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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 253 244
Rank change year-on-year -105 -9 +83
Permanent jobs citing Thought Leadership 779 1,433 2,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 1.46% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.53% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 427 510 928
10th Percentile £35,000 £56,219 £51,258
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,813 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +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% - +9.80%

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 86,141 93,563 159,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 95.54% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 60,433 55,405 83,263
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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 27 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 27 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 -89 687 £80,000 -5.88% 459
London -4 374 £78,000 -8.24% 289
UK excluding London -125 358 £80,000 +14.29% 232
Work from Home -114 297 £75,000 -6.25% 208
North of England -83 104 £83,750 +39.58% 45
South East -11 73 £70,000 -15.15% 122
South West -30 67 £80,000 +28.00% 18
North West -93 61 £95,128 +58.55% 28
Midlands -9 51 £65,000 -9.76% 28
West Midlands +13 35 £68,000 -9.33% 18
Yorkshire +26 29 £82,500 +38.59% 12
Scotland -104 23 £99,500 +53.08% 3
Northern Ireland +32 17 - - 4
East Midlands -29 16 £50,000 -25.93% 10
North East +9 14 £77,500 +20.16% 7
East of England -9 14 £55,500 -37.46% 12
Wales +7 10 £55,000 -47.62% 3

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 32 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.70%) Apache
3 17 (2.18%) Jupyter
3 17 (2.18%) nginx
4 13 (1.67%) Confluence
5 9 (1.16%) CMS
6 8 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.77%) SAS
8 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.64%) Appian
9 4 (0.51%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.93%) Adobe XD
4 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.90%) SPSS
6 6 (0.77%) Simulink
7 5 (0.64%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.39%) Stata
10 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.26%) Sketch
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.13%) InDesign
11 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.67%) SAP SCM
3 9 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.64%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.64%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.51%) SAP Travel Management
7 2 (0.26%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.26%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.26%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.26%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.13%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 117 (15.02%) Azure
2 103 (13.22%) AWS
3 46 (5.91%) Power Platform
4 43 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (5.13%) GCP
6 39 (5.01%) SaaS
7 37 (4.75%) dbt
8 22 (2.82%) PaaS
9 21 (2.70%) IaaS
10 19 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 19 (2.44%) Serverless
11 18 (2.31%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (2.18%) MinIO
12 17 (2.18%) OpenShift
13 16 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.21%) 5G
2 23 (2.95%) Broadband
3 16 (2.05%) Firewall
4 7 (0.90%) Wireless
5 5 (0.64%) VPN
6 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (0.51%) SSL
7 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.26%) DNS
7 2 (0.26%) LTE
7 2 (0.26%) Network Security
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
8 1 (0.13%) NGFW
8 1 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.13%) SAN
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
8 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.01%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.75%) Big Data
3 29 (3.72%) Power BI
4 26 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.08%) Data Lake
5 24 (3.08%) Hadoop
6 23 (2.95%) Tableau
7 20 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.18%) Presto
10 16 (2.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (1.80%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.77%) Flink
12 6 (0.77%) MySQL
12 6 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.64%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.64%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.64%) Looker
Development Applications
1 25 (3.21%) JIRA
2 24 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.31%) Git
4 17 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (1.93%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.67%) Balsamiq
7 8 (1.03%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.64%) GitLab
9 5 (0.64%) Selenium
10 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.51%) JMeter
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.26%) JUnit
12 2 (0.26%) Mockito
13 1 (0.13%) Bugzilla
13 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 366 (46.98%) Social Skills
2 205 (26.32%) Finance
3 124 (15.92%) Marketing
4 119 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (13.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (8.73%) Public Sector
7 54 (6.93%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (6.29%) Local Government
