Business Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Strategy over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 165 179 205
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 +45
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,167 2,738 2,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.15% 2.18% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.28% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 622 1,570 1,395
10th Percentile £37,536 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,056 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 28 November 2023.

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 28 November 2023. 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 +17 1,014 £70,000 -2.80% 900
UK excluding London -28 553 £62,500 +4.17% 418
London +43 512 £77,500 -8.82% 522
Work from Home -46 322 £69,263 -1.05% 331
North of England +19 143 £67,500 +12.50% 115
Midlands +20 132 £73,000 +24.26% 66
South East -33 109 £65,000 -7.14% 114
Yorkshire +35 72 £62,500 +4.17% 23
North West +28 68 £67,500 +17.39% 77
West Midlands -11 68 £80,250 +42.04% 43
East Midlands +64 63 £60,000 - 21
South West +11 62 £60,000 +9.09% 44
Wales +19 45 £34,000 -39.19% 8
East of England +32 32 £80,000 +28.00% 38
Scotland -33 28 £83,000 +48.18% 30
Northern Ireland +29 4 £62,500 -24.70% 11
North East +34 3 £107,500 +144.32% 16
Channel Islands - 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 32 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.71%) Confluence
3 19 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.34%) Appian
4 4 (0.34%) CMS
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.17%) Apache
6 2 (0.17%) CICS
6 2 (0.17%) MS Exchange
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.086%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.086%) Drupal
7 1 (0.086%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.086%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 220 (18.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (15.25%) Microsoft Office
3 171 (14.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.17%) 3ds Max
6 2 (0.17%) Blender
6 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.17%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 13 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.34%) Primavera
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.17%) Demantra
6 2 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle ASCP
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 50
6 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.086%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.086%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.086%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.086%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.086%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 216 (18.51%) Azure
2 128 (10.97%) Power Platform
3 96 (8.23%) AWS
4 58 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (3.51%) SaaS
7 32 (2.74%) GCP
8 27 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
8 27 (2.31%) IaaS
8 27 (2.31%) PaaS
9 25 (2.14%) Serverless
10 19 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (1.37%) Entra ID
12 11 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (0.86%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.86%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
14 8 (0.69%) Yammer
15 7 (0.60%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.54%) Network Security
2 12 (1.03%) Internet
3 10 (0.86%) Firewall
3 10 (0.86%) VPN
4 9 (0.77%) WAN
5 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.43%) LAN
6 5 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.26%) DHCP
8 3 (0.26%) DNS
9 2 (0.17%) Converged Networks
9 2 (0.17%) Intranet
9 2 (0.17%) SAN
9 2 (0.17%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.17%) VoIP
9 2 (0.17%) Wireless
9 2 (0.17%) WPA
10 1 (0.086%) MPLS
10 1 (0.086%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.37%) Power BI
2 59 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.49%) Tableau
4 24 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
6 19 (1.63%) Data Mining
6 19 (1.63%) Hadoop
7 17 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 17 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.37%) Metadata
9 15 (1.29%) MS Access
9 15 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.77%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.69%) MySQL
12 7 (0.60%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (0.51%) DB2
Development Applications
1 35 (3.00%) JIRA
2 28 (2.40%) Git
3 11 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.60%) Maven
6 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.17%) JUnit
7 2 (0.17%) TestRail
7 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.086%) ERwin
8 1 (0.086%) Postman
8 1 (0.086%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 443 (37.96%) Finance
2 405 (34.70%) Social Skills
3 196 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (16.02%) Banking
5 152 (13.02%) Retail
6 120 (10.28%) Investment Banking
7 89 (7.63%) Marketing
8 78 (6.68%) Legal
9 71 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 64 (5.48%) Public Sector
11 43 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (3.08%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.57%) Law
13 30 (2.57%) Manufacturing
14 28 (2.40%) Electronics
14 28 (2.40%) Local Government
15 27 (2.31%) Aerospace
16 24 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (1.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 281 (24.08%) Analyst
2 225 (19.28%) Architect
3 146 (12.51%) Senior
4 118 (10.11%) Strategy Analyst
5 117 (10.03%) Business Strategy Analyst
6 112 (9.60%) Lead
7 76 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
