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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 336 322
Rank change year-on-year +51 -14 +186
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 1,056 1,019 2,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.03% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.08% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 697 446 662
10th Percentile £38,603 £46,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,219 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,063 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,472 £83,969
90th Percentile £106,750 £106,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 18 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 +56 859 £68,750 -1.79% 507
UK excluding London +1 665 £64,000 -8.57% 300
Work from Home +45 382 £72,500 +3.57% 221
London +128 335 £82,500 -4.90% 238
North of England -46 164 £73,805 +5.44% 95
South West +42 132 £60,000 - 25
Scotland -11 126 £75,000 +24.90% 23
Midlands +43 105 £59,556 -14.92% 48
South East +23 87 £40,000 -42.86% 81
North West -50 85 £70,000 - 37
West Midlands +46 74 £61,028 -12.82% 26
Yorkshire +3 57 £73,805 +12.68% 45
East Midlands +11 31 £50,000 -28.57% 22
East of England +17 28 £49,000 -30.00% 29
North East +8 22 £73,805 +5.44% 17
Wales -52 13 £61,312 -12.41% 6
Northern Ireland +26 10 £42,000 - 5

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 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.50%) Tuxedo
3 25 (2.37%) Confluence
4 18 (1.70%) 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 59 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (3.31%) UserZoom
4 30 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.33%) Sketch
6 13 (1.23%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.38%) SPSS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.19%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.19%) Revit
12 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.095%) AutoCAD
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 13 (1.23%) 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
1 113 (10.70%) Azure
2 110 (10.42%) AWS
3 83 (7.86%) SaaS
4 59 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 57 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (4.73%) Figma
7 32 (3.03%) SurveyMonkey
8 24 (2.27%) PaaS
9 23 (2.18%) IaaS
10 17 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (1.61%) GCP
11 14 (1.33%) Entra ID
12 12 (1.14%) 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%) Azure AKS
16 4 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.89%) Firewall
2 13 (1.23%) Internet
3 11 (1.04%) Network Security
4 7 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.57%) Broadband
5 6 (0.57%) LAN
5 6 (0.57%) WAN
6 5 (0.47%) DHCP
6 5 (0.47%) DNS
6 5 (0.47%) VoIP
7 4 (0.38%) NaaS
7 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.38%) WebEx
8 3 (0.28%) TETRA
9 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.19%) Extranet
9 2 (0.19%) Intranet
9 2 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.095%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.07%) Power BI
2 35 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.37%) 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%) Azure SQL Database
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
Development Applications
1 63 (5.97%) JIRA
2 40 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.27%) Git
4 14 (1.33%) NUnit
5 13 (1.23%) GitLab
5 13 (1.23%) Moq
5 13 (1.23%) 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%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.19%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.19%) TestRail
11 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 505 (47.82%) Social Skills
2 343 (32.48%) Finance
3 288 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (19.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 199 (18.84%) Marketing
6 127 (12.03%) Retail
7 124 (11.74%) Law
8 94 (8.90%) Banking
9 72 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
10 59 (5.59%) Legal
11 52 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (3.88%) Investment Banking
14 35 (3.31%) Public Sector
15 31 (2.94%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.99%) Local Government
17 19 (1.80%) Manufacturing
18 17 (1.61%) Advertising
19 13 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
19 13 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (17.23%) Lead
2 165 (15.63%) Senior
3 76 (7.20%) Analyst
4 72 (6.82%) Technical Leader
5 62 (5.87%) Architect
6 52 (4.92%) Product Manager
7 47 (4.45%) Senior Manager
8 46 (4.36%) IT Manager
9 43 (4.07%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.98%) Business Manager
11 39 (3.69%) Designer
12 37 (3.50%) Development Manager
