IT Strategy Jobs

IT/Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 222 275
Rank change year-on-year +35 +53 -22
Permanent jobs citing IT Strategy 1,569 1,596 2,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 1.69% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.77% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 909 830 1,527
10th Percentile £36,500 £42,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,500 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,800 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +51 1,371 £65,000 -16.13% 290
UK excluding London -7 939 £57,500 -11.54% 174
Work from Home +28 746 £65,000 -18.75% 163
London +98 546 £85,000 - 117
North of England +29 265 £55,000 -5.58% 44
South East -7 198 £62,500 -21.88% 41
Midlands +16 183 £55,000 -26.67% 38
West Midlands +39 140 £60,000 -14.29% 25
North West 0 131 £54,500 -9.17% 22
Yorkshire +40 109 £62,500 +7.30% 19
Scotland -56 108 £49,000 -24.62% 11
South West -7 93 £67,500 +32.46% 18
East of England -6 69 £67,500 -10.00% 19
East Midlands -40 41 £49,329 -41.97% 13
North East +2 25 £53,750 +22.16% 3
Northern Ireland +11 14 £37,500 -25.00%
Wales -21 8 £53,750 -44.24% 4
Isle of Man - 1 - - 2

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 82 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.91%) Confluence
4 21 (1.34%) CMS
5 20 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.70%) Apache
7 9 (0.57%) IIS
8 5 (0.32%) SAS
9 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.51%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.45%) Revit
7 1 (0.064%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 39 (2.49%) Endur
2 16 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.38%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
6 4 (0.25%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.064%) Magento
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.064%) Primavera
9 1 (0.064%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.064%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.064%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 546 (34.80%) Azure
2 252 (16.06%) Entra ID
3 169 (10.77%) AWS
4 155 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (4.21%) Power Platform
6 46 (2.93%) SaaS
7 44 (2.80%) PaaS
8 41 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 36 (2.29%) IaaS
10 32 (2.04%) GCP
11 30 (1.91%) GitHub
12 28 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 21 (1.34%) Serverless
14 19 (1.21%) OneDrive
15 16 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (0.96%) OCI
16 15 (0.96%) PowerApps
17 14 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (0.76%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 210 (13.38%) 5G
1 210 (13.38%) Broadband
2 97 (6.18%) Firewall
3 64 (4.08%) WAN
4 48 (3.06%) DNS
5 41 (2.61%) LAN
6 40 (2.55%) VPN
7 37 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (2.10%) DHCP
9 29 (1.85%) Network Security
10 27 (1.72%) SAN
10 27 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 25 (1.59%) VLAN
12 24 (1.53%) Unified Communications
12 24 (1.53%) Wireless
13 16 (1.02%) TCP/IP
14 13 (0.83%) BGP
14 13 (0.83%) MPLS
15 10 (0.64%) Internet
15 10 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.27%) Relational Database
3 43 (2.74%) RDBMS
4 35 (2.23%) Power BI
5 24 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.53%) MySQL
6 23 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (1.27%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.21%) Data Mining
10 18 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.08%) Apache Ignite
11 17 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 16 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (0.89%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
15 8 (0.51%) CockroachDB
16 7 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.45%) GIS
16 7 (0.45%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 59 (3.76%) JIRA
2 29 (1.85%) Git
3 25 (1.59%) Maven
4 16 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.51%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (0.45%) GitLab
6 7 (0.45%) Katalon Studio
7 6 (0.38%) RStudio
8 3 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.19%) JUnit
9 2 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.13%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.064%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.064%) Vagrant
General
1 459 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 384 (24.47%) Analytical Skills
3 339 (21.61%) Finance
4 321 (20.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (7.33%) Marketing
6 89 (5.67%) Law
7 70 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 69 (4.40%) Retail
9 65 (4.14%) Games
10 61 (3.89%) Banking
11 49 (3.12%) Manufacturing
12 35 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.98%) Legal
15 26 (1.66%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.34%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.08%) Publishing
19 16 (1.02%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 374 (23.84%) Architect
2 281 (17.91%) Senior
3 210 (13.38%) Linux Specialist
3 210 (13.38%) Technical Specialist
4 193 (12.30%) Solutions Architect
5 175 (11.15%) Lead
6 169 (10.77%) IT Manager
7 127 (8.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 127 (8.09%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (8.09%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (8.09%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 92 (5.86%) Head of IT
9 91 (5.80%) Presales Solution Architect
10 82 (5.23%) Developer
