Commercial Awareness
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Commercial Awareness skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Commercial Awareness over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 278 599
Rank change year-on-year -164 +321 -87
Permanent jobs citing Commercial Awareness 557 1,305 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 1.28% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.34% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 208 270 378
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,439 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Commercial Awareness 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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Commercial Awareness as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Commercial Awareness.

Salary trend for Commercial Awareness in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 May 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 -171 459 £52,500 -19.23% 288
UK excluding London -164 439 £50,000 - 237
Work from Home -124 279 £55,000 -26.67% 106
South East -19 116 £50,000 +0.05% 66
North of England -146 111 £43,461 -33.14% 62
North West -15 67 £50,000 - 41
Midlands -85 67 £55,000 +4.76% 41
London -46 62 £86,600 +15.47% 57
East of England -37 59 £55,000 +37.50% 22
West Midlands -23 41 £53,750 -20.37% 25
Yorkshire -102 39 £31,500 -55.00% 17
South West -45 38 £43,000 -7.03% 34
Scotland -62 27 - - 16
East Midlands -64 26 £70,000 +48.94% 16
Northern Ireland +35 13 - - 3
Wales +7 8 - - 3
North East -28 5 £37,500 -61.54% 5

Commercial Awareness
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 9 (1.62%) Office Communications Server
2 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 64 (11.49%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.08%) Trello
6 3 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.54%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.54%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.36%) Avid Media Composer
7 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.18%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 10 (1.80%) Infor SunSystems
1 10 (1.80%) iTrent
2 4 (0.72%) MIS ActiveH
3 2 (0.36%) Primavera
4 1 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (6.10%) Azure
2 22 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (3.77%) AWS
4 15 (2.69%) Power Platform
5 13 (2.33%) SaaS
6 7 (1.26%) Google Docs
6 7 (1.26%) Mimecast
7 6 (1.08%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.08%) Serverless
8 4 (0.72%) GitHub
9 3 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.54%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.36%) PaaS
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.18%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.18%) GCP
11 1 (0.18%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.15%) Internet
2 10 (1.80%) Firewall
2 10 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.62%) VoIP
4 8 (1.44%) Network Security
4 8 (1.44%) VPN
5 7 (1.26%) LAN
5 7 (1.26%) Unified Communications
5 7 (1.26%) WAN
6 6 (1.08%) HTTP
6 6 (1.08%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.72%) Wireless
8 3 (0.54%) BGP
8 3 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.54%) EIGRP
8 3 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.54%) MPLS
8 3 (0.54%) OSPF
8 3 (0.54%) WLAN
9 2 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.80%) BusinessObjects
2 8 (1.44%) Power BI
3 7 (1.26%) Geospatial Data
3 7 (1.26%) GIS
4 5 (0.90%) Tableau
5 4 (0.72%) MySQL
6 3 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.36%) Looker
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (3.95%) JIRA
2 4 (0.72%) ESLint
2 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
3 3 (0.54%) Git
4 2 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.18%) Postman
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 298 (53.50%) Social Skills
2 157 (28.19%) Finance
3 74 (13.29%) Marketing
4 59 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (8.98%) Legal
7 45 (8.08%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (7.54%) Manufacturing
9 38 (6.82%) Retail
10 32 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (5.75%) Telecoms
11 31 (5.57%) Automotive
12 28 (5.03%) Aviation
13 26 (4.67%) Public Sector