13 35 (3.31%) User Experience Researcher
14 32 (3.03%) Developer
15 28 (2.65%) Consultant
15 28 (2.65%) Information Manager
16 27 (2.56%) Business Development Manager
17 26 (2.46%) Service Designer
18 24 (2.27%) Security Manager
19 22 (2.08%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.49%) RESTful
2 35 (3.31%) .NET
3 28 (2.65%) HTML
4 26 (2.46%) CSS
5 23 (2.18%) ASP.NET
5 23 (2.18%) ASP.NET MVC
6 21 (1.99%) Web Services
7 19 (1.80%) Middleware
8 17 (1.61%) React
9 16 (1.52%) .NET Framework
10 13 (1.23%) AngularJS
10 13 (1.23%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 13 (1.23%) Classic ASP
10 13 (1.23%) Entity Framework
10 13 (1.23%) jQuery
10 13 (1.23%) Semantic HTML
10 13 (1.23%) SOAP
11 8 (0.76%) EDI
12 7 (0.66%) Playwright
13 6 (0.57%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 70 (6.63%) Management Information System
2 54 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 37 (3.50%) Social Media
6 31 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.70%) PMI
9 18 (1.70%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.61%) Blog
10 17 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.23%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.23%) Legacy Code
12 12 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (1.04%) e-Learning
13 11 (1.04%) NHS
14 10 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.94%) Windows
2 22 (2.08%) 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
1 349 (33.05%) Agile
2 276 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
3 267 (25.28%) Roadmaps
4 237 (22.44%) Mentoring
5 185 (17.52%) Project Management
6 177 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 151 (14.30%) Decision-Making
8 143 (13.54%) Analytics
9 116 (10.98%) Product Roadmap
10 114 (10.80%) Business Strategy
11 107 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 103 (9.75%) Product Management
13 98 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
13 98 (9.28%) User Research
14 94 (8.90%) Computer Science
15 93 (8.81%) Coaching
16 92 (8.71%) DevOps
17 89 (8.43%) Collaborative Working
17 89 (8.43%) User Experience
18 88 (8.33%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 87 (8.24%) SQL
2 71 (6.72%) Python
3 66 (6.25%) COBOL
3 66 (6.25%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 64 (6.06%) Java
5 38 (3.60%) C
6 34 (3.22%) C++
7 31 (2.94%) C#
8 24 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 19 (1.80%) R
10 18 (1.70%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.23%) PHP
13 9 (0.85%) VBA
14 8 (0.76%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.47%) Scala
16 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.19%) Ruby
18 1 (0.095%) Bash
Qualifications
1 320 (30.30%) Degree
2 60 (5.68%) Master's Degree
2 60 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 46 (4.36%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.50%) CISSP
5 33 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.94%) CISM
7 25 (2.37%) PMI Certification
8 24 (2.27%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (1.04%) CRISC
10 11 (1.04%) MBA
11 10 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.95%) PMP
12 9 (0.85%) CEH
13 7 (0.66%) CCNP
13 7 (0.66%) CISA
13 7 (0.66%) HNC
14 6 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.57%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.53%) QA
2 43 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.31%) Actionable Recommendations
4 31 (2.94%) GDPR
5 22 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.70%) 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)
10 7 (0.66%) PMO
11 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 26262
13 1 (0.095%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.70%) Docker
3 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.19%) IAG
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.76%) Terraform
3 5 (0.47%) Ansible
3 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.38%) Puppet
5 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.19%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.19%) SCCM
7 1 (0.095%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.095%) Netcool
7 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 158 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.25%) Micro Focus
3 51 (4.83%) Oracle
4 37 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.31%) Qualtrics
6 34 (3.22%) ServiceNow
7 21 (1.99%) SAP
8 18 (1.70%) Cisco
8 18 (1.70%) Google
9 15 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
10 14 (1.33%) Citrix
11 12 (1.14%) Facebook
12 11 (1.04%) YouTube
13 8 (0.76%) Adobe
13 8 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.76%) Samsung
14 6 (0.57%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.57%) Canon
14 6 (0.57%) Juniper
14 6 (0.57%) Veeam