Business Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Strategy over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 162 174
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +47
Permanent jobs citing Business Strategy 1,870 2,295 3,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 2.26% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.37% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 943 1,139 1,603
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,469 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business 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 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +2 1,601 £65,000 -5.80% 621
UK excluding London -12 1,131 £58,750 -2.08% 362
Work from Home +6 680 £60,394 -10.13% 277
London +22 626 £80,000 -3.03% 262
North of England +26 323 £60,000 - 103
South East -12 233 £57,500 -11.54% 84
South West +48 189 £62,500 +13.64% 42
Midlands -38 186 £59,000 +22.92% 71
North West +7 183 £57,500 -4.17% 58
Scotland 0 133 £47,500 -42.65% 23
Yorkshire +30 111 £62,500 +1.63% 34
West Midlands -42 102 £58,100 +22.32% 38
East Midlands -3 83 £62,500 +8.70% 33
East of England -32 32 £55,000 -29.03% 38
North East +7 29 £55,000 +10.00% 13
Wales -6 21 £43,775 -2.72% 5
Northern Ireland +20 12 £58,800 - 5
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Business 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 42 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.93%) Confluence
3 34 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.59%) SAS
6 6 (0.32%) Apache
6 6 (0.32%) nginx
7 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) CICS
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Luigi
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 143 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.16%) SPSS
6 2 (0.11%) Gliffy
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.053%) Revit
7 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (1.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 34 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.37%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.32%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.27%) SAP WM
10 4 (0.21%) SAP APO
10 4 (0.21%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.21%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.16%) Magento
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.16%) Shopify
12 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
12 2 (0.11%) SAP R/3
13 1 (0.053%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 318 (17.01%) Azure
2 304 (16.26%) AWS
3 136 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (6.95%) Power Platform
5 119 (6.36%) GCP
6 98 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
7 92 (4.92%) SaaS
8 64 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
9 52 (2.78%) PaaS
10 50 (2.67%) IaaS
11 38 (2.03%) Figma
12 32 (1.71%) SurveyMonkey
13 27 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 18 (0.96%) Power Automate
17 15 (0.80%) Entra ID
18 14 (0.75%) Google Analytics
19 12 (0.64%) Azure Key Vault
19 12 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.03%) Firewall
2 25 (1.34%) Network Security
3 21 (1.12%) WAN
4 20 (1.07%) LAN
5 14 (0.75%) MPLS
6 11 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.48%) Internet
7 9 (0.48%) VPN
8 5 (0.27%) DNS
9 4 (0.21%) ADSL
9 4 (0.21%) Broadband
9 4 (0.21%) SAN
9 4 (0.21%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.21%) WLAN
10 3 (0.16%) BGP
10 3 (0.16%) EIGRP
10 3 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.16%) OSPF
10 3 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (9.30%) Tableau
2 95 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (4.39%) Power BI
4 75 (4.01%) BigQuery
5 72 (3.85%) Looker
6 41 (2.19%) Data Mining
7 35 (1.87%) SQL Server
8 28 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (1.39%) Hadoop
10 25 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.23%) Apache Ignite
11 23 (1.23%) Big Data
12 18 (0.96%) Relational Database
13 14 (0.75%) MySQL
14 10 (0.53%) Metadata
14 10 (0.53%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.53%) QlikView
15 9 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.48%) GIS
16 8 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 135 (7.22%) Git
2 46 (2.46%) JIRA
3 9 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.43%) Jaeger
4 8 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.16%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.11%) MLflow
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.11%) Postman
7 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.053%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.053%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.053%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.053%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 612 (32.73%) Finance
2 519 (27.75%) Social Skills
3 505 (27.01%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 219 (11.71%) Retail
6 207 (11.07%) Marketing
7 166 (8.88%) Presentation Skills
8 151 (8.07%) Public Sector
9 150 (8.02%) Law
10 140 (7.49%) Banking
11 105 (5.61%) Legal
12 82 (4.39%) Billing
13 81 (4.33%) Investment Banking
14 56 (2.99%) Police
15 50 (2.67%) Manufacturing
16 45 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
17 39 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.71%) Social Science
19 24 (1.28%) Telecoms
20 18 (0.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 388 (20.75%) Analyst
2 356 (19.04%) Architect
3 320 (17.11%) Senior
