Strategic Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Strategic Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 297 335
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 +123
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 656 651 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 1.12% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.17% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 413 264 268
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,116 £55,188 £43,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,108 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,427 £85,600
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking 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 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £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% +9.38%
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%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
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 Strategic Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 -50 161 £73,805 +5.44% 74
South West +42 129 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Scotland -8 125 £75,000 +15.84% 31
Midlands +46 103 £59,556 -14.92% 49
South East +19 86 £40,000 -42.86% 58
North West -50 83 £72,500 +3.57% 36
West Midlands +43 71 £62,500 -10.71% 25
Yorkshire -8 56 £73,805 +5.44% 32
East Midlands +5 32 £50,000 -28.57% 24
East of England +8 28 £49,000 -30.00% 29
North East +8 22 £73,805 +5.44% 10
Wales -55 14 £58,800 -16.00% 5
Northern Ireland +25 10 £42,000 - 3
Strategic Thinking
UK

Strategic Thinking
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 37 (5.64%) SharePoint
1 37 (5.64%) Tuxedo
2 20 (3.05%) Confluence
3 5 (0.76%) CMS
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Liferay
Applications
1 39 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (5.18%) UserZoom
3 30 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.83%) Sketch
6 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.30%) Gliffy
7 2 (0.30%) Revit
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) InDesign
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.46%) SAP IBP
1 3 (0.46%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.15%) HFM
2 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (8.99%) AWS
2 43 (6.55%) Figma
3 34 (5.18%) Azure
3 34 (5.18%) SaaS
4 31 (4.73%) SurveyMonkey
5 26 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.68%) GCP
8 6 (0.91%) dbt
8 6 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.61%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.46%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.30%) Canva
11 2 (0.30%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.30%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.30%) Serverless
11 2 (0.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.98%) Internet
2 12 (1.83%) Firewall
3 10 (1.52%) Network Security
4 6 (0.91%) Broadband
4 6 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.76%) VoIP
6 4 (0.61%) DHCP
6 4 (0.61%) DNS
6 4 (0.61%) LAN
6 4 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.30%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.30%) Extranet
7 2 (0.30%) Intranet
8 1 (0.15%) ADSL
8 1 (0.15%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (1.83%) Power BI
2 8 (1.22%) Relational Database
2 8 (1.22%) Tableau
3 7 (1.07%) MySQL
4 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.46%) Big Data
5 3 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.46%) DTS
5 3 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.46%) Power Query
6 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.30%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.15%) Essbase
7 1 (0.15%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (5.95%) JIRA
2 34 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.76%) Selenium
4 4 (0.61%) Git
4 4 (0.61%) NUnit
5 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.46%) GitLab
5 3 (0.46%) JMeter
5 3 (0.46%) JUnit
5 3 (0.46%) Mockito
5 3 (0.46%) Moq
5 3 (0.46%) Postman
5 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.30%) CANoe
7 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
General
1 283 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 213 (32.47%) Finance
3 156 (23.78%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (20.27%) Marketing
6 112 (17.07%) Law
7 76 (11.59%) Retail
8 68 (10.37%) Banking
9 41 (6.25%) Investment Banking
9 41 (6.25%) Legal
10 36 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (3.81%) Telecoms
13 17 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.29%) Local Government
15 11 (1.68%) Fire and Rescue
15 11 (1.68%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.07%) Advertising
18 6 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 133 (20.27%) Lead
2 90 (13.72%) Senior
3 70 (10.67%) Technical Leader
4 49 (7.47%) Analyst
5 39 (5.95%) Project Manager
6 34 (5.18%) User Experience Researcher
7 33 (5.03%) Business Manager
8 31 (4.73%) IT Manager
9 27 (4.12%) Designer
10 25 (3.81%) Development Manager
11 21 (3.20%) Business Development Manager
11 21 (3.20%) Product Manager
12 20 (3.05%) Service Designer
13 19 (2.90%) Senior Manager
14 18 (2.74%) Procurement Manager
15 17 (2.59%) Consultant
15 17 (2.59%) Services Director
16 16 (2.44%) Head of IT
17 15 (2.29%) Architect
18 14 (2.13%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.55%) RESTful
2 14 (2.13%) React
3 9 (1.37%) .NET
3 9 (1.37%) CSS
3 9 (1.37%) HTML
4 7 (1.07%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.91%) Symfony
5 6 (0.91%) Web Services
6 5 (0.76%) Playwright
7 4 (0.61%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.61%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.46%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.46%) Classic ASP
8 3 (0.46%) EDI
8 3 (0.46%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.46%) jQuery
8 3 (0.46%) Node.js
8 3 (0.46%) Semantic HTML
8 3 (0.46%) SOAP
8 3 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.77%) Management Information System
2 30 (4.57%) Product Ownership
2 30 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (3.66%) Social Media
4 19 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 16 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.98%) Fixed Income
7 12 (1.83%) Blog
7 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.37%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.37%) NHS
8 9 (1.37%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.22%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.22%) Derivative
9 8 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.22%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.22%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.07%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (1.07%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.20%) Windows
2 17 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.44%) Linux
4 4 (0.61%) Android
4 4 (0.61%) VMS
4 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (36.43%) Agile
2 186 (28.35%) Mentoring
3 180 (27.44%) Roadmaps
4 147 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 104 (15.85%) Analytics
7 103 (15.70%) Project Management
8 91 (13.87%) Product Roadmap
9 81 (12.35%) Coaching
9 81 (12.35%) User Research
10 74 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
10 74 (11.28%) Decision-Making
11 65 (9.91%) DevOps
12 64 (9.76%) User Experience
13 61 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
13 61 (9.30%) SDLC
14 60 (9.15%) Actionable Insight
14 60 (9.15%) Strategic Roadmap
15 58 (8.84%) Service Design
16 55 (8.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (10.06%) COBOL
1 66 (10.06%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 51 (7.77%) Java
3 47 (7.16%) Python
4 40 (6.10%) SQL
5 38 (5.79%) C
6 33 (5.03%) C++
7 10 (1.52%) R
7 10 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.37%) C#
9 8 (1.22%) PHP
10 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.76%) Scala
11 3 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.46%) VBA
12 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 177 (26.98%) Degree
2 43 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 38 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.29%) DBS Check
7 10 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.37%) CISM
8 9 (1.37%) CISSP
9 8 (1.22%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.07%) CCNP
10 7 (1.07%) HNC
10 7 (1.07%) MBA
11 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.91%) CSPO
11 6 (0.91%) IIBA
11 6 (0.91%) PMP
11 6 (0.91%) Tableau Certification
12 5 (0.76%) CRISC
12 5 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.08%) QA
2 34 (5.18%) Actionable Recommendations
3 32 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.37%) GDPR
6 8 (1.22%) SLA
7 7 (1.07%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.76%) NIST
9 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.46%) PMO
10 2 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.37%) Docker
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.46%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.15%) Netcool
4 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 99 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 66 (10.06%) Micro Focus
3 51 (7.77%) Oracle
4 34 (5.18%) Qualtrics
5 29 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.29%) Cisco
7 13 (1.98%) Google
8 11 (1.68%) BiZZdesign
9 10 (1.52%) Citrix
10 9 (1.37%) Facebook
10 9 (1.37%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.22%) YouTube
12 6 (0.91%) SAP
12 6 (0.91%) Veeam
13 5 (0.76%) BT
13 5 (0.76%) Freshdesk
14 4 (0.61%) Aruba
14 4 (0.61%) Juniper
14 4 (0.61%) Zoho
15 3 (0.46%) VMware