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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 219 255
Rank change year-on-year +42 +36 +5
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 1,620 1,842 2,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.76% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.84% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 936 969 1,466
10th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £117,800 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.69% +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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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%

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 26 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 26 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 +41 1,400 £65,000 -18.75% 218
UK excluding London -13 973 £57,500 -20.69% 138
Work from Home +47 768 £65,000 -18.75% 77
London +81 547 £80,973 -4.74% 97
North of England +26 284 £57,500 -6.17% 44
South East +14 216 £63,750 -22.73% 30
Midlands +25 174 £55,000 -25.09% 20
North West +3 135 £55,000 -17.81% 23
West Midlands +48 127 £57,500 -17.86% 12
Yorkshire +64 124 £62,500 +4.17% 16
Scotland -56 111 £49,000 -30.00% 11
South West -28 92 £65,000 +25.20% 11
East of England -12 64 £65,000 -25.71% 16
East Midlands -20 45 £49,329 -38.34% 8
North East +4 25 £47,500 -17.75% 5
Northern Ireland +25 16 £37,500 -25.00% 3
Wales -13 14 £51,528 -56.26% 3
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 82 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (3.58%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.85%) 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%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.68%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.62%) Revit
5 9 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 37 (2.28%) Endur
2 16 (0.99%) 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%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.25%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Magento
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.062%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.062%) Primavera
10 1 (0.062%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 545 (33.64%) Azure
2 251 (15.49%) Entra ID
3 185 (11.42%) AWS
4 163 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 42 (2.59%) GCP
6 42 (2.59%) SaaS
7 39 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
7 39 (2.41%) PaaS
8 30 (1.85%) IaaS
9 26 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (1.54%) GitHub
11 19 (1.17%) 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 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.80%) Azure Cognitive Services
16 13 (0.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 210 (12.96%) 5G
1 210 (12.96%) Broadband
2 91 (5.62%) Firewall
3 52 (3.21%) WAN
4 47 (2.90%) DNS
5 40 (2.47%) VPN
6 37 (2.28%) LAN
7 36 (2.22%) DHCP
8 32 (1.98%) SAN
8 32 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (1.73%) VLAN
10 27 (1.67%) Network Security
11 23 (1.42%) Unified Communications
12 22 (1.36%) Wireless
13 18 (1.11%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.99%) TCP/IP
15 11 (0.68%) Internet
16 10 (0.62%) MPLS
16 10 (0.62%) VoIP
17 9 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.07%) Relational Database
3 41 (2.53%) RDBMS
4 40 (2.47%) Power BI
5 36 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 31 (1.91%) Data Mining
8 30 (1.85%) MySQL
9 29 (1.79%) Apache Ignite
9 29 (1.79%) Hadoop
10 23 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.23%) NoSQL
11 20 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.86%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.49%) CockroachDB
16 7 (0.43%) Ingres
16 7 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 61 (3.77%) JIRA
2 29 (1.79%) Git
3 28 (1.73%) Maven
4 18 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.49%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.37%) RStudio
7 5 (0.31%) GitLab
7 5 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.12%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.12%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.062%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.062%) Vagrant
General
1 501 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 420 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 361 (22.28%) Finance
4 315 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 110 (6.79%) Marketing
6 86 (5.31%) Law
7 84 (5.19%) Retail
8 81 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 71 (4.38%) Banking
10 68 (4.20%) Public Sector
11 67 (4.14%) Games
12 50 (3.09%) Manufacturing
13 44 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.35%) Legal
15 26 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.42%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.17%) Publishing
18 18 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 420 (25.93%) Architect
2 299 (18.46%) Senior
3 238 (14.69%) Solutions Architect
4 210 (12.96%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (12.96%) Technical Specialist
5 177 (10.93%) IT Manager
6 163 (10.06%) Lead
7 127 (7.84%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 127 (7.84%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (7.84%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (7.84%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 115 (7.10%) Presales Solution Architect
9 98 (6.05%) Head of IT
10 83 (5.12%) Developer
11 79 (4.88%) Analyst
12 72 (4.44%) Senior Architect
13 48 (2.96%) IT Architect
14 45 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 43 (2.65%) Lead Architect
16 41 (2.53%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (5.49%) .NET
2 51 (3.15%) HTML
3 46 (2.84%) Kafka
4 44 (2.72%) React
5 37 (2.28%) Spring Boot
6 32 (1.98%) CSS
7 31 (1.91%) Spring
8 27 (1.67%) .NET Framework
9 24 (1.48%) Middleware
10 23 (1.42%) Node.js
11 22 (1.36%) EDI
12 18 (1.11%) REST
13 17 (1.05%) XML
14 16 (0.99%) JSON
15 14 (0.86%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.74%) .NET Core
17 11 (0.68%) ASP.NET
18 10 (0.62%) Unreal Engine
18 10 (0.62%) V-Ray
19 8 (0.49%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (12.96%) Social Media
2 94 (5.80%) Management Information System
3 58 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.16%) Swaptions
6 31 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 28 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 26 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 23 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.30%) FMCG
12 17 (1.05%) IoT
12 17 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
13 16 (0.99%) Cyberattack
14 15 (0.93%) Credit Risk
14 15 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
14 15 (0.93%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 271 (16.73%) Linux
2 212 (13.09%) Ubuntu
3 147 (9.07%) Windows
4 70 (4.32%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.48%) 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
10 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.25%) VMS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.062%) Android
14 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (56.73%) Technology Strategy
2 409 (25.25%) Agile
3 393 (24.26%) Cybersecurity
4 343 (21.17%) Roadmaps
5 334 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
6 283 (17.47%) CRM
7 272 (16.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 212 (13.09%) Business Strategy
9 208 (12.84%) Project Management
10 190 (11.73%) Analytics
10 190 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 185 (11.42%) Mentoring
12 172 (10.62%) Business Case
13 149 (9.20%) Strategic Roadmap
14 148 (9.14%) ITIL
15 144 (8.89%) Coaching
15 144 (8.89%) Presales
16 142 (8.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 141 (8.70%) Thought Leadership
18 140 (8.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 221 (13.64%) Bash
2 119 (7.35%) SQL
3 87 (5.37%) Java
4 70 (4.32%) Python
5 65 (4.01%) JavaScript
6 64 (3.95%) C#
7 46 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 35 (2.16%) VB
9 29 (1.79%) T-SQL
10 27 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.30%) R
12 15 (0.93%) Groovy
12 15 (0.93%) 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%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 306 (18.89%) Degree
2 190 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 144 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.98%) CISSP
7 29 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 21 (1.30%) PMP
12 19 (1.17%) DBS Check
13 18 (1.11%) MBA
14 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.68%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
18 8 (0.49%) MCP
19 6 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (2.84%) QA
3 43 (2.65%) GDPR
4 24 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.23%) SLA
6 17 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 16 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.93%) CRD IV
8 15 (0.93%) IFRS
8 15 (0.93%) IFRS 9
9 11 (0.68%) NIST
10 9 (0.56%) COBIT
11 8 (0.49%) PMO
12 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.37%) SOC 1
14 5 (0.31%) NCSC
15 3 (0.19%) HMG Infosec
15 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 301 (18.58%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.23%) Docker
5 6 (0.37%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.25%) pfSense
6 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.062%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.062%) LXC
9 1 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 248 (15.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 211 (13.02%) Jamf Pro
3 45 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 44 (2.72%) Terraform
5 22 (1.36%) Ansible
6 13 (0.80%) 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%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 5 (0.31%) Grafana
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.31%) SCOM
11 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
12 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Cast Iron
13 2 (0.12%) CASB
Vendors
1 515 (31.79%) Microsoft
2 210 (12.96%) CyberArk
2 210 (12.96%) Tanium
3 97 (5.99%) VMware
4 96 (5.93%) Oracle
5 60 (3.70%) Cisco
6 45 (2.78%) Google
7 35 (2.16%) OpenLink
7 35 (2.16%) Sybase
7 35 (2.16%) TIBCO
8 30 (1.85%) SAP
9 29 (1.79%) Veeam
10 23 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.05%) Meraki
12 16 (0.99%) UiPath
13 15 (0.93%) Blue Prism
13 15 (0.93%) Databricks
14 14 (0.86%) Adobe
14 14 (0.86%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.74%) Dell