Business Strategy Job Trends in the North East

Business Strategy
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 60 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +21
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 8 30 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.78% 3.23% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 3.63% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 9
10th Percentile - - £21,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £50,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £59,430 £76,913
Median % change year-on-year -53.73% -22.73% +53.83%
75th Percentile £28,250 £68,750 £84,964
90th Percentile - - £90,721
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +1.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 810 827 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 78.64% 88.92% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 547 337 572
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £29,525
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £61,445
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in the North East

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Business Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Tyne and Wear -14 5 £27,500 -48.84% 13
Durham +9 3 - -
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Police
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Coaching
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
1 7 (87.50%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 4 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) SABSA
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 4 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
3 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (37.50%) Server Management
3 3 (37.50%) Storage Management
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dell
1 3 (37.50%) Dell Compellent
1 3 (37.50%) HP
1 3 (37.50%) Nimble Storage
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) UiPath