IT Strategy Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 182 192
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -32
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 406 528 555
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.97% 1.47% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.65% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 258 275 463
10th Percentile £25,203 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -10.34%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £89,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,958 31,987 30,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.54% 88.93% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,919 14,386 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
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%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IT Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +62 146 £45,500 -35.00% 65
North of England -31 84 £70,500 +13.71% 45
Midlands -21 67 £80,000 +23.55% 15
North West -9 43 £68,500 +11.11% 23
South West -11 43 £80,000 +6.67% 12
West Midlands +6 39 £86,250 +32.69% 9
Yorkshire -14 37 £82,500 +15.03% 18
East of England +38 33 £47,500 -38.71% 10
East Midlands -32 28 £77,300 +28.83% 6
Scotland -58 23 £66,250 -22.29% 8
Wales +5 12 £83,781 +28.89% 8
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 1
North East +4 4 £70,000 +14.37% 6
IT Strategy
UK

IT 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 12 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.23%) IIS
4 3 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.99%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 89 (21.92%) Azure
2 44 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (9.61%) AWS
4 24 (5.91%) Power Platform
5 13 (3.20%) SaaS
6 12 (2.96%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.97%) OneDrive
9 7 (1.72%) GCP
10 6 (1.48%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.23%) OCI
12 3 (0.74%) IaaS
12 3 (0.74%) Kong
12 3 (0.74%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.49%) Cohesity
13 2 (0.49%) GitHub
13 2 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.22%) DNS
1 9 (2.22%) VoIP
2 8 (1.97%) Broadband
2 8 (1.97%) LAN
2 8 (1.97%) Network Security
2 8 (1.97%) WAN
3 7 (1.72%) Firewall
3 7 (1.72%) VLAN
4 6 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.23%) SAN
5 5 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.23%) SSL
6 4 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (0.99%) DHCP
6 4 (0.99%) IPsec
6 4 (0.99%) VPN
6 4 (0.99%) Wireless
7 3 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.74%) Internet
8 2 (0.49%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.45%) Power BI
2 7 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.23%) Tableau
4 4 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.49%) Big Data
5 2 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (0.99%) JIRA
2 2 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.25%) Git
General
1 217 (53.45%) Social Skills
2 97 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (17.00%) Marketing
4 56 (13.79%) Finance
5 41 (10.10%) Public Sector
6 27 (6.65%) Aeronautics
7 23 (5.67%) Aviation
8 21 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (4.68%) Telecoms
10 17 (4.19%) Law
11 16 (3.94%) Retail
12 13 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.96%) Legal
14 11 (2.71%) Games
14 11 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.97%) Electronics
16 8 (1.97%) Local Government
16 8 (1.97%) Police
17 5 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (25.86%) Architect
2 50 (12.32%) Business Manager
2 50 (12.32%) Business Systems Manager
2 50 (12.32%) Systems Manager
3 49 (12.07%) Sales Executive
4 46 (11.33%) IT Manager
5 45 (11.08%) Corporate Sales Executive
6 42 (10.34%) Enterprise Architect
6 42 (10.34%) Lead
7 29 (7.14%) Head of IT
8 25 (6.16%) Senior
9 23 (5.67%) IT Support
10 19 (4.68%) Lead Architect
10 19 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (4.43%) Consultant
12 13 (3.20%) Senior Architect
13 12 (2.96%) IT Engineer
14 11 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.71%) IT Support Engineer
14 11 (2.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.23%) React
2 4 (0.99%) GraphQL
3 3 (0.74%) Apollo GraphQL
3 3 (0.74%) Kafka
3 3 (0.74%) Node.js
3 3 (0.74%) RESTful
4 2 (0.49%) REST
5 1 (0.25%) .NET
5 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.32%) Robotics
2 15 (3.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (3.69%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.71%) Cyber Security Posture
5 10 (2.46%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.99%) Clustering
8 4 (0.99%) Digital Media
8 4 (0.99%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.74%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.74%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) Replication
10 2 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.68%) Windows
2 15 (3.69%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.48%) Linux
4 4 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (50.49%) Technology Strategy
2 121 (29.80%) AI
3 110 (27.09%) Roadmaps
4 86 (21.18%) Budget Management
4 86 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 81 (19.95%) Project Management
6 77 (18.97%) Cybersecurity
6 77 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 69 (17.00%) Risk Management
8 67 (16.50%) Software Engineering
9 65 (16.01%) Customer Experience
10 62 (15.27%) Process Improvement
11 61 (15.02%) Service Delivery
11 61 (15.02%) Technology Roadmap
12 58 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
13 55 (13.55%) Business Strategy
13 55 (13.55%) Contract Negotiation
14 53 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (12.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 49 (12.07%) Email Marketing
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.71%) PowerShell
1 11 (2.71%) SQL
2 6 (1.48%) Java
3 3 (0.74%) Python
4 2 (0.49%) Bicep
4 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.25%) C#
5 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 57 (14.04%) Degree
4 11 (2.71%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.72%) CISSP
8 6 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.99%) ACMT
10 4 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.99%) CEH
10 4 (0.99%) CISM
10 4 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.49%) MBA
12 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.40%) PMO
2 24 (5.91%) GDPR
3 20 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.48%) GRC
6 5 (1.23%) NIST
7 4 (0.99%) NCSC
7 4 (0.99%) SLA
7 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.74%) QA
9 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.25%) IASME
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.48%) Docker
3 6 (1.48%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.49%) Firmware
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) vSphere
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.97%) Autotask
3 6 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.48%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.74%) Terraform
5 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 113 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 60 (14.78%) Cisco
3 45 (11.08%) Dell
4 19 (4.68%) SAP
5 13 (3.20%) Oracle
6 12 (2.96%) VMware
7 6 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.48%) Veeam
8 5 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.23%) Progress
9 4 (0.99%) Apple
9 4 (0.99%) Datto
9 4 (0.99%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.99%) IFS
9 4 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.99%) Sophos
10 3 (0.74%) Adobe
10 3 (0.74%) Informatica