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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 161 174
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +46
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,845 2,422 3,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 2.30% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.41% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,207 1,567
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,469 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,925 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,900 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +4.35% -1.71%

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 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Top 19 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 25 April 2024. 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 +9 1,575 £65,000 -7.14% 564
UK excluding London -15 1,118 £58,900 -1.83% 339
Work from Home -6 631 £60,394 -10.53% 216
London +23 610 £80,000 -3.03% 235
North of England +13 323 £60,000 - 88
South East -28 234 £57,500 -11.54% 85
South West +44 185 £62,500 +13.64% 41
North West +16 180 £60,000 - 58
Midlands -50 177 £62,500 +30.21% 69
Scotland -8 133 £47,500 -34.48% 17
Yorkshire +36 114 £62,500 +1.63% 27
West Midlands -68 99 £60,600 +34.67% 44
East Midlands -9 78 £62,500 +11.11% 25
East of England -22 31 £55,000 -29.03% 40
North East +12 29 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Wales -17 20 £46,350 +3.00% 8
Northern Ireland +18 12 £58,800 - 6
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 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 43 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.73%) Confluence
4 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.60%) SAS
6 6 (0.33%) Apache
6 6 (0.33%) nginx
7 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) CICS
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Luigi
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 163 (8.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (8.56%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.16%) SPSS
6 2 (0.11%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.054%) Revit
7 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (2.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 35 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.38%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.22%) SAP APO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.22%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.16%) Shopify
11 2 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.11%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 324 (17.56%) Azure
2 265 (14.36%) AWS
3 137 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
4 126 (6.83%) GCP
5 121 (6.56%) Power Platform
6 97 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 97 (5.26%) SaaS
7 58 (3.14%) PaaS
8 56 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
9 53 (2.87%) IaaS
10 38 (2.06%) Figma
11 32 (1.73%) SurveyMonkey
12 25 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 17 (0.92%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.81%) Entra ID
15 15 (0.81%) Power Automate
16 14 (0.76%) Google Analytics
17 12 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
17 12 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.95%) Firewall
2 25 (1.36%) Network Security
3 21 (1.14%) WAN
4 20 (1.08%) LAN
5 14 (0.76%) MPLS
6 11 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.49%) Internet
7 9 (0.49%) VPN
8 5 (0.27%) DNS
9 4 (0.22%) ADSL
9 4 (0.22%) Broadband
9 4 (0.22%) SAN
9 4 (0.22%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.22%) WLAN
10 3 (0.16%) BGP
10 3 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.16%) OSPF
10 3 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (6.50%) Tableau
2 92 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (4.12%) BigQuery
4 73 (3.96%) Looker
5 72 (3.90%) Power BI
6 44 (2.38%) Data Mining
7 36 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
8 33 (1.79%) SQL Server
9 32 (1.73%) Hadoop
10 30 (1.63%) Data Lake
11 29 (1.57%) Apache Ignite
12 19 (1.03%) Big Data
12 19 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.54%) Metadata
13 10 (0.54%) MySQL
13 10 (0.54%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.54%) QlikView
14 9 (0.49%) GIS
14 9 (0.49%) NoSQL
15 8 (0.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 88 (4.77%) Git
2 43 (2.33%) JIRA
3 11 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.43%) Jaeger
4 8 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.16%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.11%) Maven
6 2 (0.11%) MLflow
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.054%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.054%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.054%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.054%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 619 (33.55%) Finance
2 467 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 455 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (11.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 212 (11.49%) Marketing
6 173 (9.38%) Retail
7 158 (8.56%) Banking
8 152 (8.24%) Public Sector
9 139 (7.53%) Law
10 119 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
11 101 (5.47%) Investment Banking
12 100 (5.42%) Legal
13 82 (4.44%) Billing
14 53 (2.87%) Police
15 49 (2.66%) Manufacturing
16 48 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
17 39 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.73%) Social Science
19 24 (1.30%) Telecoms
