Creative Strategy Job Trends in Manchester

Creative Strategies
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Creative Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 - 177
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Creative Strategy 4 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.053% - 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% - 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 -
% change year-on-year -3.23% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Creative 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,796 2,121 3,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.14% 89.19% 84.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,351 1,190 1,619
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

Creative Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Creative Strategy job vacancy trend in Manchester

Creative Strategy
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Creative Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Creative Strategy

Creative Strategy
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Strategy within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Bury - 3 - -
Creative Strategy
North West

Creative Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Looker
General
1 3 (75.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Multi-touch
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Creative Thinking
1 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Affiliate Network
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Econometrics
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Paid Search
2 1 (25.00%) SEO
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) TikTok
1 1 (25.00%) YouTube