Business Strategy Jobs

Business Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Business Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 158 160
Rank change year-on-year +79 +2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,682 1,843 2,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.23% 1.87% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 2.18% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 489 928 1,188
10th Percentile £41,950 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £47,500 £50,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £62,500 £67,925
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -7.99% +2.28%
75th Percentile £92,000 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,500 £98,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £58,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.29% -2.00% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy.

Salary trend for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +78 1,529 £65,000 - 1,363
UK excluding London +48 809 £62,500 +6.29% 656
London +71 769 £87,500 +9.38% 852
Work from Home +18 302 £72,500 +20.05% 593
North of England +31 287 £57,836 -3.61% 164
North West +31 233 £57,836 -3.61% 104
South East +57 167 £65,250 +13.48% 238
East of England +137 136 £50,500 -8.18% 54
Midlands +9 95 £64,750 +3.60% 64
Scotland +67 62 £70,000 +47.37% 55
West Midlands +7 55 £73,750 +25.64% 47
South West -2 53 £62,500 - 80
Yorkshire +12 44 £60,000 -4.00% 49
East Midlands +11 39 £50,000 -20.00% 17
North East +29 8 £65,000 +23.81% 11
Wales +32 5 £75,000 +71.33% 11
Northern Ireland +26 3 - - 10
Isle of Man +15 1 £50,000 -

