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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 160 163
Rank change year-on-year +74 +3 +14
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,550 1,735 2,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.07% 1.88% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.16% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 474 910 1,280
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £48,250 £50,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £62,500 £68,213
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -8.37% +1.81%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,700 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,353 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.25% - +4.14%

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 47,236 80,210 105,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.56% 86.88% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,832 57,895 61,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,045
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 April 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 April 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 +74 1,383 £65,634 +0.98% 1,945
UK excluding London +55 751 £61,353 +2.25% 814
London +66 705 £85,000 +6.25% 1,293
Work from Home -2 269 £72,500 +16.00% 868
North of England +30 225 £57,836 -7.46% 241
North West +29 186 £57,836 -7.46% 145
South East +58 163 £70,000 +21.74% 222
East of England +127 112 £52,000 -5.45% 75
Midlands +5 106 £64,750 -0.38% 106
Scotland +72 80 £70,000 +47.37% 89
West Midlands +14 63 £72,500 +11.54% 61
South West +18 53 £62,500 - 66
East Midlands +20 43 £42,500 -36.33% 45
Yorkshire -4 30 £55,000 -12.00% 78
North East +17 7 £60,000 +14.29% 20
Northern Ireland +30 6 £59,430 -3.99% 11
Wales +28 5 £74,715 +119.75% 10
Isle of Man - 1 £50,000 - 1

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 44 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.74%) Confluence
3 18 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.97%) OpenEdge
5 12 (0.77%) IIS
6 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.26%) CMS
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.19%) nginx
8 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.19%) WordPress
9 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.065%) Apache
10 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.065%) Solana
Applications
1 462 (29.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 62 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.23%) Maya
5 10 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.32%) Trello
9 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.065%) Notion
11 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 16 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.13%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.065%) iTrent
7 1 (0.065%) Lawson
7 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.065%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.065%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.065%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 153 (9.87%) Azure
2 102 (6.58%) Power Platform
3 86 (5.55%) AWS
4 53 (3.42%) SaaS
5 33 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (1.48%) Power Automate
8 23 (1.48%) PowerApps
9 21 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 14 (0.90%) GCP
10 14 (0.90%) GitHub
10 14 (0.90%) Snowflake
11 12 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (0.65%) Boomi
13 9 (0.58%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (0.58%) Serverless
14 8 (0.52%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.10%) WPA
2 13 (0.84%) Firewall
3 12 (0.77%) DNS
4 9 (0.58%) DHCP
4 9 (0.58%) LAN
4 9 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.45%) WAN
6 6 (0.39%) BGP
6 6 (0.39%) Broadband
6 6 (0.39%) EIGRP
6 6 (0.39%) Network Security
6 6 (0.39%) OSPF
6 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.39%) VPN
6 6 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.32%) MPLS
8 4 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (5.29%) Power BI
2 73 (4.71%) Tableau
3 39 (2.52%) Data Lake
4 36 (2.32%) Big Data
5 27 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.23%) Metadata
9 10 (0.65%) Data Vault
9 10 (0.65%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.39%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.32%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.26%) Data Mart
14 4 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 30 (1.94%) JIRA
2 7 (0.45%) Git
3 4 (0.26%) GitLab
4 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.065%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.065%) Maven
5 1 (0.065%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.065%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.065%) Visual Studio
General
1 924 (59.61%) Social Skills
2 889 (57.35%) Finance
3 628 (40.52%) Analytical Skills
4 510 (32.90%) Banking
5 480 (30.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 443 (28.58%) French Language
7 436 (28.13%) Financial Institution
7 436 (28.13%) German Language
8 166 (10.71%) Law
9 162 (10.45%) Marketing
10 76 (4.90%) Legal
11 70 (4.52%) Manufacturing
12 62 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (2.84%) Retail
15 39 (2.52%) Games
16 33 (2.13%) Electronics
17 32 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
18 28 (1.81%) Advertising
19 27 (1.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 542 (34.97%) Analyst
2 438 (28.26%) Credit Analyst
3 436 (28.13%) Research Analyst
4 189 (12.19%) Lead
5 183 (11.81%) Architect
6 143 (9.23%) Business Manager
7 124 (8.00%) Senior
8 105 (6.77%) Development Manager
9 103 (6.65%) Business Development Manager
