Strategic Thinking Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 328 319
Rank change year-on-year +50 -9 +180
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Thinking 1,083 981 2,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.05% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.10% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 690 435 652
10th Percentile £38,603 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,219 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,472 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,525 £108,258 £107,250
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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +46 891 £70,000 - 459
UK excluding London -11 682 £64,000 -8.57% 257
Work from Home +42 382 £73,805 +1.80% 205
London +108 349 £82,500 -8.33% 207
North of England -57 180 £73,805 +5.44% 70
South West +40 131 £60,000 - 35
Scotland -11 121 £75,000 +25.45% 25
Midlands +25 107 £58,800 -16.00% 50
North West -51 90 £72,500 +3.57% 39
South East +22 89 £39,935 -42.95% 55
West Midlands +27 73 £63,304 -9.57% 31
Yorkshire -10 66 £73,805 +5.44% 27
East Midlands -11 34 £45,000 -35.71% 19
East of England +1 29 £49,500 -29.29% 31
North East +1 24 £73,805 +5.44% 7
Wales -48 14 £58,800 -16.00% 5
Northern Ireland +24 11 £42,000 - 2

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 (4.52%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.42%) Tuxedo
3 25 (2.31%) Confluence
4 22 (2.03%) CMS
5 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.37%) Drupal
6 4 (0.37%) SAS
7 3 (0.28%) WordPress
8 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.092%) Liferay
Applications
1 61 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (2.68%) UserZoom
5 14 (1.29%) Sketch
6 13 (1.20%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.37%) SPSS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.28%) Revit
11 2 (0.18%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.18%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.092%) CapCut
12 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.092%) InDesign
12 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.57%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.37%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.092%) Magento
7 1 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.092%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 119 (10.99%) Azure
2 115 (10.62%) AWS
3 84 (7.76%) SaaS
4 59 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 58 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (3.97%) Figma
7 26 (2.40%) SurveyMonkey
8 20 (1.85%) PaaS
9 19 (1.75%) IaaS
10 18 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (1.48%) GCP
12 9 (0.83%) Entra ID
13 8 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.74%) dbt
14 7 (0.65%) Azure Pipelines
14 7 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.46%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.46%) Serverless
16 4 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 4 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.31%) Firewall
2 15 (1.39%) Network Security
3 13 (1.20%) Internet
4 7 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (0.55%) Broadband
5 6 (0.55%) LAN
5 6 (0.55%) WAN
5 6 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.46%) VoIP
7 4 (0.37%) DHCP
7 4 (0.37%) DNS
7 4 (0.37%) NaaS
8 3 (0.28%) TETRA
9 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.18%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.18%) Extranet
9 2 (0.18%) Intranet
9 2 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) WebEx
10 1 (0.092%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.97%) Power BI
2 36 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.12%) Tableau
4 19 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.92%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.83%) Big Data
7 8 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.65%) MySQL
9 6 (0.55%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.46%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.37%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.37%) Metadata
11 4 (0.37%) Power Query
12 3 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.28%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.28%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.28%) DTS
12 3 (0.28%) GIS
12 3 (0.28%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 68 (6.28%) JIRA
2 34 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.49%) Git
4 18 (1.66%) NUnit
5 17 (1.57%) GitLab
5 17 (1.57%) Moq
5 17 (1.57%) TeamCity
6 9 (0.83%) Selenium
7 6 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.55%) JUnit
8 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.46%) JMeter
8 5 (0.46%) Postman
9 4 (0.37%) Mockito
10 3 (0.28%) Appium
11 2 (0.18%) CANoe
11 2 (0.18%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.18%) TestNG
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
11 2 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 525 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 326 (30.10%) Finance
3 297 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (18.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 199 (18.37%) Marketing
6 121 (11.17%) Retail
7 118 (10.90%) Law
8 82 (7.57%) Banking
9 61 (5.63%) Legal
10 59 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (3.79%) Investment Banking
13 36 (3.32%) Public Sector
14 33 (3.05%) Telecoms
