Business Strategy Job Trends in the North West

Business Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 102 78 125
Rank change year-on-year -24 +47 +66
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 85 150 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.33% 2.97% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 3.25% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 39 61 70
10th Percentile £41,700 £36,750 £34,900
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -8.15% +9.76%
75th Percentile £88,750 £68,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £95,000
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
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 West

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in the North West

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in the North West

Business Strategy
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -13 49 £70,000 +27.27% 17
Cheshire -18 11 £80,000 +26.98% 11
Cumbria +3 9 - - 1
Merseyside -7 9 £55,000 -12.35% 5
Lancashire -5 5 £40,000 -35.70% 8
Business Strategy
England

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

Application Platforms
1 14 (16.47%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) Camunda
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.18%) Maximo
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 15 (17.65%) Azure
3 11 (12.94%) SaaS
4 10 (11.76%) AWS
5 7 (8.24%) GCP
6 6 (7.06%) Adobe Analytics
6 6 (7.06%) Figma
7 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.53%) Serverless
9 2 (2.35%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.35%) GitHub
9 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.35%) iPaaS
9 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DHCP
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) Power BI
2 6 (7.06%) Tableau
3 4 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (4.71%) BigQuery
3 4 (4.71%) Looker
4 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) JIRA
2 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.88%) GitLab
2 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.88%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.53%) Git
General
1 30 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 18 (21.18%) Finance
4 13 (15.29%) Law
5 9 (10.59%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.06%) Banking
6 6 (7.06%) Retail
6 6 (7.06%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.88%) Legal
7 5 (5.88%) Local Government
7 5 (5.88%) Military
8 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.35%) Marketing
10 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.18%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.18%) Electronics
10 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (36.47%) Lead
2 14 (16.47%) Architect
3 12 (14.12%) Lead Architect
3 12 (14.12%) Senior
4 10 (11.76%) Analyst
5 9 (10.59%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 9 (10.59%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.41%) Data Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Strategy Manager
9 5 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.88%) Service Manager
10 4 (4.71%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) REST
2 3 (3.53%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.53%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.35%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.35%) EDI
3 2 (2.35%) Middleware
3 2 (2.35%) RESTful
4 1 (1.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 8 (9.41%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (9.41%) Operational Technology
1 8 (9.41%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.53%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.53%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) IoT
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Social Media
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (31.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (30.59%) Agile
4 20 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 20 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 20 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (20.00%) Analytics
5 17 (20.00%) ERP
6 15 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 14 (16.47%) Coaching
8 13 (15.29%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (15.29%) Risk Management
9 12 (14.12%) Enterprise Architecture
9 12 (14.12%) Strategic Thinking
9 12 (14.12%) Visualisation
10 11 (12.94%) Data Privacy
10 11 (12.94%) ITIL
10 11 (12.94%) Technology Roadmap
11 10 (11.76%) AI
11 10 (11.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.47%) SQL
2 12 (14.12%) Python
3 5 (5.88%) Java
4 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.35%) Bicep
6 1 (1.18%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 9 (10.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (9.41%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.53%) MBA
5 3 (3.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.35%) ACCA
6 2 (2.35%) CIMA
6 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (9.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 8 (9.41%) NIST
2 7 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.06%) SLA
4 5 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (5.88%) GDPR
4 5 (5.88%) GLBA
4 5 (5.88%) ISO 14001
4 5 (5.88%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
1 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) SAP
3 9 (10.59%) Siemens
4 6 (7.06%) Adobe
4 6 (7.06%) Qualtrics
5 5 (5.88%) iManage
6 4 (4.71%) Google
6 4 (4.71%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.18%) IBM
7 1 (1.18%) Informatica
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle