Thought Leadership Job Trends in England

Thought Leadership
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 239 443
Rank change year-on-year -67 +204 -201
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 562 588 344
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.34% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.50% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 235 148 199
10th Percentile £47,200 £43,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% +0.94% -0.84%
75th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £124,000 £121,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,838 39,267 58,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 49,329 22,677 38,246
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Thought Leadership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in England

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Thought Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Thought Leadership within the England region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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 -53 366 £95,000 +5.56% 222
North of England -38 61 £95,000 +0.38% 35
Midlands -9 39 £80,000 +39.13% 24
North West -13 35 £95,000 +0.38% 25
East of England - 31 £60,100 - 7
South East -128 29 £55,000 +30.95% 35
West Midlands -14 23 £80,000 +56.10% 17
East Midlands -5 16 £60,000 - 7
Yorkshire -27 15 £72,170 -15.09% 6
South West -68 15 £59,750 -25.31% 20
North East -53 11 £100,000 +17.65% 4
Thought Leadership
UK

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.85%) Palantir Foundry
2 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.89%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.53%) CMS
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.18%) InVision
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.07%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.71%) SAP MDG
3 4 (0.71%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.53%) SAP MDG-BP
4 3 (0.53%) Summit
5 2 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.18%) Magento
6 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG-M
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 155 (27.58%) AWS
2 95 (16.90%) Azure
3 54 (9.61%) GCP
4 51 (9.07%) SaaS
5 35 (6.23%) Cloud Computing
6 31 (5.52%) Snowflake
7 28 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (4.63%) Serverless
9 16 (2.85%) Amazon Bedrock
9 16 (2.85%) Power Platform
10 15 (2.67%) Azure AI
11 10 (1.78%) GitHub
12 9 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.25%) LangSmith
14 7 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.31%) Firewall
2 10 (1.78%) Internet
3 7 (1.25%) Wireless
4 6 (1.07%) Broadband
4 6 (1.07%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (1.07%) Cisco Wireless
4 6 (1.07%) LAN
4 6 (1.07%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.07%) WAN
4 6 (1.07%) WebEx
4 6 (1.07%) WLAN
5 5 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.89%) Network Security
6 2 (0.36%) AMQP
6 2 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (0.36%) MQTT
7 1 (0.18%) GoToMeeting
7 1 (0.18%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.18%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (5.16%) Data Lake
3 23 (4.09%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.49%) Power BI
5 7 (1.25%) Metadata
6 6 (1.07%) Big Data
7 5 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (0.89%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.71%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.53%) Tableau
10 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.36%) Power Query
10 2 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.18%) Ataccama
11 1 (0.18%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 20 (3.56%) GitLab
2 19 (3.38%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.42%) MLflow
4 6 (1.07%) Maven
5 5 (0.89%) JIRA
6 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.71%) Git
6 4 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.36%) Ant
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.36%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.36%) rollup.js
8 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.18%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.18%) Gatling
8 1 (0.18%) JMeter
8 1 (0.18%) mountebank
8 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.18%) Vite
General
1 202 (35.94%) Finance
2 168 (29.89%) Social Skills
3 108 (19.22%) Marketing
3 108 (19.22%) Public Sector
4 75 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (11.21%) Retail
6 55 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (9.07%) Presentation Skills
8 50 (8.90%) Banking
9 35 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (5.52%) Legal
11 23 (4.09%) Law
12 20 (3.56%) Brand Awareness
13 17 (3.02%) Financial Institution
13 17 (3.02%) Public Speaking
14 16 (2.85%) Telecoms
15 15 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (2.49%) Aerospace
17 12 (2.14%) Manufacturing
