Strategic Thinking Jobs in the West Midlands

Strategic Thinking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 183 221
Rank change year-on-year +34 +38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 48 70 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.15% 0.89% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.09% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16 40 30
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £46,083
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,063 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,304 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -9.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £81,251
90th Percentile £91,063 £79,596 £82,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Strategic Thinking 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 3,814 6,401 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.10% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,665 3,155
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,350 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the West Midlands

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the West Midlands

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the West Midlands

Strategic Thinking
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 Thinking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Birmingham +18 24 £70,000 +19.05% 20
Staffordshire - 10 - - 32
Warwickshire +3 3 £89,750 - 9
Shropshire +10 2 - - 3
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Worcestershire +18 1 £56,500 - 2
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.25%) CMS
1 3 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) AWS
2 11 (22.92%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) SaaS
4 3 (6.25%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (2.08%) 5G
2 1 (2.08%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.08%) LTE
2 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) JIRA
2 12 (25.00%) Maven
3 11 (22.92%) Bitbucket
3 11 (22.92%) Cucumber
3 11 (22.92%) GitLab
3 11 (22.92%) Selenium
3 11 (22.92%) SonarQube
3 11 (22.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.08%) Git
4 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (31.25%) Retail
3 14 (29.17%) Banking
4 13 (27.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (22.92%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (22.92%) Investment Banking
6 10 (20.83%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (6.25%) Marketing
10 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
10 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
11 1 (2.08%) Automotive
11 1 (2.08%) Billing
11 1 (2.08%) Electronics
11 1 (2.08%) Local Government
11 1 (2.08%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Software Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) Lead
3 5 (10.42%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Senior
4 4 (8.33%) Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Head of Communications
5 3 (6.25%) Head of Design
5 3 (6.25%) Head of Digital
5 3 (6.25%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (6.25%) NetSuite Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Risk Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Technical Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Release Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) REST
1 12 (25.00%) Spring
1 12 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (22.92%) CSS
2 11 (22.92%) CSS3
2 11 (22.92%) HTML
2 11 (22.92%) HTML5
2 11 (22.92%) Jest
2 11 (22.92%) JPA
2 11 (22.92%) Kafka
2 11 (22.92%) React
2 11 (22.92%) Redux
2 11 (22.92%) RESTful
2 11 (22.92%) Sass
3 2 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (22.92%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.33%) Social Media
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.08%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) IoT
6 1 (2.08%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.08%) NB-IoT
6 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Agile
2 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
3 15 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 14 (29.17%) Mentoring
4 14 (29.17%) SDLC
5 13 (27.08%) Project Management
5 13 (27.08%) Roadmaps
6 12 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (25.00%) DevOps
6 12 (25.00%) Microservices
6 12 (25.00%) Migration
6 12 (25.00%) User Experience
7 11 (22.92%) Front End Development
7 11 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (22.92%) Performance Optimisation
7 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (22.92%) Responsive Web Design
7 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (18.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Java
1 12 (25.00%) SQL
2 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.08%) Bash
3 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) Accessibility
2 12 (25.00%) QA
3 4 (8.33%) PMBOK
4 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Ansible
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Solace
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) Facebook
3 4 (8.33%) Instagram
3 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) Twitter
4 3 (6.25%) YouTube
5 1 (2.08%) TikTok
5 1 (2.08%) VMware