Thought Leadership Jobs

Thought Leadership
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 356 255
Rank change year-on-year +38 -101 -8
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 491 778 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 0.75% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.90% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 135 423 497
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -8.24% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,064 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Thought Leadership 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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Salary trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Thought Leadership within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +16 455 £82,000 +2.50% 2,655
London +36 262 £86,250 +9.18% 439
UK excluding London +61 201 £77,500 -3.13% 2,592
Work from Home -18 123 £85,000 +13.33% 1,444
South East +115 101 £65,000 -7.14% 817
North of England +4 55 £85,000 +1.49% 544
North West -10 40 £94,637 -0.52% 255
Midlands +56 21 £45,000 -30.77% 460
West Midlands +43 20 £45,000 -33.82% 247
Scotland +112 17 £95,000 -4.52% 120
Yorkshire +43 12 £75,000 -9.09% 224
South West +43 4 £82,500 +3.13% 309
North East +35 3 £58,250 -24.84% 68
Channel Islands - 3 £87,500 - 9
East Midlands +31 1 - - 180

Thought Leadership
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 15 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.85%) CMS
3 11 (2.24%) WordPress
4 9 (1.83%) Confluence
5 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.81%) nginx
7 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.81%) Maya
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) Notion
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 10 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.41%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.41%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.20%) BASE24
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 100 (20.37%) Azure
2 69 (14.05%) AWS
3 55 (11.20%) GCP
4 25 (5.09%) Power Platform
5 21 (4.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 18 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (3.46%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.85%) Serverless
9 11 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.24%) SaaS
10 10 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.63%) Azure AI
12 8 (1.63%) GitHub
13 7 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (1.43%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.63%) DNS
1 8 (1.63%) Network Security
2 5 (1.02%) Firewall
3 4 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.61%) Internet
4 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.61%) VPN
5 2 (0.41%) BGP
5 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.41%) SSL
5 2 (0.41%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) ATM
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.20%) VoIP
6 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.13%) Data Lake
2 19 (3.87%) Power BI
3 17 (3.46%) BigQuery
3 17 (3.46%) NoSQL
4 16 (3.26%) Tableau
5 15 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.44%) Metadata
8 10 (2.04%) Big Data
9 8 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.22%) DTS
10 6 (1.22%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.22%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.81%) Power Query
11 4 (0.81%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.41%) Flink
Development Applications
1 20 (4.07%) JIRA
2 9 (1.83%) Git
3 6 (1.22%) Grunt
3 6 (1.22%) Jasmine
3 6 (1.22%) Mocha
3 6 (1.22%) webpack
4 4 (0.81%) GitLab
5 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.41%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.20%) ERwin
6 1 (0.20%) Maven
6 1 (0.20%) MLflow
6 1 (0.20%) VersaTest
General
1 189 (38.49%) Social Skills
2 178 (36.25%) Law
3 175 (35.64%) Finance
4 160 (32.59%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (16.50%) Marketing
6 54 (11.00%) Retail
7 44 (8.96%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (8.35%) Banking
9 35 (7.13%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (6.52%) Games
11 31 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (5.50%) Public Sector
13 20 (4.07%) Publishing
14 17 (3.46%) Legal
15 15 (3.05%) Advertising
16 9 (1.83%) Retail Banking
17 7 (1.43%) Front Office
18 6 (1.22%) Health Technology
18 6 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 115 (23.42%) Senior
2 91 (18.53%) Architect
2 91 (18.53%) Lead
3 41 (8.35%) Solutions Architect
4 36 (7.33%) Consultant
5 31 (6.31%) Enterprise Architect
5 31 (6.31%) Senior Architect
5 31 (6.31%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 28 (5.70%) ServiceNow Architect
