Strategic Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 629 769
Rank change year-on-year +163 +140 -159
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Planning 501 402 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 331 252 227
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £46,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £47,646 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% -20.59% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £39,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +41.03% -29.09% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Planning 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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £81,500 £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%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +149 456 £57,500 +27.78% 182
UK excluding London -7 263 £55,000 +41.03% 126
London +194 201 £60,000 -14.29% 59
Work from Home +107 135 £55,000 -15.38% 79
South East +40 76 £50,000 +50.38% 31
Midlands +1 74 £62,500 +63.40% 24
West Midlands -17 50 £67,500 +77.63% 13
North of England +25 34 £52,757 -34.26% 42
East of England +27 32 £51,250 - 15
South West -23 27 £65,500 +59.76% 11
East Midlands +5 24 £55,000 -12.00% 11
North West +8 19 £65,000 - 25
Wales +20 11 £56,000 +25.38%
Scotland -63 9 £36,678 -28.00% 9
North East - 8 £40,000 - 4
Yorkshire +75 7 £53,750 -36.76% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £51,000 - 1

Strategic Planning
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 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.00%) Apache
2 5 (1.00%) Office Communications Server
2 5 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
3 3 (0.60%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.60%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) SAP CRM
2 3 (0.60%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.40%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.20%) Relativity
4 1 (0.20%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 46 (9.18%) Azure
2 26 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (4.99%) AWS
4 21 (4.19%) Power Platform
5 13 (2.59%) GCP
6 12 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.40%) SaaS
8 6 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.20%) GitHub
9 5 (1.00%) IaaS
9 5 (1.00%) PaaS
9 5 (1.00%) WhatsApp
10 4 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.80%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.60%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon Ads
12 2 (0.40%) Canva
12 2 (0.40%) Google Ads
12 2 (0.40%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.40%) Wireless
2 11 (2.20%) WAN
3 10 (2.00%) DNS
4 9 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.60%) LAN
6 6 (1.20%) Firewall
7 5 (1.00%) MPLS
7 5 (1.00%) SNMP
7 5 (1.00%) VLAN
7 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.80%) Intranet
8 4 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.60%) DHCP
9 3 (0.60%) Internet
9 3 (0.60%) Network Security
9 3 (0.60%) VoIP
10 1 (0.20%) BGP
10 1 (0.20%) SAN
10 1 (0.20%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.39%) Power BI
4 15 (2.99%) Tableau
5 11 (2.20%) Big Data
5 11 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.80%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.60%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.20%) Flink
8 6 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.20%) Looker
9 4 (0.80%) GIS
10 3 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.60%) MySQL
10 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.60%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.40%) Bigtable
11 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.40%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Git
2 5 (1.00%) JIRA
3 4 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 183 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 151 (30.14%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (23.95%) Finance
4 93 (18.56%) Retail
5 87 (17.37%) Marketing
6 58 (11.58%) German Language
7 55 (10.98%) Advertising
8 48 (9.58%) Public Sector
9 42 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (7.19%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (4.79%) Law
13 23 (4.59%) Legal
14 22 (4.39%) Manufacturing
15 15 (2.99%) Games
16 12 (2.40%) Local Government
17 11 (2.20%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.80%) Banking
18 9 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (1.20%) French Language
Job Titles
1 60 (11.98%) Senior
2 52 (10.38%) Graduate
3 47 (9.38%) Lead
4 42 (8.38%) Project Manager
5 37 (7.39%) IT Manager
6 36 (7.19%) Analyst
7 26 (5.19%) Senior Manager
8 17 (3.39%) Head of IT
9 15 (2.99%) Architect
9 15 (2.99%) Consultant
9 15 (2.99%) Operations Manager
9 15 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (2.79%) Head of Engineering
10 14 (2.79%) IT Director
11 13 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (2.40%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 12 (2.40%) 3rd Line Support
13 11 (2.20%) Business Manager
13 11 (2.20%) Coordinator
14 10 (2.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.40%) EDI
2 6 (1.20%) .NET
2 6 (1.20%) Apache Beam
2 6 (1.20%) Kafka
3 5 (1.00%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.80%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.80%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (0.40%) HTML
5 2 (0.40%) Laravel
5 2 (0.40%) Middleware
5 2 (0.40%) Next.js
5 2 (0.40%) React
5 2 (0.40%) React Native
5 2 (0.40%) TAPI
6 1 (0.20%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.20%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.20%) PySpark
6 1 (0.20%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.20%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.97%) Social Media
2 55 (10.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 54 (10.78%) Photography
4 49 (9.78%) Management Information System
5 31 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.79%) IoT
6 14 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.59%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.40%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.80%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.80%) Life Science
9 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.80%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.80%) Digital Signage
12 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.78%) Windows
2 11 (2.20%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.80%) Linux
5 6 (1.20%) Android
6 5 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.80%) DC/OS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (25.95%) Project Management
2 102 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (19.96%) Decision-Making
4 90 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 79 (15.77%) Agile
6 66 (13.17%) Analytics
7 62 (12.38%) Project Delivery
8 59 (11.78%) ITIL
9 54 (10.78%) Roadmaps
10 52 (10.38%) Risk Management
11 47 (9.38%) Budget Management
12 45 (8.98%) Process Improvement
13 42 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (8.38%) Mentoring
14 41 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (7.98%) Resource Management
15 40 (7.98%) Strategic Thinking
16 39 (7.78%) Data Science
17 38 (7.58%) Computer Science
17 38 (7.58%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (10.38%) SQL
2 22 (4.39%) Python
3 10 (2.00%) C#
4 7 (1.40%) Java
4 7 (1.40%) Scala
5 5 (1.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.80%) Go
6 4 (0.80%) VBA
7 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.20%) PHP
9 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 194 (38.72%) Degree
2 63 (12.57%) DBS Check
3 20 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (3.59%) Master's Degree
4 18 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 15 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.79%) CCNP
7 13 (2.59%) MCSE
8 12 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.80%) PMP
9 9 (1.80%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.40%) Postgraduate
11 5 (1.00%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.60%) CIMA
13 3 (0.60%) MBA
13 3 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.79%) QA
2 20 (3.99%) GDPR
3 13 (2.59%) SLA
4 9 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.20%) PMO
7 5 (1.00%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.80%) NCSC
9 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (6.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.20%) Docker
4 9 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.60%) Terraform
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.20%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.20%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.99%) SAP
3 19 (3.79%) Cisco
4 16 (3.19%) VMware
5 13 (2.59%) Google
6 10 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.80%) Citrix
7 9 (1.80%) Oracle
8 6 (1.20%) Teradata
9 4 (0.80%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.60%) Adobe
10 3 (0.60%) Aruba
10 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.40%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.40%) IBM
11 2 (0.40%) Veeam
12 1 (0.20%) Apple
12 1 (0.20%) HP
12 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.20%) Sage