14 21 (3.77%) Aerospace
14 21 (3.77%) Billing
15 13 (2.33%) Law
16 12 (2.15%) Games
17 11 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (27.47%) Architect
2 130 (23.34%) Solutions Architect
3 120 (21.54%) Presales Solution Architect
4 62 (11.13%) Project Manager
5 34 (6.10%) Graduate
6 33 (5.92%) Senior
7 30 (5.39%) Consultant
8 28 (5.03%) Developer
9 25 (4.49%) Lead
10 23 (4.13%) Support Engineer
10 23 (4.13%) Technical Engineer
10 23 (4.13%) Technical Support
10 23 (4.13%) Technical Support Engineer
11 20 (3.59%) Senior Manager
12 19 (3.41%) Analyst
13 17 (3.05%) Development Manager
14 16 (2.87%) ServiceNow Architect
15 15 (2.69%) Linux Consultant
16 14 (2.51%) Senior Project Manager
17 13 (2.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.51%) REST
2 8 (1.44%) .NET
3 7 (1.26%) JSON
3 7 (1.26%) Laravel
4 6 (1.08%) CSS
4 6 (1.08%) HTML
4 6 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (0.72%) ADO
5 4 (0.72%) Jest
5 4 (0.72%) React
5 4 (0.72%) Redux
6 3 (0.54%) RESTful
7 2 (0.36%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.36%) Leaflet
8 1 (0.18%) D3.js
8 1 (0.18%) EDI
8 1 (0.18%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.03%) IoT
3 25 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.41%) Client/Server
5 18 (3.23%) Blog
5 18 (3.23%) Raspberry Pi
6 17 (3.05%) Driving Licence
7 16 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.51%) Mobile App
8 14 (2.51%) Social Media
9 8 (1.44%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.26%) e-Health
10 7 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.90%) Housing Association
12 5 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.77%) Linux
2 18 (3.23%) Android
2 18 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 15 (2.69%) Windows
4 10 (1.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (44.17%) Problem-Solving
2 139 (24.96%) Presales
3 124 (22.26%) Business Case
3 124 (22.26%) IT Strategy
4 121 (21.72%) Contract Negotiation
5 118 (21.18%) Analytics
6 116 (20.83%) Technology Strategy
6 116 (20.83%) Thought Leadership
7 115 (20.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 107 (19.21%) Data Analytics
9 104 (18.67%) Actionable Insight
10 98 (17.59%) Coaching
11 95 (17.06%) Project Management
12 91 (16.34%) Agile
13 89 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 85 (15.26%) Customer Service
15 68 (12.21%) Business Development
16 56 (10.05%) Decision-Making
16 56 (10.05%) Project Delivery
17 51 (9.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (3.05%) C
2 12 (2.15%) SQL
3 11 (1.97%) JavaScript
4 9 (1.62%) C++
5 8 (1.44%) Python
6 7 (1.26%) PHP
7 6 (1.08%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.08%) VB
7 6 (1.08%) VB6
8 2 (0.36%) C#
8 2 (0.36%) Java
8 2 (0.36%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 146 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 130 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 105 (18.85%) Degree
4 24 (4.31%) HNC
5 23 (4.13%) ACCA
6 20 (3.59%) HND
7 10 (1.80%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.44%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.44%) RIBA
9 7 (1.26%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.08%) CCNP
10 6 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.90%) MRICS
12 4 (0.72%) CIMA
12 4 (0.72%) CISM
12 4 (0.72%) CISSP
12 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.10%) SLA
2 20 (3.59%) QA
3 11 (1.97%) PMO
4 9 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.44%) GDPR
6 6 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 6 (1.08%) NEBOSH
7 5 (0.90%) GRC
8 4 (0.72%) IFRS
8 4 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.36%) NIST
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.18%) SCCM
2 1 (0.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 89 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.59%) Salesforce
2 20 (3.59%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.41%) CA
3 19 (3.41%) Cisco
4 13 (2.33%) Meraki
4 13 (2.33%) SAP
5 12 (2.15%) Google
6 10 (1.80%) Infor
7 6 (1.08%) Adobe
7 6 (1.08%) Juniper
8 5 (0.90%) Dell
8 5 (0.90%) Genesys
8 5 (0.90%) Openreach
8 5 (0.90%) Thales
8 5 (0.90%) YouTube
9 4 (0.72%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.54%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.54%) IBM
10 3 (0.54%) SolarWinds