IT Strategy Jobs in the Midlands

IT/Technology Strategy
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 184 165
Rank change year-on-year +28 -19 +44
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 179 143 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.48% 1.57% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.63% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 129 77 184
10th Percentile £38,500 £48,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £57,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £74,378 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% +19.96% +12.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,550 £92,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

IT Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,855 8,773 10,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.47% 96.49% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,185 4,441 6,882
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,302 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.81%
75th Percentile £62,374 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the Midlands

IT Strategy
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the Midlands.

Salary trend for IT Strategy in the Midlands

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in the Midlands

IT Strategy
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +53 135 £60,000 -13.67% 26
East Midlands -25 42 £49,329 -38.34% 10
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.35%) Apache
2 6 (3.35%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) NetSuite
1 4 (2.23%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.93%) Azure
2 32 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (8.38%) AWS
4 14 (7.82%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.91%) Azure Stack
5 7 (3.91%) GitHub
6 6 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.79%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.68%) GCP
9 3 (1.68%) SaaS
9 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 1 (0.56%) Datadog
11 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.61%) Firewall
2 12 (6.70%) DHCP
2 12 (6.70%) DNS
2 12 (6.70%) VLAN
3 10 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (5.03%) VPN
5 8 (4.47%) Network Security
6 7 (3.91%) SAN
6 7 (3.91%) WAN
7 5 (2.79%) Internet
8 4 (2.23%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (2.23%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (2.23%) iSCSI
8 4 (2.23%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.23%) SNMP
8 4 (2.23%) Wireless
9 3 (1.68%) LAN
10 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.56%) NAS
11 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (5.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.91%) Ingres
4 7 (3.91%) MySQL
4 7 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.12%) Big Data
6 2 (1.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.56%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.79%) JIRA
2 3 (1.68%) Git
General
1 53 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.11%) Finance
3 25 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.61%) Retail
5 14 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.47%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.91%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.79%) Legal
10 4 (2.23%) Marketing
10 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.12%) Games
12 2 (1.12%) Law
12 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (18.99%) Architect
2 22 (12.29%) IT Manager
3 15 (8.38%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (7.26%) Administrator
4 13 (7.26%) Head of IT
5 11 (6.15%) Infrastructure Manager
5 11 (6.15%) Lead
6 9 (5.03%) Service Manager
7 8 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (4.47%) Senior
7 8 (4.47%) Service Delivery Manager
8 7 (3.91%) Analyst
8 7 (3.91%) Data Architect
8 7 (3.91%) DBA
8 7 (3.91%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (3.91%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (3.35%) Developer
9 6 (3.35%) Engineering Manager
9 6 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.35%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.50%) .NET
2 15 (8.38%) EDI
3 7 (3.91%) React
4 6 (3.35%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.35%) CSS
4 6 (3.35%) HTML
4 6 (3.35%) HTML5
4 6 (3.35%) Laravel
4 6 (3.35%) XML
5 4 (2.23%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.68%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.68%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.56%) Next.js
7 1 (0.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.03%) Replication
3 8 (4.47%) CCTV
4 6 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.79%) FMCG
5 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.23%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.23%) IoT
7 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.68%) EPoS
7 3 (1.68%) iPad
7 3 (1.68%) Media Streaming
7 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.85%) Linux
2 16 (8.94%) Windows
3 7 (3.91%) CentOS
3 7 (3.91%) Debian
3 7 (3.91%) SUSE
4 4 (2.23%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.23%) VMS
4 4 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.52%) Technology Strategy
2 50 (27.93%) Agile
3 37 (20.67%) Roadmaps
4 33 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (17.32%) ITIL
6 29 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (15.64%) Project Management
8 24 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (13.41%) Mentoring
8 24 (13.41%) Service Delivery
9 21 (11.73%) Information Security
10 20 (11.17%) Business Continuity
11 19 (10.61%) Coaching
11 19 (10.61%) Project Delivery
12 18 (10.06%) Decision-Making
12 18 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (9.50%) Business Strategy
14 16 (8.94%) Computer Science
14 16 (8.94%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (8.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.20%) SQL
2 13 (7.26%) PowerShell
3 9 (5.03%) Python
3 9 (5.03%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.91%) Bash
4 7 (3.91%) C#
5 6 (3.35%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.35%) PHP
5 6 (3.35%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.68%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.68%) AWK
6 3 (1.68%) sed
Qualifications
1 47 (26.26%) Degree
2 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.59%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.47%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.79%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (1.68%) CCNA
7 3 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.68%) CITP
7 3 (1.68%) MCP
7 3 (1.68%) MCSE
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.68%) PMO
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.12%) GDPR
5 2 (1.12%) GRC
5 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (10.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.94%) Hyper-V
3 12 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.23%) pfSense
5 3 (1.68%) vSphere
6 2 (1.12%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (6.70%) Terraform
2 6 (3.35%) Ansible
3 5 (2.79%) SCCM
4 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.23%) SmoothWall
5 3 (1.68%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.85%) VMware
3 16 (8.94%) Cisco
4 12 (6.70%) Veeam
5 8 (4.47%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.91%) Sage
7 4 (2.23%) Apple
7 4 (2.23%) Avaya
7 4 (2.23%) BroadSoft
7 4 (2.23%) Brocade
7 4 (2.23%) Dell
7 4 (2.23%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (2.23%) NEC
7 4 (2.23%) QNAP
7 4 (2.23%) SonicWALL
7 4 (2.23%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (2.23%) WatchGuard
7 4 (2.23%) Zerto
8 3 (1.68%) Databricks
8 3 (1.68%) Meraki