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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 281 331
Rank change year-on-year -11 +50 +141
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 682 635 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.14% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.19% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 417 262 267
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,116 £55,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,600 £87,500 £87,338
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

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 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 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
North of England -57 180 £73,805 +5.44% 70
South West +40 131 £60,000 - 38
Scotland -11 121 £75,000 +25.45% 25
Midlands +25 107 £58,800 -16.00% 51
North West -51 90 £72,500 +3.57% 40
South East +22 89 £39,935 -42.95% 55
West Midlands +27 73 £63,304 -9.57% 31
Yorkshire -10 66 £73,805 +5.44% 27
East Midlands -11 34 £45,000 -35.71% 20
East of England +1 29 £49,500 -29.29% 33
North East +1 24 £73,805 +5.44% 6
Wales -48 14 £58,800 -16.00% 5
Northern Ireland +24 11 £42,000 - 2
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 (5.43%) SharePoint
1 37 (5.43%) Tuxedo
2 20 (2.93%) Confluence
3 5 (0.73%) CMS
3 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Liferay
Applications
1 40 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (4.25%) UserZoom
4 22 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.76%) Sketch
6 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.44%) Revit
8 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.29%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.15%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
1 3 (0.44%) SAP IBP
1 3 (0.44%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (8.80%) AWS
2 40 (5.87%) Azure
2 40 (5.87%) SaaS
3 38 (5.57%) Figma
4 29 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (3.81%) SurveyMonkey
6 24 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.61%) GCP
8 6 (0.88%) dbt
8 6 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.59%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.44%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.29%) Canva
12 2 (0.29%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.29%) Lucidchart
12 2 (0.29%) Serverless
12 2 (0.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.91%) Internet
2 12 (1.76%) Firewall
3 10 (1.47%) Network Security
4 6 (0.88%) Broadband
4 6 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.73%) VoIP
6 4 (0.59%) DHCP
6 4 (0.59%) DNS
6 4 (0.59%) LAN
6 4 (0.59%) WAN
7 2 (0.29%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.29%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.29%) Extranet
7 2 (0.29%) Intranet
8 1 (0.15%) 3G
8 1 (0.15%) ADSL
8 1 (0.15%) GPRS
8 1 (0.15%) LTE
8 1 (0.15%) TETRA
8 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.91%) Power BI
2 12 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.17%) Tableau
4 7 (1.03%) MySQL
4 7 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.59%) Power Query
5 4 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.44%) Big Data
6 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.44%) DTS
6 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.29%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.29%) Metadata
8 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 42 (6.16%) JIRA
2 29 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.73%) Selenium
4 4 (0.59%) Git
4 4 (0.59%) NUnit
5 3 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.44%) JMeter
5 3 (0.44%) JUnit
5 3 (0.44%) Mockito
5 3 (0.44%) Moq
5 3 (0.44%) Postman
5 3 (0.44%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.29%) CANoe
General
1 289 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 206 (30.21%) Finance
3 169 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (20.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 131 (19.21%) Marketing
6 107 (15.69%) Law
7 80 (11.73%) Retail
8 66 (9.68%) Banking
9 42 (6.16%) Legal
10 41 (6.01%) Investment Banking
11 34 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (4.11%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (2.20%) Local Government
16 12 (1.76%) Public Sector
17 11 (1.61%) Fire and Rescue
17 11 (1.61%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 132 (19.35%) Lead
2 92 (13.49%) Senior
3 70 (10.26%) Technical Leader
4 49 (7.18%) Analyst
5 41 (6.01%) IT Manager
6 39 (5.72%) Project Manager
7 33 (4.84%) Business Manager
8 29 (4.25%) User Experience Researcher
9 27 (3.96%) Designer
10 25 (3.67%) Development Manager
11 23 (3.37%) Product Manager
12 21 (3.08%) Business Development Manager
13 20 (2.93%) Procurement Manager
13 20 (2.93%) Senior Manager
13 20 (2.93%) Service Designer
14 18 (2.64%) Consultant
15 17 (2.49%) Head of IT
15 17 (2.49%) Services Director
16 15 (2.20%) Architect
17 14 (2.05%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.30%) RESTful
2 14 (2.05%) React
3 9 (1.32%) .NET
3 9 (1.32%) CSS
3 9 (1.32%) HTML
4 7 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.88%) Symfony
5 6 (0.88%) Web Services
6 5 (0.73%) Playwright
7 4 (0.59%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.59%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.44%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.44%) Classic ASP
8 3 (0.44%) EDI
8 3 (0.44%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.44%) jQuery
8 3 (0.44%) Node.js
8 3 (0.44%) Semantic HTML
8 3 (0.44%) SOAP
8 3 (0.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.48%) Management Information System
2 31 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (3.52%) Social Media
5 19 (2.79%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.64%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.91%) Fixed Income
8 12 (1.76%) Blog
8 12 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.32%) e-Learning
9 9 (1.32%) NHS
9 9 (1.32%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.17%) Derivative
10 8 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.17%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.03%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (1.03%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.08%) Windows
2 17 (2.49%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.20%) Linux
4 4 (0.59%) Android
4 4 (0.59%) VMS
4 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (35.34%) Agile
2 182 (26.69%) Roadmaps
3 180 (26.39%) Mentoring
4 149 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 143 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (16.86%) Analytics
7 102 (14.96%) Project Management
8 93 (13.64%) Product Roadmap
9 81 (11.88%) Coaching
10 76 (11.14%) User Research
11 74 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
11 74 (10.85%) Decision-Making
12 66 (9.68%) DevOps
13 62 (9.09%) SDLC
14 61 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
14 61 (8.94%) User Experience
15 58 (8.50%) Product Management
16 56 (8.21%) Analytical Thinking
16 56 (8.21%) Strategic Roadmap
17 55 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (9.68%) COBOL
1 66 (9.68%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 51 (7.48%) Java
3 50 (7.33%) SQL
4 48 (7.04%) Python
5 38 (5.57%) C
6 33 (4.84%) C++
7 15 (2.20%) VBA
8 10 (1.47%) R
8 10 (1.47%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.32%) C#
10 8 (1.17%) PHP
11 5 (0.73%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.73%) Scala
12 4 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 186 (27.27%) Degree
2 43 (6.30%) Security Cleared
3 38 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.20%) DBS Check
7 10 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.32%) CISM
8 9 (1.32%) CISSP
9 7 (1.03%) CCNP
9 7 (1.03%) HNC
9 7 (1.03%) MBA
9 7 (1.03%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.03%) PMP
10 6 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.88%) CSPO
10 6 (0.88%) IIBA
10 6 (0.88%) Tableau Certification
11 5 (0.73%) CRISC
11 5 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.12%) QA
2 32 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.32%) GDPR
6 8 (1.17%) SLA
7 7 (1.03%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.73%) NIST
9 4 (0.59%) PMO
10 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.17%) Docker
3 4 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.44%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.15%) Netcool
4 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 104 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.68%) Micro Focus
3 49 (7.18%) Oracle
4 29 (4.25%) Qualtrics
4 29 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.20%) Cisco
6 13 (1.91%) Google
7 11 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
7 11 (1.61%) BT
8 10 (1.47%) Citrix
9 9 (1.32%) Facebook
9 9 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.17%) SAP
10 8 (1.17%) YouTube
11 6 (0.88%) Veeam
12 5 (0.73%) Freshdesk
13 4 (0.59%) Aruba
13 4 (0.59%) Juniper
13 4 (0.59%) Zoho
14 3 (0.44%) VMware