17 12 (2.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 126 (22.42%) Senior
2 103 (18.33%) Architect
3 69 (12.28%) Consultant
4 67 (11.92%) Lead
5 39 (6.94%) Sales Executive
5 39 (6.94%) Senior Manager
6 30 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (4.63%) Product Manager
7 26 (4.63%) Senior Architect
8 25 (4.45%) Account Executive
9 24 (4.27%) Data Management Specialist
9 24 (4.27%) Lead Architect
9 24 (4.27%) Product Specialist
10 22 (3.91%) Business Development Executive
10 22 (3.91%) Senior Consultant
11 21 (3.74%) Security Architect
12 20 (3.56%) Account Manager
12 20 (3.56%) Digital Product Manager
12 20 (3.56%) Senior Digital Product Manager
12 20 (3.56%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.98%) Kafka
2 20 (3.56%) Spring
2 20 (3.56%) Spring Boot
3 12 (2.14%) LangGraph
4 11 (1.96%) LangChain
5 8 (1.42%) FastAPI
6 6 (1.07%) PyTorch
6 6 (1.07%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.07%) XML
7 5 (0.89%) CrewAI
7 5 (0.89%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (0.71%) CSS
8 4 (0.71%) PySpark
8 4 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.71%) React
8 4 (0.71%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.71%) VML
9 3 (0.53%) Middleware
9 3 (0.53%) OpenACC
9 3 (0.53%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 46 (8.19%) Onboarding
3 42 (7.47%) Blog
4 41 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.09%) e-Learning
6 22 (3.91%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.56%) Public Cloud
9 17 (3.02%) Social Media
9 17 (3.02%) Web Conferencing
10 14 (2.49%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.96%) NHS
12 10 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (1.60%) Hackathon
14 8 (1.42%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.25%) Linux
2 6 (1.07%) Windows
3 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Solaris
4 2 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (39.15%) AI
2 161 (28.65%) Business Development
3 159 (28.29%) Roadmaps
4 155 (27.58%) Mentoring
5 136 (24.20%) Analytics
6 131 (23.31%) Decision-Making
7 96 (17.08%) Agile
8 95 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 73 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (12.28%) CI/CD
11 68 (12.10%) DevOps
11 68 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (11.39%) B2B
12 64 (11.39%) Coaching
13 63 (11.21%) Machine Learning
13 63 (11.21%) Risk Management
14 56 (9.96%) Infrastructure as Code
15 52 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (9.25%) Technology Strategy
15 52 (9.25%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 60 (10.68%) Python
2 39 (6.94%) Java
2 39 (6.94%) SQL
3 11 (1.96%) R
4 5 (0.89%) Bash
4 5 (0.89%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.71%) Go
6 3 (0.53%) C#
6 3 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.36%) ABAP
7 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.18%) Bicep
8 1 (0.18%) PHP
8 1 (0.18%) Ruby
8 1 (0.18%) Scala
8 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 149 (26.51%) Degree
2 84 (14.95%) Security Cleared
3 62 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.94%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.09%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (3.38%) CISSP
8 18 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 17 (3.02%) CISM
10 14 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (2.49%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 10 (1.78%) CRISC
12 10 (1.78%) MBA
13 9 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (1.42%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.63%) GRC
2 24 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.91%) NIST
4 21 (3.74%) GDPR
5 18 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 18 (3.20%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.14%) SLA
7 11 (1.96%) JSP 440
7 11 (1.96%) QA
8 10 (1.78%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.42%) EU AI Act
10 7 (1.25%) Basel III
11 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.71%) IFRS
12 4 (0.71%) PMO
13 3 (0.53%) NCSC
13 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (3.91%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.85%) Terraform
3 10 (1.78%) Ansible
4 5 (0.89%) Puppet
5 3 (0.53%) Argo
5 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.36%) Salt
7 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.18%) Consul
7 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 65 (11.57%) Dell
2 56 (9.96%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.76%) Databricks
4 31 (5.52%) SAP
5 27 (4.80%) Informatica
6 25 (4.45%) Google
6 25 (4.45%) Teradata
7 24 (4.27%) Denodo
8 21 (3.74%) Salesforce
9 19 (3.38%) Foundry
10 16 (2.85%) Palantir
10 16 (2.85%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.60%) Cisco
11 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.42%) HubSpot
13 7 (1.25%) Oracle
14 6 (1.07%) Aruba
14 6 (1.07%) Cognizant
14 6 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.07%) Juniper