Commercial Awareness Job Trends

Commercial Awareness
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 380 327
Rank change year-on-year +183 -53 +154
Permanent jobs citing Commercial Awareness 1,067 333 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 0.67% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.75% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 615 201 148
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +31.25% -11.11% -17.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Commercial Awareness 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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Commercial Awareness.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Commercial Awareness in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Commercial Awareness within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +181 918 £55,000 +37.50% 819
UK excluding London +125 724 £52,500 +31.25% 618
Work from Home +147 313 £60,000 -6.98% 357
London +137 232 £75,000 +15.38% 293
North of England +66 179 £55,000 +37.50% 158
South East +74 160 £57,500 +43.75% 184
Midlands +80 154 £45,000 +5.88% 99
East of England +19 93 £47,500 -13.64% 61
South West -44 83 £53,000 +65.63% 75
West Midlands +24 80 £42,500 - 60
North West +22 75 £55,000 +37.50% 83
East Midlands +41 74 £45,000 -0.55% 39
Yorkshire +32 60 £62,500 +11.11% 52
North East -17 44 £50,000 +25.00% 24
Scotland +41 36 £57,500 -39.47% 27
Northern Ireland -63 12 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Wales -60 8 £55,000 -13.73% 14

Commercial Awareness
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 15 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.66%) WordPress
3 5 (0.47%) CMS
3 5 (0.47%) Confluence
4 3 (0.28%) SAS
5 1 (0.094%) OpenStack
Applications
1 49 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.28%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.094%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.69%) NetSuite
2 16 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
3 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.47%) Shopify
4 4 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.28%) Magento
5 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.28%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.094%) Odoo
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.094%) Primavera
6 1 (0.094%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 125 (11.72%) SaaS
2 70 (6.56%) Azure
3 56 (5.25%) Power Platform
4 45 (4.22%) AWS
5 41 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (1.87%) IaaS
7 19 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (1.41%) GCP
9 14 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (0.84%) GitHub
11 9 (0.84%) PaaS
12 8 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (0.66%) Google Analytics
13 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.56%) Google Ads
15 5 (0.47%) Bloomreach
15 5 (0.47%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
16 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.97%) Firewall
2 13 (1.22%) LAN
3 11 (1.03%) Network Security
4 10 (0.94%) VPN
5 9 (0.84%) WAN
5 9 (0.84%) Wireless
6 8 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.47%) SMS
8 5 (0.47%) WLAN
9 4 (0.37%) Broadband
9 4 (0.37%) DHCP
9 4 (0.37%) DNS
9 4 (0.37%) Internet
9 4 (0.37%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.37%) VLAN
10 3 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.094%) DWDM
11 1 (0.094%) SNMP
11 1 (0.094%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.47%) Electronic Patient Records
1 37 (3.47%) Power BI
2 15 (1.41%) Tableau
3 8 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.28%) ClickHouse
4 3 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.28%) GIS
4 3 (0.28%) Looker
4 3 (0.28%) MariaDB
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.28%) SAP BW
4 3 (0.28%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
5 1 (0.094%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.094%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.094%) MySQL
5 1 (0.094%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.094%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (1.22%) JIRA
2 8 (0.75%) Git
3 7 (0.66%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.28%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.094%) MLflow
General
1 506 (47.42%) Social Skills
2 397 (37.21%) Finance
3 151 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (10.68%) Organisational Skills
5 113 (10.59%) Marketing
6 109 (10.22%) Law
7 97 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 87 (8.15%) Presentation Skills
9 84 (7.87%) Telecoms
10 73 (6.84%) Retail
11 70 (6.56%) Legal
12 64 (6.00%) Manufacturing
13 61 (5.72%) Back Office
14 59 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
15 57 (5.34%) Military
16 54 (5.06%) Public Sector
17 34 (3.19%) Automotive
18 27 (2.53%) Local Government
19 19 (1.78%) Advertising
20 16 (1.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 154 (14.43%) Consultant
