Strategy Manager
UK

The median Strategy Manager salary in the UK is £65,066 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 843 913 1159
Rank change year-on-year +70 +246 -292
Permanent jobs requiring a Strategy Manager 56 56 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.056% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.061% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 49 46 55
10th Percentile £47,700 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,816
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,066 £60,047 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% -17.18% -1.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,627 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £92,877 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £60,047 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.36% -19.94% +54.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,378 91,115 153,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.48% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,475 57,415 84,334
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Strategy Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Strategy Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategy Manager over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategy Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +104 48 £65,066 +9.31% 16
UK excluding London -4 39 £65,066 +8.36% 2
Work from Home +75 20 £65,066 +30.13% 7
London +115 15 £72,500 +21.80% 11
West Midlands +26 15 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Midlands +11 15 £55,000 +10.00% 1
North of England +36 8 £87,283 +46.63%
East of England - 7 £65,000 -
Scotland -78 6 £65,066 -14.82%
Yorkshire +79 5 £65,066 +9.31%
North West -6 3 £87,283 +32.34%
South West -27 2 £87,283 +59.04% 1
South East - 1 - -

Strategy Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Strategy Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Strategy Manager in the job title.

1 27 (48.21%) Analytics
2 20 (35.71%) Data Strategy
3 16 (28.57%) Change Management
3 16 (28.57%) Finance
4 14 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 14 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 13 (23.21%) Storytelling
6 12 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (21.43%) IT Strategy
6 12 (21.43%) Data Science
6 12 (21.43%) GCP
6 12 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 12 (21.43%) Project Planning
7 11 (19.64%) Data Protection
7 11 (19.64%) Data Governance
8 10 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (17.86%) Risk Management
8 10 (17.86%) Legal
9 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (16.07%) Project Management
9 9 (16.07%) Business Analysis
9 9 (16.07%) Agile
10 8 (14.29%) Banking
10 8 (14.29%) Information Management
10 8 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
10 8 (14.29%) Taxonomies
10 8 (14.29%) Ontologies
10 8 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 8 (14.29%) Microservices

Strategy Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.57%) SPSS
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) GCP
2 3 (5.36%) AWS
2 3 (5.36%) Azure
2 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.36%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) Tableau
General
1 16 (28.57%) Finance
2 12 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Legal
4 8 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Law
6 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.14%) Marketing
7 3 (5.36%) Advertising
7 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Local Government
7 3 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (5.36%) Retail
8 2 (3.57%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
1 8 (14.29%) Taxonomies
2 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.57%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Analytics
2 20 (35.71%) Data Strategy
3 16 (28.57%) Change Management
4 14 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 14 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
5 13 (23.21%) Storytelling
6 12 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 12 (21.43%) Data Science
6 12 (21.43%) IT Strategy
6 12 (21.43%) Project Planning
7 11 (19.64%) Data Governance
7 11 (19.64%) Data Protection
8 10 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (17.86%) Risk Management
9 9 (16.07%) Agile
9 9 (16.07%) Business Analysis
9 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (16.07%) Project Management
10 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (14.29%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.14%) Python
2 2 (3.57%) R
2 2 (3.57%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
1 6 (10.71%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) PMO
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.79%) IBM