4 249 (13.32%) Lead
5 171 (9.14%) Data Analyst
6 138 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
7 136 (7.27%) Senior Analyst
8 103 (5.51%) Business Manager
8 103 (5.51%) Data Manager
9 88 (4.71%) Senior Data Analyst
10 84 (4.49%) Project Manager
10 84 (4.49%) Senior Architect
11 73 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
12 71 (3.80%) Consultant
13 61 (3.26%) Enterprise Architect
14 59 (3.16%) Strategy Analyst
15 58 (3.10%) Business Strategy Analyst
16 54 (2.89%) Developer
17 52 (2.78%) Development Manager
18 50 (2.67%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (4.49%) .NET
2 34 (1.82%) React
3 33 (1.76%) Middleware
4 31 (1.66%) Kafka
5 20 (1.07%) CSS
5 20 (1.07%) HTML
6 16 (0.86%) XML
7 15 (0.80%) ARM Templates
8 13 (0.70%) JSON
9 12 (0.64%) EDI
10 10 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
10 10 (0.53%) REST
10 10 (0.53%) Web Services
11 9 (0.48%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.48%) RESTful
11 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
12 8 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.37%) Pandas
14 6 (0.32%) ASP.NET
14 6 (0.32%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 141 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 121 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
3 110 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 73 (3.90%) Virtual Team
5 59 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 24 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.02%) Taxonomies
13 18 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.86%) Market Risk
15 14 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (0.75%) Blog
15 14 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (0.75%) Social Media
16 13 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.46%) Windows
2 35 (1.87%) Linux
3 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.32%) Unix
5 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.16%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
2 441 (23.58%) Agile
3 351 (18.77%) Roadmaps
4 346 (18.50%) Project Management
5 315 (16.84%) Analytics
6 273 (14.60%) Actionable Insight
7 232 (12.41%) Decision-Making
8 205 (10.96%) IT Strategy
9 204 (10.91%) Business Development
10 203 (10.86%) Enterprise Architecture
11 201 (10.75%) Visualisation
12 194 (10.37%) Mathematics
13 193 (10.32%) Data Analysis
14 186 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 179 (9.57%) DevOps
16 174 (9.30%) Technology Strategy
17 164 (8.77%) Mentoring
18 160 (8.56%) Statistics
19 154 (8.24%) Data Modelling
20 150 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 306 (16.36%) SQL
2 210 (11.23%) Python
3 59 (3.16%) R
4 43 (2.30%) C#
5 34 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 32 (1.71%) Java
7 20 (1.07%) PowerShell
8 17 (0.91%) Bash
9 14 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 14 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.59%) Bicep
10 11 (0.59%) PHP
11 10 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.48%) VBA
13 6 (0.32%) C
14 5 (0.27%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.27%) XAML
15 4 (0.21%) C++
15 4 (0.21%) RPG
15 4 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 556 (29.73%) Degree
2 195 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 161 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 128 (6.84%) DBS Check
5 76 (4.06%) Master's Degree
6 69 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (2.09%) PMI Certification
8 36 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.71%) PhD
10 30 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.55%) CISSP
12 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.12%) PMP
14 19 (1.02%) MBA
15 15 (0.80%) APMG
16 13 (0.70%) Azure Certification
16 13 (0.70%) CISA
16 13 (0.70%) CISM
17 10 (0.53%) ACCA
18 9 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.72%) QA
2 54 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.03%) GDPR
5 21 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 20 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.02%) NIST
8 16 (0.86%) ISO 9001
9 12 (0.64%) PMO
10 10 (0.53%) SLA
11 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.43%) COBIT
12 8 (0.43%) GRC
13 7 (0.37%) ISO 9000
14 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.27%) ITGC
14 5 (0.27%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 33 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.70%) Docker
3 11 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.16%) RACF
6 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.053%) LXC
Systems Management
1 18 (0.96%) Terraform
2 17 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.80%) Ansible
4 8 (0.43%) Kiali
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.16%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.16%) MAINVIEW
8 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.16%) Puppet
9 1 (0.053%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.053%) SCCM
Vendors
1 381 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.33%) Google
3 124 (6.63%) Databricks
4 104 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 79 (4.22%) SAP
6 60 (3.21%) Oracle
7 38 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.98%) Sparx
9 32 (1.71%) Qualtrics
10 15 (0.80%) Adobe
10 15 (0.80%) Alteryx
10 15 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
10 15 (0.80%) CA
10 15 (0.80%) IBM
10 15 (0.80%) NetApp
10 15 (0.80%) YouTube
11 14 (0.75%) Juniper
12 12 (0.64%) VMware
13 11 (0.59%) Cadence
13 11 (0.59%) Cisco