Business Strategy Jobs in England

Business Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Business Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 159 160
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,360 1,589 1,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.78% 1.78% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.11% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 424 860 939
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £47,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £98,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,925
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.99% +4.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Business Strategy 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in England.

Salary trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +63 643 £90,000 +12.50% 461
North of England -5 260 £57,836 +0.58% 608
North West -1 202 £57,560 +0.10% 286
South East +21 158 £65,500 +13.91% 911
East of England +121 146 £54,250 -1.36% 401
Midlands +3 76 £63,500 +8.18% 551
South West +1 53 £65,000 +4.00% 325
Yorkshire +2 49 £65,000 +4.00% 248
West Midlands +4 46 £67,500 +17.39% 297
East Midlands +9 29 £63,500 +1.60% 219
North East +21 7 £58,750 +6.82% 75
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 85 (6.25%) Confluence
2 47 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.81%) IIS
5 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 3 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.074%) Kentico
9 1 (0.074%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.074%) SAS
9 1 (0.074%) Solana
9 1 (0.074%) Umbraco
Applications
1 300 (22.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 35 (2.57%) Maya
3 28 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.37%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.074%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.074%) SPSS
8 1 (0.074%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 23 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.96%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 10 (0.74%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.22%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.074%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 151 (11.10%) Azure
2 111 (8.16%) Power Platform
3 66 (4.85%) SaaS
4 63 (4.63%) AWS
5 37 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (2.28%) Power Automate
7 28 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (2.06%) GCP
7 28 (2.06%) PowerApps
8 23 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 18 (1.32%) Boomi
11 17 (1.25%) GitHub
12 16 (1.18%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.18%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 15 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (0.66%) Serverless
16 9 (0.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.03%) LAN
2 13 (0.96%) DNS
2 13 (0.96%) WAN
2 13 (0.96%) WPA
3 10 (0.74%) VoIP
4 9 (0.66%) Firewall
5 8 (0.59%) DHCP
6 7 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.51%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.37%) BGP
7 5 (0.37%) Broadband
8 4 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.29%) MPLS
8 4 (0.29%) Network Security
9 3 (0.22%) OSPF
9 3 (0.22%) VPN
10 2 (0.15%) HTTP
10 2 (0.15%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 2 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (7.21%) Power BI
2 77 (5.66%) Tableau
3 47 (3.46%) Data Lake
4 31 (2.28%) Big Data
5 29 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (1.84%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.32%) Metadata
8 13 (0.96%) SAP BW
9 10 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.66%) IBM InfoSphere
11 8 (0.59%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.37%) MySQL
14 5 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.29%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.29%) Looker
15 4 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 89 (6.54%) JIRA
2 11 (0.81%) Git
3 4 (0.29%) Bazaar
3 4 (0.29%) GitLab
4 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.074%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.074%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.074%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
General
1 671 (49.34%) Social Skills
2 652 (47.94%) Finance
3 474 (34.85%) Analytical Skills
4 356 (26.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 330 (24.26%) Banking
6 303 (22.28%) French Language
7 290 (21.32%) Financial Institution
7 290 (21.32%) German Language
8 242 (17.79%) Law
9 180 (13.24%) Marketing
10 130 (9.56%) Manufacturing
11 70 (5.15%) Games
12 60 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
13 55 (4.04%) Legal
14 53 (3.90%) Retail
15 46 (3.38%) Public Sector
16 36 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
17 33 (2.43%) Electronics
18 23 (1.69%) Telecoms
19 21 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 356 (26.18%) Analyst
2 289 (21.25%) Credit Analyst
2 289 (21.25%) Research Analyst
3 237 (17.43%) Architect
4 212 (15.59%) Lead
5 151 (11.10%) Senior
6 129 (9.49%) Business Manager
7 125 (9.19%) Solutions Architect
8 103 (7.57%) Development Manager
9 93 (6.84%) Business Development Manager
10 72 (5.29%) Lead Architect
11 59 (4.34%) Enterprise Architect
