Thought Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 257 257
Rank change year-on-year -52 0 +67
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 889 1,537 2,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 1.44% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.50% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 488 591 924
10th Percentile £41,250 £60,000 £49,950
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,064 £102,500 £106,563
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +10.71% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Thought Leadership 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 83,908 102,297 145,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 95.66% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59,730 59,825 83,628
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Top 17 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 18 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 -48 766 £80,000 -5.88% 317
UK excluding London -60 423 £80,000 +3.23% 135
London +26 417 £82,500 -5.71% 181
Work from Home -20 363 £82,500 - 163
North of England -40 128 £85,000 +9.68% 35
South West -10 81 £80,000 -13.20% 20
North West -64 79 £95,128 +3.21% 23
South East +9 78 £70,000 -13.85% 41
Midlands +3 49 £65,500 -2.96% 13
Yorkshire +52 44 £82,500 +26.92% 9
Scotland -82 40 £95,128 +3.21% 13
West Midlands +38 29 £70,000 -3.45% 10
Northern Ireland +41 21 - - 2
East Midlands -18 20 £50,000 -25.93% 3
Wales +11 14 £55,000 -35.29% 1
East of England -3 13 £55,500 -32.73% 15
North East -7 5 £77,500 -3.13% 3

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 40 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.26%) Apache
3 17 (1.91%) Jupyter
3 17 (1.91%) nginx
4 14 (1.57%) Confluence
5 13 (1.46%) CMS
6 12 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.56%) Appian
8 5 (0.56%) SAS
9 4 (0.45%) WordPress
10 3 (0.34%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.57%) Adobe XD
4 7 (0.79%) SPSS
5 6 (0.67%) Simulink
6 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.34%) Stata
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.46%) SAP SCM
4 10 (1.12%) Elite 3E
5 9 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.67%) SAP CRM
6 6 (0.67%) SAP CX
6 6 (0.67%) SAP GTS
6 6 (0.67%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.67%) SAP WM
7 5 (0.56%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.45%) SAP Travel Management
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.34%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.34%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
11 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 136 (15.30%) Azure
2 122 (13.72%) AWS
3 62 (6.97%) GCP
4 61 (6.86%) SaaS
5 53 (5.96%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (4.16%) dbt
8 34 (3.82%) PaaS
9 33 (3.71%) IaaS
10 19 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
10 19 (2.14%) Serverless
11 18 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (1.91%) MinIO
12 17 (1.91%) OpenShift
13 16 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (1.69%) GitHub
15 13 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.59%) 5G
2 22 (2.47%) Broadband
3 11 (1.24%) Firewall
4 10 (1.12%) VPN
5 9 (1.01%) SSL
6 6 (0.67%) Wireless
7 4 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.22%) Network Security
9 1 (0.11%) LAN
9 1 (0.11%) LTE
9 1 (0.11%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.11%) SAN
9 1 (0.11%) WAN
9 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 45 (5.06%) Big Data
3 43 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 42 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (4.50%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.94%) Power BI
7 32 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 32 (3.60%) Tableau
8 25 (2.81%) BigQuery
9 24 (2.70%) Hadoop
10 22 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.14%) MySQL
12 17 (1.91%) Presto
13 16 (1.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 13 (1.46%) Looker
15 8 (0.90%) Bigtable
15 8 (0.90%) Data Mining
16 6 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
16 6 (0.67%) Flink
16 6 (0.67%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 38 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 26 (2.92%) Git
3 19 (2.14%) JIRA
4 17 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (1.57%) Axure RP
6 12 (1.35%) Balsamiq
7 9 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.79%) IBM UrbanCode
9 6 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.56%) GitLab
11 4 (0.45%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.45%) JMeter
11 4 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.22%) JUnit
13 2 (0.22%) Mockito
13 2 (0.22%) Selenium
14 1 (0.11%) Bugzilla
General
1 422 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 244 (27.45%) Finance
3 140 (15.75%) Marketing
4 127 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (9.00%) Banking
7 66 (7.42%) Public Sector
8 61 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (5.40%) Local Government
10 43 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (4.61%) Legal
12 36 (4.05%) Retail
13 33 (3.71%) Law
14 29 (3.26%) Back Office
15 27 (3.04%) Digital Economy
16 26 (2.92%) Manufacturing
17 22 (2.47%) Military
18 17 (1.91%) Aerospace
19 14 (1.57%) Aviation
20 12 (1.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 293 (32.96%) Architect
2 194 (21.82%) Solutions Architect
3 169 (19.01%) Lead
4 156 (17.55%) Senior
5 115 (12.94%) Presales Solution Architect
6 93 (10.46%) Consultant
7 57 (6.41%) Enterprise Architect
8 40 (4.50%) Senior Consultant
9 34 (3.82%) SAP Consultant
10 30 (3.37%) Lead Architect
10 30 (3.37%) Senior Architect
11 25 (2.81%) Senior Manager
11 25 (2.81%) Services Director
12 24 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (2.47%) Data Engineer
14 21 (2.36%) Commercial Architect
14 21 (2.36%) Head of Engineering
14 21 (2.36%) Senior SAP Consultant
14 21 (2.36%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 18 (2.02%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.17%) .NET
2 37 (4.16%) HTML
3 28 (3.15%) CSS
4 24 (2.70%) React
4 24 (2.70%) SOAP
4 24 (2.70%) Web Services
5 20 (2.25%) Kafka
5 20 (2.25%) XML
6 19 (2.14%) JSON
6 19 (2.14%) OpenID
7 18 (2.02%) .NET Core
8 17 (1.91%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (1.91%) Apache NiFi
8 17 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (1.91%) YAML
9 15 (1.69%) REST
9 15 (1.69%) RESTful
10 13 (1.46%) LDAP
11 10 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (5.17%) Social Media
3 40 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 37 (4.16%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.49%) Mainframe
6 25 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 24 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 21 (2.36%) Blog
10 20 (2.25%) Blockchain
10 20 (2.25%) Virtual Team
11 16 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.57%) CMDB
12 14 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.57%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.90%) Credit Risk
15 8 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.94%) Linux
2 27 (3.04%) Unix
2 27 (3.04%) Windows
3 7 (0.79%) CoreOS
3 7 (0.79%) zOS
4 6 (0.67%) Android
5 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (28.01%) Problem-Solving
2 235 (26.43%) Agile
3 221 (24.86%) Roadmaps
4 213 (23.96%) Presales
5 191 (21.48%) Analytics
6 172 (19.35%) Actionable Insight
6 172 (19.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 166 (18.67%) Business Case
8 150 (16.87%) Mentoring
9 141 (15.86%) IT Strategy
10 140 (15.75%) Data Analytics
11 137 (15.41%) Technology Strategy
12 125 (14.06%) DevOps
13 122 (13.72%) Contract Negotiation
14 120 (13.50%) Artificial Intelligence
15 116 (13.05%) Commercial Awareness
16 110 (12.37%) Project Management
17 101 (11.36%) Project Delivery
18 95 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
19 87 (9.79%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (11.25%) Python
2 76 (8.55%) SQL
3 61 (6.86%) JavaScript
4 41 (4.61%) C#
5 26 (2.92%) Java
6 23 (2.59%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 20 (2.25%) Go
9 19 (2.14%) R
10 17 (1.91%) Bash
11 16 (1.80%) Bicep
12 15 (1.69%) Perl
13 13 (1.46%) Scala
14 10 (1.12%) VBA
15 8 (0.90%) C
16 7 (0.79%) C++
16 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.67%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 205 (23.06%) Security Cleared
2 180 (20.25%) Degree
3 156 (17.55%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.29%) Master's Degree
5 35 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.59%) MBA
7 18 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.46%) CISSP
8 13 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.24%) CISM
10 7 (0.79%) ACCA
10 7 (0.79%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.67%) CHECK Team Leader
11 6 (0.67%) CHECK Team Member
11 6 (0.67%) Cyber Scheme
11 6 (0.67%) OSCP
11 6 (0.67%) PCI QSA
11 6 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.67%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.92%) QA
2 22 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.35%) WCAG
4 10 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.01%) GRC
5 9 (1.01%) NIST
5 9 (1.01%) PMO
6 8 (0.90%) GDPR
6 8 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.79%) COBIT
8 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.22%) GAAP
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS
12 1 (0.11%) PMBOK
12 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (3.71%) Docker
2 27 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.11%) vCloud
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.60%) Terraform
3 17 (1.91%) Ansible
3 17 (1.91%) Functional Safety
3 17 (1.91%) Grafana
3 17 (1.91%) HAProxy
3 17 (1.91%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.01%) HP UCMDB
5 7 (0.79%) CA Endevor
6 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.45%) WebSphere Cast Iron
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.11%) Core Impact
8 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.11%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Nagios
8 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.75%) SAP
3 42 (4.72%) Oracle
4 36 (4.05%) Google
5 28 (3.15%) Adobe
6 26 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.47%) Virgin Media
8 20 (2.25%) Databricks
8 20 (2.25%) HP
9 19 (2.14%) BMC
9 19 (2.14%) Remedy
10 12 (1.35%) Teradata
11 10 (1.12%) Pega
12 8 (0.90%) Facebook
13 6 (0.67%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.67%) CA
14 5 (0.56%) Duck Creek
14 5 (0.56%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.56%) UiPath
14 5 (0.56%) YouTube