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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 237 151
Rank change year-on-year +113 -86 +11
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 524 199 473
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.13% 1.23% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 1.32% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 245 136 184
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,570 £48,264
25th Percentile £62,500 £25,203 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,013 £63,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.58% -15.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £107,500 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,250 £108,125 £106,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,736 £70,875
% change year-on-year +9.11% -3.02% -5.50%

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 19,997 15,081 19,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.33% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,323 8,517 12,096
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 23 September 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 17 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.15%) SAS
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.38%) WordPress
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) Appian
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.57%) SAP PSCD
4 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 150 (28.63%) Azure
2 77 (14.69%) AWS
3 59 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (10.88%) Power Platform
5 51 (9.73%) GCP
5 51 (9.73%) SaaS
6 31 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
7 30 (5.73%) Serverless
8 19 (3.63%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.91%) PaaS
12 9 (1.72%) Azure AKS
12 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.53%) IaaS
14 7 (1.34%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.34%) Power Automate
15 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (0.76%) Harvey AI
16 4 (0.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.30%) LAN
1 33 (6.30%) WAN
2 9 (1.72%) 5G
3 7 (1.34%) Firewall
4 6 (1.15%) Broadband
5 5 (0.95%) Network Security
5 5 (0.95%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.57%) 2G
6 3 (0.57%) 3G
6 3 (0.57%) 4G
6 3 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.57%) TETRA
6 3 (0.57%) VLAN
7 2 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.38%) TACACS
7 2 (0.38%) Wireless
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
1 6 (1.15%) 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%) Metadata
4 3 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.19%) Big Data
5 1 (0.19%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.19%) HBase
5 1 (0.19%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (4.20%) Snyk
2 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.19%) JIRA
2 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 235 (44.85%) Social Skills
2 141 (26.91%) Finance
3 113 (21.56%) Law
4 85 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (12.79%) Legal
6 61 (11.64%) Public Sector
7 53 (10.11%) Marketing
7 53 (10.11%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (8.59%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (7.25%) Banking
11 35 (6.68%) Legal Technology
12 18 (3.44%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.67%) Retail
14 12 (2.29%) Local Government
15 10 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.72%) French Language
16 9 (1.72%) Games
17 7 (1.34%) Aviation
18 6 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 153 (29.20%) Architect
2 104 (19.85%) Senior
3 54 (10.31%) Lead
4 50 (9.54%) Sales Executive
5 46 (8.78%) Software Engineer
6 44 (8.40%) Corporate Sales Executive
7 39 (7.44%) Developer
7 39 (7.44%) Senior Manager
8 31 (5.92%) Systems Architect
9 30 (5.73%) Senior Developer
10 29 (5.53%) Security Architect
11 28 (5.34%) Enterprise Architect
12 27 (5.15%) Senior Architect
12 27 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (4.96%) Lead Architect
14 25 (4.77%) Cloud Architect
14 25 (4.77%) Senior Security Architect
14 25 (4.77%) Testing Manager
15 22 (4.20%) Cloud Security Architect
15 22 (4.20%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.40%) .NET
2 14 (2.67%) LangChain
2 14 (2.67%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.48%) LangGraph
3 13 (2.48%) scikit-learn
3 13 (2.48%) TensorFlow
4 12 (2.29%) React
5 11 (2.10%) Node.js
6 10 (1.91%) REST
7 9 (1.72%) Terraform
8 7 (1.34%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.15%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.15%) Streamlit
10 5 (0.95%) Flutter
10 5 (0.95%) React Native
10 5 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.76%) Kafka
12 3 (0.57%) Blazor
12 3 (0.57%) Django
12 3 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.50%) Cloud Native
1 55 (10.50%) Product Ownership
2 48 (9.16%) Data Centre
3 31 (5.92%) Virtual Team
4 28 (5.34%) Distributed Architecture
5 24 (4.58%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.91%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.91%) Operational Technology
8 9 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
10 7 (1.34%) LIMS
11 6 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.15%) Clustering
11 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.15%) IoT
12 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.10%) Windows
2 9 (1.72%) Linux
3 5 (0.95%) Android
3 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (90.84%) Technology Strategy
2 239 (45.61%) Roadmaps
3 170 (32.44%) AI
4 168 (32.06%) Enterprise Architecture
5 143 (27.29%) Software Engineering
6 141 (26.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 113 (21.56%) Agile
7 113 (21.56%) Business Strategy
8 104 (19.85%) CI/CD
9 101 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 83 (15.84%) Mentoring
11 81 (15.46%) Technical Leadership
12 78 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
13 76 (14.50%) Project Delivery
14 70 (13.36%) Risk Management
15 69 (13.17%) Cybersecurity
15 69 (13.17%) DevOps
15 69 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 66 (12.60%) Information Security
16 66 (12.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 76 (14.50%) C#
2 67 (12.79%) Python
3 45 (8.59%) JavaScript
4 34 (6.49%) Java
4 34 (6.49%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.15%) PowerShell
5 27 (5.15%) SQL
6 8 (1.53%) Bicep
7 5 (0.95%) ABAP
8 2 (0.38%) C
8 2 (0.38%) C++
8 2 (0.38%) PHP
9 1 (0.19%) Bash
9 1 (0.19%) Go
9 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (7.25%) Degree
2 35 (6.68%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.53%) CISSP
4 8 (1.53%) DV Cleared
4 8 (1.53%) PMI Certification
4 8 (1.53%) PMP
5 6 (1.15%) CISM
6 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.57%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ACCA
9 2 (0.38%) CIMA
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.98%) GRC
1 68 (12.98%) QA
2 17 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.48%) GDPR
5 8 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.34%) GxP
6 7 (1.34%) 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 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.34%) Docker
4 6 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.38%) Ansible
2 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.19%) Argo
3 1 (0.19%) Control-M
3 1 (0.19%) Puppet
3 1 (0.19%) Salt
3 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (29.20%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.78%) Cisco
3 44 (8.40%) Dell
4 26 (4.96%) SAP
5 24 (4.58%) CrowdStrike
5 24 (4.58%) Palo Alto
6 22 (4.20%) Tenable
7 11 (2.10%) VMware
8 7 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.15%) Google
10 5 (0.95%) EMC
10 5 (0.95%) HighQ
10 5 (0.95%) NetApp
10 5 (0.95%) Veeam
10 5 (0.95%) YouTube
11 4 (0.76%) Legatics
12 3 (0.57%) Citrix
12 3 (0.57%) Databricks
12 3 (0.57%) Oracle
13 2 (0.38%) Sage