Strategic Thinking Jobs in Berkshire

Strategic Thinking
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 131 160
Rank change year-on-year +101 +29 +8
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 123 32 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.73% 1.01% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.36% 1.19% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 7
10th Percentile £52,875 - £61,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £38,603 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £39,870 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.03% -53.09% -10.53%
75th Percentile £142,500 £53,125 £98,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £91,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -42.86% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Strategic Thinking 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 in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,472 2,678 2,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.46% 84.88% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 522 1,800 1,590
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £38,603 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,131 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -11.45% +3.45%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Berkshire

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in Berkshire

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in Berkshire

Strategic Thinking
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Slough - 36 - - 201
Maidenhead - 35 £57,500 - 1
Windsor +4 31 - - 1
Reading +59 14 £160,000 +106.45% 50
Bracknell +31 3 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Strategic Thinking
South East

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (2.44%) WordPress
2 1 (0.81%) IIS
2 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.63%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (13.01%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (13.01%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.45%) Azure
2 15 (12.20%) GCP
2 15 (12.20%) Vertex AI
3 14 (11.38%) Salsify
4 12 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (9.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (5.69%) AWS
5 7 (5.69%) SaaS
6 6 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.44%) Canva
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.81%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) DHCP
1 1 (0.81%) DNS
1 1 (0.81%) Firewall
1 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.51%) Data Mining
2 14 (11.38%) Metadata
3 3 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (0.81%) Power BI
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
General
1 93 (75.61%) Law
2 80 (65.04%) Social Skills
3 58 (47.15%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (28.46%) Retail
5 33 (26.83%) Marketing
6 27 (21.95%) Finance
7 24 (19.51%) Legal
8 7 (5.69%) Automotive
9 5 (4.07%) Advertising
10 4 (3.25%) Banking
10 4 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.63%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 64 (52.03%) Senior
2 57 (46.34%) Lead
3 24 (19.51%) Senior Manager
4 16 (13.01%) Analyst
4 16 (13.01%) Financial Analyst
4 16 (13.01%) IT Analyst
4 16 (13.01%) Senior Analyst
4 16 (13.01%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 16 (13.01%) Service Analyst
5 10 (8.13%) Marketing Manager
6 7 (5.69%) Product Manager
6 7 (5.69%) Product Marketing Manager
7 5 (4.07%) Account Manager
7 5 (4.07%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (2.44%) Architect
8 3 (2.44%) Data Science Leader
8 3 (2.44%) Digital Marketing Manager
8 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (2.44%) Senior Account Manager
9 2 (1.63%) Strategic Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) Hugging Face
1 6 (4.88%) LangChain
1 6 (4.88%) PyTorch
1 6 (4.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.14%) Algorithms
2 14 (11.38%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.38%) Taxonomies
3 10 (8.13%) Social Media
4 5 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.07%) Digital Media
4 5 (4.07%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.63%) Blog
6 1 (0.81%) Clustering
6 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (58.54%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (46.34%) Artificial Intelligence
3 55 (44.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 51 (41.46%) Change Management
4 51 (41.46%) Roadmaps
4 51 (41.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (39.84%) Analytics
6 41 (33.33%) Agile
7 35 (28.46%) Generative AI
8 33 (26.83%) Data Science
8 33 (26.83%) Machine Learning
8 33 (26.83%) MLOps
9 30 (24.39%) Business Transformation
9 30 (24.39%) Incident Management
9 30 (24.39%) Performance Measurement
10 27 (21.95%) Customer-Centricity
10 27 (21.95%) DevOps
10 27 (21.95%) Natural Language Processing
10 27 (21.95%) Product Management
10 27 (21.95%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (15.45%) Degree
2 10 (8.13%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Grafana
1 6 (4.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 47 (38.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.07%) OpenAI
3 18 (14.63%) SAP
4 16 (13.01%) Google
5 12 (9.76%) Databricks
6 5 (4.07%) Cisco
7 3 (2.44%) Adobe
8 2 (1.63%) Salesforce