11 58 (3.70%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.44%) Analyst
13 47 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
14 46 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 42 (2.68%) Lead Architect
16 35 (2.23%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (5.04%) .NET
2 52 (3.31%) HTML
3 41 (2.61%) React
4 37 (2.36%) Spring Boot
5 32 (2.04%) Kafka
6 30 (1.91%) CSS
6 30 (1.91%) Spring
7 26 (1.66%) .NET Framework
8 24 (1.53%) Middleware
9 21 (1.34%) EDI
10 20 (1.27%) Node.js
11 16 (1.02%) REST
12 15 (0.96%) XML
13 14 (0.89%) JSON
14 12 (0.76%) .NET Core
15 11 (0.70%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.64%) ASP.NET
16 10 (0.64%) Laravel
16 10 (0.64%) RESTful
17 9 (0.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 210 (13.38%) Social Media
2 97 (6.18%) Management Information System
3 58 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.55%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.36%) Swaptions
6 34 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 32 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.40%) FMCG
12 17 (1.08%) IoT
13 16 (1.02%) Cyberattack
14 15 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
14 15 (0.96%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.83%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
15 13 (0.83%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 274 (17.46%) Linux
2 212 (13.51%) Ubuntu
3 137 (8.73%) Windows
4 65 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.89%) Unix
8 9 (0.57%) CentOS
9 7 (0.45%) Android
9 7 (0.45%) Debian
9 7 (0.45%) SUSE
10 6 (0.38%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) VMS
11 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (56.47%) Technology Strategy
2 387 (24.67%) Cybersecurity
3 366 (23.33%) Agile
4 341 (21.73%) Roadmaps
5 316 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
6 275 (17.53%) CRM
7 268 (17.08%) Artificial Intelligence
8 203 (12.94%) Project Management
9 198 (12.62%) Business Strategy
10 188 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 181 (11.54%) Mentoring
12 151 (9.62%) ITIL
13 149 (9.50%) Business Case
13 149 (9.50%) Strategic Roadmap
14 145 (9.24%) Coaching
15 141 (8.99%) Analytics
16 132 (8.41%) Project Delivery
17 127 (8.09%) DevOps
18 124 (7.90%) Decision-Making
19 121 (7.71%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 221 (14.09%) Bash
2 119 (7.58%) SQL
3 85 (5.42%) Java
4 64 (4.08%) JavaScript
5 60 (3.82%) Python
6 57 (3.63%) C#
7 50 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 37 (2.36%) VB
9 33 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.91%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.08%) PHP
12 15 (0.96%) Groovy
13 9 (0.57%) R
14 8 (0.51%) C
15 4 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.25%) RPG
16 3 (0.19%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.19%) AWK
16 3 (0.19%) sed
17 2 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 288 (18.36%) Degree
2 165 (10.52%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 51 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.04%) CISSP
7 28 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 19 (1.21%) PMP
11 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (0.76%) MBA
13 10 (0.64%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.51%) CCNA
14 8 (0.51%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (2.80%) GDPR
3 35 (2.23%) QA
4 32 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (1.34%) SLA
6 16 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.02%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.96%) PMO
8 12 (0.76%) NIST
9 9 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.45%) COBIT
11 6 (0.38%) SOC 1
12 5 (0.32%) NCSC
13 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.19%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Infosec
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 299 (19.06%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.10%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.08%) Docker
5 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.32%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.25%) pfSense
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.25%) vSphere
8 3 (0.19%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.13%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.064%) LXC
10 1 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.064%) XenApp
10 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 254 (16.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 211 (13.45%) Jamf Pro
3 48 (3.06%) Terraform
4 38 (2.42%) Kubernetes
5 21 (1.34%) Ansible
6 12 (0.76%) FortiGate
6 12 (0.76%) SCCM
7 8 (0.51%) Kiali
8 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.38%) SCOM
10 5 (0.32%) Grafana
10 5 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.32%) Puppet
10 5 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
12 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.13%) CASB
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 510 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 210 (13.38%) CyberArk
2 210 (13.38%) Tanium
3 91 (5.80%) VMware
4 90 (5.74%) Oracle
5 65 (4.14%) Cisco
6 37 (2.36%) OpenLink
6 37 (2.36%) Sybase
6 37 (2.36%) TIBCO
7 36 (2.29%) SAP
8 31 (1.98%) Google
8 31 (1.98%) Veeam
9 27 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.34%) Meraki
11 17 (1.08%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.83%) Dell
12 13 (0.83%) UiPath
13 12 (0.76%) Adobe
13 12 (0.76%) Citrix
13 12 (0.76%) NetApp