Strategic Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 613 784
Rank change year-on-year +165 +171 -171
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Planning 512 394 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.41% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 339 245 223
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,652 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £45,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £48,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -19.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £39,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +41.03% -29.09% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Planning 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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning.

Salary trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +168 466 £57,500 +13.86% 191
UK excluding London +16 277 £55,000 +41.03% 132
London +183 198 £60,000 -21.31% 68
Work from Home +121 137 £55,000 -15.38% 88
South East +43 79 £51,663 +91.34% 37
Midlands -6 79 £62,500 +63.40% 27
West Midlands -10 52 £67,500 +77.63% 18
North of England +46 40 £57,500 -28.35% 41
East of England +22 32 £55,000 +7.32% 13
East Midlands +15 27 £55,000 -13.73% 9
South West -17 26 £65,500 +59.76% 9
North West +5 24 £65,000 - 27
Wales +21 11 £56,000 +25.38% 5
Scotland -53 10 £44,436 -12.77% 7
Yorkshire +70 8 £60,000 -29.41% 12
North East - 8 £40,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £51,000 - 1

Strategic Planning
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 7 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.98%) Office Communications Server
2 5 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.59%) Apache
3 3 (0.59%) CMS
3 3 (0.59%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 34 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.59%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.59%) SAP CRM
2 3 (0.59%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.39%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.20%) Relativity
4 1 (0.20%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 47 (9.18%) Azure
2 27 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (4.88%) AWS
4 20 (3.91%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (2.15%) GCP
7 8 (1.56%) SaaS
8 6 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.17%) WhatsApp
9 5 (0.98%) IaaS
9 5 (0.98%) PaaS
10 4 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.78%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.78%) GitHub
10 4 (0.78%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.59%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.39%) Amazon Ads
12 2 (0.39%) Canva
12 2 (0.39%) dbt
12 2 (0.39%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.34%) Wireless
2 11 (2.15%) WAN
3 10 (1.95%) DNS
4 9 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.56%) LAN
6 6 (1.17%) Firewall
7 5 (0.98%) MPLS
7 5 (0.98%) SNMP
7 5 (0.98%) VLAN
7 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.78%) Internet
8 4 (0.78%) Intranet
8 4 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.59%) DHCP
9 3 (0.59%) Network Security
9 3 (0.59%) VoIP
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.20%) HSRP
10 1 (0.20%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.13%) Power BI
4 13 (2.54%) Tableau
5 9 (1.76%) Big Data
5 9 (1.76%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.37%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.17%) Flink
7 6 (1.17%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.78%) GIS
8 4 (0.78%) Looker
9 3 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.59%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.59%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.39%) QlikView
11 1 (0.20%) OLAP
11 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Git
2 5 (0.98%) JIRA
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 190 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 150 (29.30%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (25.39%) Finance
4 100 (19.53%) Retail
5 90 (17.58%) Marketing
6 57 (11.13%) German Language
7 56 (10.94%) Advertising
8 49 (9.57%) Public Sector
9 44 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (5.66%) Legal
13 24 (4.69%) Law
14 23 (4.49%) Manufacturing
15 15 (2.93%) Games
16 13 (2.54%) Local Government
17 11 (2.15%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (1.56%) Banking
20 5 (0.98%) French Language
Job Titles
1 60 (11.72%) Senior
2 52 (10.16%) Graduate
3 47 (9.18%) Lead
4 42 (8.20%) Project Manager
5 39 (7.62%) IT Manager
6 35 (6.84%) Analyst
7 27 (5.27%) Senior Manager
8 21 (4.10%) Business Manager
9 20 (3.91%) Development Manager
10 18 (3.52%) Head of IT
11 17 (3.32%) Business Development Manager
12 16 (3.13%) Consultant
13 15 (2.93%) Architect
13 15 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
14 14 (2.73%) IT Director
15 13 (2.54%) Operations Manager
16 12 (2.34%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
16 12 (2.34%) 3rd Line Support
16 12 (2.34%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.56%) EDI
2 6 (1.17%) .NET
2 6 (1.17%) Apache Beam
3 5 (0.98%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (0.78%) Kafka
5 2 (0.39%) HTML
5 2 (0.39%) Laravel
5 2 (0.39%) Middleware
5 2 (0.39%) Next.js
5 2 (0.39%) React
5 2 (0.39%) React Native
5 2 (0.39%) TAPI
6 1 (0.20%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.20%) CSS
6 1 (0.20%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.20%) PySpark
6 1 (0.20%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.89%) Social Media
2 55 (10.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 54 (10.55%) Photography
4 49 (9.57%) Management Information System
5 30 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.73%) IoT
7 13 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.34%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.76%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.56%) Life Science
11 6 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.98%) Blog
12 5 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.78%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.78%) Digital Signage
13 4 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.01%) Windows
2 11 (2.15%) Windows 10
3 10 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.76%) Linux
5 6 (1.17%) Android
6 5 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.78%) DC/OS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (26.17%) Project Management
2 108 (21.09%) Decision-Making
3 102 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 78 (15.23%) Agile
6 63 (12.30%) Project Delivery
7 62 (12.11%) Analytics
8 59 (11.52%) ITIL
9 55 (10.74%) Roadmaps
10 52 (10.16%) Risk Management
11 46 (8.98%) Budget Management
12 44 (8.59%) Logistics
13 42 (8.20%) Process Improvement
14 41 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (8.01%) Mentoring
15 40 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (7.81%) Data Science
15 40 (7.81%) Resource Management
15 40 (7.81%) Strategic Thinking
16 39 (7.62%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.35%) SQL
2 22 (4.30%) Python
3 10 (1.95%) C#
4 7 (1.37%) Java
4 7 (1.37%) Scala
5 5 (0.98%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.78%) Go
6 4 (0.78%) VBA
7 2 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.20%) Perl
8 1 (0.20%) PHP
8 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 195 (38.09%) Degree
2 63 (12.30%) DBS Check
3 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (3.52%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.32%) Security Cleared
6 15 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.73%) CCNP
8 13 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.54%) MCSE
9 9 (1.76%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.56%) PMP
11 7 (1.37%) Postgraduate
12 6 (1.17%) CISSP
13 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.59%) CIMA
14 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.59%) MBA
14 3 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.49%) QA
2 20 (3.91%) GDPR
3 15 (2.93%) SLA
4 9 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.17%) PMO
7 5 (0.98%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.78%) NCSC
9 3 (0.59%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.15%) Docker
4 9 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) PaperCut
3 1 (0.20%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.88%) SAP
3 19 (3.71%) Cisco
4 16 (3.13%) VMware
5 11 (2.15%) Google
6 10 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.76%) Citrix
7 9 (1.76%) Oracle
8 6 (1.17%) Teradata
9 4 (0.78%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.59%) Adobe
10 3 (0.59%) Anaplan
10 3 (0.59%) Aruba
10 3 (0.59%) Workday
11 2 (0.39%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.39%) IBM
11 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.39%) Veeam
12 1 (0.20%) HP
12 1 (0.20%) Red Hat