Strategic Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 326 321
Rank change year-on-year +47 -5 +186
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 1,054 1,019 2,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.05% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.10% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 690 444 662
10th Percentile £38,603 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,219 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,472 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,875 £107,050 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,108 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% +27.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking.

Salary trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Thinking in the UK

Strategic Thinking
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England +46 857 £70,000 - 484
UK excluding London 0 657 £64,108 -8.42% 273
Work from Home +37 378 £72,500 +3.57% 201
London +106 341 £82,500 -8.33% 221
North of England -63 162 £73,805 +5.44% 78
South West +49 129 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Scotland -11 125 £75,000 +24.90% 33
Midlands +38 103 £58,900 -15.86% 51
South East +12 86 £40,000 -42.86% 55
North West -57 83 £72,500 +3.57% 39
West Midlands +32 70 £63,304 -9.57% 26
Yorkshire -6 56 £73,805 +5.44% 33
East Midlands -4 33 £47,500 -32.14% 25
East of England +11 28 £49,000 -30.00% 30
North East +13 23 £73,805 +5.44% 10
Wales -55 14 £58,800 -16.00% 5
Northern Ireland +30 10 £42,000 - 3

Strategic Thinking
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 49 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.51%) Tuxedo
3 25 (2.37%) Confluence
4 21 (1.99%) CMS
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.38%) Drupal
6 4 (0.38%) SAS
7 3 (0.28%) WordPress
8 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.095%) Liferay
Applications
1 61 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (3.23%) UserZoom
4 30 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.33%) Sketch
6 13 (1.23%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.38%) SPSS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.28%) Revit
11 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.19%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.095%) CapCut
12 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.095%) InDesign
12 1 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.52%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.38%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.095%) HFM
7 1 (0.095%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.095%) Magento
7 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.095%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (10.82%) AWS
1 114 (10.82%) Azure
2 80 (7.59%) SaaS
3 59 (5.60%) Power Platform
4 57 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (4.55%) Figma
6 31 (2.94%) SurveyMonkey
7 21 (1.99%) PaaS
8 20 (1.90%) IaaS
9 17 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (1.52%) GCP
11 11 (1.04%) Entra ID
12 10 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.76%) Azure Pipelines
13 8 (0.76%) dbt
14 7 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.47%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.47%) Serverless
16 4 (0.38%) PowerApps
17 3 (0.28%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.28%) Firewall
2 14 (1.33%) Network Security
3 13 (1.23%) Internet
4 6 (0.57%) Broadband
4 6 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (0.57%) LAN
4 6 (0.57%) WAN
4 6 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.47%) VoIP
6 4 (0.38%) DHCP
6 4 (0.38%) DNS
6 4 (0.38%) NaaS
6 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.28%) TETRA
7 3 (0.28%) WebEx
8 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.19%) Extranet
8 2 (0.19%) Intranet
9 1 (0.095%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.08%) Power BI
2 38 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.28%) Tableau
4 19 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.85%) Big Data
6 9 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.66%) MySQL
8 6 (0.57%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.38%) Metadata
11 3 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.28%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.28%) DTS
11 3 (0.28%) GIS
11 3 (0.28%) OLAP
11 3 (0.28%) Power Query
12 2 (0.19%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 66 (6.26%) JIRA
2 39 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.47%) Git
4 17 (1.61%) NUnit
5 16 (1.52%) GitLab
5 16 (1.52%) Moq
5 16 (1.52%) TeamCity
6 9 (0.85%) Selenium
7 6 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.57%) JUnit
8 5 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.47%) JMeter
8 5 (0.47%) Postman
9 4 (0.38%) Mockito
10 3 (0.28%) Appium
11 2 (0.19%) CANoe
11 2 (0.19%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.19%) TestNG
11 2 (0.19%) TestRail
11 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 517 (49.05%) Social Skills
2 330 (31.31%) Finance
3 279 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 200 (18.98%) Marketing
6 123 (11.67%) Law
7 116 (11.01%) Retail
8 83 (7.87%) Banking
9 60 (5.69%) Legal
10 59 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (3.89%) Investment Banking
13 35 (3.32%) Public Sector
