Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 295 318
Rank change year-on-year +40 +23 +54
Permanent jobs citing Technology Strategy 1,144 1,224 1,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.21% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.27% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 497 622 886
10th Percentile £47,480 £54,416 £44,154
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,278 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.74% +9.84%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,409 £129,625 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.30% +6.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technology 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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology 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 Technology Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +64 970 £70,000 -19.17% 178
Work from Home +64 629 £65,000 -23.53% 76
UK excluding London -31 570 £60,000 -25.00% 96
London +112 510 £90,000 -4.26% 93
South East +5 137 £61,500 -29.71% 20
North of England -6 135 £60,249 -26.97% 32
Scotland -58 101 £95,000 +24.37% 7
Midlands +8 89 £60,000 -19.33% 14
North West -19 76 £57,500 -36.11% 25
South West -24 68 £57,500 -5.76% 12
West Midlands +28 66 £60,000 -19.33% 8
Yorkshire +40 46 £60,249 -24.69% 6
East Midlands -25 19 £50,000 -37.50% 6
East of England +20 18 £55,000 -26.67% 7
North East 0 13 £70,000 -21.13% 1
Wales -6 11 £51,528 -56.26%
Northern Ireland +24 10 - - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Technology 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 52 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 30 (2.62%) Confluence
4 18 (1.57%) SAS
5 17 (1.49%) Apache
6 9 (0.79%) CMS
6 9 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.35%) WordPress
8 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.087%) Drupal
Applications
1 10 (0.87%) AutoCAD
2 9 (0.79%) Revit
3 5 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.17%) Sketch
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (2.88%) Endur
2 11 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.61%) thinkFolio
4 5 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.35%) HFM
5 4 (0.35%) Hyperion Planning
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.17%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.087%) Primavera
7 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 397 (34.70%) Azure
2 232 (20.28%) Entra ID
3 137 (11.98%) AWS
4 54 (4.72%) GCP
5 40 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (3.15%) SaaS
7 28 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (2.01%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.75%) Serverless
10 17 (1.49%) GitHub
11 16 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.40%) PaaS
12 15 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (1.14%) IaaS
14 10 (0.87%) OCI
15 9 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 9 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 7 (0.61%) Azure Stack
17 7 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 210 (18.36%) 5G
1 210 (18.36%) Broadband
2 29 (2.53%) Firewall
3 15 (1.31%) WAN
4 12 (1.05%) MPLS
4 12 (1.05%) Unified Communications
5 11 (0.96%) LAN
5 11 (0.96%) SAN
5 11 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.70%) DNS
6 8 (0.70%) Network Security
6 8 (0.70%) VPN
7 7 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.52%) DHCP
8 6 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
9 4 (0.35%) BGP
9 4 (0.35%) HSRP
9 4 (0.35%) OSPF
10 3 (0.26%) Internet
10 3 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 60 (5.24%) Relational Database
3 34 (2.97%) RDBMS
4 25 (2.19%) Data Mining
4 25 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (2.19%) Hadoop
5 23 (2.01%) Apache Ignite
5 23 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.84%) MySQL
7 20 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.31%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.22%) Power BI
10 11 (0.96%) Big Data
11 10 (0.87%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.70%) CockroachDB
13 7 (0.61%) Ingres
14 6 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (4.37%) JIRA
2 28 (2.45%) Git
3 23 (2.01%) Maven
4 14 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.70%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.26%) Appium
6 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.26%) JMeter
6 3 (0.26%) JUnit
6 3 (0.26%) Selenium
7 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.087%) Bitbucket
General
1 334 (29.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 328 (28.67%) Analytical Skills
3 307 (26.84%) Social Skills
4 284 (24.83%) Finance
5 132 (11.54%) Marketing
6 90 (7.87%) Law
7 77 (6.73%) Banking
8 60 (5.24%) Games
9 49 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
10 47 (4.11%) Retail
11 45 (3.93%) Public Sector
12 41 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (2.88%) Legal
14 21 (1.84%) Advertising
15 20 (1.75%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.31%) Publishing
17 14 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.87%) Front Office
18 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
19 9 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 285 (24.91%) Architect
2 262 (22.90%) Senior
3 210 (18.36%) Linux Specialist
3 210 (18.36%) Technical Specialist
