Business Strategy Job Trends in Leeds

Business Strategy
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 71 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +24
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 24 19 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.80% 1.84% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.08% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 14
10th Percentile £50,625 £42,040 £41,700
25th Percentile £62,813 £45,750 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £67,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +24.07% -11.48% +27.08%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,500 £93,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £81,250 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.37% - +9.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,070 914 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 80.03% 88.31% 93.19%
Number of salaries quoted 702 518 894
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,026 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £57,125
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -6.35% +1.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year +9.52% -5.30% +0.80%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Leeds

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in Leeds

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 4 (16.67%) SaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
1 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Retail
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Lead
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead Python Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead Software Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 4 (16.67%) SaaS Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Business Development Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Business Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Development Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Graduate
5 2 (8.33%) Security Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (8.33%) Swagger
3 1 (4.17%) cXML
3 1 (4.17%) EDI
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Roadmaps
2 11 (45.83%) Mentoring
3 10 (41.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) AI
6 6 (25.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
7 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
7 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
7 5 (20.83%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
8 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.67%) Marketing Analytics
8 4 (16.67%) Microservices
8 4 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (20.83%) NIST
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.33%) GRC
3 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (8.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) Remedy
4 1 (4.17%) Sparx