Business Strategy Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Business Strategy
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 44 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +43
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 10 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.98% 1.23% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 1.48% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £56,495 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -53.73% -4.91% -24.70%
75th Percentile £28,750 £62,365 £66,250
90th Percentile - - £67,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -2.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 386 338 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.59% 83.25% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 170 111 217
10th Percentile £29,575 £34,112 £29,997
25th Percentile £31,406 £45,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,327 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.68% +18.86% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £79,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Business Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 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
County Antrim +11 10 £27,500 -53.73% 16
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DHCP
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
1 8 (80.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Recruitment Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (80.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Business Continuity
1 8 (80.00%) Change Management
1 8 (80.00%) Coaching
1 8 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (80.00%) High Availability
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
1 8 (80.00%) ITSM
1 8 (80.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 8 (80.00%) Server Management
1 8 (80.00%) Storage Management
1 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (10.00%) Business Development
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (80.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Dell
1 8 (80.00%) Dell Compellent
1 8 (80.00%) HP
1 8 (80.00%) Nimble Storage
1 8 (80.00%) VMware