Strategic Thinking Job Trends in Knutsford

Strategic Thinking
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Knutsford 16.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.05% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £82,600 - -
25th Percentile £82,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 - -
75th Percentile £89,750 - -
90th Percentile £90,200 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.93% +3.85% +73.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 53 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Knutsford 84.00% 76.81% 92.59%
Number of salaries quoted 20 12 17
10th Percentile £35,134 £52,625 £73,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,688 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,125 £57,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.74% -37.84% +311.11%
75th Percentile £87,875 £60,313 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £62,375 -
Cheshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +6.67%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Knutsford

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in Knutsford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Strategic Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) RESTful
1 6 (75.00%) Spring
1 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) JPA
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Redux
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Strategy
1 6 (75.00%) Customer Experience
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
2 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) Secure Coding
2 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (12.50%) Product Management
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Solace