Thought Leadership Jobs in the North West

Thought Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 232 134
Rank change year-on-year -17 -98 +101
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 40 59 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.57% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.70% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 18
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £55,478
25th Percentile £68,197 £52,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £95,128 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +46.35% -18.75%
75th Percentile £110,288 £102,500 £93,592
90th Percentile £141,151 £111,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £81,500 £79,816 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -6.10% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Thought Leadership 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 7,516 8,426 7,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 80.99% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 6,336 3,833
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
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 £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the North West

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in the North West.

Salary trend for Thought Leadership in the North West

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in the North West

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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 +41 31 £94,637 -2.94% 61
Cheshire +8 5 £67,000 +91.43% 2
Lancashire - 4 £40,000 - 40
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) GCP
2 9 (22.50%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Spanner
2 2 (5.00%) Tableau
3 1 (2.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 20 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (42.50%) Finance
3 12 (30.00%) Banking
4 11 (27.50%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
6 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (7.50%) Marketing
7 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
8 2 (5.00%) Brand Awareness
8 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Advertising
9 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.50%) Automotive
9 1 (2.50%) Law
9 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Project Manager
2 7 (17.50%) Lead
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (7.50%) Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Risk Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Science Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Portfolio Management Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Principal Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Node.js
1 7 (17.50%) Playwright
1 7 (17.50%) React
1 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) FMCG
2 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Blog
4 2 (5.00%) Social Media
5 1 (2.50%) Life Science
5 1 (2.50%) New Media
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Agile
1 15 (37.50%) Project Management
2 14 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (30.00%) Analytics
3 12 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 11 (27.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 11 (27.50%) Business Analytics
4 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (27.50%) Economics
4 11 (27.50%) Market Research
4 11 (27.50%) Scorecard
4 11 (27.50%) Statistics
4 11 (27.50%) SWOT Analysis
5 10 (25.00%) Architectural Design
6 8 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) Coaching
7 7 (17.50%) Code Quality
7 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Java
1 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
1 7 (17.50%) TypeScript
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Degree
2 13 (32.50%) Master's Degree
3 12 (30.00%) MBA
4 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.50%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) APMG
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (7.50%) GDPR
4 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.50%) P3O
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) Capita
3 7 (17.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Sparx