IT Strategy Job Trends in Lancashire

IT/Technology Strategy
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -21
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 6 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.37% - 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £51,400 - £51,125
25th Percentile £67,000 - £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.46%
75th Percentile £78,750 - £56,688
90th Percentile £84,389 - £57,725
North West median annual salary £58,541 £67,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year -13.27% +21.08% -15.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,029 1,010 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 64.23% 89.38% 77.54%
Number of salaries quoted 796 279 576
10th Percentile £30,000 £23,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £54,793 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £68,875
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IT Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in Lancashire

IT Strategy
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing IT Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Lancashire over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in Lancashire

IT Strategy
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Preston - 2 £55,500 -
Blackburn - 1 - -
Blackpool - 1 £83,774 -
IT Strategy
North West

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Head of IT
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
1 5 (83.33%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) IT Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) ERP
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001