Business Strategy Job Trends

Business Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 111 134
Rank change year-on-year -39 +23 +29
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,436 1,360 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.34% 2.71% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 3.04% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 776 529 775
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,315
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £121,500 £117,500 £101,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.24% +1.60% +4.17%

All Process & 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 78,635 44,750 66,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.41% 89.19% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,192 25,377 43,044
10th Percentile £30,780 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Strategy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Top 17 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 17 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
England -53 1,188 £75,000 +7.14% 598
UK excluding London -16 838 £70,000 +10.24% 402
London -39 507 £90,000 +5.88% 278
Work from Home +14 470 £75,000 - 285
North of England -23 212 £68,510 +24.56% 92
South East -11 200 £70,000 +7.69% 116
Midlands +36 147 £70,000 +10.24% 73
North West +4 125 £70,200 +27.64% 53
Northern Ireland +4 110 £27,500 - 7
West Midlands +32 106 £71,250 +21.28% 39
South West -73 74 £70,000 -6.67% 52
Yorkshire -42 62 £65,000 +4.00% 29
Scotland +11 45 £76,500 +9.29% 27
East Midlands +2 41 £70,000 +10.24% 34
East of England -107 35 £67,500 +24.42% 32
North East -42 25 £87,431 +84.07% 10
Wales -53 18 £67,486 -10.02% 6

