Thought Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 245 242
Rank change year-on-year -95 -3 +79
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 812 1,496 2,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.48% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.55% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 461 537 948
10th Percentile £36,000 £56,219 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,064 £100,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Thought Leadership 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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
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%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Salary trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Thought Leadership within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 -76 712 £80,000 -5.88% 351
London -1 389 £80,000 -5.88% 201
UK excluding London -116 374 £80,000 +14.29% 140
Work from Home -94 304 £75,000 -6.25% 153
North of England -72 111 £85,000 +41.67% 32
South West -24 73 £80,000 +20.75% 17
South East -7 72 £70,000 -17.65% 42
North West -89 67 £95,128 +35.90% 20
Midlands -5 50 £66,000 -4.35% 24
Yorkshire +45 36 £82,500 +38.59% 7
West Midlands +25 34 £95,000 +29.25% 18
Scotland -91 28 £95,128 +58.55% 4
Northern Ireland +35 17 - - 9
East Midlands -18 16 £50,000 -25.93% 6
East of England -3 14 £55,500 -37.46% 11
Wales +14 10 £55,000 -32.31% 2
North East +2 8 £77,500 +20.16% 6

Thought Leadership
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 34 (4.19%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.71%) Apache
3 18 (2.22%) Jupyter
3 18 (2.22%) nginx
4 14 (1.72%) Confluence
5 9 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.11%) CMS
6 7 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.74%) SAS
8 5 (0.62%) Appian
9 4 (0.49%) WordPress
10 3 (0.37%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (1.85%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.86%) SPSS
5 6 (0.74%) Simulink
6 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.37%) Stata
9 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.25%) Sketch
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.12%) InDesign
10 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.72%) SAP SCM
3 13 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.86%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.62%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.49%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.49%) SAP Travel Management
8 3 (0.37%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.37%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.37%) SAP GTS
8 3 (0.37%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.37%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 128 (15.76%) Azure
2 119 (14.66%) AWS
3 55 (6.77%) SaaS
4 54 (6.65%) GCP
5 45 (5.54%) Power Platform
6 43 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (4.56%) dbt
8 33 (4.06%) IaaS
8 33 (4.06%) PaaS
9 19 (2.34%) Amazon S3
9 19 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
9 19 (2.34%) Serverless
10 18 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (2.22%) MinIO
10 18 (2.22%) OpenShift
11 16 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.08%) 5G
2 23 (2.83%) Broadband
3 15 (1.85%) Firewall
4 7 (0.86%) VPN
4 7 (0.86%) Wireless
5 6 (0.74%) SSL
6 4 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.25%) DNS
7 2 (0.25%) LTE
8 1 (0.12%) Internet
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
8 1 (0.12%) Network Security
8 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 38 (4.68%) Big Data
2 38 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (4.56%) Data Lake
4 32 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 28 (3.45%) Power BI
6 25 (3.08%) Hadoop
7 24 (2.96%) Tableau
8 21 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.22%) Presto
10 16 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (1.85%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.99%) MySQL
14 6 (0.74%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.74%) Flink
15 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.62%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.62%) Looker
15 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (3.20%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.08%) JIRA
3 21 (2.59%) Git
4 18 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (1.85%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.60%) Balsamiq
7 8 (0.99%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.62%) GitLab
9 5 (0.62%) Selenium
10 4 (0.49%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.49%) JMeter
10 4 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.25%) JUnit
12 2 (0.25%) Mockito
13 1 (0.12%) Bugzilla
13 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 367 (45.20%) Social Skills
2 229 (28.20%) Finance
3 128 (15.76%) Marketing
4 123 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (13.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (8.37%) Public Sector
7 60 (7.39%) Banking
8 56 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (6.03%) Local Government
10 47 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (4.93%) Legal
12 34 (4.19%) Law
13 29 (3.57%) Back Office
14 28 (3.45%) Retail
15 27 (3.33%) Digital Economy
16 26 (3.20%) Manufacturing
17 22 (2.71%) Military
18 18 (2.22%) Aerospace
19 14 (1.72%) Aviation
20 11 (1.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 245 (30.17%) Architect
2 157 (19.33%) Solutions Architect
3 151 (18.60%) Senior
4 143 (17.61%) Lead
5 92 (11.33%) Presales Solution Architect
6 84 (10.34%) Consultant
7 50 (6.16%) Enterprise Architect
8 34 (4.19%) Senior Consultant
9 30 (3.69%) SAP Consultant
9 30 (3.69%) Senior Manager
10 27 (3.33%) Lead Architect
10 27 (3.33%) Senior Architect
11 25 (3.08%) Data Engineer
11 25 (3.08%) Services Director
12 18 (2.22%) Big Data Engineer
12 18 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (2.22%) Senior SAP Consultant
12 18 (2.22%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 17 (2.09%) Analyst
13 17 (2.09%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.54%) .NET
2 32 (3.94%) HTML
3 26 (3.20%) CSS
4 24 (2.96%) React
5 19 (2.34%) OpenID
5 19 (2.34%) Web Services
6 18 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 18 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
6 18 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (2.22%) YAML
7 16 (1.97%) JSON
7 16 (1.97%) SOAP
8 15 (1.85%) RESTful
8 15 (1.85%) XML
9 12 (1.48%) Kafka
10 10 (1.23%) LDAP
11 9 (1.11%) Apache Beam
11 9 (1.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (5.67%) Social Media
3 42 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 35 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.08%) Algorithms
7 24 (2.96%) Blog
7 24 (2.96%) Mainframe
8 23 (2.83%) Cloud Native
9 20 (2.46%) Blockchain
9 20 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.97%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.48%) CMDB
13 12 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.23%) Client/Server
15 9 (1.11%) Credit Risk
15 9 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.69%) Linux
2 23 (2.83%) Windows
3 20 (2.46%) Unix
4 6 (0.74%) Android
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
2 201 (24.75%) Roadmaps
3 200 (24.63%) Agile
4 164 (20.20%) Presales
5 157 (19.33%) Analytics
6 144 (17.73%) Business Case
7 129 (15.89%) Mentoring
8 125 (15.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 124 (15.27%) Actionable Insight
10 117 (14.41%) IT Strategy
11 116 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
12 114 (14.04%) DevOps
13 109 (13.42%) Data Analytics
13 109 (13.42%) Project Management
14 103 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence
15 99 (12.19%) Contract Negotiation
16 93 (11.45%) Project Delivery
17 92 (11.33%) Commercial Awareness
18 91 (11.21%) Business Development
19 80 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 103 (12.68%) Python
2 72 (8.87%) SQL
3 55 (6.77%) JavaScript
4 40 (4.93%) C#
5 26 (3.20%) Java
6 23 (2.83%) Shell Script
7 22 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.46%) Go
8 20 (2.46%) R
9 18 (2.22%) Bash
10 16 (1.97%) Bicep
11 13 (1.60%) Scala
12 12 (1.48%) Perl
13 10 (1.23%) VBA
14 8 (0.99%) C
15 7 (0.86%) C++
15 7 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.74%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.49%) RPG
18 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 176 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 172 (21.18%) Degree
3 127 (15.64%) SC Cleared
4 50 (6.16%) Master's Degree
5 33 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.08%) MBA
7 24 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.09%) CISSP
9 15 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.85%) CISM
10 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.99%) CISA
12 7 (0.86%) ACCA
12 7 (0.86%) CREST Certified
13 6 (0.74%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (0.74%) CHECK Team Member
13 6 (0.74%) Cyber Scheme
13 6 (0.74%) OSCP
13 6 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.74%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 20 (2.46%) QA
3 13 (1.60%) WCAG
4 12 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.35%) PMO
6 10 (1.23%) NIST
6 10 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.11%) COBIT
7 9 (1.11%) GRC
8 8 (0.99%) GDPR
8 8 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.25%) GAAP
12 2 (0.25%) IFRS
13 1 (0.12%) PMBOK
13 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.12%) vCloud
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.83%) Terraform
3 20 (2.46%) Ansible
4 18 (2.22%) Grafana
4 18 (2.22%) HAProxy
4 18 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.09%) Functional Safety
6 6 (0.74%) HP UCMDB
7 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.12%) Core Impact
8 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.12%) Nagios
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Cast Iron
8 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.39%) SAP
3 40 (4.93%) Oracle
4 25 (3.08%) Adobe
5 22 (2.71%) Databricks
5 22 (2.71%) Google
5 22 (2.71%) Virgin Media
6 21 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.72%) HP
8 13 (1.60%) BMC
8 13 (1.60%) Remedy
9 12 (1.48%) Teradata
10 11 (1.35%) Pega
11 7 (0.86%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.86%) Facebook
12 6 (0.74%) CA
12 6 (0.74%) UiPath
13 5 (0.62%) Duck Creek
13 5 (0.62%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.49%) Splunk