8 73 (6.26%) Business Analyst
9 60 (5.14%) Business Manager
10 53 (4.54%) Developer
11 49 (4.20%) Development Manager
12 47 (4.03%) Enterprise Architect
13 40 (3.43%) IT Manager
14 39 (3.34%) Business Development Manager
15 37 (3.17%) Data Architect
16 36 (3.08%) Technical Architect
17 34 (2.91%) Consultant
18 32 (2.74%) Data Engineer
19 30 (2.57%) Senior Data Engineer
19 30 (2.57%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.88%) .NET
2 36 (3.08%) REST
3 24 (2.06%) Kafka
4 21 (1.80%) Spring
5 19 (1.63%) RESTful
6 18 (1.54%) Hibernate
7 16 (1.37%) CSS
7 16 (1.37%) Middleware
8 15 (1.29%) HTML
9 14 (1.20%) React
9 14 (1.20%) SOAP
10 12 (1.03%) AngularJS
11 11 (0.94%) JDBC
11 11 (0.94%) Struts
12 8 (0.69%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.60%) Apache Camel
13 7 (0.60%) JPA
13 7 (0.60%) JSON
13 7 (0.60%) Node.js
14 4 (0.34%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 218 (18.68%) Self-Motivation
2 85 (7.28%) Management Information System
3 59 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.40%) Taxonomies
7 26 (2.23%) Low-Code
8 25 (2.14%) IoT
9 20 (1.71%) NHS
10 17 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.46%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.11%) Social Media
13 12 (1.03%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.03%) Housing Association
13 12 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.94%) Mainframe
15 10 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.89%) Windows
2 12 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 12 (1.03%) Linux
3 11 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.77%) Android
5 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.34%) CentOS
6 4 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.17%) zOS
8 1 (0.086%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (27.85%) Agile
2 254 (21.77%) Roadmaps
3 253 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
4 200 (17.14%) IT Strategy
5 176 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 166 (14.22%) Project Delivery
7 156 (13.37%) Analytics
8 147 (12.60%) Decision-Making
8 147 (12.60%) DevOps
9 143 (12.25%) Creative Thinking
10 139 (11.91%) Enterprise Architecture
11 138 (11.83%) Benchmarking
12 128 (10.97%) Asset Management
13 126 (10.80%) Planning and Forecasting
13 126 (10.80%) Project Management
14 122 (10.45%) Technology Strategy
15 119 (10.20%) Business Forecasting
16 118 (10.11%) Competitor Analysis
17 117 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
18 116 (9.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 117 (10.03%) SQL
2 80 (6.86%) C#
3 68 (5.83%) Python
4 52 (4.46%) Java
5 40 (3.43%) JavaScript
6 26 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.20%) R
8 11 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.77%) COBOL
9 9 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.69%) Bicep
10 8 (0.69%) VBA
11 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.43%) JCL
12 4 (0.34%) PHP
13 3 (0.26%) Bash
13 3 (0.26%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.26%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 3 (0.26%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 272 (23.31%) Degree
2 97 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 61 (5.23%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 34 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 30 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.23%) CISSP
8 23 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.37%) PMP
11 14 (1.20%) MBA
12 13 (1.11%) PMI Certification
13 12 (1.03%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.94%) ISSAP
15 8 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 7 (0.60%) CISM
17 5 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.43%) MCSA
18 4 (0.34%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.57%) PMO
2 26 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (2.14%) QA
4 15 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 10 (0.86%) COBIT
6 10 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.86%) GDPR
6 10 (0.86%) GRC
6 10 (0.86%) SLA
7 9 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.60%) NIST
9 6 (0.51%) IFRS
10 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.17%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.17%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.086%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.94%) Docker
4 7 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (0.34%) IAG
7 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.17%) RACF
9 1 (0.086%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.086%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.086%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.086%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (1.20%) Kubernetes
1 14 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (0.77%) SCCM
4 8 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.17%) MAINVIEW
6 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.17%) Terraform
7 1 (0.086%) Ansible
7 1 (0.086%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.086%) Salt
7 1 (0.086%) SCOM
7 1 (0.086%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.086%) VxRail
Vendors
1 397 (34.02%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.49%) SAP
3 27 (2.31%) Salesforce
3 27 (2.31%) YouTube
4 24 (2.06%) Google
5 17 (1.46%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.46%) VMware
6 14 (1.20%) Informatica
6 14 (1.20%) Sparx
7 13 (1.11%) Intel
7 13 (1.11%) Oracle
8 12 (1.03%) Citrix
9 11 (0.94%) IBM
10 9 (0.77%) Advent
11 7 (0.60%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.60%) Cadence
11 7 (0.60%) FactSet
11 7 (0.60%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.60%) NEC
11 7 (0.60%) OpenAI