Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 283 314
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 +49
Permanent jobs citing Technology Strategy 1,153 1,329 1,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.26% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.32% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 499 677 899
10th Percentile £46,250 £54,416 £43,547
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £87,500 £77,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.54% +3.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £133,200 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,300 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -25.88% +23.08% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technology 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 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +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%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +52 974 £70,000 -20.00% 252
Work from Home +55 649 £65,000 -23.53% 84
UK excluding London -33 573 £59,300 -25.88% 134
London +108 511 £90,000 -4.76% 140
South East -3 138 £61,500 -29.71% 37
North of England -23 138 £60,000 -25.00% 36
Scotland -69 102 £70,576 -7.60% 15
Midlands +20 84 £60,000 -19.33% 13
North West -16 78 £56,250 -35.04% 24
South West -33 69 £60,000 +4.78% 19
West Midlands +38 60 £60,000 -18.30% 9
Yorkshire +37 47 £60,249 -24.69% 12
East Midlands -25 20 £50,000 -35.48% 4
East of England +26 18 £55,000 -29.03% 11
North East +6 13 £70,000 -21.13%
Wales -9 12 £51,528 -56.26%
Northern Ireland +24 11 - - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Technology 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 55 (4.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 30 (2.60%) Confluence
4 18 (1.56%) SAS
5 17 (1.47%) Apache
6 10 (0.87%) CMS
7 9 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.35%) WordPress
9 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.087%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (0.95%) AutoCAD
2 10 (0.87%) Revit
3 5 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.17%) Sketch
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 35 (3.04%) Endur
2 11 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.61%) thinkFolio
4 5 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.35%) HFM
5 4 (0.35%) Hyperion Planning
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.17%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.087%) Magento
7 1 (0.087%) Primavera
7 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 397 (34.43%) Azure
2 231 (20.03%) Entra ID
3 146 (12.66%) AWS
4 57 (4.94%) GCP
5 40 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (2.78%) SaaS
7 26 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.73%) Serverless
10 17 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.39%) GitHub
12 13 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.13%) PaaS
13 10 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 10 (0.87%) IaaS
13 10 (0.87%) OCI
14 8 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (0.61%) Azure Stack
15 7 (0.61%) PowerApps
16 6 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 210 (18.21%) 5G
1 210 (18.21%) Broadband
2 31 (2.69%) Firewall
3 12 (1.04%) MPLS
3 12 (1.04%) WAN
4 11 (0.95%) SAN
4 11 (0.95%) Unified Communications
5 10 (0.87%) LAN
6 8 (0.69%) DNS
6 8 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.52%) DHCP
7 6 (0.52%) Network Security
7 6 (0.52%) VPN
8 5 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.26%) Internet
9 3 (0.26%) NAS
10 2 (0.17%) BGP
10 2 (0.17%) OSPF
10 2 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.24%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.38%) Relational Database
3 36 (3.12%) RDBMS
4 31 (2.69%) Data Mining
4 31 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
4 31 (2.69%) Hadoop
5 29 (2.52%) Apache Ignite
6 27 (2.34%) Data Lake
7 22 (1.91%) MySQL
8 20 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.30%) Power BI
10 14 (1.21%) DynamoDB
10 14 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (0.95%) Big Data
12 10 (0.87%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.69%) CockroachDB
14 7 (0.61%) Ingres
15 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.43%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 50 (4.34%) JIRA
2 29 (2.52%) Git
3 24 (2.08%) Maven
4 14 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.69%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.35%) JUnit
7 3 (0.26%) Appium
7 3 (0.26%) JMeter
7 3 (0.26%) Selenium
8 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.087%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.087%) CircleCI
General
1 334 (28.97%) Analytical Skills
2 329 (28.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 314 (27.23%) Social Skills
4 279 (24.20%) Finance
5 129 (11.19%) Marketing
6 84 (7.29%) Law
7 76 (6.59%) Banking
8 63 (5.46%) Games
9 48 (4.16%) Retail
10 47 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (3.73%) Public Sector
12 39 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (2.86%) Legal
14 21 (1.82%) Advertising
15 18 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.39%) Publishing
17 14 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.87%) Front Office
19 9 (0.78%) Financial Institution
19 9 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 305 (26.45%) Architect
2 261 (22.64%) Senior
3 210 (18.21%) Linux Specialist
3 210 (18.21%) Technical Specialist
