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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 228 139
Rank change year-on-year -19 -89 +92
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 42 67 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.53% 0.68% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.82% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 17
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,250 -
25th Percentile £76,048 £60,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £95,128 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +35.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £103,750 £101,250 £97,290
90th Percentile £141,151 £111,250 £103,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +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 7,653 8,153 7,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.85% 82.81% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,004 6,185 3,939
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,966
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%

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 14 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 14 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 +30 32 £94,637 -0.52% 73
Cheshire +5 7 £85,250 +143.57% 7
Lancashire - 3 £40,000 - 42
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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) GCP
2 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 11 (26.19%) AWS
4 4 (9.52%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (4.76%) SaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Tableau
2 4 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 19 (45.24%) Finance
2 17 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (28.57%) Banking
4 11 (26.19%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
6 4 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.76%) Brand Awareness
8 2 (4.76%) Marketing
8 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.38%) Automotive
9 1 (2.38%) Law
9 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Project Manager
2 10 (23.81%) Lead
3 8 (19.05%) Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (7.14%) Lead Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Principal Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Data Science Leader
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Risk Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Portfolio Management Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Principal Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Node.js
1 7 (16.67%) Playwright
1 7 (16.67%) React
1 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (11.90%) Spring
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) FMCG
2 5 (11.90%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Blog
4 2 (4.76%) Social Media
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 15 (35.71%) Project Management
3 14 (33.33%) Analytics
4 13 (30.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (26.19%) Analytical Thinking
6 11 (26.19%) Architectural Design
6 11 (26.19%) Business Analytics
6 11 (26.19%) Data Analysis
6 11 (26.19%) Economics
6 11 (26.19%) Market Research
6 11 (26.19%) Scorecard
6 11 (26.19%) Statistics
6 11 (26.19%) SWOT Analysis
7 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 8 (19.05%) TOGAF
9 7 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
9 7 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) Java
1 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 4 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
2 13 (30.95%) Master's Degree
3 12 (28.57%) MBA
4 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.14%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) APMG
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (40.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (7.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.38%) P3O
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (26.19%) Capita
3 7 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Alteryx
4 2 (4.76%) Databricks
5 1 (2.38%) Informatica
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) Sparx