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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 277 319
Rank change year-on-year +183 +42 +88
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 653 376 392
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.57% 1.11% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 1.22% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 145 326 182
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,224 £45,260
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,138 £72,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +1.75% +9.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,430 £96,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,907 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% -5.85% +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 17,249 30,823 39,093
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.20% 91.36% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,742 23,354 27,124
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £101,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 (1.68%) CMS
2 10 (1.53%) WordPress
3 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.77%) Moodle
5 4 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.31%) Confluence
6 2 (0.31%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.77%) 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 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.31%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.61%) Shopify
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 139 (21.29%) Azure
2 122 (18.68%) AWS
3 45 (6.89%) SaaS
4 21 (3.22%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (1.53%) GCP
7 9 (1.38%) Boomi
8 8 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.23%) GitHub
9 7 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.07%) Serverless
10 6 (0.92%) Figma
11 5 (0.77%) Google Analytics
11 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.61%) Contentstack
12 4 (0.61%) Datadog
12 4 (0.61%) Google Docs
12 4 (0.61%) Google Sheets
12 4 (0.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 215 (32.92%) Broadband
2 17 (2.60%) Firewall
3 7 (1.07%) SSH
4 6 (0.92%) EIGRP
4 6 (0.92%) OSPF
4 6 (0.92%) RIP
4 6 (0.92%) SNMP
4 6 (0.92%) WAN
5 4 (0.61%) Network Security
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (17.00%) SQL Server
2 49 (7.50%) Big Data
3 20 (3.06%) Power BI
4 18 (2.76%) Tableau
5 10 (1.53%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.23%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.61%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.31%) ThoughtSpot
9 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.15%) MySQL
9 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.15%) Power Query
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 319 (48.85%) JIRA
2 91 (13.94%) GitLab
3 90 (13.78%) Bitbucket
3 90 (13.78%) Cucumber
3 90 (13.78%) Maven
3 90 (13.78%) Selenium
3 90 (13.78%) SonarQube
3 90 (13.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.53%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) MSI
5 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 231 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 157 (24.04%) Finance
3 120 (18.38%) Marketing
4 118 (18.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (16.69%) Retail
6 102 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
7 92 (14.09%) Banking
8 90 (13.78%) Corporate Banking
8 90 (13.78%) Investment Banking
9 87 (13.32%) Advertising
10 14 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.84%) Legal
12 9 (1.38%) Police
13 8 (1.23%) Games
13 8 (1.23%) Publishing
14 5 (0.77%) Automotive
14 5 (0.77%) Law
14 5 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 215 (32.92%) Embedded Engineer
1 215 (32.92%) Release Engineer
2 92 (14.09%) Senior
3 90 (13.78%) Software Engineer
4 86 (13.17%) Account Manager
5 55 (8.42%) Senior Manager
6 49 (7.50%) Senior Account Manager
7 42 (6.43%) Lead
8 34 (5.21%) Strategic Account Manager
9 25 (3.83%) Architect
10 22 (3.37%) Product Manager
11 16 (2.45%) Analyst
11 16 (2.45%) Developer
12 13 (1.99%) Team Leader
13 11 (1.68%) Enterprise Architect
13 11 (1.68%) Project Manager
13 11 (1.68%) Senior Developer
14 10 (1.53%) Head of Engineering
14 10 (1.53%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.38%) Head of Digital
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (35.07%) Middleware
2 102 (15.62%) HTML
2 102 (15.62%) React
3 101 (15.47%) CSS
4 96 (14.70%) RESTful
5 95 (14.55%) Kafka
6 92 (14.09%) REST
7 90 (13.78%) CSS3
7 90 (13.78%) HTML5
7 90 (13.78%) Jest
7 90 (13.78%) JPA
7 90 (13.78%) Redux
7 90 (13.78%) Sass
7 90 (13.78%) Spring
7 90 (13.78%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.68%) .NET
9 9 (1.38%) OAuth
9 9 (1.38%) SAML
9 9 (1.38%) Web Services
9 9 (1.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (32.92%) Embedded Systems
2 140 (21.44%) Product Ownership
3 94 (14.40%) Enterprise Software
4 86 (13.17%) Digital Media
5 85 (13.02%) Marketing Technology
6 20 (3.06%) Social Media
7 15 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (1.84%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.23%) IoT
13 6 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (0.92%) Driving Licence
14 5 (0.77%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.77%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.77%) Learning Management System
14 5 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.77%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.53%) Windows
2 6 (0.92%) Linux
3 2 (0.31%) Android
3 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Debian
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (61.41%) Agile
2 318 (48.70%) CI/CD
3 305 (46.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 274 (41.96%) Roadmaps
5 218 (33.38%) Continuous Deployment
6 216 (33.08%) Software Delivery
7 215 (32.92%) Release Automation
8 160 (24.50%) Mentoring
9 149 (22.82%) Project Management
10 120 (18.38%) User Experience
11 115 (17.61%) Migration
12 113 (17.30%) DevOps
13 109 (16.69%) Microservices
14 104 (15.93%) Software Engineering
15 100 (15.31%) Performance Optimisation
16 98 (15.01%) Full-Stack Development
16 98 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
17 97 (14.85%) Collaborative Working
17 97 (14.85%) Containerisation
17 97 (14.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 122 (18.68%) SQL
2 115 (17.61%) JavaScript
3 97 (14.85%) Java
4 95 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 26 (3.98%) Python
6 11 (1.68%) C#
7 4 (0.61%) Bash
8 2 (0.31%) VB
9 1 (0.15%) Bicep
9 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.15%) R
9 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (6.43%) Degree
2 13 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.53%) DBS Check
4 6 (0.92%) PMI Certification
5 5 (0.77%) ACCA
5 5 (0.77%) CIMA
5 5 (0.77%) PMP
5 5 (0.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (0.77%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.61%) AAT
7 3 (0.46%) CISSP
7 3 (0.46%) CSPO
8 2 (0.31%) CEH
8 2 (0.31%) CISM
8 2 (0.31%) GIAC
8 2 (0.31%) ISSAP
8 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.31%) SANS
8 2 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (16.23%) Accessibility
2 93 (14.24%) QA
3 11 (1.68%) GDPR
4 6 (0.92%) PMO
5 5 (0.77%) 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 (0.31%) COBIT
7 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) GAAP
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (15.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 102 (15.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (1.23%) Terraform
4 4 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.15%) Ansible
6 1 (0.15%) Matomo
Vendors
1 90 (13.78%) Solace
2 56 (8.58%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.13%) Google
4 19 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.60%) Adobe
6 12 (1.84%) SAP
7 10 (1.53%) TikTok
8 9 (1.38%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.23%) Facebook
10 7 (1.07%) Instagram
11 6 (0.92%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.92%) Cisco
11 6 (0.92%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.77%) Oracle
12 5 (0.77%) 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