Business Strategy Contracts in the North West

Business Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Business Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 109 136
Rank change year-on-year +23 +27 -18
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 37 33 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.54% 1.15% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.31% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 36
10th Percentile £479 £363 £406
25th Percentile £588 £456 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £540 £568
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% -4.85% +6.07%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £731
90th Percentile £743 £775 £800
England median daily rate £621 £600 £622
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.52% +10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £34.26
25th Percentile - £41.25 £42.89
Median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £61.53
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -30.92% -13.32%
75th Percentile - £46.64 £67.56
90th Percentile - £48.37 £68.63
England median hourly rate £38.12 £55.64 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.48% -14.41% +119.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Business Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 2,513 3,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.53% 87.78% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,697 2,677
10th Percentile £294 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 163 142
10th Percentile £16.45 £15.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £28.50 £18.25 £14.87
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +57.30% +23.61%
75th Percentile £62.50 £46.18 £50.17
90th Percentile £72.10 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.90 £29.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +51.38% +37.77%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the North West

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the North West

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the North West

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the North West

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +20 13 £600 +26.32% 53
Cumbria +20 10 £669 +11.50% 1
Cheshire 0 8 £725 +34.88% 57
Merseyside +3 3 £170 -63.24% 8
Lancashire +11 2 - - 8
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Boomi
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Banking
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.41%) Billing
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Aviation
6 1 (2.70%) Electronics
6 1 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Military
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Architect
2 13 (35.14%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (27.03%) Security Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Integration Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Commercial Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Payments Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Network Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Network Services Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Service Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Billing Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Change Manager
7 1 (2.70%) DBA
7 1 (2.70%) IT Support Technician
7 1 (2.70%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) RAML
1 5 (13.51%) REST
1 5 (13.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) CCTV
1 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.70%) Life Science
1 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) IT Strategy
2 12 (32.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 12 (32.43%) Risk Management
2 12 (32.43%) Technology Strategy
3 10 (27.03%) Cryptography
3 10 (27.03%) Information Security
3 10 (27.03%) Penetration Testing
3 10 (27.03%) Project Delivery
3 10 (27.03%) Security Architecture
3 10 (27.03%) Service Delivery
4 9 (24.32%) Agile
5 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
6 7 (18.92%) Strategic Roadmap
7 6 (16.22%) Architectural Design
7 6 (16.22%) Data Privacy
7 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 5 (13.51%) API Management
8 5 (13.51%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.51%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (27.03%) NIST
2 5 (13.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) TOWER Software
2 1 (2.70%) Dell
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) SAP
2 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.70%) Snow