15 25 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (2.03%) Local Government
17 20 (1.85%) Manufacturing
18 17 (1.57%) Advertising
19 14 (1.29%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 178 (16.44%) Lead
2 162 (14.96%) Senior
3 75 (6.93%) Analyst
4 71 (6.56%) Technical Leader
5 64 (5.91%) Architect
6 58 (5.36%) IT Manager
7 54 (4.99%) Product Manager
8 49 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 45 (4.16%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.88%) Business Manager
11 39 (3.60%) Designer
12 36 (3.32%) Developer
12 36 (3.32%) Development Manager
13 29 (2.68%) Consultant
13 29 (2.68%) Information Manager
13 29 (2.68%) User Experience Researcher
14 27 (2.49%) Business Development Manager
15 26 (2.40%) Service Designer
16 24 (2.22%) Security Manager
17 23 (2.12%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.72%) RESTful
2 36 (3.32%) .NET
3 32 (2.95%) HTML
4 30 (2.77%) CSS
5 25 (2.31%) ASP.NET
5 25 (2.31%) ASP.NET MVC
5 25 (2.31%) Web Services
6 19 (1.75%) .NET Framework
7 18 (1.66%) Middleware
8 17 (1.57%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 17 (1.57%) Classic ASP
8 17 (1.57%) Entity Framework
8 17 (1.57%) jQuery
8 17 (1.57%) React
8 17 (1.57%) Semantic HTML
8 17 (1.57%) SOAP
9 13 (1.20%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.74%) EDI
11 7 (0.65%) Playwright
12 6 (0.55%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 75 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 53 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 40 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.42%) Social Media
6 30 (2.77%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.57%) Blog
10 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.57%) Legacy Code
11 16 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.20%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.02%) e-Learning
13 11 (1.02%) IoT
13 11 (1.02%) NHS
14 10 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.86%) Windows
2 22 (2.03%) Windows Server
3 15 (1.39%) Linux
4 6 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.37%) Android
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (31.86%) Agile
2 282 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
3 269 (24.84%) Roadmaps
4 227 (20.96%) Mentoring
5 199 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 191 (17.64%) Project Management
7 156 (14.40%) Analytics
8 150 (13.85%) Decision-Making
9 117 (10.80%) Product Roadmap
10 112 (10.34%) Business Strategy
11 106 (9.79%) Product Management
12 104 (9.60%) Computer Science
13 102 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
14 100 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 94 (8.68%) Coaching
16 92 (8.49%) User Research
17 90 (8.31%) Analytical Thinking
17 90 (8.31%) Creative Thinking
18 89 (8.22%) Collaborative Working
19 87 (8.03%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 101 (9.33%) SQL
2 76 (7.02%) Python
3 66 (6.09%) COBOL
3 66 (6.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 63 (5.82%) Java
5 38 (3.51%) C
6 34 (3.14%) C++
7 32 (2.95%) C#
8 27 (2.49%) JavaScript
9 22 (2.03%) VBA
10 19 (1.75%) R
10 19 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.66%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 12 (1.11%) PHP
14 5 (0.46%) Scala
15 4 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.18%) Ruby
17 1 (0.092%) Bash
Qualifications
1 339 (31.30%) Degree
2 62 (5.72%) Master's Degree
3 60 (5.54%) Security Cleared
4 46 (4.25%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.79%) CISSP
6 39 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.23%) CISM
8 24 (2.22%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (1.48%) PMI Certification
11 13 (1.20%) PMP
12 11 (1.02%) MBA
13 10 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.83%) CEH
14 9 (0.83%) CRISC
15 8 (0.74%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.65%) CCNP
16 7 (0.65%) CISA
16 7 (0.65%) HNC
17 6 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.94%) QA
2 43 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.86%) GDPR
4 29 (2.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 22 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.29%) NIST
8 10 (0.92%) ISO 9001
8 10 (0.92%) SLA
9 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (0.74%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.18%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.092%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.29%) Docker
3 4 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.18%) IAG
5 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.46%) Ansible
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.46%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Puppet
4 2 (0.18%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.092%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.092%) Netcool
5 1 (0.092%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 160 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.09%) Micro Focus
3 49 (4.52%) Oracle
4 39 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.68%) Qualtrics
7 21 (1.94%) SAP
8 18 (1.66%) Cisco
9 17 (1.57%) Google
10 15 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
11 14 (1.29%) Citrix
12 12 (1.11%) Facebook
13 11 (1.02%) BT
13 11 (1.02%) YouTube
14 9 (0.83%) Splunk
15 8 (0.74%) Adobe
15 8 (0.74%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.74%) Samsung
16 6 (0.55%) Canon
16 6 (0.55%) Juniper