Strategic Thinking Jobs in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 199 208
Rank change year-on-year +131 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 138 28 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.08% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 0.57% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 51 21 14
10th Percentile - £27,500 £55,000
25th Percentile - £42,500 £57,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £49,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -30.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,182 4,922 4,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.14% 80.45% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 3,692 2,144
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,809 £26,788
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,948
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,225 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £76,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the East of England.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hertfordshire +82 77 £50,967 +4.01% 20
Essex +38 22 £55,000 - 1
Bedfordshire +3 19 £50,967 -27.19% 3
Cambridgeshire +45 11 £83,738 +108.64% 17
Norfolk +25 6 £67,500 +125.00% 4
Suffolk -18 2 - - 2
East Anglia -4 1 £55,000 -38.55% 8
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.90%) Azure
2 3 (2.17%) AWS
2 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (18.84%) Broadband
2 5 (3.62%) Unified Communications
3 4 (2.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) Big Data
2 3 (2.17%) Power BI
2 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (20.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.45%) GitLab
2 2 (1.45%) Maven
2 2 (1.45%) Selenium
2 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 104 (75.36%) Social Skills
2 90 (65.22%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (52.17%) Influencing Skills
4 25 (18.12%) Advertising
4 25 (18.12%) Marketing
5 11 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.25%) Finance
7 3 (2.17%) Retail
8 2 (1.45%) Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (44.20%) Analyst
1 61 (44.20%) Business Change Analyst
1 61 (44.20%) Change Analyst
2 26 (18.84%) Embedded Engineer
2 26 (18.84%) Release Engineer
3 25 (18.12%) Account Manager
4 15 (10.87%) Senior
4 15 (10.87%) Senior Account Manager
4 15 (10.87%) Senior Manager
5 11 (7.97%) Supplier Manager
6 10 (7.25%) Strategic Account Manager
7 8 (5.80%) Lead
8 6 (4.35%) Relationships Manager
8 6 (4.35%) Supplier Relationship Manager
9 2 (1.45%) Software Engineer
10 1 (0.72%) Commercial Manager
10 1 (0.72%) Contracts Manager
10 1 (0.72%) Development Manager
10 1 (0.72%) Project Manager
10 1 (0.72%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.84%) Middleware
2 2 (1.45%) CSS
2 2 (1.45%) CSS3
2 2 (1.45%) HTML
2 2 (1.45%) HTML5
2 2 (1.45%) Jest
2 2 (1.45%) JPA
2 2 (1.45%) Kafka
2 2 (1.45%) React
2 2 (1.45%) Redux
2 2 (1.45%) REST
2 2 (1.45%) RESTful
2 2 (1.45%) Sass
2 2 (1.45%) Spring
2 2 (1.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.72%) .NET
3 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.72%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.84%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (18.12%) Digital Media
2 25 (18.12%) Marketing Technology
3 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.72%) LIMS
5 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.72%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (63.04%) Collaborative Working
2 72 (52.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 72 (52.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 64 (46.38%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (44.20%) Business Analysis
4 61 (44.20%) Business Case
4 61 (44.20%) Change Management
4 61 (44.20%) MoSCoW
4 61 (44.20%) Use Case
4 61 (44.20%) Workshop Facilitation
5 49 (35.51%) Artificial Intelligence
6 38 (27.54%) Project Management
7 30 (21.74%) Agile
8 28 (20.29%) CI/CD
9 26 (18.84%) Continuous Deployment
9 26 (18.84%) Release Automation
9 26 (18.84%) Roadmaps
9 26 (18.84%) Software Delivery
9 26 (18.84%) Time Management
10 25 (18.12%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.45%) Java
1 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
1 2 (1.45%) SQL
1 2 (1.45%) TypeScript
2 1 (0.72%) C#
2 1 (0.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 61 (44.20%) CBAP
2 1 (0.72%) CISSP
2 1 (0.72%) Degree
2 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (2.17%) QA
2 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.90%) Cisco
2 4 (2.90%) Genesys
3 2 (1.45%) Solace