2 106 (9.93%) Project Manager
3 100 (9.37%) Senior
4 78 (7.31%) Development Manager
5 74 (6.94%) Business Manager
6 70 (6.56%) Lead
7 68 (6.37%) Business Development Manager
8 55 (5.15%) Account Manager
9 52 (4.87%) Presales Consultant
10 46 (4.31%) Architect
11 40 (3.75%) Recruitment Consultant
12 38 (3.56%) Senior Manager
13 35 (3.28%) Analyst
14 33 (3.09%) Technical Engineer
15 29 (2.72%) Commercial Manager
16 26 (2.44%) IT Manager
16 26 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.16%) Data Centre Manager
17 23 (2.16%) Senior Consultant
18 22 (2.06%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.94%) .NET
2 9 (0.84%) Middleware
3 5 (0.47%) CSS
3 5 (0.47%) HTML
4 4 (0.37%) Flash
4 4 (0.37%) OpenID
4 4 (0.37%) SAML
5 3 (0.28%) LAMP
5 3 (0.28%) Matplotlib
5 3 (0.28%) PySpark
5 3 (0.28%) REST
5 3 (0.28%) Sass
5 3 (0.28%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.19%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.19%) Jakarta EE
6 2 (0.19%) Node.js
6 2 (0.19%) SOAP
6 2 (0.19%) Spring
6 2 (0.19%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (11.25%) Driving Licence
2 99 (9.28%) Self-Motivation
3 54 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 45 (4.22%) NHS
5 43 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 38 (3.56%) SystemC
7 34 (3.19%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.53%) Product Ownership
9 20 (1.87%) Web Conferencing
10 17 (1.59%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
11 15 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.12%) Social Media
13 10 (0.94%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.94%) IoT
14 9 (0.84%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.75%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.06%) Windows
2 12 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.47%) Android
3 5 (0.47%) Linux
4 3 (0.28%) Debian
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 244 (22.87%) Decision-Making
3 239 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 224 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
5 222 (20.81%) Business Development
6 166 (15.56%) CRM
7 150 (14.06%) Agile
8 136 (12.75%) Presales
9 124 (11.62%) AI
10 117 (10.97%) Project Management
11 107 (10.03%) Project Delivery
12 102 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 99 (9.28%) Roadmaps
14 97 (9.09%) Mentoring
15 96 (9.00%) Analytics
16 86 (8.06%) B2B
17 82 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
18 81 (7.59%) Strategic Thinking
19 80 (7.50%) Customer Engagement
20 79 (7.40%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (3.47%) SQL
2 27 (2.53%) Python
3 11 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 9 (0.84%) C#
5 7 (0.66%) PHP
6 5 (0.47%) Java
7 4 (0.37%) R
8 3 (0.28%) C++
8 3 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.19%) XPath
10 1 (0.094%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.094%) F#
10 1 (0.094%) Scala
10 1 (0.094%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (13.31%) Degree
2 76 (7.12%) Security Cleared
3 35 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.19%) ACCA
5 23 (2.16%) HNC
6 22 (2.06%) CIMA
7 19 (1.78%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.12%) CISSP
12 11 (1.03%) HND
13 10 (0.94%) CISA
13 10 (0.94%) CISM
13 10 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.84%) PMP
15 8 (0.75%) CRISC
15 8 (0.75%) RIBA
16 7 (0.66%) ISACA
16 7 (0.66%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (2.72%) Data Quality
2 29 (2.72%) GDPR
3 25 (2.34%) NIST
4 23 (2.16%) QA
5 17 (1.59%) ISO 14000
5 17 (1.59%) PMO
6 16 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.50%) SLA
7 15 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.31%) IFRS
8 14 (1.31%) ISO 9001
9 12 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.84%) GRC
11 7 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.66%) COBIT
11 7 (0.66%) ISO 14001
11 7 (0.66%) SOC 1
11 7 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 18 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.94%) Hyper-V
2 10 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.37%) Functional Safety
2 4 (0.37%) Terraform
3 3 (0.28%) Puppet
4 2 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.094%) Autotask
5 1 (0.094%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.094%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.094%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 182 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.72%) NEC
3 27 (2.53%) SAP
4 26 (2.44%) Google
5 22 (2.06%) Workday
6 20 (1.87%) Cisco
7 17 (1.59%) HubSpot
7 17 (1.59%) Oracle
8 15 (1.41%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.03%) Palo Alto
9 11 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.03%) VMware
10 9 (0.84%) Meraki
10 9 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.75%) Juniper
12 7 (0.66%) Citrix
13 5 (0.47%) Aruba
13 5 (0.47%) Sage
13 5 (0.47%) Screaming Frog
14 4 (0.37%) TikTok