Strategic Planning Jobs in the North West

Strategic Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Strategic Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Planning 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 267 267 272
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +32
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Planning 22 24 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.27% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 19
10th Percentile £47,000 £45,250 £54,500
25th Percentile £48,688 £47,763 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
England median annual salary £76,000 £57,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +32.17% +13.86% -15.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Strategic Planning 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 7,669 8,165 7,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.77% 82.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 6,197 3,919
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Strategic Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in the North West

Strategic Planning
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning in the North West.

Salary trend for Strategic Planning in the North West

Strategic Planning
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Planning in the North West

Strategic Planning
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 Strategic Planning within the North West 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
Manchester +59 16 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Lancashire - 6 £51,945 - 24
Strategic Planning
England

Strategic Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) NAS
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
1 2 (9.09%) SAN
1 2 (9.09%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Application Support Team Leader
2 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
2 3 (13.64%) Business Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Business Relationship Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Lead Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Relationships Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Support Team Leader
2 3 (13.64%) Team Leader
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Governance Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) PySpark
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) EDI
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
1 3 (13.64%) Life Science
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (22.73%) Budget Management
2 5 (22.73%) Coaching
2 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (22.73%) Data Protection
2 5 (22.73%) Information Security
2 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
2 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Resource Allocation
2 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
3 4 (18.18%) Agile
3 4 (18.18%) Business Case
3 4 (18.18%) Co-Creation
3 4 (18.18%) Data Management
3 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (18.18%) ITIL
3 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.55%) ACCA
3 1 (4.55%) CIMA
3 1 (4.55%) CISA
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CRISC
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) COBIT
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
1 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) KVM
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) VMware