Creative Strategy Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Creative Strategies
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 558 546
Rank change year-on-year +39 -12 +210
Permanent jobs citing Creative Strategy 6 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.014% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.015% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23,700
25th Percentile £73,750 - £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.88%
75th Percentile £81,250 - £50,625
90th Percentile - - £52,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +42.86% -18.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Creative 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,256 32,348 28,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.02% 88.54% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,033 14,675 21,473
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Creative Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Creative Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Creative Strategy job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Creative Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Creative Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Creative Strategy

Creative Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Midlands +21 3 - - 1
North of England +21 3 £77,500 -
East Midlands +3 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West +22 1 £77,500 -
Creative Strategy
UK

Creative Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (50.00%) CMS
1 3 (50.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (33.33%) InDesign
1 2 (33.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Publishing
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing Executive
2 2 (33.33%) Art Director
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Presales Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (16.67%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Content Management
3 3 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) Email Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) Market Research
3 3 (50.00%) Marketing Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) SEO
3 3 (50.00%) Social Media Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Social Media Management
3 3 (50.00%) Web Design
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) B2B
5 1 (16.67%) Presales
5 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe