IT/Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 219 255
Rank change year-on-year +40 +36 0
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 1,617 1,849 2,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 1.73% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.81% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 938 982 1,479
10th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +12.14% -
75th Percentile £84,964 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,800 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,318 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.32% +20.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

IT 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 83,908 102,297 145,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 95.66% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59,730 59,825 83,628
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy.

Salary trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in the UK

IT 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 IT Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +48 1,397 £65,000 -17.72% 217
UK excluding London -9 968 £56,318 -22.32% 134
Work from Home +45 766 £65,000 -18.24% 88
London +86 548 £80,000 -5.88% 92
North of England +32 282 £57,500 -6.17% 47
South East +4 215 £61,250 -27.94% 22
Midlands +32 172 £55,000 -24.10% 23
North West +1 134 £55,000 -17.21% 27
West Midlands +63 125 £57,500 -20.53% 15
Yorkshire +58 123 £62,500 +4.17% 19
Scotland -61 110 £48,000 -31.43% 10
South West -21 91 £65,000 +25.20% 14
East of England -5 65 £63,750 -27.14% 13
East Midlands -15 45 £49,329 -38.34% 8
North East -3 25 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Northern Ireland +28 16 £37,500 -25.00% 2
Wales -11 15 £51,528 -56.26% 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

IT 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 83 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.86%) Confluence
5 24 (1.48%) CMS
6 23 (1.42%) Apache
7 17 (1.05%) SAS
8 7 (0.43%) IIS
9 5 (0.31%) WordPress
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.25%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
11 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.74%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.68%) Revit
5 9 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (2.29%) Endur
2 15 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.43%) thinkFolio
6 6 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.25%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Payroll
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Magento
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.062%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.062%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.062%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 549 (33.95%) Azure
2 250 (15.46%) Entra ID
3 186 (11.50%) AWS
4 169 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (4.45%) Power Platform
6 42 (2.60%) GCP
6 42 (2.60%) PaaS
6 42 (2.60%) SaaS
7 39 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
8 33 (2.04%) IaaS
9 25 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.36%) GitHub
11 21 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.11%) Serverless
13 17 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.05%) WhatsApp
14 16 (0.99%) OneDrive
15 14 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.80%) Azure Cognitive Services
17 12 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 210 (12.99%) 5G
1 210 (12.99%) Broadband
2 92 (5.69%) Firewall
3 51 (3.15%) WAN
4 50 (3.09%) DNS
5 43 (2.66%) VPN
6 40 (2.47%) DHCP
7 37 (2.29%) LAN
8 34 (2.10%) SAN
8 34 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (1.92%) VLAN
10 27 (1.67%) Network Security
11 23 (1.42%) Unified Communications
11 23 (1.42%) Wireless
12 19 (1.18%) TCP/IP
13 17 (1.05%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.68%) Internet
15 10 (0.62%) MPLS
15 10 (0.62%) VoIP
16 9 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 42 (2.60%) Power BI
4 41 (2.54%) RDBMS
5 36 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 31 (1.92%) Data Mining
8 29 (1.79%) Apache Ignite
8 29 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 28 (1.73%) MySQL
10 22 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.49%) CockroachDB
17 7 (0.43%) Ingres
17 7 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 61 (3.77%) JIRA
2 29 (1.79%) Git
2 29 (1.79%) Maven
3 18 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.49%) Jaeger
4 8 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.37%) RStudio
6 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.31%) JUnit
7 4 (0.25%) GitLab
7 4 (0.25%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.062%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.062%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.062%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.062%) Vagrant
General
1 496 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 423 (26.16%) Analytical Skills
3 363 (22.45%) Finance
4 315 (19.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (6.68%) Marketing
6 86 (5.32%) Law
7 83 (5.13%) Retail
8 81 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
9 71 (4.39%) Public Sector
10 69 (4.27%) Banking
11 68 (4.21%) Games
12 51 (3.15%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.54%) Legal
15 26 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.36%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.18%) Publishing
19 18 (1.11%) Investment Banking
20 17 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 420 (25.97%) Architect
2 302 (18.68%) Senior
3 240 (14.84%) Solutions Architect
4 210 (12.99%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (12.99%) Technical Specialist
5 179 (11.07%) IT Manager
6 159 (9.83%) Lead
7 127 (7.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 127 (7.85%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (7.85%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (7.85%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 115 (7.11%) Presales Solution Architect
9 96 (5.94%) Head of IT
10 83 (5.13%) Developer
11 79 (4.89%) Analyst
12 73 (4.51%) Senior Architect
13 49 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 49 (3.03%) IT Architect
14 43 (2.66%) Lead Architect
15 42 (2.60%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.38%) .NET
2 48 (2.97%) HTML
3 46 (2.84%) Kafka
4 45 (2.78%) React
5 37 (2.29%) Spring Boot
6 32 (1.98%) Spring
7 29 (1.79%) CSS
8 27 (1.67%) .NET Framework
9 26 (1.61%) Middleware
10 22 (1.36%) EDI
10 22 (1.36%) Node.js
11 17 (1.05%) REST
11 17 (1.05%) XML
12 16 (0.99%) JSON
13 14 (0.87%) GraphQL
14 13 (0.80%) .NET Core
15 11 (0.68%) ASP.NET
15 11 (0.68%) Unreal Engine
15 11 (0.68%) V-Ray
16 8 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 210 (12.99%) Social Media
2 95 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 58 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.16%) Swaptions
6 33 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 29 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.36%) FMCG
12 17 (1.05%) IoT
12 17 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (0.93%) Credit Risk
13 15 (0.93%) Cyberattack
13 15 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
14 14 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.87%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.68%) Oculus
Operating Systems
1 269 (16.64%) Linux
2 212 (13.11%) Ubuntu
3 151 (9.34%) Windows
4 71 (4.39%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.80%) Unix
7 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.49%) CentOS
8 7 (0.43%) Debian
8 7 (0.43%) SUSE
9 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.37%) Mac OS X
9 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.25%) VMS
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.062%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 909 (56.22%) Technology Strategy
2 409 (25.29%) Agile
3 394 (24.37%) Cybersecurity
4 342 (21.15%) Roadmaps
5 330 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
6 281 (17.38%) CRM
7 270 (16.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 214 (13.23%) Business Strategy
9 208 (12.86%) Project Management
10 191 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 190 (11.75%) Analytics
12 185 (11.44%) Mentoring
13 170 (10.51%) Business Case
14 152 (9.40%) ITIL
15 145 (8.97%) Strategic Roadmap
16 143 (8.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 143 (8.84%) Presales
17 141 (8.72%) Thought Leadership
18 140 (8.66%) Project Delivery
19 139 (8.60%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 220 (13.61%) Bash
2 119 (7.36%) SQL
3 88 (5.44%) Java
4 70 (4.33%) Python
5 64 (3.96%) C#
5 64 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 44 (2.72%) PowerShell
7 35 (2.16%) VB
8 28 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 25 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.42%) R
11 15 (0.93%) Groovy
12 13 (0.80%) PHP
13 7 (0.43%) C
14 4 (0.25%) RPG
15 3 (0.19%) AWK
15 3 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.19%) sed
16 2 (0.12%) Korn
16 2 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 302 (18.68%) Degree
2 189 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 145 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.92%) CISSP
7 30 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 21 (1.30%) PMP
12 19 (1.18%) DBS Check
13 17 (1.05%) MBA
14 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.68%) AWS Certification
17 10 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (0.56%) MCP
19 7 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (2.78%) QA
3 44 (2.72%) GDPR
4 25 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (1.30%) SLA
6 18 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.93%) CRD IV
7 15 (0.93%) IFRS
7 15 (0.93%) IFRS 9
8 10 (0.62%) NIST
9 9 (0.56%) COBIT
10 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.43%) PMO
11 6 (0.37%) SOC 1
12 5 (0.31%) NCSC
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Infosec
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 307 (18.99%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.24%) Docker
5 6 (0.37%) DFS Replication
6 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.25%) pfSense
8 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.12%) Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.062%) LXC
10 1 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 248 (15.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 211 (13.05%) Jamf Pro
3 43 (2.66%) Kubernetes
4 41 (2.54%) Terraform
5 22 (1.36%) Ansible
6 15 (0.93%) SCCM
7 8 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.49%) Kiali
8 7 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.43%) Puppet
9 6 (0.37%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 5 (0.31%) Grafana
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.31%) SCOM
10 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
11 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Cast Iron
12 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.12%) CASB
Vendors
1 520 (32.16%) Microsoft
2 210 (12.99%) CyberArk
2 210 (12.99%) Tanium
3 102 (6.31%) VMware
4 94 (5.81%) Oracle
5 64 (3.96%) Cisco
6 45 (2.78%) Google
7 35 (2.16%) OpenLink
7 35 (2.16%) Sybase
7 35 (2.16%) TIBCO
8 30 (1.86%) SAP
8 30 (1.86%) Veeam
9 22 (1.36%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.05%) Meraki
11 16 (0.99%) UiPath
12 15 (0.93%) Adobe
12 15 (0.93%) Blue Prism
12 15 (0.93%) Databricks
12 15 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.87%) Citrix