10 76 (4.90%) Enterprise Architect
11 59 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 47 (3.03%) Lead Architect
13 46 (2.97%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
15 31 (2.00%) IT Manager
16 29 (1.87%) Business Analyst
16 29 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
16 29 (1.87%) Senior Manager
17 28 (1.81%) Project Manager
18 26 (1.68%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.74%) REST
2 25 (1.61%) Middleware
3 24 (1.55%) Lightning Web Components
4 23 (1.48%) SOAP
5 18 (1.16%) .NET
6 12 (0.77%) Kafka
7 8 (0.52%) EDI
7 8 (0.52%) PySpark
7 8 (0.52%) React
8 5 (0.32%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.32%) RESTful
9 4 (0.26%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.19%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.19%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.19%) Flask
10 3 (0.19%) LEMP Stack
10 3 (0.19%) XGBoost
11 2 (0.13%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.13%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (0.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 436 (28.13%) Credit Risk
2 435 (28.06%) Fixed Income
3 98 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 56 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.26%) Social Media
7 31 (2.00%) FMCG
8 27 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 27 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.55%) PMI
10 18 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 14 (0.90%) Cloud Native
12 12 (0.77%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.71%) Blockchain
13 11 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.58%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.16%) Windows
2 28 (1.81%) Windows Vista
3 12 (0.77%) Linux
4 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.32%) Unix
5 5 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.19%) Android
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (40.97%) Decision-Making
2 585 (37.74%) Risk Management
3 457 (29.48%) Financial Modelling
4 451 (29.10%) Portfolio Management
5 447 (28.84%) Asset Management
6 444 (28.65%) Risk Assessment
7 436 (28.13%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 290 (18.71%) Agile
9 270 (17.42%) Roadmaps
10 250 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 233 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
12 202 (13.03%) Project Management
13 198 (12.77%) Analytics
14 185 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 167 (10.77%) Business Development
16 158 (10.19%) Mentoring
17 122 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
18 119 (7.68%) IT Strategy
19 114 (7.35%) Strategic Thinking
20 111 (7.16%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 90 (5.81%) SQL
2 70 (4.52%) Python
3 34 (2.19%) Java
4 23 (1.48%) C
5 22 (1.42%) Apex Code
6 19 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.90%) C#
8 11 (0.71%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.19%) Bicep
10 3 (0.19%) C++
10 3 (0.19%) PHP
10 3 (0.19%) R
10 3 (0.19%) Scala
11 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.065%) Bash
12 1 (0.065%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.065%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.065%) Ruby
12 1 (0.065%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 743 (47.94%) Degree
2 499 (32.19%) Master's Degree
3 449 (28.97%) CFA
4 66 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.29%) DBS Check
7 39 (2.52%) HND
8 38 (2.45%) PMI Certification
9 34 (2.19%) PMP
10 31 (2.00%) Security Cleared
11 25 (1.61%) ACCA
12 22 (1.42%) CIMA
13 16 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.97%) SC Cleared
15 9 (0.58%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
16 8 (0.52%) CCAB
16 8 (0.52%) CIPFA
16 8 (0.52%) ICAEW
16 8 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.81%) Data Quality
2 32 (2.06%) GDPR
3 22 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 21 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 19 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.10%) PMO
8 12 (0.77%) SLA
9 11 (0.71%) QA
10 8 (0.52%) NIST
11 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.32%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.13%) GRC
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) ITGC
16 1 (0.065%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 1 (0.065%) GxP
System Software
1 23 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
2 18 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.19%) Docker
5 3 (0.19%) Samba
5 3 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (1.35%) Terraform
2 16 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 4 (0.26%) Ansible
7 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.13%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.065%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.065%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.065%) Grafana
9 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.065%) Nessus
9 1 (0.065%) Netcool
9 1 (0.065%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.065%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.065%) Puppet
Vendors
1 435 (28.06%) Bloomberg
2 196 (12.65%) Microsoft
3 47 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 42 (2.71%) YouTube
5 41 (2.65%) SAP
6 36 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.87%) Oracle
8 25 (1.61%) Databricks
9 23 (1.48%) Atlassian
9 23 (1.48%) Cisco
10 21 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 20 (1.29%) Informatica
12 19 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 16 (1.03%) VMware
14 15 (0.97%) Dell
15 14 (0.90%) Citrix
16 10 (0.65%) Google
17 8 (0.52%) Adobe
17 8 (0.52%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.52%) SolarWinds