Business Strategy Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Business Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Strategy over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 179 170
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +45
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,121 1,173 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.54% 2.00% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.09% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 648 537 825
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,050
25th Percentile £45,563 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,700 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £76,563 £80,000 £71,330
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,925 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.99% +4.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,251 56,179 68,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.03% 95.60% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41,534 28,920 41,183
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England +28 323 £57,500 -4.17% 87
South East +5 236 £57,500 -11.54% 146
South West +56 185 £62,500 +13.64% 39
North West +7 181 £57,500 -4.17% 49
Midlands -59 171 £58,700 +17.40% 67
Scotland -3 135 £48,500 -39.07% 20
Yorkshire +28 110 £62,500 +1.63% 28
West Midlands -51 102 £57,500 +17.95% 37
East Midlands -12 68 £62,500 +8.70% 30
East of England -28 36 £55,000 -29.03% 39
North East +10 32 £57,500 +9.52% 11
Wales -13 21 £43,775 -2.72% 6
Northern Ireland +24 12 £58,800 - 5
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (2.85%) Confluence
1 32 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.89%) SAS
3 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.45%) Apache
4 5 (0.45%) nginx
5 4 (0.36%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.18%) CMS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.089%) CICS
Applications
1 42 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.089%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.089%) Revit
8 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (2.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 19 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.62%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.54%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.54%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.54%) SAP WM
7 5 (0.45%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.36%) SAP APO
8 4 (0.36%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.27%) SAP IBP
10 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.089%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (18.55%) Azure
2 136 (12.13%) AWS
3 123 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
4 88 (7.85%) GCP
5 81 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (6.60%) Power Platform
7 54 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
8 44 (3.93%) SaaS
9 32 (2.85%) Figma
9 32 (2.85%) SurveyMonkey
10 19 (1.69%) PaaS
11 18 (1.61%) IaaS
12 17 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (1.25%) PowerApps
14 10 (0.89%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 8 (0.71%) Entra ID
16 8 (0.71%) Power Automate
17 7 (0.62%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.43%) Network Security
1 16 (1.43%) WAN
2 15 (1.34%) LAN
3 12 (1.07%) Firewall
4 9 (0.80%) Internet
5 8 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.36%) ADSL
6 4 (0.36%) Broadband
6 4 (0.36%) DNS
6 4 (0.36%) WLAN
7 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.27%) VoIP
8 2 (0.18%) DSL
8 2 (0.18%) HTTP
8 2 (0.18%) RFID
8 2 (0.18%) SAN
8 2 (0.18%) SSL
9 1 (0.089%) Intranet
9 1 (0.089%) NAS
9 1 (0.089%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (6.60%) BigQuery
3 72 (6.42%) Looker
4 38 (3.39%) Power BI
4 38 (3.39%) Tableau
5 21 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.25%) MySQL
7 13 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.89%) GIS
9 9 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.62%) QlikView
11 6 (0.54%) Big Data
11 6 (0.54%) Metadata
12 5 (0.45%) DB2
12 5 (0.45%) Power Query
12 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 40 (3.57%) Git
2 39 (3.48%) JIRA
3 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.18%) MLflow
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.18%) Postman
6 1 (0.089%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.089%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 391 (34.88%) Finance
2 264 (23.55%) Analytical Skills
3 245 (21.86%) Social Skills
4 159 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (12.58%) Marketing
6 114 (10.17%) Public Sector
7 112 (9.99%) Law
8 84 (7.49%) Retail
9 72 (6.42%) Billing
10 63 (5.62%) Legal
11 50 (4.46%) Banking
12 47 (4.19%) Manufacturing
13 46 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (2.85%) Social Science
15 29 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (2.50%) Police
17 22 (1.96%) Telecoms
18 17 (1.52%) Investment Banking
19 14 (1.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 207 (18.47%) Architect
2 184 (16.41%) Lead
