IT Strategy Jobs in England

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 181 236
Rank change year-on-year -108 +55 +26
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 529 1,369 1,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.07% 1.52% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.82% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 328 825 719
10th Percentile £41,500 £36,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -16.13% +14.81%
75th Percentile £94,156 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

IT 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 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in England

IT 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 IT Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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 -63 216 £87,500 +6.06% 309
South East +6 111 £55,000 -12.00% 73
North of England -94 89 £54,793 -0.38% 97
South West +72 50 £72,500 +7.41% 42
North West -81 45 £54,793 +0.08% 63
Midlands -63 38 £63,500 +15.45% 58
Yorkshire -11 36 £80,000 +28.00% 22
West Midlands -51 19 £70,000 +16.67% 39
East of England -2 17 £51,500 -23.70% 43
East Midlands +18 16 £63,500 +28.73% 19
North East +33 8 £28,884 -46.26% 13
IT Strategy
UK

IT 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 19 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.32%) CMS
4 6 (1.13%) Moodle
5 4 (0.76%) IIS
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.38%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) SugarCRM
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) CICS
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Applications
1 25 (4.73%) Maya
2 20 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.38%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.76%) Endur
3 4 (0.76%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.57%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.57%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.38%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.19%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Orchard Housing
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 135 (25.52%) Azure
2 100 (18.90%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (11.15%) AWS
4 48 (9.07%) SaaS
5 45 (8.51%) Power Platform
6 38 (7.18%) GCP
7 23 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
8 16 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.27%) PaaS
11 11 (2.08%) Boomi
11 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (2.08%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 10 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.89%) IaaS
13 7 (1.32%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.32%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.76%) Nutanix
15 3 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (0.57%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.67%) Firewall
2 24 (4.54%) Network Security
3 16 (3.02%) NAS
3 16 (3.02%) SAN
4 14 (2.65%) Internet
5 9 (1.70%) DNS
5 9 (1.70%) VPN
6 8 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.32%) DHCP
7 7 (1.32%) SSL
8 6 (1.13%) Wireless
9 5 (0.95%) IP Telephony
9 5 (0.95%) SNMP
10 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.76%) WAN
11 3 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.38%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.38%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.62%) Power BI
2 29 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.40%) Data Lake
4 17 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.27%) Tableau
6 7 (1.32%) Data Mining
7 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.95%) GIS
8 5 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.95%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.57%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (0.57%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.38%) EDMS
11 2 (0.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (0.76%) JIRA
2 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.38%) Spinnaker
3 2 (0.38%) YouTrack
4 1 (0.19%) Git
4 1 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 194 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 176 (33.27%) Finance
3 97 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (13.42%) Law
5 63 (11.91%) Marketing
6 49 (9.26%) Legal
7 39 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (7.18%) Banking
9 31 (5.86%) Games
10 28 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (3.97%) Retail
13 18 (3.40%) French Language
13 18 (3.40%) Manufacturing
14 17 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (2.84%) Public Sector
16 13 (2.46%) Dutch Language
17 7 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.95%) Local Government
19 3 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 115 (21.74%) Architect
2 83 (15.69%) Senior
3 77 (14.56%) Lead
4 65 (12.29%) IT Manager
5 50 (9.45%) Head of IT
6 42 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
7 33 (6.24%) Senior Architect
8 30 (5.67%) Enterprise Architect
9 26 (4.91%) Corporate Sales Executive
9 26 (4.91%) Sales Executive
10 23 (4.35%) IT Architect
11 22 (4.16%) IT Support
12 20 (3.78%) Analyst
13 17 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (3.21%) Consultant
13 17 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (3.02%) IT Engineer
14 16 (3.02%) Lead Architect
15 14 (2.65%) ERP Manager
15 14 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.51%) OAuth
2 7 (1.32%) .NET
2 7 (1.32%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (1.32%) Jetpack Compose
2 7 (1.32%) SwiftUI
2 7 (1.32%) UIKit
3 6 (1.13%) HTML
3 6 (1.13%) React
4 5 (0.95%) CSS
5 4 (0.76%) Kafka
5 4 (0.76%) Middleware
5 4 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.57%) EDI
6 3 (0.57%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.57%) MACH
6 3 (0.57%) Spring
6 3 (0.57%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.38%) Django
7 2 (0.38%) Flask
7 2 (0.38%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.64%) Enterprise Software
2 31 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.65%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.70%) Blockchain
8 9 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.51%) Clustering
9 8 (1.51%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.32%) IoT
11 6 (1.13%) Learning Management System
12 5 (0.95%) Blackberry
12 5 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Licensing
12 5 (0.95%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.95%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.53%) Windows
2 19 (3.59%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.02%) Linux
4 7 (1.32%) Android
4 7 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (53.12%) Technology Strategy
2 190 (35.92%) Roadmaps
3 128 (24.20%) Project Management
4 111 (20.98%) Agile
4 111 (20.98%) Cybersecurity
5 106 (20.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 93 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (17.01%) Business Strategy
8 87 (16.45%) Project Delivery
9 82 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (15.31%) Risk Management
11 71 (13.42%) ERP
12 70 (13.23%) Enterprise Architecture
13 69 (13.04%) Service Management
14 66 (12.48%) Strategic Roadmap
15 63 (11.91%) Artificial Intelligence
16 60 (11.34%) Analytics
17 59 (11.15%) Technology Roadmap
18 56 (10.59%) Decision-Making
18 56 (10.59%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.67%) PowerShell
2 29 (5.48%) SQL
3 23 (4.35%) Java
4 14 (2.65%) Python
5 10 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.32%) Kotlin
6 7 (1.32%) R
6 7 (1.32%) Swift
7 4 (0.76%) Bash
7 4 (0.76%) RPG
7 4 (0.76%) VB
8 3 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.38%) C#
9 2 (0.38%) JCL
9 2 (0.38%) Progress 4GL
10 1 (0.19%) C
10 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (26.28%) Degree
2 23 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.02%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.84%) PMP
6 13 (2.46%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.08%) HND
8 9 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.13%) CISA
12 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.95%) CFA
12 5 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.76%) CISM
13 4 (0.76%) CISSP
14 3 (0.57%) CCSP
14 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.56%) GDPR
2 22 (4.16%) GxP
3 12 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.70%) NIST
6 8 (1.51%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.32%) QA
8 6 (1.13%) PMO
9 5 (0.95%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.38%) GRC
12 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.38%) SLA
13 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.19%) COBIT
13 1 (0.19%) HL7
13 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 45 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 28 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.65%) Docker
4 8 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (0.19%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.19%) KVM
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.32%) SCCM
4 6 (1.13%) Terraform
5 4 (0.76%) SCOM
5 4 (0.76%) SCOrch
6 3 (0.57%) Ansible
6 3 (0.57%) Puppet
6 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.38%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.38%) Salt
7 2 (0.38%) VxRail
7 2 (0.38%) WSUS
8 1 (0.19%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 189 (35.73%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.26%) Dell
3 46 (8.70%) Cisco
4 38 (7.18%) VMware
5 31 (5.86%) SAP
6 26 (4.91%) Oracle
7 25 (4.73%) Google
8 20 (3.78%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.46%) Adobe
9 13 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.08%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.51%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.32%) Veeam
13 5 (0.95%) McAfee
13 5 (0.95%) Murex
14 4 (0.76%) Citrix
14 4 (0.76%) OpenLink
14 4 (0.76%) Sybase
14 4 (0.76%) TIBCO
15 3 (0.57%) IBM