4 169 (14.66%) Solutions Architect
5 127 (11.01%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 127 (11.01%) Senior Linux Specialist
5 127 (11.01%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 127 (11.01%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 115 (9.97%) Presales Solution Architect
7 112 (9.71%) Lead
8 61 (5.29%) Developer
9 45 (3.90%) Analyst
10 41 (3.56%) Senior Architect
11 39 (3.38%) Senior Manager
12 36 (3.12%) IT Architect
12 36 (3.12%) Software Engineer
13 35 (3.04%) IT Manager
14 34 (2.95%) Enterprise Architect
14 34 (2.95%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.73%) React
2 42 (3.64%) Kafka
3 41 (3.56%) .NET
4 30 (2.60%) HTML
4 30 (2.60%) Spring Boot
5 27 (2.34%) Node.js
6 24 (2.08%) Spring
7 22 (1.91%) GraphQL
8 19 (1.65%) EDI
9 16 (1.39%) CSS
9 16 (1.39%) Middleware
10 11 (0.95%) ASP.NET
11 10 (0.87%) Unreal Engine
11 10 (0.87%) V-Ray
12 8 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (0.52%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.43%) .NET Core
14 5 (0.43%) Apache Camel
14 5 (0.43%) HTML5
14 5 (0.43%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (18.21%) Social Media
2 58 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 55 (4.77%) Cloud Native
4 46 (3.99%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.04%) Swaptions
6 28 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 17 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.47%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.30%) Credit Risk
10 15 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
10 15 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.30%) Taxonomies
11 14 (1.21%) Cyberattack
11 14 (1.21%) e-Learning
11 14 (1.21%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.13%) IoT
13 12 (1.04%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 238 (20.64%) Linux
2 211 (18.30%) Ubuntu
3 44 (3.82%) Windows
4 20 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.69%) CentOS
6 7 (0.61%) Debian
6 7 (0.61%) SUSE
6 7 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (79.53%) IT Strategy
2 350 (30.36%) Agile
3 313 (27.15%) Artificial Intelligence
4 312 (27.06%) Cybersecurity
5 275 (23.85%) Roadmaps
6 258 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
7 237 (20.56%) CRM
8 196 (17.00%) Analytics
9 184 (15.96%) Business Strategy
10 173 (15.00%) Business Case
11 156 (13.53%) Mentoring
12 138 (11.97%) Thought Leadership
13 136 (11.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 132 (11.45%) Presales
15 129 (11.19%) Data Analytics
16 124 (10.75%) Contract Negotiation
17 116 (10.06%) Commercial Awareness
18 103 (8.93%) Actionable Insight
19 102 (8.85%) Strategic Roadmap
20 97 (8.41%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 218 (18.91%) Bash
2 89 (7.72%) Java
3 70 (6.07%) Python
4 68 (5.90%) SQL
5 46 (3.99%) JavaScript
6 45 (3.90%) C#
7 35 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 35 (3.04%) VB
8 20 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.30%) Groovy
10 15 (1.30%) R
11 7 (0.61%) C
12 5 (0.43%) PHP
13 3 (0.26%) AWK
13 3 (0.26%) C++
13 3 (0.26%) Ruby
13 3 (0.26%) sed
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
14 2 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 199 (17.26%) Degree
2 159 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 125 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 23 (1.99%) CISSP
5 21 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.87%) CISM
8 10 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 8 (0.69%) Postgraduate
10 6 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.52%) OCP
11 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.43%) MBA
11 5 (0.43%) RIBA
11 5 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (1.99%) QA
2 21 (1.82%) GDPR
3 17 (1.47%) NIST
4 16 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.30%) CRD IV
5 15 (1.30%) IFRS
5 15 (1.30%) IFRS 9
6 14 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.61%) COBIT
9 6 (0.52%) GRC
9 6 (0.52%) SOC 1
10 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.35%) SLA
11 3 (0.26%) HMG Infosec
11 3 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.26%) RMADS
System Software
1 231 (20.03%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.39%) Docker
3 12 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.52%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.26%) vSphere
7 1 (0.087%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 220 (19.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (18.21%) Jamf Pro
3 39 (3.38%) Kubernetes
4 36 (3.12%) Terraform
5 15 (1.30%) Ansible
6 8 (0.69%) Kiali
7 6 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.52%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.52%) Puppet
7 6 (0.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (0.35%) CASB
9 3 (0.26%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.26%) SCCM
10 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.087%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 341 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 210 (18.21%) CyberArk
2 210 (18.21%) Tanium
3 65 (5.64%) Oracle
4 38 (3.30%) Google
5 35 (3.04%) OpenLink
5 35 (3.04%) Sybase
5 35 (3.04%) TIBCO
6 22 (1.91%) VMware
7 19 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.56%) Adobe
9 13 (1.13%) Citrix
9 13 (1.13%) Splunk
10 11 (0.95%) Cisco
10 11 (0.95%) Juniper
11 10 (0.87%) Autodesk
11 10 (0.87%) Veeam
12 8 (0.69%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.61%) Databricks