20 18 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 362 (19.62%) Analyst
2 360 (19.51%) Architect
3 283 (15.34%) Senior
4 246 (13.33%) Lead
5 138 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
6 121 (6.56%) Data Analyst
7 103 (5.58%) Data Manager
8 97 (5.26%) Business Manager
9 86 (4.66%) Senior Architect
10 85 (4.61%) Strategy Analyst
11 84 (4.55%) Business Strategy Analyst
12 83 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
13 81 (4.39%) Project Manager
14 77 (4.17%) Consultant
15 73 (3.96%) Engineering Manager
16 59 (3.20%) Enterprise Architect
17 56 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
18 51 (2.76%) Developer
19 50 (2.71%) Business Analyst
20 49 (2.66%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (4.50%) .NET
2 37 (2.01%) Kafka
3 35 (1.90%) Middleware
4 31 (1.68%) React
5 16 (0.87%) CSS
5 16 (0.87%) HTML
6 15 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 12 (0.65%) EDI
7 12 (0.65%) RESTful
7 12 (0.65%) XML
8 11 (0.60%) JSON
8 11 (0.60%) Spring Boot
9 10 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (0.49%) REST
11 8 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (0.43%) SOAP
12 7 (0.38%) Pandas
12 7 (0.38%) Web Services
13 6 (0.33%) ASP.NET
13 6 (0.33%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
2 138 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 107 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 69 (3.74%) Virtual Team
5 51 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 43 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 33 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 31 (1.68%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.03%) Taxonomies
13 17 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (0.87%) Market Risk
15 14 (0.76%) Blog
15 14 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (0.76%) Social Media
16 13 (0.70%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.44%) Windows
2 37 (2.01%) Linux
3 12 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.33%) Unix
5 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.16%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (24.28%) Agile
2 432 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
3 357 (19.35%) Roadmaps
4 344 (18.64%) Project Management
5 272 (14.74%) Analytics
6 229 (12.41%) Actionable Insight
7 225 (12.20%) Decision-Making
8 212 (11.49%) IT Strategy
9 206 (11.17%) Enterprise Architecture
10 200 (10.84%) Business Development
11 198 (10.73%) DevOps
12 184 (9.97%) Technology Strategy
13 171 (9.27%) Mentoring
14 153 (8.29%) Mathematics
15 150 (8.13%) Visualisation
16 148 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
17 145 (7.86%) Data Modelling
18 144 (7.80%) Data Analysis
19 141 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
20 139 (7.53%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (13.71%) SQL
2 161 (8.73%) Python
3 55 (2.98%) R
4 41 (2.22%) C#
5 35 (1.90%) Java
6 32 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 17 (0.92%) Bash
9 15 (0.81%) PL/SQL
9 15 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.60%) Bicep
10 11 (0.60%) PHP
11 10 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.54%) VBA
12 5 (0.27%) C
12 5 (0.27%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.27%) XAML
13 4 (0.22%) RPG
14 3 (0.16%) JCL
14 3 (0.16%) REXX
Qualifications
1 498 (26.99%) Degree
2 198 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 162 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.44%) DBS Check
5 75 (4.07%) Master's Degree
6 70 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 40 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 36 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.73%) PhD
10 27 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (1.41%) CISSP
12 23 (1.25%) PMP
13 19 (1.03%) MBA
14 17 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.76%) APMG
16 12 (0.65%) Azure Certification
16 12 (0.65%) CISM
17 10 (0.54%) ACCA
17 10 (0.54%) CISA
18 9 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.69%) QA
2 51 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.06%) GDPR
5 19 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.98%) NIST
7 16 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.87%) ISO 9001
8 10 (0.54%) PMO
8 10 (0.54%) SLA
9 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.43%) GRC
10 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.33%) COBIT
11 6 (0.33%) ISO 9000
12 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.27%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 33 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.70%) Docker
3 11 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.16%) RACF
6 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.054%) LXC
Systems Management
1 19 (1.03%) Terraform
2 17 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.43%) Kiali
5 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.16%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.16%) MAINVIEW
8 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.16%) Puppet
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.054%) SCCM
Vendors
1 399 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 143 (7.75%) Google
3 103 (5.58%) Salesforce
4 79 (4.28%) Databricks
5 75 (4.07%) SAP
6 55 (2.98%) Oracle
7 37 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.01%) Sparx
8 32 (1.73%) Qualtrics
9 15 (0.81%) Adobe
9 15 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 15 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
9 15 (0.81%) IBM
10 14 (0.76%) CA
10 14 (0.76%) Juniper
10 14 (0.76%) YouTube
11 12 (0.65%) Splunk
11 12 (0.65%) VMware
12 11 (0.60%) Cisco
12 11 (0.60%) NetApp