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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 158 164
Rank change year-on-year +71 +6 +11
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,556 1,746 2,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 1.88% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 2.17% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 471 906 1,268
10th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £48,250 £50,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.42% +2.22%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £100,000 £115,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £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 3 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 3 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 +78 1,391 £65,449 +0.69% 1,951
UK excluding London +48 748 £60,000 - 816
London +65 715 £85,000 +6.25% 1,320
Work from Home +9 270 £72,500 +16.00% 810
North of England +21 220 £57,836 -7.46% 224
North West +26 180 £57,836 -7.46% 141
South East +58 164 £70,000 +21.74% 236
East of England +135 117 £50,500 -8.18% 82
Midlands +10 105 £64,750 -0.38% 106
Scotland +70 78 £70,000 +47.37% 86
West Midlands +5 63 £72,500 +11.54% 59
South West +10 52 £62,500 - 63
East Midlands +21 42 £42,500 -36.33% 47
Yorkshire +12 31 £55,000 -12.00% 66
North East +22 7 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Northern Ireland +32 6 £59,430 -3.99% 11
Wales +28 5 £74,715 +61.20% 16
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 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.74%) Confluence
3 18 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.96%) 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 (0.064%) Apache
10 1 (0.064%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.064%) Solana
Applications
1 462 (29.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 62 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.48%) Maya
5 10 (0.64%) 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 (0.064%) Notion
11 1 (0.064%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.09%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 17 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.19%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.13%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.13%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.064%) iTrent
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.064%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 153 (9.83%) Azure
2 104 (6.68%) Power Platform
3 83 (5.33%) AWS
4 51 (3.28%) SaaS
5 34 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
6 33 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.54%) 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
11 12 (0.77%) Boomi
12 10 (0.64%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 9 (0.58%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (0.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.09%) 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 83 (5.33%) Power BI
2 74 (4.76%) Tableau
3 40 (2.57%) Data Lake
4 36 (2.31%) Big Data
5 26 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.22%) Metadata
9 10 (0.64%) Data Vault
9 10 (0.64%) 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
12 6 (0.39%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.26%) Data Mart
14 4 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 30 (1.93%) JIRA
2 7 (0.45%) Git
3 4 (0.26%) GitLab
4 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.064%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.064%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.064%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.064%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.064%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.064%) Visual Studio
General
1 933 (59.96%) Social Skills
2 900 (57.84%) Finance
3 629 (40.42%) Analytical Skills
4 510 (32.78%) Banking
5 480 (30.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 445 (28.60%) French Language
7 436 (28.02%) Financial Institution
7 436 (28.02%) German Language
8 172 (11.05%) Law
9 168 (10.80%) Marketing
10 73 (4.69%) Legal
11 71 (4.56%) Manufacturing
12 64 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (2.89%) Games
14 45 (2.89%) Retail
15 33 (2.12%) Electronics
16 31 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.80%) Advertising
18 26 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 543 (34.90%) Analyst
2 438 (28.15%) Credit Analyst
3 436 (28.02%) Research Analyst
4 187 (12.02%) Lead
5 184 (11.83%) Architect
6 147 (9.45%) Business Manager
7 130 (8.35%) Senior
8 107 (6.88%) Development Manager
9 105 (6.75%) Business Development Manager
10 74 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
11 58 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
12 47 (3.02%) Lead Architect
13 46 (2.96%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
14 32 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 30 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
16 29 (1.86%) Business Analyst
16 29 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 28 (1.80%) Salesforce Architect
18 26 (1.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.67%) Middleware
1 26 (1.67%) REST
2 24 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
3 23 (1.48%) SOAP
4 17 (1.09%) .NET
5 11 (0.71%) Kafka
6 8 (0.51%) EDI
6 8 (0.51%) PySpark
6 8 (0.51%) React
7 5 (0.32%) RESTful
8 4 (0.26%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.26%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.19%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.19%) FastAPI
9 3 (0.19%) Flask
9 3 (0.19%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (0.19%) XGBoost
10 2 (0.13%) CSS
10 2 (0.13%) HTML
10 2 (0.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 436 (28.02%) Credit Risk
2 435 (27.96%) Fixed Income
3 97 (6.23%) Management Information System
4 61 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (2.25%) Social Media
8 31 (1.99%) FMCG
9 27 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 26 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 25 (1.61%) PMI
12 19 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.03%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.77%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.71%) Blockchain
15 11 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (0.58%) Virtual Team
18 8 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
18 8 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.15%) Windows
2 28 (1.80%) 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 (40.81%) Decision-Making
2 590 (37.92%) Risk Management
3 457 (29.37%) Financial Modelling
4 451 (28.98%) Portfolio Management
5 449 (28.86%) Asset Management
6 443 (28.47%) Risk Assessment
7 436 (28.02%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 291 (18.70%) Agile
9 271 (17.42%) Roadmaps
10 252 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 233 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
12 205 (13.17%) Analytics
13 203 (13.05%) Project Management
14 186 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 170 (10.93%) Business Development
16 162 (10.41%) Mentoring
17 124 (7.97%) IT Strategy
18 123 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
19 112 (7.20%) Strategic Thinking
20 111 (7.13%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 89 (5.72%) SQL
2 71 (4.56%) Python
3 33 (2.12%) Java
4 23 (1.48%) C
5 22 (1.41%) Apex Code
6 19 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 15 (0.96%) 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 (0.064%) Bash
12 1 (0.064%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.064%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.064%) Ruby
12 1 (0.064%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 748 (48.07%) Degree
2 500 (32.13%) Master's Degree
3 449 (28.86%) CFA
4 66 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.28%) DBS Check
7 39 (2.51%) HND
7 39 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 34 (2.19%) PMP
9 32 (2.06%) Security Cleared
10 27 (1.74%) ACCA
11 24 (1.54%) CIMA
12 16 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.96%) SC Cleared
14 10 (0.64%) CCAB
14 10 (0.64%) CIPFA
14 10 (0.64%) ICAEW
15 9 (0.58%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
16 8 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 31 (1.99%) GDPR
3 22 (1.41%) PCI DSS
4 21 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 18 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.03%) PMO
8 11 (0.71%) QA
8 11 (0.71%) SLA
9 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.45%) NIST
10 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.32%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
12 2 (0.13%) ITGC
12 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.064%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.064%) COBIT
13 1 (0.064%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 23 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
2 18 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.19%) Docker
5 3 (0.19%) Samba
5 3 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (1.35%) Terraform
2 16 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 10 (0.64%) SCCM
5 4 (0.26%) Ansible
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.13%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.064%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.064%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.064%) Grafana
8 1 (0.064%) Nessus
8 1 (0.064%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.064%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.064%) Puppet
Vendors
1 435 (27.96%) Bloomberg
2 199 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 48 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 45 (2.89%) YouTube
5 43 (2.76%) SAP
6 36 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.99%) 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 (1.22%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.09%) Dell
14 16 (1.03%) VMware
15 14 (0.90%) Citrix
16 10 (0.64%) Adobe
16 10 (0.64%) Google
16 10 (0.64%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.51%) SolarWinds