7 21 (4.28%) Developer
7 21 (4.28%) Salesforce Architect
8 19 (3.87%) Analyst
9 16 (3.26%) Project Manager
10 15 (3.05%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 14 (2.85%) Senior Manager
12 13 (2.65%) Finance Business Analyst
12 13 (2.65%) Financial Analyst
12 13 (2.65%) Financial Business Analyst
12 13 (2.65%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.91%) Middleware
1 29 (5.91%) SOAP
2 27 (5.50%) REST
3 22 (4.48%) Lightning Web Components
4 15 (3.05%) CSS
5 14 (2.85%) Kafka
5 14 (2.85%) React
6 8 (1.63%) Node.js
6 8 (1.63%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.63%) Web Services
7 7 (1.43%) Ajax
7 7 (1.43%) Playwright
7 7 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (1.22%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.22%) Bootstrap
8 6 (1.22%) JWT
8 6 (1.22%) LESS
8 6 (1.22%) Material-UI
8 6 (1.22%) OAuth
8 6 (1.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.94%) FMCG
3 36 (7.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 30 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (5.30%) Algorithms
6 24 (4.89%) Public Cloud
7 23 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (4.28%) Social Media
9 14 (2.85%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.65%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.65%) Taxonomies
10 13 (2.65%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.44%) Digital Media
12 11 (2.24%) Blog
12 11 (2.24%) Data Structures
12 11 (2.24%) Private Cloud
13 10 (2.04%) Data Centre
13 10 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.43%) CMDB
15 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.41%) AIX
2 2 (0.41%) Solaris
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (35.44%) Roadmaps
2 172 (35.03%) Agile
3 164 (33.40%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (30.96%) Analytics
5 130 (26.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 109 (22.20%) Project Management
7 102 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (19.14%) Business Strategy
9 93 (18.94%) Decision-Making
10 84 (17.11%) Technical Leadership
11 76 (15.48%) Machine Learning
11 76 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 74 (15.07%) DevOps
13 70 (14.26%) Coaching
14 66 (13.44%) Mentoring
15 61 (12.42%) Product Roadmap
16 59 (12.02%) Computer Science
17 52 (10.59%) Data Modelling
17 52 (10.59%) Data Science
17 52 (10.59%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 58 (11.81%) Python
2 35 (7.13%) SQL
3 32 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.48%) Apex Code
5 19 (3.87%) Java
6 16 (3.26%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.02%) R
8 3 (0.61%) C#
9 2 (0.41%) C
9 2 (0.41%) C++
9 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.41%) Scala
10 1 (0.20%) COBOL
10 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.20%) Go
10 1 (0.20%) JCL
Qualifications
1 152 (30.96%) Degree
2 63 (12.83%) Master's Degree
3 51 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (5.30%) Security Cleared
5 23 (4.68%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.07%) MBA
7 17 (3.46%) PhD
8 8 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.43%) CCNP
9 7 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.02%) APMG
11 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.81%) CCNA
12 4 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.81%) CISSP
12 4 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.79%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.50%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.85%) QA
4 13 (2.65%) GDPR
5 7 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.22%) WCAG
7 4 (0.81%) P3O
8 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.61%) NIST
9 2 (0.41%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) Basel III
10 1 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.20%) EMIR
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (2.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 20 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.63%) Terraform
3 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Avamar
5 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.20%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) HP UCMDB
5 1 (0.20%) Istio
5 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (9.78%) Google
1 48 (9.78%) Microsoft
1 48 (9.78%) Salesforce
2 37 (7.54%) ServiceNow
3 33 (6.72%) SAP
4 27 (5.50%) Adobe
5 25 (5.09%) TikTok
6 23 (4.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 21 (4.28%) IBM
8 17 (3.46%) Databricks
9 12 (2.44%) Dell
10 11 (2.24%) Capita
11 9 (1.83%) Oracle
12 6 (1.22%) Splunk
13 4 (0.81%) F5
14 3 (0.61%) Alteryx
14 3 (0.61%) Facebook
14 3 (0.61%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.61%) Foundry
14 3 (0.61%) Palantir