9 47 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (4.75%) Banking
10 37 (4.75%) Law
11 36 (4.62%) Legal
12 32 (4.11%) Manufacturing
13 29 (3.72%) Back Office
14 27 (3.47%) Digital Economy
15 26 (3.34%) Retail
16 22 (2.82%) Military
17 20 (2.57%) Aerospace
18 14 (1.80%) Aviation
19 11 (1.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 217 (27.86%) Architect
2 148 (19.00%) Solutions Architect
3 146 (18.74%) Lead
4 142 (18.23%) Senior
5 92 (11.81%) Presales Solution Architect
6 80 (10.27%) Consultant
7 31 (3.98%) Senior Consultant
7 31 (3.98%) Senior Manager
8 28 (3.59%) SAP Consultant
9 26 (3.34%) Enterprise Architect
9 26 (3.34%) Lead Architect
10 25 (3.21%) Senior Architect
10 25 (3.21%) Services Director
11 24 (3.08%) Data Engineer
12 17 (2.18%) Analyst
12 17 (2.18%) Big Data Engineer
12 17 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (2.18%) Senior SAP Consultant
13 16 (2.05%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 15 (1.93%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.91%) .NET
2 26 (3.34%) HTML
3 25 (3.21%) React
4 21 (2.70%) CSS
5 19 (2.44%) .NET Core
6 17 (2.18%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (2.18%) Apache NiFi
6 17 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (2.18%) YAML
7 15 (1.93%) Web Services
8 14 (1.80%) JSON
9 12 (1.54%) SOAP
9 12 (1.54%) XML
10 11 (1.41%) RESTful
11 9 (1.16%) Apache Beam
11 9 (1.16%) Kafka
11 9 (1.16%) Node.js
12 8 (1.03%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (5.91%) Social Media
3 43 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.21%) Blog
5 25 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.95%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.80%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.54%) IoT
11 12 (1.54%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.28%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.28%) CMDB
14 9 (1.16%) Credit Risk
14 9 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.72%) Linux
2 23 (2.95%) Windows
3 8 (1.03%) Unix
4 6 (0.77%) Android
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
2 172 (22.08%) Roadmaps
3 169 (21.69%) Agile
4 158 (20.28%) Presales
5 156 (20.03%) Analytics
6 142 (18.23%) Business Case
7 124 (15.92%) Actionable Insight
7 124 (15.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 123 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 115 (14.76%) IT Strategy
9 115 (14.76%) Technology Strategy
10 111 (14.25%) Data Analytics
11 110 (14.12%) DevOps
12 106 (13.61%) Project Management
13 99 (12.71%) Contract Negotiation
14 92 (11.81%) Commercial Awareness
15 91 (11.68%) Project Delivery
16 87 (11.17%) Business Development
17 84 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence
18 80 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 99 (12.71%) Python
2 73 (9.37%) SQL
3 50 (6.42%) JavaScript
4 41 (5.26%) C#
5 23 (2.95%) Java
6 22 (2.82%) Shell Script
7 21 (2.70%) R
8 20 (2.57%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.31%) Go
10 17 (2.18%) Bash
11 16 (2.05%) Bicep
12 12 (1.54%) Scala
13 10 (1.28%) Perl
13 10 (1.28%) VBA
14 8 (1.03%) C
15 7 (0.90%) C++
15 7 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.77%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.51%) RPG
18 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 171 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 168 (21.57%) Degree
3 121 (15.53%) SC Cleared
4 51 (6.55%) Master's Degree
5 34 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.21%) MBA
7 23 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.31%) CISSP
9 16 (2.05%) CISM
10 15 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.03%) CISA
13 7 (0.90%) ACCA
13 7 (0.90%) CREST Certified
14 6 (0.77%) CHECK Team Leader
14 6 (0.77%) CHECK Team Member
14 6 (0.77%) Cyber Scheme
14 6 (0.77%) OSCP
14 6 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.77%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.95%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.31%) QA
3 14 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.67%) WCAG
5 12 (1.54%) PMO
6 11 (1.41%) NIST
7 10 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.16%) COBIT
8 9 (1.16%) GRC
9 8 (1.03%) GDPR
9 8 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.39%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.26%) GAAP
13 2 (0.26%) IFRS
14 1 (0.13%) GxP
14 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.13%) PMBOK
System Software
1 29 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.47%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) vCloud
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.70%) Terraform
3 19 (2.44%) Ansible
4 17 (2.18%) Functional Safety
4 17 (2.18%) Grafana
4 17 (2.18%) HAProxy
4 17 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.51%) HP UCMDB
6 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.13%) Core Impact
7 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.13%) Nagios
7 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.22%) SAP
3 38 (4.88%) Oracle
4 23 (2.95%) Adobe
5 22 (2.82%) Virgin Media
6 21 (2.70%) Databricks
6 21 (2.70%) Google
7 16 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.54%) Teradata
9 11 (1.41%) Pega
10 10 (1.28%) HP
11 9 (1.16%) BMC
11 9 (1.16%) Remedy
12 7 (0.90%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.77%) CA
13 6 (0.77%) Facebook
13 6 (0.77%) UiPath
14 5 (0.64%) Duck Creek
14 5 (0.64%) Guidewire
15 4 (0.51%) Dataiku