3 142 (12.67%) Analyst
4 127 (11.33%) Senior
5 92 (8.21%) Data Manager
6 77 (6.87%) Solutions Architect
7 74 (6.60%) Business Manager
7 74 (6.60%) Project Manager
8 73 (6.51%) Engineering Manager
9 48 (4.28%) Enterprise Architect
10 45 (4.01%) Data Analyst
11 43 (3.84%) Consultant
12 39 (3.48%) Developer
12 39 (3.48%) Senior Architect
13 38 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (3.30%) IT Manager
15 34 (3.03%) Development Manager
16 29 (2.59%) Business Development Manager
16 29 (2.59%) Principal Architect
17 27 (2.41%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.80%) .NET
2 31 (2.77%) React
3 19 (1.69%) CSS
3 19 (1.69%) HTML
4 12 (1.07%) ARM Templates
5 9 (0.80%) EDI
5 9 (0.80%) XML
6 8 (0.71%) JSON
6 8 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (0.62%) .NET Framework
7 7 (0.62%) Pandas
8 6 (0.54%) IDoc
9 5 (0.45%) WPF
10 4 (0.36%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.36%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (0.36%) HTML5
10 4 (0.36%) jQuery
10 4 (0.36%) LDAP
10 4 (0.36%) RESTful
10 4 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.70%) Product Ownership
2 61 (5.44%) Management Information System
3 50 (4.46%) Virtual Team
4 33 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.43%) Market Risk
10 13 (1.16%) FMCG
10 13 (1.16%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.98%) Driving Licence
11 11 (0.98%) Low-Code
11 11 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.71%) PMI
15 7 (0.62%) Blog
16 6 (0.54%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.94%) Windows
2 20 (1.78%) Linux
3 7 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Unix
5 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.18%) AIX
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.089%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
2 259 (23.10%) Agile
3 243 (21.68%) Roadmaps
4 238 (21.23%) Project Management
5 152 (13.56%) Actionable Insight
6 141 (12.58%) DevOps
7 140 (12.49%) Analytics
8 135 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
9 129 (11.51%) Business Development
10 124 (11.06%) Decision-Making
11 113 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (10.08%) ITIL
12 111 (9.90%) Line Management
13 107 (9.55%) Business Case
14 106 (9.46%) IT Strategy
15 99 (8.83%) Data Modelling
16 95 (8.47%) Service Delivery
17 92 (8.21%) CI/CD
18 89 (7.94%) Scrum
19 88 (7.85%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 115 (10.26%) SQL
2 57 (5.08%) Python
3 41 (3.66%) R
4 29 (2.59%) C#
5 26 (2.32%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.34%) Bash
7 14 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.98%) Java
9 10 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.80%) PHP
11 8 (0.71%) Bicep
12 7 (0.62%) VBA
13 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.45%) C
14 5 (0.45%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.45%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.45%) XAML
15 4 (0.36%) C++
15 4 (0.36%) RPG
15 4 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 272 (24.26%) Degree
2 150 (13.38%) Security Cleared
3 129 (11.51%) SC Cleared
4 58 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 44 (3.93%) TOGAF Certification
6 33 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.94%) DBS Check
7 32 (2.85%) PhD
7 32 (2.85%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.87%) PMP
9 17 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.25%) APMG
12 13 (1.16%) MBA
13 11 (0.98%) CISA
14 10 (0.89%) CISSP
15 8 (0.71%) HNC
16 7 (0.62%) Azure Certification
17 6 (0.54%) ACCA
17 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.74%) QA
2 37 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.34%) GDPR
6 10 (0.89%) SLA
7 9 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.62%) COBIT
8 7 (0.62%) NIST
8 7 (0.62%) PMO
9 6 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.54%) ITGC
9 6 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.45%) GRC
11 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.36%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.27%) HMG Infosec
System Software
1 19 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.18%) Docker
6 1 (0.089%) Firmware
6 1 (0.089%) RACF
6 1 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 10 (0.89%) Terraform
2 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (0.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.089%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.089%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 218 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.10%) Google
3 56 (5.00%) SAP
4 46 (4.10%) Oracle
5 43 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 32 (2.85%) Qualtrics
7 31 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 30 (2.68%) Sparx
9 27 (2.41%) Databricks
10 11 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
11 10 (0.89%) Adobe
11 10 (0.89%) CA
11 10 (0.89%) IBM
11 10 (0.89%) JD Edwards
12 9 (0.80%) Epicor
12 9 (0.80%) IFS
13 8 (0.71%) VMware
14 7 (0.62%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.62%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.54%) OpenText