Thought Leadership Jobs

Thought Leadership
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 320 251
Rank change year-on-year +16 -69 -3
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 466 891 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.91% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.05% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 145 485 573
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,064 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,750 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £76,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +4.58% +9.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Thought Leadership 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Salary trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Thought Leadership within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. 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 -8 425 £85,000 +6.25% 1,725
London -3 244 £90,000 +9.09% 1,374
UK excluding London +41 191 £85,000 +6.25% 461
Work from Home -11 132 £85,000 +3.03% 778
South East +114 82 £70,000 - 148
North of England +12 61 £94,637 +11.34% 121
North West +3 48 £94,637 -0.52% 81
Scotland +113 19 £100,000 +5.12% 60
West Midlands +55 18 £75,000 -9.09% 46
Midlands +39 18 £75,000 +13.64% 59
Yorkshire +38 10 £75,000 -9.09% 24
East of England +55 6 £105,000 +89.19% 21
North East +50 3 £58,250 -24.84% 19
South West +39 3 £82,500 +3.13% 40
Channel Islands - 3 £87,500 -

Thought Leadership
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 17 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.58%) CMS
3 9 (1.93%) WordPress
4 7 (1.50%) Confluence
4 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) CICS
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.29%) Maya
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.43%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.15%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.43%) SAP PM
4 2 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.21%) BASE24
5 1 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Finacle
5 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.21%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 86 (18.45%) AWS
2 70 (15.02%) Azure
3 51 (10.94%) GCP
4 33 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 23 (4.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 20 (4.29%) Snowflake
7 18 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (3.43%) GitHub
9 13 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (2.79%) Serverless
10 12 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (2.36%) SaaS
12 10 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (2.15%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.72%) Azure AI
13 8 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.29%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.50%) Firewall
2 6 (1.29%) Network Security
2 6 (1.29%) Wireless
3 4 (0.86%) Internet
3 4 (0.86%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.86%) WAN
4 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.64%) VPN
5 2 (0.43%) BGP
5 2 (0.43%) DNS
5 2 (0.43%) SSL
6 1 (0.21%) ATM
6 1 (0.21%) LAN
6 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.21%) VoIP
6 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.15%) NoSQL
2 33 (7.08%) Tableau
3 26 (5.58%) Power BI
4 20 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.08%) Metadata
5 19 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.65%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.93%) Big Data
8 9 (1.93%) Data Vault
9 8 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.50%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.29%) DTS
11 6 (1.29%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.07%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.86%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 17 (3.65%) JIRA
2 10 (2.15%) Git
3 9 (1.93%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.72%) Artifactory
4 8 (1.72%) git-flow
4 8 (1.72%) Gradle
4 8 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.29%) Grunt
5 6 (1.29%) Jasmine
5 6 (1.29%) Mocha
5 6 (1.29%) webpack
6 3 (0.64%) ERwin
7 2 (0.43%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.43%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) Maven
8 1 (0.21%) MLflow
8 1 (0.21%) VersaTest
General
1 210 (45.06%) Finance
2 186 (39.91%) Social Skills
3 127 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (27.04%) Law
5 81 (17.38%) Marketing
6 51 (10.94%) Banking
7 49 (10.52%) Retail
8 40 (8.58%) Presentation Skills
9 35 (7.51%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (6.22%) Games
11 29 (6.22%) Public Sector
12 21 (4.51%) Legal
13 18 (3.86%) Publishing
14 12 (2.58%) Retail Banking
15 11 (2.36%) Advertising
16 8 (1.72%) Local Government
17 7 (1.50%) Front Office
17 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing
18 6 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (23.39%) Lead
2 100 (21.46%) Architect
3 74 (15.88%) Senior
4 42 (9.01%) Enterprise Architect
5 38 (8.15%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (7.73%) Consultant