14 31 (2.94%) Telecoms
15 22 (2.09%) Local Government
16 18 (1.71%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.61%) Advertising
18 14 (1.33%) Fire and Rescue
19 13 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (17.17%) Lead
2 164 (15.56%) Senior
3 75 (7.12%) Analyst
4 71 (6.74%) Technical Leader
5 62 (5.88%) Architect
6 52 (4.93%) Product Manager
7 50 (4.74%) IT Manager
8 46 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 43 (4.08%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.98%) Business Manager
11 39 (3.70%) Designer
12 36 (3.42%) Development Manager
13 35 (3.32%) Developer
14 34 (3.23%) User Experience Researcher
15 29 (2.75%) Consultant
15 29 (2.75%) Information Manager
16 27 (2.56%) Business Development Manager
17 26 (2.47%) Service Designer
18 24 (2.28%) Security Manager
19 23 (2.18%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.79%) RESTful
2 38 (3.61%) .NET
3 31 (2.94%) HTML
4 29 (2.75%) CSS
5 26 (2.47%) ASP.NET
5 26 (2.47%) ASP.NET MVC
6 24 (2.28%) Web Services
7 19 (1.80%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.80%) Middleware
8 17 (1.61%) React
9 16 (1.52%) ASP.NET MVC 5
9 16 (1.52%) Classic ASP
9 16 (1.52%) Entity Framework
9 16 (1.52%) jQuery
9 16 (1.52%) Semantic HTML
9 16 (1.52%) SOAP
10 13 (1.23%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.76%) EDI
12 7 (0.66%) Playwright
13 6 (0.57%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.12%) Management Information System
2 54 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 40 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.51%) Social Media
6 31 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.61%) Blog
10 17 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.52%) Legacy Code
12 13 (1.23%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.04%) e-Learning
13 11 (1.04%) NHS
13 11 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.95%) IoT
14 10 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.94%) Windows
2 22 (2.09%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.52%) Linux
4 6 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.38%) Android
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (32.54%) Agile
2 280 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
3 266 (25.24%) Roadmaps
4 236 (22.39%) Mentoring
5 188 (17.84%) Project Management
6 182 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 154 (14.61%) Decision-Making
8 142 (13.47%) Analytics
9 116 (11.01%) Business Strategy
10 115 (10.91%) Product Roadmap
11 104 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 103 (9.77%) Product Management
13 102 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
14 100 (9.49%) Computer Science
15 97 (9.20%) User Research
16 92 (8.73%) Coaching
17 90 (8.54%) Creative Thinking
18 89 (8.44%) Collaborative Working
19 88 (8.35%) Analytical Thinking
19 88 (8.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 87 (8.25%) SQL
2 74 (7.02%) Python
3 66 (6.26%) COBOL
3 66 (6.26%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 63 (5.98%) Java
5 38 (3.61%) C
6 34 (3.23%) C++
7 33 (3.13%) C#
8 26 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.80%) R
11 18 (1.71%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.14%) PHP
12 12 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.85%) VBA
14 5 (0.47%) Scala
15 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.19%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.19%) Ruby
17 1 (0.095%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 325 (30.83%) Degree
2 61 (5.79%) Master's Degree
3 60 (5.69%) Security Cleared
4 46 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.89%) CISSP
6 36 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.32%) CISM
8 24 (2.28%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (1.42%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.14%) PMP
12 11 (1.04%) CRISC
12 11 (1.04%) MBA
13 10 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.85%) CEH
15 7 (0.66%) CCNP
15 7 (0.66%) CISA
15 7 (0.66%) HNC
16 6 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.57%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.45%) QA
2 43 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 32 (3.04%) GDPR
5 22 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.52%) NIST
8 11 (1.04%) SLA
9 8 (0.76%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (0.76%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.095%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.19%) IAG
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.47%) Ansible
2 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.47%) Terraform
3 4 (0.38%) Puppet
4 2 (0.19%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.19%) SCCM
5 1 (0.095%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.095%) Netcool
5 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 158 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.26%) Micro Focus
3 51 (4.84%) Oracle
4 38 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.23%) Qualtrics
7 19 (1.80%) SAP
8 18 (1.71%) Cisco
9 17 (1.61%) Google
10 15 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
11 14 (1.33%) Citrix
12 12 (1.14%) Facebook
13 11 (1.04%) YouTube
14 8 (0.76%) Adobe
14 8 (0.76%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.76%) Samsung
14 8 (0.76%) Splunk
15 6 (0.57%) Canon
15 6 (0.57%) Juniper
15 6 (0.57%) Veeam