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 24 (1.67%) Confluence
2 23 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (0.63%) CMS
4 7 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.35%) Apache
6 5 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 3 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.070%) Appian
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.070%) Resin
9 1 (0.070%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.28%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.14%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.49%) Sage X3
3 7 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.28%) Shopify
6 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.14%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.14%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.070%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.070%) Primavera
8 1 (0.070%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.070%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.070%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.070%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 242 (16.85%) Azure
2 119 (8.29%) AWS
3 104 (7.24%) Power Platform
4 102 (7.10%) SaaS
5 71 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
6 53 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
7 42 (2.92%) GCP
8 23 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.25%) GitHub
10 16 (1.11%) Snowflake
11 15 (1.04%) Entra ID
11 15 (1.04%) PaaS
12 14 (0.97%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.84%) IaaS
14 11 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (0.77%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.70%) iPaaS
15 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.67%) WAN
2 61 (4.25%) LAN
3 16 (1.11%) Firewall
3 16 (1.11%) Internet
4 11 (0.77%) DNS
4 11 (0.77%) Network Security
5 8 (0.56%) DHCP
5 8 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.35%) Broadband
7 5 (0.35%) Intranet
8 3 (0.21%) NGN
9 2 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.14%) SNMP
9 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.14%) VLAN
9 2 (0.14%) VPN
10 1 (0.070%) MVNO
10 1 (0.070%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.74%) Power BI
2 27 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (1.60%) Data Lake
3 23 (1.60%) Metadata
4 18 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.77%) Big Data
5 11 (0.77%) Tableau
6 9 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 9 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.42%) DTS
7 6 (0.42%) Power Query
7 6 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.28%) Looker
10 3 (0.21%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 41 (2.86%) JIRA
2 8 (0.56%) Git
3 4 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.21%) GitLab
4 3 (0.21%) MLflow
5 2 (0.14%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.070%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.070%) Maven
General
1 533 (37.12%) Finance
2 492 (34.26%) Social Skills
3 239 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (12.95%) Law
5 180 (12.53%) Marketing
6 153 (10.65%) Influencing Skills
7 152 (10.58%) Legal
8 129 (8.98%) Presentation Skills
9 86 (5.99%) Public Sector
10 84 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 67 (4.67%) Retail
12 64 (4.46%) Manufacturing
13 48 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (3.20%) Banking
15 35 (2.44%) Legal Technology
16 34 (2.37%) Automotive
17 33 (2.30%) Games
18 23 (1.60%) Aerospace
18 23 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 297 (20.68%) Architect
2 249 (17.34%) Senior
3 159 (11.07%) Business Manager
4 155 (10.79%) Lead
5 139 (9.68%) Development Manager
6 135 (9.40%) Business Development Manager
7 103 (7.17%) Analyst
8 85 (5.92%) Senior Manager
9 69 (4.81%) Enterprise Architect
10 67 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (4.32%) Systems Architect
12 58 (4.04%) Developer
13 46 (3.20%) Business Analyst
14 43 (2.99%) Consultant
14 43 (2.99%) Senior Developer
15 41 (2.86%) Data Architect
16 35 (2.44%) Data Engineer
17 34 (2.37%) Head of IT
18 29 (2.02%) IT Manager
18 29 (2.02%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.06%) .NET
2 12 (0.84%) React
3 8 (0.56%) Web Services
4 7 (0.49%) JSON
4 7 (0.49%) Kafka
5 6 (0.42%) HTML
5 6 (0.42%) Middleware
5 6 (0.42%) PyTorch
5 6 (0.42%) REST
6 5 (0.35%) CSS
6 5 (0.35%) EDI
6 5 (0.35%) RESTful
7 4 (0.28%) Blazor
7 4 (0.28%) TensorFlow
7 4 (0.28%) XML
8 3 (0.21%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.21%) Hibernate
8 3 (0.21%) SOAP
8 3 (0.21%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 78 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
2 72 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 61 (4.25%) Cloud Native
4 51 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 46 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.79%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.25%) Social Media
11 15 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 13 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (0.91%) IoT
12 13 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
14 11 (0.77%) Blog
14 11 (0.77%) Driving Licence
14 11 (0.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.39%) Windows
2 10 (0.70%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.21%) Linux
3 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.14%) Unix
4 2 (0.14%) VMS
4 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (30.08%) Roadmaps
2 305 (21.24%) Decision-Making
3 299 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 292 (20.33%) Business Development
5 287 (19.99%) Agile
6 278 (19.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 254 (17.69%) AI
8 226 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
9 213 (14.83%) Technology Strategy
10 205 (14.28%) Enterprise Architecture
11 195 (13.58%) Analytics
11 195 (13.58%) IT Strategy
12 191 (13.30%) Risk Management
13 182 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 171 (11.91%) Mentoring
15 165 (11.49%) Project Delivery
16 134 (9.33%) CRM
17 130 (9.05%) Strategic Thinking
18 127 (8.84%) Business Case
18 127 (8.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 121 (8.43%) SQL
2 111 (7.73%) Python
3 70 (4.87%) C#
4 42 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 36 (2.51%) TypeScript
6 32 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 23 (1.60%) Java
8 12 (0.84%) Bash
9 10 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.35%) R
11 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.21%) Perl
13 2 (0.14%) C++
13 2 (0.14%) PHP
13 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.14%) VBA
13 2 (0.14%) XAML
14 1 (0.070%) Korn
14 1 (0.070%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.070%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 189 (13.16%) Degree
2 62 (4.32%) Security Cleared
3 44 (3.06%) Master's Degree
4 38 (2.65%) ACCA
5 37 (2.58%) CIMA
5 37 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 29 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.74%) PMP
9 23 (1.60%) CISSP
10 18 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.77%) CISM
13 11 (0.77%) MBA
14 10 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.70%) CRISC
15 9 (0.63%) DV Cleared
16 8 (0.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.43%) QA
2 67 (4.67%) GRC
3 57 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 41 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.65%) NIST
6 33 (2.30%) GDPR
7 27 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 24 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (1.60%) PMO
10 13 (0.91%) SLA
11 11 (0.77%) IFRS
11 11 (0.77%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.21%) GAAP
15 3 (0.21%) ITGC
System Software
1 14 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.56%) Docker
2 8 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) IAG
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (1.39%) Terraform
2 13 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.21%) Ansible
5 3 (0.21%) Grafana
5 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.070%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.070%) Autotask
7 1 (0.070%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (0.070%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.070%) Kibana
7 1 (0.070%) logstash
7 1 (0.070%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 190 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.90%) SAP
3 47 (3.27%) Salesforce
4 41 (2.86%) Databricks
5 29 (2.02%) Oracle
6 28 (1.95%) Dell
7 21 (1.46%) Google
7 21 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.18%) HP
9 13 (0.91%) Adobe
9 13 (0.91%) Sage
10 12 (0.84%) HubSpot
11 10 (0.70%) Foundry
11 10 (0.70%) Workday
12 8 (0.56%) VMware
13 7 (0.49%) IFS
14 6 (0.42%) BMC
14 6 (0.42%) Dell Compellent
14 6 (0.42%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.42%) Nimble Storage