7 26 (5.58%) Salesforce Architect
8 21 (4.51%) Lead Architect
8 21 (4.51%) Project Manager
9 20 (4.29%) Senior Architect
9 20 (4.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 19 (4.08%) Developer
11 17 (3.65%) Analyst
11 17 (3.65%) ServiceNow Architect
12 16 (3.43%) Senior Consultant
13 15 (3.22%) Lead Enterprise Architect
14 13 (2.79%) Senior Manager
15 12 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 11 (2.36%) Business Analyst
16 11 (2.36%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.22%) Middleware
2 27 (5.79%) SOAP
3 25 (5.36%) Kafka
3 25 (5.36%) Lightning Web Components
3 25 (5.36%) REST
4 17 (3.65%) React
5 16 (3.43%) Spring Boot
6 12 (2.58%) CSS
7 9 (1.93%) .NET
8 8 (1.72%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.72%) Drools
8 8 (1.72%) Node.js
8 8 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (1.72%) Vue
9 7 (1.50%) Ajax
9 7 (1.50%) Playwright
9 7 (1.50%) Redux
10 6 (1.29%) Spring
10 6 (1.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.58%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.30%) FMCG
3 27 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (5.15%) Algorithms
5 23 (4.94%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (4.51%) Social Media
7 16 (3.43%) Public Cloud
8 14 (3.00%) Blog
9 12 (2.58%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.58%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.58%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (2.36%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.93%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.50%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.29%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.29%) Digital Media
13 6 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.93%) Linux
2 4 (0.86%) Windows
3 3 (0.64%) Unix
4 2 (0.43%) AIX
4 2 (0.43%) CoreOS
4 2 (0.43%) Solaris
4 2 (0.43%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (34.33%) Roadmaps
2 159 (34.12%) Agile
3 141 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (26.39%) Analytics
5 110 (23.61%) Project Management
6 104 (22.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 100 (21.46%) Business Strategy
8 84 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (17.81%) Mentoring
10 80 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 79 (16.95%) Decision-Making
12 73 (15.67%) Technical Leadership
13 69 (14.81%) Data Architecture
14 68 (14.59%) Data Modelling
15 66 (14.16%) Data Management
16 61 (13.09%) DevOps
17 59 (12.66%) Computer Science
18 58 (12.45%) Coaching
19 55 (11.80%) TOGAF
20 54 (11.59%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.88%) Python
2 39 (8.37%) SQL
3 25 (5.36%) Apex Code
3 25 (5.36%) Java
3 25 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 16 (3.43%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.29%) C#
6 4 (0.86%) R
7 3 (0.64%) C
8 2 (0.43%) Go
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) COBOL
9 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.21%) JCL
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 140 (30.04%) Degree
2 61 (13.09%) Master's Degree
3 40 (8.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 22 (4.72%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.29%) MBA
7 14 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.00%) PhD
8 8 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.72%) OCP
8 8 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.07%) CCNP
10 5 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.07%) PMP
11 4 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.86%) CISSP
11 4 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.58%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.29%) GDPR
3 20 (4.29%) PCI DSS
4 15 (3.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.15%) QA
7 7 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.50%) NIST
8 4 (0.86%) WCAG
9 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.64%) GRC
10 2 (0.43%) COBIT
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.43%) MiFID
10 2 (0.43%) PMO
11 1 (0.21%) Basel III
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 16 (3.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.58%) Terraform
3 10 (2.15%) Ansible
4 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.64%) Puppet
5 2 (0.43%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.21%) Avamar
6 1 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.21%) HP UCMDB
6 1 (0.21%) Istio
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (11.37%) Salesforce
2 49 (10.52%) Google
2 49 (10.52%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.73%) SAP
4 24 (5.15%) Adobe
5 23 (4.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 23 (4.94%) ServiceNow
6 22 (4.72%) TikTok
7 21 (4.51%) IBM
8 17 (3.65%) Databricks
9 12 (2.58%) Dell
10 11 (2.36%) Capita
11 9 (1.93%) Informatica
12 8 (1.72%) Oracle
13 6 (1.29%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.07%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.64%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.64%) ESRI
15 3 (0.64%) Facebook
15 3 (0.64%) Splunk