Business Strategy Jobs in the North of England

Business Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Business Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 144 161
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +58
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 260 324 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.23% 1.76% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.16% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 122 234 140
10th Percentile £41,352 £33,520 £31,251
25th Percentile £46,390 £44,063 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% -0.04%
75th Percentile £63,900 £80,326 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,775 £87,455 £84,056
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,999 15,011 15,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.29% 81.77% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,481 11,439 7,819
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the North of England

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the North of England.

Salary trend for Business Strategy in the North of England

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in the North of England

Business Strategy
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North West -1 202 £57,560 +0.10% 286
Yorkshire +2 49 £65,000 +4.00% 248
North East +21 7 £58,750 +6.82% 75
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 75 (28.85%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.15%) IIS
2 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.77%) Azure
2 20 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 19 (7.31%) AWS
4 5 (1.92%) Boomi
4 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 5 (1.92%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 5 (1.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (1.54%) GCP
5 4 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (1.15%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.77%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (0.77%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.77%) SaaS
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.38%) GitHub
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.69%) LAN
1 7 (2.69%) WAN
2 3 (1.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.77%) DHCP
3 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) MPLS
3 2 (0.77%) VoIP
3 2 (0.77%) WPA
4 1 (0.38%) BGP
4 1 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.38%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.38%) HSRP
4 1 (0.38%) IPsec
4 1 (0.38%) OSPF
4 1 (0.38%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.31%) Power BI
2 6 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.54%) Tableau
5 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.15%) Big Data
5 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Impala
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.38%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 74 (28.46%) JIRA
2 3 (1.15%) Git
General
1 88 (33.85%) Manufacturing
2 84 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 48 (18.46%) Finance
4 26 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.77%) Legal
8 14 (5.38%) Marketing
8 14 (5.38%) Retail
9 12 (4.62%) Electronics
10 10 (3.85%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.92%) Banking
13 4 (1.54%) Back Office
13 4 (1.54%) Law
13 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.15%) Local Government
14 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 83 (31.92%) Lead
2 79 (30.38%) Architect
3 66 (25.38%) Solutions Architect
4 60 (23.08%) Lead Architect
5 58 (22.31%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 28 (10.77%) Business Manager
7 18 (6.92%) Senior
8 17 (6.54%) Analyst
8 17 (6.54%) Business Relationship Manager
8 17 (6.54%) Relationships Manager
9 15 (5.77%) Capability Manager
9 15 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
9 15 (5.77%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 15 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (5.38%) Infrastructure Manager
10 14 (5.38%) Operations Manager
11 13 (5.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
12 10 (3.85%) Business Development Manager
12 10 (3.85%) Development Manager
13 9 (3.46%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.31%) EDI
2 5 (1.92%) RESTful
2 5 (1.92%) Spring
2 5 (1.92%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.15%) Kafka
4 2 (0.77%) .NET
4 2 (0.77%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.38%) Middleware
5 1 (0.38%) MSMQ
5 1 (0.38%) Plotly
5 1 (0.38%) PySpark
5 1 (0.38%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.38%) REST
5 1 (0.38%) Shiny
5 1 (0.38%) SOAP
5 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.92%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.46%) Social Media
5 8 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.92%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.77%) CCTV
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.77%) SCADA
9 2 (0.77%) Smart City
9 2 (0.77%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.38%) CMDB
10 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.38%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.08%) Windows
2 7 (2.69%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (43.46%) Agile
2 68 (26.15%) Enterprise Architecture
3 67 (25.77%) ERP
4 64 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 58 (22.31%) CAD
6 58 (22.31%) PLM
7 37 (14.23%) Data Analysis
8 30 (11.54%) Project Delivery
9 29 (11.15%) Business Case
9 29 (11.15%) Risk Management
10 25 (9.62%) Analytics
10 25 (9.62%) Coaching
10 25 (9.62%) Mentoring
10 25 (9.62%) Time Management
11 23 (8.85%) ITIL
12 22 (8.46%) Software Engineering
12 22 (8.46%) Strategic Thinking
13 20 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.46%) Java
1 22 (8.46%) SQL
2 15 (5.77%) C
3 13 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (0.77%) PHP
5 1 (0.38%) Bash
5 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.38%) PROC SQL
5 1 (0.38%) R
5 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (40.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 56 (21.54%) Degree
3 30 (11.54%) HND
4 13 (5.00%) DBS Check
5 12 (4.62%) ACCA
5 12 (4.62%) CCAB
5 12 (4.62%) CIMA
5 12 (4.62%) CIPFA
5 12 (4.62%) ICAEW
6 6 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.31%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.15%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.77%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.77%) PhD
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.46%) SLA
3 3 (1.15%) GDPR
3 3 (1.15%) IEC 61508
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 15 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (2.31%) Ansible
1 6 (2.31%) Terraform
2 3 (1.15%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.38%) Kibana
4 1 (0.38%) logstash
4 1 (0.38%) Oozie
Vendors
1 65 (25.00%) SAP
2 58 (22.31%) Siemens
3 21 (8.08%) Atlassian
4 15 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.23%) Cisco
6 9 (3.46%) Informatica
7 7 (2.69%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.31%) Aruba
8 6 (2.31%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.31%) Mellanox
8 6 (2.31%) NVIDIA
9 5 (1.92%) Dell
10 3 (1.15%) Facebook
10 3 (1.15%) Google
10 3 (1.15%) Oracle
10 3 (1.15%) YouTube
11 2 (0.77%) Forcepoint
12 1 (0.38%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.38%) MicroStrategy
12 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro