IT Strategy Job Trends in South Wales

IT/Technology Strategy
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 59 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 9 8 5
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.15% 1.27% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.52% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 4
10th Percentile £59,494 £56,125 -
25th Percentile £65,596 £62,063 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £65,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +26.15% -12.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,250 £52,884
90th Percentile - £71,000 -
Wales median annual salary £83,781 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.89% +30.00% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

IT 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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 587 525 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 75.06% 83.47% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 407 267 426
10th Percentile £25,032 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,825 £79,600 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IT Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in South Wales

IT Strategy
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing IT Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in South Wales

IT Strategy
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
Gwent - 4 £85,000 -
Cardiff +10 3 £67,586 +3.98% 5
Newport - 1 £72,000 -
Monmouthshire - 1 £62,500 - 1
IT Strategy
Wales

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) SSL
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 4 (44.44%) Head of IT
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Digital Media
1 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) Identity Management
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) SIEM
2 4 (44.44%) Tech Ops
2 4 (44.44%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CEH
1 4 (44.44%) CISM
1 4 (44.44%) CISSP
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) ESRI
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow