Hybrid/Remote IT Strategy Job Trends

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 239 158
Rank change year-on-year +113 -81 +3
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 526 199 490
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.11% 1.18% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 1.26% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 247 134 183
10th Percentile £26,250 - £50,047
25th Percentile £62,500 £24,570 £57,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,013 £63,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.58% -15.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £104,375 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £104,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,736 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.11% -8.35% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

IT Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,176 15,827 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.92% 93.82% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,403 8,473 11,816
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IT Strategy and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IT Strategy job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

IT Strategy
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IT Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

IT Strategy salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 16 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.14%) SAS
3 4 (0.76%) CMS
4 2 (0.38%) WordPress
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) Appian
5 1 (0.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.95%) SAP PSCD
3 4 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 147 (27.95%) Azure
2 76 (14.45%) AWS
3 58 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (10.65%) Power Platform
5 51 (9.70%) SaaS
6 48 (9.13%) GCP
7 31 (5.89%) Cloud Computing
8 30 (5.70%) Serverless
9 20 (3.80%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.90%) PaaS
13 9 (1.71%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.52%) IaaS
14 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.33%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
17 4 (0.76%) Harvey AI
17 4 (0.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.27%) LAN
1 33 (6.27%) WAN
2 9 (1.71%) 5G
3 8 (1.52%) Firewall
4 6 (1.14%) Broadband
5 5 (0.95%) Network Security
5 5 (0.95%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.76%) VLAN
7 3 (0.57%) 2G
7 3 (0.57%) 3G
7 3 (0.57%) 4G
7 3 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.57%) TETRA
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.38%) TACACS
8 2 (0.38%) VPN
8 2 (0.38%) Wireless
9 1 (0.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.14%) MongoDB
1 6 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
2 5 (0.95%) Power BI
3 4 (0.76%) MySQL
3 4 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.38%) Metadata
6 1 (0.19%) Big Data
6 1 (0.19%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.19%) HBase
6 1 (0.19%) Redis
6 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (4.18%) Snyk
2 2 (0.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 233 (44.30%) Social Skills
2 133 (25.29%) Finance
3 112 (21.29%) Law
4 86 (16.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (12.74%) Legal
6 61 (11.60%) Public Sector
7 54 (10.27%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (9.70%) Marketing
9 46 (8.75%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
11 36 (6.84%) Legal Technology
12 35 (6.65%) Banking
13 19 (3.61%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.66%) Retail
15 12 (2.28%) Local Government
16 10 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.71%) French Language
17 9 (1.71%) Games
18 7 (1.33%) Aerospace
18 7 (1.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 154 (29.28%) Architect
2 104 (19.77%) Senior
3 55 (10.46%) Lead
4 48 (9.13%) Sales Executive
5 43 (8.17%) Software Engineer
6 42 (7.98%) Corporate Sales Executive
7 41 (7.79%) Developer
8 39 (7.41%) Senior Manager
9 31 (5.89%) Systems Architect
10 30 (5.70%) Security Architect
10 30 (5.70%) Senior Developer
11 28 (5.32%) Enterprise Architect
12 27 (5.13%) Lead Architect
12 27 (5.13%) Senior Architect
12 27 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (4.75%) Senior Security Architect
13 25 (4.75%) Testing Manager
14 22 (4.18%) Cloud Security Architect
14 22 (4.18%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.56%) .NET
2 14 (2.66%) LangChain
2 14 (2.66%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.47%) LangGraph
3 13 (2.47%) scikit-learn
3 13 (2.47%) TensorFlow
4 12 (2.28%) React
5 11 (2.09%) Node.js
6 10 (1.90%) REST
7 9 (1.71%) Terraform
8 7 (1.33%) ARM Templates
8 7 (1.33%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (1.14%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.14%) Streamlit
10 5 (0.95%) Flutter
10 5 (0.95%) React Native
11 4 (0.76%) Blazor
11 4 (0.76%) Django
11 4 (0.76%) Kafka
12 2 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.27%) Cloud Native
1 54 (10.27%) Product Ownership
2 50 (9.51%) Data Centre
3 32 (6.08%) Virtual Team
4 26 (4.94%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.75%) Distributed Architecture
6 14 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.90%) Operational Technology
8 9 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
9 7 (1.33%) LIMS
10 6 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.14%) Clustering
10 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.14%) IoT
11 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.09%) Linux
1 11 (2.09%) Windows
2 5 (0.95%) Android
2 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (91.44%) Technology Strategy
2 237 (45.06%) Roadmaps
3 171 (32.51%) AI
4 168 (31.94%) Enterprise Architecture
5 145 (27.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 140 (26.62%) Software Engineering
7 114 (21.67%) Agile
8 113 (21.48%) Business Strategy
9 107 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 106 (20.15%) CI/CD
11 85 (16.16%) Mentoring
12 82 (15.59%) Technical Leadership
13 78 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (14.83%) Project Delivery
14 72 (13.69%) Risk Management
15 70 (13.31%) DevOps
16 69 (13.12%) Cybersecurity
17 68 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 67 (12.74%) Microservices
19 66 (12.55%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.64%) C#
2 68 (12.93%) Python
3 45 (8.56%) JavaScript
4 34 (6.46%) TypeScript
5 31 (5.89%) Java
6 27 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 27 (5.13%) SQL
7 8 (1.52%) Bicep
8 7 (1.33%) ABAP
9 2 (0.38%) C
9 2 (0.38%) C++
9 2 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.19%) Bash
10 1 (0.19%) Go
10 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 37 (7.03%) Degree
3 34 (6.46%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.09%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.52%) CISSP
5 8 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 8 (1.52%) PMP
6 6 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.14%) CISM
7 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.95%) SAP Certification
8 4 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.38%) ACCA
10 2 (0.38%) CIMA
10 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.38%) PhD
11 1 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.93%) GRC
1 68 (12.93%) QA
2 17 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.90%) GDPR
5 8 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.33%) GxP
6 7 (1.33%) NIST
7 4 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.38%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.52%) Docker
5 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.19%) Ansible
3 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 148 (28.14%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.37%) Cisco
3 42 (7.98%) Dell
4 29 (5.51%) SAP
5 24 (4.56%) CrowdStrike
5 24 (4.56%) Palo Alto
6 22 (4.18%) Tenable
7 15 (2.85%) VMware
8 7 (1.33%) YouTube
9 6 (1.14%) Google
9 6 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.95%) Citrix
10 5 (0.95%) EMC
10 5 (0.95%) HighQ
10 5 (0.95%) NetApp
10 5 (0.95%) Veeam
11 4 (0.76%) Legatics
12 3 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.38%) Databricks
13 2 (0.38%) Workday