Strategic Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 362 322
Rank change year-on-year +92 -40 +184
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 1,055 956 1,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.91% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.96% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 698 358 639
10th Percentile £38,603 £43,471 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,416 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £84,964 £97,447 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,054 £60,047 £55,867
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.48% +1.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
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 Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +116 856 £67,500 -3.57% 424
UK excluding London +42 659 £64,054 +6.67% 238
Work from Home +70 381 £71,250 -1.72% 203
London +145 341 £78,000 -9.30% 196
North of England -23 167 £73,805 +23.01% 76
Scotland -5 126 £75,000 +24.90% 25
South West +68 121 £60,000 +11.11% 26
Midlands +71 107 £61,028 -15.10% 39
North West -27 91 £70,000 -6.67% 39
South East +58 84 £40,000 -33.33% 53
West Midlands +68 77 £62,500 -15.97% 19
Yorkshire +18 55 £73,805 +23.99% 24
East Midlands +9 30 £50,000 +13.64% 20
East of England +20 29 £49,000 -13.66% 21
North East +18 21 £73,805 +52.96% 15
Wales -44 13 £61,312 -47.95% 3
Northern Ireland +38 12 £42,000 - 5

Strategic Thinking
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 49 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.51%) Tuxedo
3 24 (2.27%) Confluence
4 18 (1.71%) CMS
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.38%) Drupal
7 3 (0.28%) WordPress
8 2 (0.19%) SAS
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 56 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (3.32%) UserZoom
4 28 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.33%) Sketch
6 13 (1.23%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
10 2 (0.19%) Gliffy
10 2 (0.19%) Revit
10 2 (0.19%) SPSS
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.095%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.095%) InDesign
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.14%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.38%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.095%) HFM
7 1 (0.095%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.095%) Magento
7 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.095%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 112 (10.62%) Azure
2 108 (10.24%) AWS
3 83 (7.87%) SaaS
4 59 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 57 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (4.74%) Figma
7 32 (3.03%) SurveyMonkey
8 22 (2.09%) IaaS
8 22 (2.09%) PaaS
9 18 (1.71%) dbt
10 15 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (1.42%) GCP
11 14 (1.33%) Entra ID
12 12 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.76%) Azure Pipelines
14 7 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.47%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.47%) Serverless
16 4 (0.38%) Google Analytics
16 4 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.90%) Firewall
2 10 (0.95%) Network Security
3 9 (0.85%) Internet
4 7 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.57%) Broadband
5 6 (0.57%) LAN
5 6 (0.57%) WAN
6 5 (0.47%) DHCP
6 5 (0.47%) DNS
6 5 (0.47%) VoIP
6 5 (0.47%) WebEx
7 4 (0.38%) NaaS
7 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.28%) TETRA
9 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.19%) Extranet
9 2 (0.19%) Intranet
9 2 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.095%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.08%) Power BI
2 35 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.46%) Tableau
4 19 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.85%) Big Data
5 9 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.66%) MySQL
8 6 (0.57%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.38%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.38%) Metadata
9 4 (0.38%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.28%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.28%) GIS
10 3 (0.28%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 62 (5.88%) JIRA
2 40 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.18%) Git
4 13 (1.23%) NUnit
5 12 (1.14%) GitLab
5 12 (1.14%) Moq
5 12 (1.14%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.38%) JMeter
6 4 (0.38%) JUnit
6 4 (0.38%) Mockito
6 4 (0.38%) Postman
6 4 (0.38%) Selenium
7 2 (0.19%) CANoe
7 2 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.095%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.095%) ERwin
8 1 (0.095%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.095%) Visual Studio
General
1 499 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 333 (31.56%) Finance
3 277 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (20.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 191 (18.10%) Marketing
6 134 (12.70%) Retail
7 125 (11.85%) Law
8 86 (8.15%) Banking
9 74 (7.01%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (5.21%) Legal
11 48 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
12 44 (4.17%) Public Sector
13 40 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (3.41%) Investment Banking
15 32 (3.03%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.90%) Local Government
