Strategic Thinking Jobs in Oxfordshire

Strategic Thinking
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 101 113
Rank change year-on-year +29 +12 0
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 5 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.68% 0.71% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.89% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 5
10th Percentile £74,750 £31,250 £66,000
25th Percentile £78,125 £36,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £37,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +113.33% -46.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £91,875 £38,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £113,250 - -
South East median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +43.75% -42.86% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Strategic Thinking 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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 696 1,349 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 94.05% 80.01% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 324 1,077 754
10th Percentile £32,075 £28,500 £26,325
25th Percentile £40,938 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £56,673 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.35% -9.09% -

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Oxfordshire

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in Oxfordshire

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in Oxfordshire

Strategic Thinking
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Oxford +30 3 £80,000 +146.15% 2
Strategic Thinking
South East

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Head of Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) PMBOK
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP