Azure
2 254 (15.88%) Entra ID
3 174 (10.88%) AWS
4 163 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (4.50%) Power Platform
6 42 (2.63%) SaaS
7 41 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
8 40 (2.50%) PaaS
9 37 (2.31%) GCP
10 31 (1.94%) IaaS
11 28 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (1.69%) GitHub
13 25 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (1.25%) Serverless
15 18 (1.13%) OneDrive
16 16 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (1.00%) WhatsApp
17 14 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (0.81%) Azure Cognitive Services
18 13 (0.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 210 (13.13%) 5G
1 210 (13.13%) Broadband
2 94 (5.88%) Firewall
3 57 (3.56%) WAN
4 48 (3.00%) DNS
5 39 (2.44%) VPN
6 38 (2.38%) LAN
7 34 (2.13%) DHCP
8 33 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (1.88%) SAN
10 27 (1.69%) Network Security
11 26 (1.63%) VLAN
12 24 (1.50%) Unified Communications
13 22 (1.38%) SD-WAN
13 22 (1.38%) Wireless
14 16 (1.00%) TCP/IP
15 11 (0.69%) Internet
15 11 (0.69%) VoIP
16 10 (0.63%) BGP
16 10 (0.63%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 62 (3.88%) Relational Database
3 38 (2.38%) Power BI
4 37 (2.31%) RDBMS
5 29 (1.81%) Data Lake
5 29 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (1.75%) MySQL
7 25 (1.56%) Data Mining
8 23 (1.44%) Apache Ignite
8 23 (1.44%) Hadoop
9 20 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (1.25%) NoSQL
9 20 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.50%) CockroachDB
14 7 (0.44%) Ingres
14 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (3.75%) JIRA
2 28 (1.75%) Git
3 27 (1.69%) Maven
4 18 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.50%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.44%) GitLab
6 7 (0.44%) Katalon Studio
7 6 (0.38%) RStudio
8 3 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.19%) JUnit
9 2 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.13%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.063%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.063%) Vagrant
General
1 494 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 413 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 362 (22.63%) Finance
4 317 (19.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (6.75%) Marketing
6 86 (5.38%) Law
7 84 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
8 76 (4.75%) Retail
9 73 (4.56%) Banking
10 70 (4.38%) Public Sector
11 63 (3.94%) Games
12 49 (3.06%) Manufacturing
12 49 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.25%) Legal
14 26 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.31%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 391 (24.44%) Architect
2 290 (18.13%) Senior
3 216 (13.50%) Solutions Architect
4 210 (13.13%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (13.13%) Technical Specialist
5 177 (11.06%) IT Manager
6 164 (10.25%) Lead
7 127 (7.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 127 (7.94%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (7.94%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (7.94%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 103 (6.44%) Presales Solution Architect
9 97 (6.06%) Head of IT
10 81 (5.06%) Developer
11 79 (4.94%) Analyst
12 62 (3.88%) Senior Architect
13 45 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 44 (2.75%) Enterprise Architect
15 41 (2.56%) Lead Architect
16 39 (2.44%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.44%) .NET
2 50 (3.13%) HTML
3 40 (2.50%) Kafka
3 40 (2.50%) React
4 38 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 31 (1.94%) Spring
6 28 (1.75%) CSS
7 27 (1.69%) .NET Framework
8 23 (1.44%) Middleware
9 22 (1.38%) EDI
10 20 (1.25%) Node.js
11 18 (1.13%) REST
12 17 (1.06%) XML
13 16 (1.00%) JSON
14 12 (0.75%) .NET Core
15 11 (0.69%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.63%) Unreal Engine
16 10 (0.63%) V-Ray
17 9 (0.56%) ASP.NET
18 8 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 210 (13.13%) Social Media
2 95 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 58 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 39 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 31 (1.94%) Swaptions
6 30 (1.88%) Cloud Native
6 30 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 29 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 23 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.38%) FMCG
11 17 (1.06%) IoT
11 17 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
12 16 (1.00%) Cyberattack
13 15 (0.94%) Credit Risk
13 15 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
13 15 (0.94%) Onboarding
14 14 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 271 (16.94%) Linux
2 213 (13.31%) Ubuntu
3 145 (9.06%) Windows
4 69 (4.31%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.88%) Unix
7 11 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.56%) CentOS
9 7 (0.44%) Debian
9 7 (0.44%) SUSE
10 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.38%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.31%) VMS
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.25%) Android
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 902 (56.38%) Technology Strategy
2 401 (25.06%) Agile
3 393 (24.56%) Cybersecurity
4 339 (21.19%) Roadmaps
5 323 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
6 286 (17.88%) CRM
7 269 (16.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 208 (13.00%) Project Management
9 205 (12.81%) Business Strategy
10 192 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 181 (11.31%) Mentoring
12 172 (10.75%) Analytics
13 161 (10.06%) Business Case
14 149 (9.31%) Strategic Roadmap
15 146 (9.13%) Coaching
15 146 (9.13%) ITIL
16 135 (8.44%) Project Delivery
17 132 (8.25%) Presales
18 131 (8.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 129 (8.06%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 221 (13.81%) Bash
2 121 (7.56%) SQL
3 83 (5.19%) Java
4 73 (4.56%) Python
5 62 (3.88%) C#
5 62 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 50 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 31 (1.94%) VB
8 30 (1.88%) T-SQL
9 27 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.31%) R
11 15 (0.94%) Groovy
12 14 (0.88%) PHP
13 8 (0.50%) C
14 4 (0.25%) RPG
15 3 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.19%) AWK
15 3 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.19%) sed
16 2 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 309 (19.31%) Degree
2 176 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 130 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 50 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.00%) CISSP
6 32 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 28 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.50%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 20 (1.25%) MBA
10 20 (1.25%) PMP
11 19 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.69%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.50%) MCP
17 7 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (2.88%) QA
3 45 (2.81%) GDPR
4 27 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.25%) SLA
6 18 (1.13%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.94%) CRD IV
8 15 (0.94%) IFRS
8 15 (0.94%) IFRS 9
9 11 (0.69%) NIST
9 11 (0.69%) PMO
10 7 (0.44%) COBIT
10 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.38%) SOC 1
12 5 (0.31%) NCSC
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Infosec
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 301 (18.81%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 19 (1.19%) Docker
5 6 (0.38%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) pfSense
7 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.063%) LXC
9 1 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 250 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 211 (13.19%) Jamf Pro
3 46 (2.88%) Terraform
4 42 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 22 (1.38%) Ansible
6 13 (0.81%) SCCM
7 9 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (0.50%) Kiali
9 6 (0.38%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.38%) Puppet
9 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 5 (0.31%) Grafana
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.31%) SCOM
11 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
12 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.13%) CASB
14 1 (0.063%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 518 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 210 (13.13%) CyberArk
2 210 (13.13%) Tanium
3 94 (5.88%) VMware
4 91 (5.69%) Oracle
5 64 (4.00%) Cisco
6 38 (2.38%) Google
7 33 (2.06%) SAP
8 31 (1.94%) OpenLink
8 31 (1.94%) Sybase
8 31 (1.94%) TIBCO
8 31 (1.94%) Veeam
9 25 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.19%) Meraki
11 16 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 15 (0.94%) UiPath
13 14 (0.88%) Adobe
13 14 (0.88%) Blue Prism
13 14 (0.88%) Databricks
14 13 (0.81%) Dell