Strategic Planning Job Trends in the West Midlands

Strategic Planning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Strategic Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 152 162
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +30
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Planning 12 47 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 1.13% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.24% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 17
10th Percentile - £52,000 £39,268
25th Percentile £42,000 £60,313 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,625 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +18.18% +43.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,375
90th Percentile £82,875 £84,562 £80,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £76,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% +1.33% +36.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Strategic Planning 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Strategic Planning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Strategic Planning job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Strategic Planning
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Strategic Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Strategic Planning in the West Midlands

Strategic Planning
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Worcestershire - 4 £44,000 - 2
Staffordshire -13 3 - - 1
Warwickshire +25 1 - - 1
Solihull - 1 £90,000 - 1
Walsall - 1 £72,250 -
Strategic Planning
England

Strategic Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Manager
2 3 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (25.00%) IT Support
2 3 (25.00%) IT Support Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Support Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Test Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (8.33%) CMDB
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Product Management
4 3 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Budgeting
5 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ACCA
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) CIMA
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft