Strategic Thinking Jobs in the Midlands

Strategic Thinking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 221 266
Rank change year-on-year +49 +45 -30
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 83 103 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.17% 0.87% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.06% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 42 70 35
10th Percentile £34,125 £37,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,000 £63,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,556 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -14.92% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,438 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £74,875 £85,342 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,479 9,747 8,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.67% 82.00% 96.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 7,160 4,510
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,362
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,270 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the Midlands

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the Midlands

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the Midlands

Strategic Thinking
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +40 53 £65,500 +7.33% 64
East Midlands +43 30 £60,000 +20.00% 38
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.61%) CMS
1 3 (3.61%) WordPress
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.82%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.82%) Trello
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) AWS
1 17 (20.48%) Azure
2 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.23%) SaaS
4 3 (3.61%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Broadband
2 2 (2.41%) 5G
2 2 (2.41%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.41%) LTE
2 2 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) JIRA
2 17 (20.48%) GitLab
2 17 (20.48%) Maven
3 16 (19.28%) Bitbucket
3 16 (19.28%) Cucumber
3 16 (19.28%) Selenium
3 16 (19.28%) SonarQube
3 16 (19.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (42.17%) Finance
2 21 (25.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (25.30%) Retail
3 19 (22.89%) Banking
3 19 (22.89%) Social Skills
4 16 (19.28%) Corporate Banking
4 16 (19.28%) Investment Banking
5 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.05%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Law
7 5 (6.02%) Marketing
7 5 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Billing
9 2 (2.41%) Electronics
9 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.41%) Games
9 2 (2.41%) Police
9 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.20%) Legal
10 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (19.28%) Software Engineer
2 14 (16.87%) Architect
3 10 (12.05%) Lead
3 10 (12.05%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.43%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Automation Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Digital Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Digital Transformation
5 6 (7.23%) Digital Transformation Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 5 (6.02%) Developer
6 5 (6.02%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (6.02%) Senior
7 4 (4.82%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Project Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Release Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Software Implementation Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) NetSuite Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.48%) REST
1 17 (20.48%) Spring
1 17 (20.48%) Spring Boot
2 16 (19.28%) CSS
2 16 (19.28%) CSS3
2 16 (19.28%) HTML
2 16 (19.28%) HTML5
2 16 (19.28%) Jest
2 16 (19.28%) JPA
2 16 (19.28%) Kafka
2 16 (19.28%) React
2 16 (19.28%) Redux
2 16 (19.28%) RESTful
2 16 (19.28%) Sass
3 4 (4.82%) Middleware
4 1 (1.20%) .NET
4 1 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.20%) EDI
4 1 (1.20%) SOAP
4 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.30%) Product Ownership
2 17 (20.48%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.82%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.82%) Social Media
4 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.41%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.41%) IoT
5 2 (2.41%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.41%) NB-IoT
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) CMDB
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) LIMS
6 1 (1.20%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Windows
2 2 (2.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (49.40%) Agile
2 28 (33.73%) SDLC
3 25 (30.12%) Roadmaps
4 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
4 23 (27.71%) Project Management
5 22 (26.51%) Mentoring
6 21 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (22.89%) Test Automation
8 18 (21.69%) Migration
9 17 (20.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (20.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (20.48%) Microservices
9 17 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (20.48%) User Experience
10 16 (19.28%) Containerisation
10 16 (19.28%) DevOps
10 16 (19.28%) Front End Development
10 16 (19.28%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (19.28%) Responsive Web Design
10 16 (19.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.48%) Java
1 17 (20.48%) JavaScript
1 17 (20.48%) SQL
2 16 (19.28%) TypeScript
3 2 (2.41%) Bash
3 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.41%) Python
4 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) APMG
4 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) CITP
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
4 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.89%) Accessibility
2 17 (20.48%) QA
3 5 (6.02%) PMBOK
4 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (20.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) Ansible
2 2 (2.41%) Puppet
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.28%) Solace
3 5 (6.02%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.82%) Facebook
4 4 (4.82%) Instagram
5 3 (3.61%) Google
5 3 (3.61%) Twitter
5 3 (3.61%) YouTube
6 2 (2.41%) Commvault
6 2 (2.41%) VMware
7 1 (1.20%) Sage
7 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.20%) TikTok