11 59 (4.34%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 52 (3.82%) Senior Architect
13 37 (2.72%) IT Architect
14 32 (2.35%) Salesforce Architect
15 30 (2.21%) IT Manager
15 30 (2.21%) Product Manager
15 30 (2.21%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 28 (2.06%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.28%) Middleware
2 29 (2.13%) Lightning Web Components
3 27 (1.99%) REST
4 22 (1.62%) SOAP
5 20 (1.47%) .NET
6 15 (1.10%) RESTful
7 12 (0.88%) React
8 11 (0.81%) PySpark
9 9 (0.66%) Kafka
10 8 (0.59%) EDI
11 6 (0.44%) CSS
11 6 (0.44%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.44%) HTML
12 5 (0.37%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.37%) Spring
12 5 (0.37%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.22%) ARM Templates
13 3 (0.22%) LEMP Stack
13 3 (0.22%) XGBoost
14 2 (0.15%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 291 (21.40%) Fixed Income
2 290 (21.32%) Credit Risk
3 93 (6.84%) Management Information System
4 83 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.79%) FMCG
7 36 (2.65%) Algorithms
8 35 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.21%) PMI
10 25 (1.84%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.69%) Cloud Native
11 23 (1.69%) Social Media
12 17 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.81%) Blockchain
14 11 (0.81%) Derivative
14 11 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.74%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.21%) Windows
2 18 (1.32%) Windows Vista
3 11 (0.81%) Linux
4 8 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.37%) Android
5 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.074%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (32.79%) Decision-Making
2 415 (30.51%) Risk Management
3 321 (23.60%) Asset Management
4 316 (23.24%) Portfolio Management
5 304 (22.35%) Agile
6 300 (22.06%) Risk Assessment
7 292 (21.47%) Financial Modelling
8 289 (21.25%) Credit Risk Analysis
9 275 (20.22%) Roadmaps
10 245 (18.01%) Analytics
11 205 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 198 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 187 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
14 171 (12.57%) Project Management
15 161 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
16 154 (11.32%) Business Development
17 131 (9.63%) Enterprise Architecture
18 129 (9.49%) Mentoring
19 121 (8.90%) ERP
20 120 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 95 (6.99%) Python
2 87 (6.40%) SQL
3 41 (3.01%) Java
4 24 (1.76%) Apex Code
4 24 (1.76%) JavaScript
5 23 (1.69%) C#
6 16 (1.18%) C
7 11 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.59%) PHP
9 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.29%) R
10 4 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.074%) Bash
11 1 (0.074%) Bicep
11 1 (0.074%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.074%) Ruby
11 1 (0.074%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 641 (47.13%) Degree
2 352 (25.88%) Master's Degree
3 289 (21.25%) CFA
4 109 (8.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (2.50%) DBS Check
6 34 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 32 (2.35%) HND
8 29 (2.13%) Security Cleared
9 23 (1.69%) ACCA
10 20 (1.47%) CIMA
11 19 (1.40%) CCAB
11 19 (1.40%) CIPFA
11 19 (1.40%) ICAEW
11 19 (1.40%) PhD
12 18 (1.32%) SC Cleared
13 14 (1.03%) PMP
14 10 (0.74%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.74%) Chartered Engineer
15 9 (0.66%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 37 (2.72%) GDPR
3 35 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.99%) SLA
5 15 (1.10%) QA
6 12 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.66%) PMO
9 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.37%) NIST
11 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.22%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.15%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) ITGC
13 2 (0.15%) NCSC
14 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.074%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.074%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.37%) Docker
4 5 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.22%) Samba
6 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.074%) HDFS
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (2.43%) Terraform
2 17 (1.25%) Ansible
3 14 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.74%) SCCM
5 8 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.22%) Puppet
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.15%) SCOM
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.074%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.074%) Kibana
9 1 (0.074%) logstash
9 1 (0.074%) Nessus
9 1 (0.074%) Oozie
Vendors
1 291 (21.40%) Bloomberg
2 164 (12.06%) Microsoft
3 109 (8.01%) SAP
4 71 (5.22%) YouTube
5 68 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 59 (4.34%) Siemens
7 54 (3.97%) Salesforce
8 38 (2.79%) Oracle
9 33 (2.43%) Cisco
10 22 (1.62%) Databricks
10 22 (1.62%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.54%) Atlassian
11 21 (1.54%) Dell
11 21 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 20 (1.47%) Google
12 20 (1.47%) Informatica
13 14 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.96%) Adobe
15 12 (0.88%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.81%) Mellanox