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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 211 223
Rank change year-on-year -299 +12 +86
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 295 983 2,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 1.71% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.81% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 138 364 943
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,228 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,087 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% -4.60% +6.25%
75th Percentile £94,688 £95,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £79,632 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.46% +9.84% +2.11%

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 63,881 54,318 133,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.08% 94.30% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,489 39,141 76,332
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,439 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.69% - +5.00%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 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 -294 236 £77,750 -4.60% 122
UK excluding London -281 134 £80,000 +0.46% 60
London -129 131 £82,090 -3.42% 69
Work from Home -257 86 £80,000 -3.03% 81
Scotland -59 32 £100,000 +25.58% 4
South East -56 26 £75,000 -9.09% 16
Midlands -70 23 £65,000 -13.33% 9
East of England -36 22 £89,500 - 4
West Midlands -35 21 £65,000 -16.13% 8
North of England -180 18 £60,000 -24.65% 15
South West -65 13 £80,000 +0.46% 7
North East -29 10 - - 3
Yorkshire -44 4 £55,000 -30.93% 7
North West -159 4 £61,250 -23.08% 7
East Midlands -69 2 £66,250 -3.28% 1

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 15 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.07%) Apache
3 11 (3.73%) Jupyter
3 11 (3.73%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.34%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.34%) InDesign
5 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.34%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 64 (21.69%) Azure
2 41 (13.90%) AWS
3 25 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.12%) GCP
5 12 (4.07%) Amazon S3
5 12 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (4.07%) Serverless
5 12 (4.07%) Snowflake
6 11 (3.73%) MinIO
6 11 (3.73%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.05%) GitHub
8 9 (3.05%) SaaS
9 7 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.03%) Azure AI
10 6 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.36%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.73%) 5G
2 10 (3.39%) Firewall
2 10 (3.39%) LTE
3 8 (2.71%) Internet
4 4 (1.36%) DNS
5 3 (1.02%) Wireless
6 2 (0.68%) LAN
6 2 (0.68%) Network Security
6 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.68%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) Broadband
7 1 (0.34%) NGFW
7 1 (0.34%) SDH
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.34%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.34%) VoIP
7 1 (0.34%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.10%) Power BI
2 17 (5.76%) Big Data
3 16 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (4.41%) Hadoop
5 12 (4.07%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.73%) Presto
7 10 (3.39%) Metadata
8 9 (3.05%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.71%) Data Mining
9 8 (2.71%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.37%) Tableau
11 6 (2.03%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.36%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.36%) Redis
14 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 3 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (7.80%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 10 (3.39%) JIRA
4 6 (2.03%) Artifactory
5 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.36%) Git
6 4 (1.36%) Selenium
6 4 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.02%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.02%) GoCD
8 2 (0.68%) git-flow
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.34%) ERwin
9 1 (0.34%) Rational Performance Tester
9 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 103 (34.92%) Finance
2 102 (34.58%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (16.95%) Marketing
5 29 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 27 (9.15%) Legal
7 25 (8.47%) Banking
8 24 (8.14%) Manufacturing
9 23 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (6.44%) Law
11 14 (4.75%) Telecoms
12 9 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.03%) Advertising
14 6 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (2.03%) Retail
15 5 (1.69%) Games
15 5 (1.69%) Retail Banking
16 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 76 (25.76%) Architect
2 47 (15.93%) Senior
3 44 (14.92%) Consultant
4 32 (10.85%) Lead
5 23 (7.80%) Technical Architect
6 22 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (6.44%) Data Architect
8 14 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.75%) Senior Manager
9 13 (4.41%) Technical Specialist
10 11 (3.73%) Head of Development
11 10 (3.39%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (3.05%) Lead Architect
13 8 (2.71%) Audit Manager
13 8 (2.71%) Azure Architect
13 8 (2.71%) Data Consultant
13 8 (2.71%) SAP Architect
14 7 (2.37%) Analytics Consultant
14 7 (2.37%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.41%) .NET
1 13 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
2 12 (4.07%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (3.73%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.73%) YAML
4 10 (3.39%) HTML
4 10 (3.39%) React
4 10 (3.39%) XML
5 9 (3.05%) CSS
6 8 (2.71%) Web Services
7 6 (2.03%) RESTful
8 5 (1.69%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.69%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.36%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.36%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.36%) Vue
9 4 (1.36%) XBRL
10 3 (1.02%) PySpark
10 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.22%) Management Information System
2 35 (11.86%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.75%) Public Cloud
4 13 (4.41%) Blog
5 11 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.39%) IoT
6 10 (3.39%) Social Media
7 9 (3.05%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.71%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.03%) Client/Server
10 6 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.03%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.69%) Derivative
11 5 (1.69%) Podcast
12 4 (1.36%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.36%) PKI
12 4 (1.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.08%) Linux
2 5 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (28.81%) Analytics
2 84 (28.47%) Agile
3 69 (23.39%) Mentoring
4 66 (22.37%) Roadmaps
5 60 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (18.31%) Presales
7 49 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (15.93%) Artificial Intelligence
9 40 (13.56%) Project Management
9 40 (13.56%) Software Engineering
10 39 (13.22%) Machine Learning
10 39 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (12.20%) Business Development
11 36 (12.20%) Coaching
11 36 (12.20%) Data Architecture
11 36 (12.20%) DevOps
12 35 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (11.53%) Business Strategy
14 33 (11.19%) Collaborative Working
15 30 (10.17%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 57 (19.32%) Python
2 36 (12.20%) SQL
3 17 (5.76%) Java
4 15 (5.08%) R
5 13 (4.41%) Bash
6 12 (4.07%) C#
7 11 (3.73%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.73%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.02%) Groovy
10 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.34%) C
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.34%) Fortran
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) Ruby
11 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (18.98%) Degree
2 53 (17.97%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.81%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.76%) Master's Degree
6 11 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.73%) MBA
7 9 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.71%) CISSP
9 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.37%) CISM
10 6 (2.03%) CRISC
10 6 (2.03%) GIAC
11 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.36%) ISSMP
13 2 (0.68%) CEH
13 2 (0.68%) CISA
13 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.68%) ISEB
13 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.10%) QA
3 16 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.75%) PCI DSS
5 11 (3.73%) Accessibility
6 10 (3.39%) ISO 14001
6 10 (3.39%) ISO 9001
7 8 (2.71%) PMO
8 7 (2.37%) NCSC
9 6 (2.03%) GDPR
10 5 (1.69%) NIST
11 4 (1.36%) COBIT
11 4 (1.36%) ISO 20022
12 3 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (1.02%) SLA
13 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.68%) GRC
14 1 (0.34%) GxP
14 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 19 (6.44%) Docker
2 5 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.12%) Terraform
3 20 (6.78%) Ansible
4 11 (3.73%) Grafana
4 11 (3.73%) HAProxy
4 11 (3.73%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) Fortio
5 3 (1.02%) Istio
5 3 (1.02%) Kiali
5 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.02%) Puppet
6 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.34%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 48 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.47%) SAP
3 16 (5.42%) Google
3 16 (5.42%) Oracle
4 13 (4.41%) Databricks
5 11 (3.73%) Cognizant
5 11 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.39%) Ericsson
7 6 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.69%) IBM
9 4 (1.36%) Alibaba
9 4 (1.36%) Epicor
9 4 (1.36%) Informatica
9 4 (1.36%) Twitter
10 3 (1.02%) Facebook
10 3 (1.02%) HP
10 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.02%) Sparx
11 2 (0.68%) BMC
11 2 (0.68%) MicroStrategy