Thought Leadership Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Thought Leadership
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 332 220
Rank change year-on-year -15 -112 +139
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 120 301 630
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.89% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.98% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 64 152 230
10th Percentile £54,500 £43,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £98,855 £101,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £144,000 £122,719
UK median annual salary £85,000 £79,632 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -6.32% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Thought Leadership 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 17,583 30,859 38,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.20% 91.22% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,820 23,373 27,016
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 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Thought Leadership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Thought Leadership trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Thought Leadership salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Thought Leadership salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Thought Leadership
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 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.17%) CMS
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.67%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.67%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) BASE24
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.83%) SAP LE
2 1 (0.83%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.83%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.50%) Azure
2 13 (10.83%) GCP
3 12 (10.00%) AWS
4 10 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.17%) Google Ads
7 4 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (3.33%) Cloud Composer
7 4 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.33%) Zapier
8 3 (2.50%) GitHub
8 3 (2.50%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.67%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.67%) IaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Matillion
9 2 (1.67%) PaaS
9 2 (1.67%) SaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) Internet
2 2 (1.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) ATM
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.83%) SSL
3 1 (0.83%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.83%) VoIP
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
3 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.83%) Power BI
2 6 (5.00%) Tableau
3 4 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.33%) Power Query
3 4 (3.33%) PowerPivot
3 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.67%) Big Data
4 2 (1.67%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) GIS
5 1 (0.83%) KDB
5 1 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.83%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (6.67%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.67%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.67%) ERwin
4 1 (0.83%) VersaTest
General
1 49 (40.83%) Finance
2 40 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 25 (20.83%) Retail
5 23 (19.17%) Banking
6 22 (18.33%) Marketing
7 20 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (9.17%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (9.17%) Public Sector
9 9 (7.50%) Advertising
10 7 (5.83%) Law
11 6 (5.00%) Games
11 6 (5.00%) Health Technology
12 5 (4.17%) Legal
12 5 (4.17%) Publishing
13 4 (3.33%) Electronics
13 4 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
15 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
15 2 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (21.67%) Senior
2 13 (10.83%) Lead
3 12 (10.00%) Architect
3 12 (10.00%) Consultant
4 6 (5.00%) Designer
4 6 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
5 5 (4.17%) Content Designer
5 5 (4.17%) Head of Engineering
5 5 (4.17%) Junior
5 5 (4.17%) Junior Content Designer
5 5 (4.17%) Junior Designer
5 5 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 5 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (3.33%) Analytics Manager
6 4 (3.33%) CRM Project Manager
6 4 (3.33%) SAP EWM Consultant
6 4 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 4 (3.33%) SAP WM Consultant
6 4 (3.33%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
6 4 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) React
2 7 (5.83%) Node.js
2 7 (5.83%) Playwright
2 7 (5.83%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (4.17%) Spring
5 4 (3.33%) Middleware
6 3 (2.50%) .NET
6 3 (2.50%) CSS
6 3 (2.50%) HTML
6 3 (2.50%) RESTful
7 2 (1.67%) SOAP
7 2 (1.67%) XML
8 1 (0.83%) Ajax
8 1 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.83%) JSON
8 1 (0.83%) LDAP
8 1 (0.83%) SPFx
8 1 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Social Media
2 9 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.00%) Digital Media
5 5 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.33%) IoT
6 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.50%) Blog
7 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.50%) New Media
7 3 (2.50%) PMI
7 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (1.67%) AIX
2 2 (1.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.50%) Agile
2 36 (30.00%) Coaching
3 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (25.83%) Mentoring
5 30 (25.00%) Analytics
6 28 (23.33%) Project Management
7 21 (17.50%) Decision-Making
8 20 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 19 (15.83%) Artificial Intelligence
10 16 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
11 15 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 15 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (11.67%) Data Strategy
12 14 (11.67%) Migration
12 14 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (10.83%) B2B
14 12 (10.00%) DevOps
14 12 (10.00%) Project Delivery
15 11 (9.17%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.00%) SQL
2 16 (13.33%) Python
3 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.33%) Java
5 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.33%) R
7 1 (0.83%) COBOL
7 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (22.50%) Degree
2 17 (14.17%) SC Cleared
2 17 (14.17%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.50%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.50%) PMP
6 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.67%) MBA
6 2 (1.67%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.67%) WCAG
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.67%) Docker
1 2 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.83%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (0.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (21.67%) Google
2 25 (20.83%) Adobe
3 23 (19.17%) TikTok
4 11 (9.17%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.83%) SAP
6 6 (5.00%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.50%) Facebook
8 2 (1.67%) Hootsuite
8 2 (1.67%) HP
8 2 (1.67%) Instagram
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle
9 1 (0.83%) BMC
9 1 (0.83%) Cisco
9 1 (0.83%) ESRI
9 1 (0.83%) Mitel
9 1 (0.83%) Palantir
9 1 (0.83%) Pinterest
9 1 (0.83%) Remedy
9 1 (0.83%) Snapchat
9 1 (0.83%) Sparx