17 19 (1.80%) Advertising
18 13 (1.23%) Manufacturing
18 13 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (18.20%) Lead
2 169 (16.02%) Senior
3 71 (6.73%) Technical Leader
4 65 (6.16%) Analyst
5 63 (5.97%) Architect
6 57 (5.40%) Designer
7 53 (5.02%) Product Manager
8 49 (4.64%) Senior Manager
9 45 (4.27%) Project Manager
10 43 (4.08%) IT Manager
11 42 (3.98%) Business Manager
12 38 (3.60%) Development Manager
12 38 (3.60%) Service Designer
13 35 (3.32%) User Experience Researcher
14 34 (3.22%) Developer
15 28 (2.65%) Business Development Manager
15 28 (2.65%) Consultant
15 28 (2.65%) Information Manager
16 24 (2.27%) Lead Designer
16 24 (2.27%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.40%) RESTful
2 33 (3.13%) .NET
3 29 (2.75%) HTML
4 27 (2.56%) CSS
5 22 (2.09%) ASP.NET
5 22 (2.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 20 (1.90%) Web Services
7 18 (1.71%) Middleware
7 18 (1.71%) React
8 15 (1.42%) .NET Framework
9 13 (1.23%) AngularJS
10 12 (1.14%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 12 (1.14%) Classic ASP
10 12 (1.14%) Entity Framework
10 12 (1.14%) jQuery
10 12 (1.14%) Semantic HTML
10 12 (1.14%) SOAP
11 10 (0.95%) EDI
12 6 (0.57%) Symfony
13 5 (0.47%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 53 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
3 40 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 37 (3.51%) Social Media
6 29 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.71%) PMI
9 18 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.52%) Blog
12 15 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
14 12 (1.14%) Legacy Code
15 11 (1.04%) e-Learning
15 11 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.04%) NHS
16 10 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.13%) Windows
2 23 (2.18%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.52%) Linux
4 6 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.38%) Android
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (33.93%) Agile
2 276 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
3 261 (24.74%) Roadmaps
4 243 (23.03%) Mentoring
5 183 (17.35%) Project Management
6 162 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 147 (13.93%) Decision-Making
8 142 (13.46%) Analytics
9 119 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 115 (10.90%) Business Strategy
10 115 (10.90%) User Research
11 114 (10.81%) Product Roadmap
12 103 (9.76%) User Experience
13 101 (9.57%) Product Management
14 93 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
15 91 (8.63%) Collaborative Working
16 89 (8.44%) Coaching
17 88 (8.34%) DevOps
18 86 (8.15%) Service Design
19 85 (8.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 74 (7.01%) SQL
2 67 (6.35%) Python
3 66 (6.26%) COBOL
3 66 (6.26%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 58 (5.50%) Java
5 37 (3.51%) C
6 34 (3.22%) C++
7 30 (2.84%) C#
8 24 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 19 (1.80%) TypeScript
10 18 (1.71%) R
11 16 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.23%) PHP
13 6 (0.57%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.47%) VBA
15 4 (0.38%) Scala
16 2 (0.19%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.19%) Ruby
17 1 (0.095%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.095%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 309 (29.29%) Degree
2 79 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 58 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 34 (3.22%) CISSP
6 29 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.65%) CISM
8 24 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 24 (2.27%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 13 (1.23%) MBA
11 10 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.95%) CRISC
12 9 (0.85%) CEH
12 9 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.85%) PMP
13 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.66%) CCNP
13 7 (0.66%) HNC
14 6 (0.57%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.59%) QA
2 48 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 26 (2.46%) GDPR
5 18 (1.71%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.42%) NIST
8 11 (1.04%) SLA
9 8 (0.76%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.66%) PMO
11 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 20 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.61%) Docker
3 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.19%) IAG
5 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.76%) Terraform
3 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.47%) Puppet
5 4 (0.38%) Ansible
6 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.19%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.095%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.095%) Netcool
Vendors
1 152 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.26%) Micro Focus
3 51 (4.83%) Oracle
4 38 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.32%) Qualtrics
6 33 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.09%) SAP
8 18 (1.71%) Cisco
9 15 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
9 15 (1.42%) Google
10 14 (1.33%) Citrix
11 12 (1.14%) Facebook
12 11 (1.04%) YouTube
13 8 (0.76%) Adobe
13 8 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.76%) Samsung
14 7 (0.66%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.57%) Canon
15 6 (0.57%) Juniper
15 6 (0.57%) Veeam