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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 226 151
Rank change year-on-year +108 -75 +16
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 523 203 530
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.14% 1.25% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.34% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 245 138 188
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,570 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £25,203 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% -14.77% -2.30%
75th Percentile £107,500 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,250 £111,500 £105,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £69,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -1.43% -6.67%

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 19,914 15,166 20,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.38% 93.21% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,271 8,607 12,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £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 20 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 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.15%) SAS
3 5 (0.96%) 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 9 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.38%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 150 (28.68%) Azure
2 77 (14.72%) AWS
3 58 (11.09%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 51 (9.75%) GCP
5 51 (9.75%) SaaS
6 31 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
7 30 (5.74%) Serverless
8 19 (3.63%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.25%) 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 (6.31%) LAN
1 33 (6.31%) WAN
2 9 (1.72%) 5G
3 8 (1.53%) Firewall
4 6 (1.15%) Broadband
4 6 (1.15%) Network Security
5 5 (0.96%) 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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
1 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (0.96%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.76%) MySQL
3 4 (0.76%) Power BI
3 4 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.57%) Metadata
4 3 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
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 (4.21%) Snyk
2 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.19%) JIRA
2 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 233 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 141 (26.96%) Finance
3 113 (21.61%) Law
4 82 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (12.81%) Legal
6 60 (11.47%) Public Sector
7 53 (10.13%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (9.75%) Marketing
9 45 (8.60%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
11 38 (7.27%) Banking
12 35 (6.69%) Legal Technology
13 18 (3.44%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.68%) Retail
15 12 (2.29%) Local Government
16 10 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.72%) French Language
17 9 (1.72%) Games
18 7 (1.34%) Aviation
19 6 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 151 (28.87%) Architect
2 104 (19.89%) Senior
3 52 (9.94%) Lead
4 48 (9.18%) Sales Executive
5 46 (8.80%) Software Engineer
6 42 (8.03%) Corporate Sales Executive
7 39 (7.46%) Senior Manager
8 38 (7.27%) Developer
9 31 (5.93%) Systems Architect
10 30 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 29 (5.54%) Security Architect
12 28 (5.35%) Enterprise Architect
13 27 (5.16%) Senior Architect
14 26 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
15 25 (4.78%) Senior Security Architect
15 25 (4.78%) Testing Manager
16 24 (4.59%) Lead Architect
17 22 (4.21%) Cloud Security Architect
17 22 (4.21%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.41%) .NET
2 14 (2.68%) LangChain
2 14 (2.68%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.49%) LangGraph
3 13 (2.49%) scikit-learn
3 13 (2.49%) 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 (0.96%) Flutter
10 5 (0.96%) React Native
11 4 (0.76%) Kafka
11 4 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
12 3 (0.57%) Blazor
12 3 (0.57%) Django
12 3 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.52%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.33%) Product Ownership
3 48 (9.18%) Data Centre
4 31 (5.93%) Virtual Team
5 28 (5.35%) Distributed Architecture
6 22 (4.21%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.91%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.34%) LIMS
12 6 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.15%) Clustering
12 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) IoT
13 5 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.10%) Windows
2 9 (1.72%) Linux
3 5 (0.96%) Android
3 5 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (89.67%) Technology Strategy
2 237 (45.32%) Roadmaps
3 168 (32.12%) Enterprise Architecture
4 167 (31.93%) AI
5 143 (27.34%) Software Engineering
6 141 (26.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 113 (21.61%) Business Strategy
8 112 (21.41%) Agile
9 104 (19.89%) CI/CD
10 99 (18.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 83 (15.87%) Mentoring
12 80 (15.30%) Technical Leadership
13 78 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
14 75 (14.34%) Cybersecurity
14 75 (14.34%) Project Delivery
15 70 (13.38%) Risk Management
15 70 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 69 (13.19%) DevOps
17 66 (12.62%) Information Security
17 66 (12.62%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 76 (14.53%) C#
2 67 (12.81%) Python
3 45 (8.60%) JavaScript
4 34 (6.50%) Java
4 34 (6.50%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 27 (5.16%) SQL
6 8 (1.53%) Bicep
7 4 (0.76%) 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 39 (7.46%) Degree
2 34 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 29 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.72%) CISSP
5 8 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.53%) PMI Certification
5 8 (1.53%) PMP
6 7 (1.34%) CISM
7 5 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.96%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.38%) ACCA
10 2 (0.38%) CCNP
10 2 (0.38%) CIMA
10 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.38%) PhD
10 2 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.00%) GRC
1 68 (13.00%) QA
2 17 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.49%) GDPR
5 9 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.53%) NIST
7 7 (1.34%) GxP
8 4 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.38%) SLA
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (4.40%) 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
1 155 (29.64%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.41%) Cisco
3 42 (8.03%) Dell
4 24 (4.59%) CrowdStrike
4 24 (4.59%) Palo Alto
4 24 (4.59%) SAP
5 22 (4.21%) Tenable
6 11 (2.10%) VMware
7 6 (1.15%) Google
7 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.96%) EMC
8 5 (0.96%) HighQ
8 5 (0.96%) NetApp
8 5 (0.96%) Veeam
9 4 (0.76%) Legatics
9 4 (0.76%) YouTube
10 3 (0.57%) Citrix
10 3 (0.57%) Databricks
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle
11 2 (0.38%) Sage