Strategic Thinking Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Strategic Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 278 342
Rank change year-on-year +189 +64 +66
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 659 381 391
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.78% 1.13% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 1.23% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 149 325 179
10th Percentile £39,900 £40,018 £46,030
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £96,500 £115,560
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,063 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.61% -5.62% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,373 30,884 39,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.99% 91.37% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,816 23,455 27,516
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Strategic Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Strategic Thinking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Strategic Thinking.

Strategic Thinking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Strategic Thinking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (1.67%) CMS
2 10 (1.52%) WordPress
3 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.76%) Moodle
5 4 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.30%) Confluence
6 2 (0.30%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.46%) Final Cut Pro
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.46%) Trello
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.37%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.61%) Shopify
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 140 (21.24%) Azure
2 123 (18.66%) AWS
3 43 (6.53%) SaaS
4 21 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (1.37%) Boomi
6 9 (1.37%) GCP
6 9 (1.37%) GitHub
7 8 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.06%) Serverless
9 6 (0.91%) Figma
10 5 (0.76%) Google Analytics
10 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.61%) Contentstack
11 4 (0.61%) Google Docs
11 4 (0.61%) Google Sheets
11 4 (0.61%) Miro
11 4 (0.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 215 (32.63%) Broadband
2 17 (2.58%) Firewall
3 7 (1.06%) SSH
4 6 (0.91%) EIGRP
4 6 (0.91%) OSPF
4 6 (0.91%) RIP
4 6 (0.91%) SNMP
4 6 (0.91%) WAN
5 4 (0.61%) Network Security
5 4 (0.61%) SMS
6 2 (0.30%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (16.84%) SQL Server
2 49 (7.44%) Big Data
3 20 (3.03%) Power BI
4 18 (2.73%) Tableau
5 10 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.21%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.61%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.30%) ThoughtSpot
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.15%) MySQL
10 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.15%) Power Query
10 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 319 (48.41%) JIRA
2 91 (13.81%) GitLab
3 90 (13.66%) Bitbucket
3 90 (13.66%) Cucumber
3 90 (13.66%) Maven
3 90 (13.66%) Selenium
3 90 (13.66%) SonarQube
3 90 (13.66%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.52%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) MSI
5 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 229 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 160 (24.28%) Finance
3 122 (18.51%) Marketing
4 118 (17.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (16.54%) Retail
6 103 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
7 94 (14.26%) Banking
8 90 (13.66%) Corporate Banking
8 90 (13.66%) Investment Banking
9 87 (13.20%) Advertising
10 14 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.12%) Legal
10 14 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.37%) Police
12 8 (1.21%) Games
12 8 (1.21%) Publishing
13 5 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.76%) Law
13 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 215 (32.63%) Embedded Engineer
1 215 (32.63%) Release Engineer
2 92 (13.96%) Senior
3 90 (13.66%) Software Engineer
4 86 (13.05%) Account Manager
5 55 (8.35%) Senior Manager
6 49 (7.44%) Senior Account Manager
7 42 (6.37%) Lead
8 34 (5.16%) Strategic Account Manager
9 26 (3.95%) Architect
10 21 (3.19%) Product Manager
11 17 (2.58%) Developer
12 16 (2.43%) Analyst
13 12 (1.82%) Team Leader
14 11 (1.67%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (1.67%) Project Manager
14 11 (1.67%) Senior Developer
15 10 (1.52%) Head of Engineering
15 10 (1.52%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (1.37%) Head of Digital
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (34.75%) Middleware
2 104 (15.78%) React
3 102 (15.48%) HTML
4 101 (15.33%) CSS
5 96 (14.57%) RESTful
6 95 (14.42%) Kafka
7 93 (14.11%) REST
8 90 (13.66%) CSS3
8 90 (13.66%) HTML5
8 90 (13.66%) Jest
8 90 (13.66%) JPA
8 90 (13.66%) Redux
8 90 (13.66%) Sass
8 90 (13.66%) Spring
8 90 (13.66%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.82%) .NET
10 9 (1.37%) OAuth
10 9 (1.37%) SAML
10 9 (1.37%) Web Services
10 9 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (32.63%) Embedded Systems
2 140 (21.24%) Product Ownership
3 95 (14.42%) Enterprise Software
4 86 (13.05%) Digital Media
5 85 (12.90%) Marketing Technology
6 19 (2.88%) Social Media
7 15 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
9 13 (1.97%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.21%) IoT
12 7 (1.06%) Learning Management System
12 7 (1.06%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (0.91%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.76%) Blog
14 5 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.52%) Windows
2 5 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.30%) Android
3 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Debian
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (61.31%) Agile
2 318 (48.25%) CI/CD
3 306 (46.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 275 (41.73%) Roadmaps
5 218 (33.08%) Continuous Deployment
6 216 (32.78%) Software Delivery
7 215 (32.63%) Release Automation
8 162 (24.58%) Mentoring
9 151 (22.91%) Project Management
10 120 (18.21%) User Experience
11 115 (17.45%) Migration
12 113 (17.15%) DevOps
13 110 (16.69%) Microservices
14 104 (15.78%) Software Engineering
15 103 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
16 100 (15.17%) Performance Optimisation
17 99 (15.02%) Digital Marketing
18 97 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (14.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 123 (18.66%) SQL
2 117 (17.75%) JavaScript
3 97 (14.72%) Java
4 96 (14.57%) TypeScript
5 26 (3.95%) Python
6 12 (1.82%) C#
7 4 (0.61%) Bash
8 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.30%) VB
9 1 (0.15%) Bicep
9 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (6.68%) Degree
2 14 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.97%) DBS Check
4 6 (0.91%) PMI Certification
5 5 (0.76%) ACCA
5 5 (0.76%) CIMA
5 5 (0.76%) PMP
5 5 (0.76%) SC Cleared
5 5 (0.76%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.61%) AAT
6 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.46%) CISSP
7 3 (0.46%) CSPO
8 2 (0.30%) CEH
8 2 (0.30%) CISM
8 2 (0.30%) GIAC
8 2 (0.30%) ISSAP
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.30%) PhD
8 2 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (16.08%) Accessibility
2 93 (14.11%) QA
3 11 (1.67%) GDPR
4 7 (1.06%) PMO
5 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.46%) NIST
6 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.46%) PMBOK
7 2 (0.30%) COBIT
7 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) GAAP
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (14.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.06%) Terraform
4 4 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.15%) Matomo
Vendors
1 90 (13.66%) Solace
2 56 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.10%) Google
4 20 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.58%) Adobe
6 13 (1.97%) SAP
7 10 (1.52%) TikTok
8 9 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.21%) Facebook
10 7 (1.06%) Instagram
11 6 (0.91%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.91%) Cisco
11 6 (0.91%) Oracle
11 6 (0.91%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.76%) Sage
13 4 (0.61%) Ahrefs
13 4 (0.61%) JD Edwards
13 4 (0.61%) VMware
13 4 (0.61%) Xero
14 3 (0.46%) YouTube