BizOps and Strategy & Operations salary, by level
A BizOps or Strategy & Operations manager in London earns a base salary of £70k to £110k plus a cash bonus, so about £105k in total. Director level reaches around £180k. Equity sits on top of that at the larger technology employers and is not in these figures.
The same job is advertised as BizOps, Strategy & Operations, Business Strategy, Chief of Staff and Special Projects, and salary surveys file each of those somewhere different. That is why the bands are wider than the pay is at any one company.
Every level
London. The junior rungs sit on the national quartiles for management consultants and business analysts; the senior rungs on the London ranges published for business analyst, programme manager and programme director.
| Level | Base | Bonus | Total (mid) | Reached at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyst | £35k to £50k | 5% to 10% | £45k | On joining |
| Senior analyst | £50k to £70k | 5% to 15% | £65k | 2y |
| Manager | £70k to £110k | 10% to 20% | £105k | 4y |
| Senior manager | £85k to £130k | 10% to 25% | £125k | 7y |
| Director / head of | £125k to £170k | 15% to 30% | £180k | 10y |
Figures describe 2025. Median incentive pay for management consultants and business analysts is £3,750 against median pay of £53,295, about 7%. The upper end of each band describes the technology employers who run a real bonus target.
What the cash figures leave out
Titles are the problem on this track, not the money. BizOps, Strategy & Operations, Business Strategy, Chief of Staff and Special Projects are the same job at different companies and are benchmarked against different role families inside a salary survey, which is why the bands here are wider than the pay actually is at any one firm.
Where these numbers come from
Robert Walters UK Salary Survey 20262026
London permanent salary ranges by role and employer size, in data, transformation and commerce and industry.
ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (provisional)Published 23 October 2025, describing April 2025
UK full-time gross annual pay and incentive pay percentiles by four-digit occupation. Used for the national floor under the London ranges, and for what share of pay a bonus actually is.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Business operations, strategy and operations, business program manager and chief of staff filings, 2024 and 2025 together because any one year is thin above manager.
| Level | Base | Bonus | Total (mid) | Reached at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyst | $70k to $105k | 5% to 15% | $95k | On joining |
| Senior analyst | $95k to $130k | 10% to 15% | $125k | 2y |
| Manager | $115k to $175k | 10% to 20% | $165k | 4y |
| Senior manager | $150k to $195k | 15% to 25% | $205k | 7y |
| Director / head of | $185k to $240k | 15% to 30% | $260k | 10y |
Figures describe 2025. Base is measured: percentiles computed from every 2025 visa disclosure filing for the job titles on this ladder. The bonus column is a target range typical of the sector rather than a measured distribution, and is the softer half of this table.
What the cash figures leave out
Equity is missing and at a large technology employer it is a serious share of a manager’s package. The director rung rests on very few filings and should be read as an indication rather than a band; everything below it has a hundred rows or more behind it.
Where these numbers come from
US Department of Labor, H-1B Labor Condition Application disclosure data2025 filings
Offered annual base wage by employer, job title and worksite. Percentiles below are computed from those rows, not taken from anyone else’s summary.
Licence: US public domain
Ranges, not offers. Compare every track.
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