Thought Leadership Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 357 476
Rank change year-on-year -100 +119 -176
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 199 212 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.61% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.70% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 97 63 110
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £50,875
25th Percentile £55,750 £49,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,840 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,987 £101,125
90th Percentile £108,500 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Thought Leadership 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 55,038 30,334 46,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.39% 87.27% 78.38%
Number of salaries quoted 38,742 16,516 29,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Thought Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
North of England -22 61 £95,000 +0.38% 16
Midlands -15 39 £80,000 +30.61% 18
North West +3 35 £95,000 +0.38% 9
East of England - 31 £60,100 - 4
South East -112 29 £55,000 +30.95% 30
West Midlands -20 23 £80,000 +39.13% 13
Wales - 19 £55,000 - 4
East Midlands -8 16 £60,000 - 5
Yorkshire -27 15 £72,170 -15.09% 6
South West -60 15 £59,750 -25.31% 14
North East -51 11 £100,000 +17.65% 1
Scotland -14 4 £110,000 +37.50% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10
Thought Leadership
UK

Thought Leadership
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 4 (2.01%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) Apache
2 1 (0.50%) Drupal
2 1 (0.50%) IIS
2 1 (0.50%) nginx
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.51%) SAP MDG
2 3 (1.51%) SAP MDG-BP
2 3 (1.51%) SAP MDG-F
3 2 (1.01%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.63%) AWS
2 29 (14.57%) Azure
3 17 (8.54%) SaaS
4 9 (4.52%) Snowflake
5 8 (4.02%) GCP
6 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.51%) GitHub
7 5 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.51%) Slack
8 4 (2.01%) Figma
8 4 (2.01%) IaaS
8 4 (2.01%) Twilio
9 3 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.51%) Serverless
10 2 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.01%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Firewall
1 7 (3.52%) Wireless
2 6 (3.02%) Broadband
2 6 (3.02%) Cisco ISE
2 6 (3.02%) Cisco Wireless
2 6 (3.02%) LAN
2 6 (3.02%) SD-WAN
2 6 (3.02%) WAN
2 6 (3.02%) WebEx
2 6 (3.02%) WLAN
3 2 (1.01%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.50%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.05%) Data Mining
1 20 (10.05%) Tableau
2 16 (8.04%) Amazon QuickSight
3 7 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.52%) Power BI
4 6 (3.02%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.01%) Metadata
6 2 (1.01%) Power Query
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.50%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.50%) Redis
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Git
1 4 (2.01%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.01%) JIRA
2 2 (1.01%) Ant
2 2 (1.01%) Apache Ivy
2 2 (1.01%) Balsamiq
2 2 (1.01%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (1.01%) Maven
2 2 (1.01%) MLflow
3 1 (0.50%) Gatling
3 1 (0.50%) JMeter
3 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (40.20%) Finance
2 53 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 52 (26.13%) Marketing
4 43 (21.61%) Public Sector
5 22 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (8.54%) Back Office
7 17 (8.54%) Banking
8 11 (5.53%) Retail
9 10 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.52%) Legal
12 6 (3.02%) Aerospace
13 5 (2.51%) Local Government
14 4 (2.01%) Public Speaking
15 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 2 (1.01%) Publishing
16 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (23.12%) Lead
2 45 (22.61%) Architect
3 29 (14.57%) Senior
4 24 (12.06%) Lead Architect
5 21 (10.55%) Product Manager
6 18 (9.05%) Consultant
6 18 (9.05%) Lead Security Architect
6 18 (9.05%) Security Architect
7 17 (8.54%) Digital Product Manager
7 17 (8.54%) Senior Digital Product Manager
7 17 (8.54%) Senior Manager
7 17 (8.54%) Senior Product Manager
8 16 (8.04%) Head of Business Intelligence
9 10 (5.03%) Business Manager
9 10 (5.03%) Sales Executive
10 9 (4.52%) Lead Consultant
11 8 (4.02%) Account Executive
11 8 (4.02%) Chief Technology Officer
11 8 (4.02%) SAP Consultant
12 7 (3.52%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) XML
2 3 (1.51%) PyTorch
2 3 (1.51%) React
2 3 (1.51%) scikit-learn
2 3 (1.51%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.01%) .NET
3 2 (1.01%) Django
3 2 (1.01%) Flask
3 2 (1.01%) Flutter
3 2 (1.01%) Kafka
3 2 (1.01%) Streamlit
3 2 (1.01%) XBRL
4 1 (0.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.50%) CSS
4 1 (0.50%) Memcached
4 1 (0.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.50%) PySpark
4 1 (0.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.55%) Onboarding
2 19 (9.55%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.54%) Blog
4 11 (5.53%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.03%) Web Conferencing
6 7 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.52%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (3.52%) Social Media
7 6 (3.02%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.01%) Hackathon
9 4 (2.01%) IVR
9 4 (2.01%) Podcast
10 3 (1.51%) NHS
10 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.52%) Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Windows
3 3 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.01%) Solaris
4 2 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.15%) Analytics
2 55 (27.64%) Mentoring
3 52 (26.13%) AI
4 50 (25.13%) Decision-Making
5 49 (24.62%) Roadmaps
6 37 (18.59%) Agile
7 35 (17.59%) Machine Learning
8 29 (14.57%) Business Development
8 29 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (14.07%) Product Strategy
10 27 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (13.07%) Data Science
11 26 (13.07%) DevOps
12 25 (12.56%) CI/CD
13 24 (12.06%) B2B
13 24 (12.06%) Coaching
14 23 (11.56%) Actionable Insight
15 22 (11.06%) Customer Experience
15 22 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.07%) Python
2 20 (10.05%) SQL
3 5 (2.51%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.01%) Go
4 4 (2.01%) Java
5 3 (1.51%) C#
6 2 (1.01%) Bash
6 2 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.01%) Scala
7 1 (0.50%) Bicep
7 1 (0.50%) PHP
7 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.11%) Degree
3 29 (14.57%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.02%) CISSP
6 7 (3.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.52%) CISM
6 7 (3.52%) DBS Check
6 7 (3.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.01%) PMP
9 2 (1.01%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.50%) CRISC
10 1 (0.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.53%) GDPR
2 11 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.03%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.52%) NIST
4 7 (3.52%) QA
5 6 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.02%) GRC
5 6 (3.02%) JSP 440
6 5 (2.51%) SLA
7 1 (0.50%) JTAG
7 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.52%) Terraform
2 6 (3.02%) Ansible
2 6 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.51%) Progress Chef
3 5 (2.51%) Puppet
4 1 (0.50%) Argo
4 1 (0.50%) Consul
4 1 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.50%) Packer
4 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 36 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.05%) Dell
3 12 (6.03%) Databricks
4 11 (5.53%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.03%) SAP
6 8 (4.02%) HubSpot
7 7 (3.52%) Cisco
8 6 (3.02%) Aruba
8 6 (3.02%) Denodo
8 6 (3.02%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.02%) Informatica
8 6 (3.02%) Juniper
8 6 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.02%) Teradata
9 4 (2.01%) Ariba
10 3 (1.51%) Google
11 2 (1.01%) Facebook
11 2 (1.01%) Foundry
11 2 (1.01%) Oracle
11 2 (1.01%) UiPath