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 84 (4.99%) Confluence
2 48 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.77%) OpenEdge
5 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.65%) IIS
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.18%) nginx
8 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.12%) WordPress
10 1 (0.059%) Apache
10 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.059%) Moodle
10 1 (0.059%) Solana
10 1 (0.059%) Totara
Applications
1 429 (25.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 36 (2.14%) Maya
2 36 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) SPSS
9 1 (0.059%) Notion
9 1 (0.059%) SPSS Modeler
9 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.25%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 9 (0.54%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.18%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
8 2 (0.12%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.12%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.059%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.059%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 175 (10.40%) Azure
2 125 (7.43%) Power Platform
3 86 (5.11%) AWS
4 69 (4.10%) SaaS
5 40 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
7 30 (1.78%) Power Automate
8 29 (1.72%) PowerApps
9 25 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (1.31%) GCP
11 21 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 18 (1.07%) Boomi
13 16 (0.95%) GitHub
13 16 (0.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 13 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (0.71%) Entra ID
15 12 (0.71%) Snowflake
16 10 (0.59%) Amazon SageMaker
16 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.25%) WPA
2 14 (0.83%) Firewall
3 11 (0.65%) DNS
3 11 (0.65%) LAN
4 10 (0.59%) Network Security
4 10 (0.59%) VoIP
4 10 (0.59%) WAN
5 9 (0.54%) DHCP
5 9 (0.54%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.36%) Broadband
6 6 (0.36%) MPLS
6 6 (0.36%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.30%) BGP
7 5 (0.30%) OSPF
7 5 (0.30%) VPN
8 4 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.18%) EIGRP
9 3 (0.18%) IP Telephony
9 3 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (6.06%) Power BI
2 92 (5.47%) Tableau
3 53 (3.15%) Data Lake
4 36 (2.14%) Big Data
5 32 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (1.61%) Metadata
6 27 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 12 (0.71%) SAP BW
9 10 (0.59%) Data Vault
10 9 (0.54%) IBM InfoSphere
10 9 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.42%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.36%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (5.29%) JIRA
2 8 (0.48%) Git
3 5 (0.30%) GitLab
4 4 (0.24%) Bazaar
5 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.059%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.059%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.059%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.059%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.059%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.059%) Visual Studio
General
1 925 (54.99%) Social Skills
2 895 (53.21%) Finance
3 630 (37.46%) Analytical Skills
4 488 (29.01%) Banking
5 487 (28.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 435 (25.86%) French Language
7 424 (25.21%) Financial Institution
8 423 (25.15%) German Language
9 229 (13.61%) Law
10 222 (13.20%) Marketing
11 132 (7.85%) Manufacturing
12 72 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
13 70 (4.16%) Legal
14 64 (3.80%) Games
15 60 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
16 53 (3.15%) Retail
17 50 (2.97%) Electronics
18 48 (2.85%) Public Sector
19 35 (2.08%) Advertising
20 30 (1.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 520 (30.92%) Analyst
2 424 (25.21%) Credit Analyst
3 422 (25.09%) Research Analyst
4 269 (15.99%) Lead
5 262 (15.58%) Architect
6 163 (9.69%) Senior
7 147 (8.74%) Business Manager
8 126 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (6.78%) Development Manager
10 110 (6.54%) Business Development Manager
11 98 (5.83%) Lead Architect
12 74 (4.40%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 71 (4.22%) Enterprise Architect
14 42 (2.50%) Product Manager
14 42 (2.50%) Senior Architect
15 37 (2.20%) IT Architect
16 36 (2.14%) IT Manager
16 36 (2.14%) Senior Manager
17 32 (1.90%) Salesforce Architect
18 29 (1.72%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.90%) Middleware
2 28 (1.66%) Lightning Web Components
3 26 (1.55%) REST
4 22 (1.31%) SOAP
5 18 (1.07%) .NET
6 12 (0.71%) EDI
6 12 (0.71%) Kafka
7 11 (0.65%) React
8 10 (0.59%) PySpark
9 9 (0.54%) RESTful
10 5 (0.30%) CSS
10 5 (0.30%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.30%) HTML
11 4 (0.24%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.18%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.18%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.18%) Flask
12 3 (0.18%) HTML5
12 3 (0.18%) LEMP Stack
12 3 (0.18%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 422 (25.09%) Credit Risk
2 421 (25.03%) Fixed Income
3 95 (5.65%) Management Information System
4 80 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 65 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 38 (2.26%) FMCG
8 37 (2.20%) Social Media
9 31 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 31 (1.84%) Data Centre
10 30 (1.78%) PMI
11 26 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.25%) Cloud Native
13 15 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (0.89%) SCADA
14 13 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
15 12 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.71%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.65%) Blockchain
16 11 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.03%) Windows
2 32 (1.90%) Windows Vista
3 14 (0.83%) Linux
4 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.30%) Android
5 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.18%) Unix
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (37.28%) Decision-Making
2 571 (33.95%) Risk Management
3 451 (26.81%) Asset Management
4 445 (26.46%) Portfolio Management
5 432 (25.68%) Risk Assessment
6 429 (25.51%) Financial Modelling
7 422 (25.09%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 354 (21.05%) Agile
9 309 (18.37%) Roadmaps
10 262 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 248 (14.74%) Analytics
12 229 (13.61%) Project Management
13 205 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
14 198 (11.77%) Business Development
15 192 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 177 (10.52%) Mentoring
17 140 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence
18 136 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
19 130 (7.73%) ERP
19 130 (7.73%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 92 (5.47%) SQL
2 88 (5.23%) Python
3 39 (2.32%) Java
4 23 (1.37%) Apex Code
4 23 (1.37%) C
4 23 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 21 (1.25%) C#
6 12 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.42%) PHP
8 4 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.24%) R
9 3 (0.18%) C++
9 3 (0.18%) Scala
9 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.059%) Bicep
10 1 (0.059%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.059%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.059%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 786 (46.73%) Degree
2 488 (29.01%) Master's Degree
3 423 (25.15%) CFA
4 124 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (3.21%) DBS Check
6 53 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (2.56%) PMI Certification
8 41 (2.44%) HND
9 35 (2.08%) Security Cleared
10 33 (1.96%) PMP
11 22 (1.31%) ACCA
12 19 (1.13%) CIMA
13 17 (1.01%) CCAB
13 17 (1.01%) CIPFA
13 17 (1.01%) ICAEW
13 17 (1.01%) SC Cleared
14 12 (0.71%) PhD
15 11 (0.65%) CISSP
15 11 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 41 (2.44%) GDPR
3 35 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 20 (1.19%) SLA
6 19 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.77%) QA
9 12 (0.71%) PMO
10 8 (0.48%) NIST
10 8 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.18%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.12%) GRC
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.12%) ITGC
14 1 (0.059%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.059%) COBIT
14 1 (0.059%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 23 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
2 18 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.18%) Docker
5 3 (0.18%) Samba
6 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.12%) vSphere
7 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (1.66%) Terraform
2 16 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.65%) SCCM
5 10 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (0.59%) Ansible
6 4 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.18%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.12%) SCOM
8 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.059%) Kiali
9 1 (0.059%) Nessus
Vendors
1 423 (25.15%) Bloomberg
2 210 (12.49%) Microsoft
3 112 (6.66%) SAP
4 72 (4.28%) YouTube
5 61 (3.63%) Salesforce
6 58 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 58 (3.45%) Siemens
7 40 (2.38%) Oracle
8 32 (1.90%) Cisco
9 28 (1.66%) Informatica
10 25 (1.49%) Databricks
11 24 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 22 (1.31%) Atlassian
12 22 (1.31%) Dell
13 21 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 20 (1.19%) Citrix
15 17 (1.01%) Google
16 14 (0.83%) MuleSoft
17 13 (0.77%) Adobe
17 13 (0.77%) VMware