Thought Leadership Job Trends in Merseyside

Thought Leadership
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.13% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £112,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 - -
75th Percentile £137,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £86,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -19.08% +8.62% -12.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 423 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 74.10% 92.76% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 349 171 605
10th Percentile £28,250 - £28,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -2.31%
75th Percentile £53,000 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,000 £77,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Thought Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Thought Leadership within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Liverpool - 1 £125,000 - 3
Thought Leadership
North West

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL