Strategic Thinking Jobs

Strategic Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 268 365
Rank change year-on-year +113 +97 -56
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 1,008 1,062 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.94% 1.08% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.25% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 421 699 357
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,603 £43,378
25th Percentile £50,967 £48,750 £54,416
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,000 £84,964 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £106,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £60,047
% change year-on-year -10.16% +6.58% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Thinking 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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +120 903 £65,000 -3.70% 1,280
UK excluding London +118 588 £57,500 -10.16% 558
Work from Home +139 346 £68,569 -5.42% 568
London +85 346 £80,000 - 863
South East +202 213 £57,500 +43.75% 210
East of England +124 108 £50,967 +4.01% 45
North of England +25 100 £67,069 -9.13% 140
Midlands +43 68 £60,000 -1.68% 61
North West +1 60 £70,000 - 99
South West +29 46 £60,000 - 62
West Midlands +13 39 £65,500 +4.80% 29
Scotland +50 37 £83,738 +11.65% 39
Yorkshire +53 32 £51,888 -29.70% 27
East Midlands +49 29 £57,500 +15.00% 23
Wales +42 9 £65,000 +6.02% 12
North East +37 8 £82,500 +11.78% 15
Channel Islands - 5 £80,000 -
Northern Ireland +25 2 - - 9

Strategic Thinking
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 12 (1.19%) CMS
1 12 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (0.89%) WordPress
3 6 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.50%) Confluence
5 4 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.40%) IBM Domino
5 4 (0.40%) Moodle
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) Drupal
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.099%) nginx
7 1 (0.099%) SAS
7 1 (0.099%) Umbraco
Applications
1 32 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.19%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.89%) Maya
5 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.69%) Trello
6 6 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.099%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 16 (1.59%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (1.59%) SAP FI
2 12 (1.19%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.40%) Shopify
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (10.91%) Azure
2 69 (6.85%) SaaS
3 61 (6.05%) AWS
4 48 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (2.48%) Google Analytics
7 24 (2.38%) GCP
8 23 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (1.49%) Vertex AI
10 14 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (1.39%) Figma
10 14 (1.39%) GitHub
11 13 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (0.99%) Datadog
13 9 (0.89%) Boomi
14 8 (0.79%) Serverless
15 7 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.60%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.18%) Firewall
2 14 (1.39%) LTE
3 11 (1.09%) 5G
3 11 (1.09%) Bluetooth
3 11 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.79%) Internet
5 7 (0.69%) Intranet
5 7 (0.69%) SMS
5 7 (0.69%) SSH
5 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.69%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.60%) EIGRP
6 6 (0.60%) Network Security
6 6 (0.60%) OSPF
6 6 (0.60%) RIP
6 6 (0.60%) SNMP
6 6 (0.60%) VPN
6 6 (0.60%) WAN
7 5 (0.50%) DNS
7 5 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.96%) Big Data
2 46 (4.56%) Power BI
3 32 (3.17%) Tableau
4 30 (2.98%) Data Mining
5 28 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.19%) Metadata
8 9 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.60%) Looker
11 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.40%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.20%) ThoughtSpot
14 1 (0.099%) MySQL
14 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (2.58%) JIRA
2 11 (1.09%) Git
3 4 (0.40%) GitLab
4 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (0.099%) Maven
6 1 (0.099%) MSI
6 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 622 (61.71%) Social Skills
2 374 (37.10%) Analytical Skills
3 281 (27.88%) Finance
4 217 (21.53%) Marketing
5 150 (14.88%) Influencing Skills
6 109 (10.81%) Law
7 99 (9.82%) Advertising
8 92 (9.13%) Retail
9 75 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (4.86%) Banking
11 45 (4.46%) Legal
12 39 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (3.47%) Manufacturing
13 35 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.78%) Public Sector
15 25 (2.48%) Financial Institution
16 23 (2.28%) Games
17 22 (2.18%) Electronics
18 20 (1.98%) Publishing
19 13 (1.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 176 (17.46%) Senior
2 169 (16.77%) Analyst
3 166 (16.47%) Lead
4 94 (9.33%) Account Manager
5 90 (8.93%) Change Analyst
6 88 (8.73%) Business Change Analyst
7 74 (7.34%) Senior Manager
8 64 (6.35%) Architect
9 52 (5.16%) Project Manager
10 50 (4.96%) Senior Account Manager
11 34 (3.37%) Strategic Account Manager
12 31 (3.08%) Product Manager
13 29 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.38%) Developer
14 24 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (1.88%) Consultant
15 19 (1.88%) Financial Analyst
16 17 (1.69%) Enterprise Architect
16 17 (1.69%) Infrastructure Manager
16 17 (1.69%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.18%) .NET
2 19 (1.88%) Middleware
2 19 (1.88%) React
3 14 (1.39%) HTML
4 13 (1.29%) CSS
5 10 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (0.99%) Web Services
6 9 (0.89%) EDI
6 9 (0.89%) OAuth
6 9 (0.89%) Restlet
6 9 (0.89%) SAML
6 9 (0.89%) XML
7 8 (0.79%) Node.js
8 7 (0.69%) Kafka
8 7 (0.69%) RESTful
9 6 (0.60%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.50%) Django
10 5 (0.50%) Flask
10 5 (0.50%) Next.js
10 5 (0.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.63%) Marketing Technology
2 84 (8.33%) Digital Media
3 77 (7.64%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.08%) IoT
6 29 (2.88%) Algorithms
7 28 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.98%) Cyberattack
11 17 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
14 14 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (1.39%) NB-IoT
15 12 (1.19%) Social Media
15 12 (1.19%) Taxonomies
16 11 (1.09%) Blockchain
16 11 (1.09%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.98%) Windows
2 18 (1.79%) Linux
3 14 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.50%) Android
6 1 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.099%) Debian
6 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (41.57%) Problem-Solving
2 296 (29.37%) Project Management
3 283 (28.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 229 (22.72%) Agile
5 207 (20.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 195 (19.35%) Collaborative Working
7 170 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 169 (16.77%) Roadmaps
9 160 (15.87%) Analytics
9 160 (15.87%) Decision-Making
10 158 (15.67%) Change Management
10 158 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 153 (15.18%) Mentoring
12 133 (13.19%) Use Case
13 123 (12.20%) Business Strategy
14 113 (11.21%) Risk Management
15 111 (11.01%) Digital Marketing
16 108 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
17 101 (10.02%) Business Case
18 96 (9.52%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 67 (6.65%) SQL
2 63 (6.25%) Python
3 30 (2.98%) JavaScript
4 21 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 15 (1.49%) Bash
6 14 (1.39%) C#
7 11 (1.09%) Java
8 8 (0.79%) R
9 7 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.40%) Bicep
11 3 (0.30%) C++
11 3 (0.30%) Scala
12 2 (0.20%) Go
12 2 (0.20%) Rust
12 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 127 (12.60%) Degree
2 89 (8.83%) CBAP
3 36 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 23 (2.28%) DV Cleared
5 20 (1.98%) PMI Certification
6 19 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.88%) PMP
7 18 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 13 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (1.09%) SC Cleared
11 9 (0.89%) CISSP
12 7 (0.69%) ACCA
12 7 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.60%) CIMA
13 6 (0.60%) CISM
14 5 (0.50%) PhD
15 4 (0.40%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.88%) GDPR
2 21 (2.08%) PMBOK
3 19 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.59%) QA
6 12 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.99%) NIST
7 10 (0.99%) PMO
8 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.50%) COBIT
11 5 (0.50%) GxP
11 5 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.20%) SLA
14 1 (0.099%) FISMA
14 1 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (2.08%) Docker
2 12 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.09%) vSphere
4 10 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.099%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (2.68%) Terraform
2 26 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.09%) Ansible
3 11 (1.09%) Puppet
4 9 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.40%) Matomo
6 4 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.099%) Argo
8 1 (0.099%) Istio
Vendors
1 182 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.55%) Google
3 39 (3.87%) SAP
4 34 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.98%) Databricks
6 19 (1.88%) Cisco
7 18 (1.79%) Adobe
8 17 (1.69%) VMware
9 16 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.29%) TikTok
11 11 (1.09%) YouTube
12 10 (0.99%) Facebook
12 10 (0.99%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.79%) JD Edwards
14 7 (0.69%) Instagram
14 7 (0.69%) Oracle
14 7 (0.69%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.60%) CheckPoint
15 6 (0.60%) Sage
15 6 (0.60%) SolarWinds