4 154 (13.46%) Solutions Architect
5 127 (11.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 127 (11.10%) Senior Linux Specialist
5 127 (11.10%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 127 (11.10%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 111 (9.70%) Lead
7 103 (9.00%) Presales Solution Architect
8 60 (5.24%) Developer
9 41 (3.58%) Analyst
10 40 (3.50%) Software Engineer
11 39 (3.41%) Senior Architect
11 39 (3.41%) Senior Manager
12 38 (3.32%) Enterprise Architect
13 36 (3.15%) IT Manager
14 33 (2.88%) Lead Architect
15 29 (2.53%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.58%) React
2 39 (3.41%) .NET
3 36 (3.15%) Kafka
4 31 (2.71%) Spring Boot
5 30 (2.62%) HTML
6 24 (2.10%) Node.js
6 24 (2.10%) Spring
7 19 (1.66%) EDI
7 19 (1.66%) GraphQL
8 15 (1.31%) Middleware
9 13 (1.14%) CSS
10 9 (0.79%) ASP.NET
10 9 (0.79%) Unreal Engine
10 9 (0.79%) V-Ray
11 8 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (0.52%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.52%) HTML5
13 5 (0.44%) .NET Framework
13 5 (0.44%) Apache Camel
13 5 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 210 (18.36%) Social Media
2 59 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 58 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.88%) Swaptions
6 28 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.31%) Credit Risk
10 15 (1.31%) Distributed Applications
10 15 (1.31%) Taxonomies
11 14 (1.22%) Cyberattack
11 14 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.14%) e-Learning
12 13 (1.14%) IoT
12 13 (1.14%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.96%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 235 (20.54%) Linux
2 212 (18.53%) Ubuntu
3 39 (3.41%) Windows
4 20 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.79%) CentOS
6 8 (0.70%) Unix
7 7 (0.61%) Debian
7 7 (0.61%) SUSE
8 1 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 902 (78.85%) IT Strategy
2 343 (29.98%) Agile
3 313 (27.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 309 (27.01%) Cybersecurity
5 279 (24.39%) Roadmaps
6 249 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
7 240 (20.98%) CRM
8 179 (15.65%) Analytics
9 174 (15.21%) Business Strategy
10 163 (14.25%) Business Case
11 153 (13.37%) Mentoring
12 128 (11.19%) Thought Leadership
13 125 (10.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 120 (10.49%) Presales
15 116 (10.14%) Data Analytics
16 113 (9.88%) Contract Negotiation
17 105 (9.18%) Strategic Roadmap
18 104 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
19 102 (8.92%) Software Engineering
20 99 (8.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 218 (19.06%) Bash
2 87 (7.60%) Java
3 74 (6.47%) Python
4 68 (5.94%) SQL
5 45 (3.93%) JavaScript
6 43 (3.76%) C#
7 37 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 33 (2.88%) VB
9 21 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.31%) Groovy
11 15 (1.31%) R
12 8 (0.70%) C
13 5 (0.44%) PHP
14 3 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.26%) AWK
14 3 (0.26%) C++
14 3 (0.26%) sed
15 2 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 200 (17.48%) Degree
2 147 (12.85%) Security Cleared
3 111 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.01%) CISSP
6 19 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.87%) CISM
8 10 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 8 (0.70%) Postgraduate
10 7 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.61%) MBA
11 6 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.52%) OCP
11 6 (0.52%) RIBA
12 5 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.84%) QA
2 20 (1.75%) GDPR
3 19 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.31%) CRD IV
4 15 (1.31%) IFRS
4 15 (1.31%) IFRS 9
5 14 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.14%) NIST
7 12 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.87%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.52%) GRC
9 6 (0.52%) SOC 1
10 5 (0.44%) COBIT
10 5 (0.44%) SLA
11 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.26%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.26%) PMO
12 3 (0.26%) RMADS
System Software
1 228 (19.93%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.40%) Docker
3 12 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.52%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.26%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 219 (19.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (18.36%) Jamf Pro
3 42 (3.67%) Terraform
4 38 (3.32%) Kubernetes
5 15 (1.31%) Ansible
6 8 (0.70%) Kiali
7 6 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.52%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.52%) Puppet
7 6 (0.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.26%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.26%) SCCM
10 1 (0.087%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.087%) Grafana
10 1 (0.087%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 336 (29.37%) Microsoft
2 210 (18.36%) CyberArk
2 210 (18.36%) Tanium
3 62 (5.42%) Oracle
4 33 (2.88%) OpenLink
4 33 (2.88%) Sybase
4 33 (2.88%) TIBCO
5 31 (2.71%) Google
6 22 (1.92%) VMware
7 21 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.49%) Adobe
9 15 (1.31%) Cisco
10 13 (1.14%) Citrix
10 13 (1.14%) Splunk
11 11 (0.96%) Juniper
11 11 (0.96%) Veeam
12 9 (0.79%) Autodesk
13 8 (0.70%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.61%) Meraki