Strategic Planning Contracts

Strategic Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 609 634
Rank change year-on-year +137 +25 -90
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 115 97 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 73 139
10th Percentile £311 £380 £323
25th Percentile £413 £450 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £579
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -9.25% +1.94%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £738
90th Percentile £700 £739 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £515 £579
% change year-on-year -4.85% -10.98% -14.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £27.43 £44.79 £35.99
25th Percentile £41.94 £48.97 £39.63
Median hourly rate £53.44 £56.89 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +35.44% -0.59%
75th Percentile £57.83 £57.83 £47.94
90th Percentile - - £50.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.89 £56.89 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Strategic Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +134 105 £475 -9.52% 186
UK excluding London +79 59 £490 -4.85% 128
London +93 47 £500 -21.57% 66
Work from Home +103 32 £500 -9.09% 91
North of England +38 21 £554 +15.42% 39
Midlands +32 14 £450 +63.64% 25
South West +17 12 £467 -36.14% 9
West Midlands +25 10 £450 +63.64% 17
North West +35 9 £405 -21.36% 24
Yorkshire +24 9 £557 +16.04% 12
South East +12 9 £410 -18.00% 35
Scotland +40 6 £600 +1.27% 9
East Midlands - 4 £713 - 8
North East - 3 £897 - 5

Strategic Planning
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 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.48%) AutoCAD
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.48%) Revit
3 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.48%) AWS
1 4 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (2.61%) Azure
2 3 (2.61%) Nutanix
2 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.87%) Asana
3 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.87%) GCP
3 1 (0.87%) GitHub
3 1 (0.87%) Google Workspace
3 1 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) SAN
2 4 (3.48%) Network Security
3 2 (1.74%) Firewall
3 2 (1.74%) IP Telephony
3 2 (1.74%) Wireless
4 1 (0.87%) LAN
4 1 (0.87%) NGFW
4 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.22%) Metadata
2 6 (5.22%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (4.35%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Power BI
4 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.74%) DB2
5 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.87%) Big Data
6 1 (0.87%) MS Access
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.87%) Tableau
6 1 (0.87%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Git
1 1 (0.87%) JIRA
1 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.96%) Public Sector
3 29 (25.22%) Finance
4 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.70%) Banking
6 9 (7.83%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.22%) Retail
8 5 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.35%) Marketing
8 5 (4.35%) Retail Banking
8 5 (4.35%) Wholesale Banking
9 4 (3.48%) Games
10 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.61%) Publishing
11 2 (1.74%) Law
11 2 (1.74%) Legal
11 2 (1.74%) Local Government
11 2 (1.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (12.17%) Architect
2 13 (11.30%) Lead
3 12 (10.43%) Analyst
4 11 (9.57%) Senior
5 9 (7.83%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.09%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.22%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Consultant
8 5 (4.35%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.35%) Qualitative Analyst
8 5 (4.35%) Quantitative Analyst
9 4 (3.48%) Designer
9 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Network Manager
10 3 (2.61%) Business Architect
10 3 (2.61%) Design Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Portfolio Manager
10 3 (2.61%) Senior Design Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) .NET
2 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.87%) Django
2 1 (0.87%) Middleware
2 1 (0.87%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.22%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.35%) Credit Risk
3 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.48%) Learning Management System
3 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.61%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.74%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (1.74%) LPAR
5 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.74%) PMI
5 2 (1.74%) Social Media
6 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) zOS
2 1 (0.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.87%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.35%) Project Management
2 22 (19.13%) Data Analysis
3 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (16.52%) Roadmaps
4 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (15.65%) Agile
5 18 (15.65%) Decision-Making
6 17 (14.78%) Data Modelling
7 16 (13.91%) Data Governance
8 15 (13.04%) Business Case
8 15 (13.04%) Migration
9 12 (10.43%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (10.43%) Problem Management
10 11 (9.57%) Business Strategy
10 11 (9.57%) Change Management
10 11 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (9.57%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.57%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.70%) Risk Management
11 10 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.96%) SQL
2 3 (2.61%) C#
2 3 (2.61%) Python
3 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.87%) Java
4 1 (0.87%) R
4 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.91%) Degree
3 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.83%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.48%) CCIE
6 4 (3.48%) CCNP
6 4 (3.48%) PMP
7 3 (2.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.87%) ACCA
9 1 (0.87%) CCNA
9 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) PMO
1 6 (5.22%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) WCAG
4 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) IFRS
4 1 (0.87%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.61%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.61%) vSphere
3 1 (0.87%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Ansible
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.61%) MOM
1 3 (2.61%) Terraform
1 3 (2.61%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.87%) Avamar
Vendors
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.22%) Remedy
2 6 (5.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.35%) IBM
4 4 (3.48%) Cisco
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle
4 4 (3.48%) VMware
5 3 (2.61%) Dell
5 3 (2.61%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) Google
7 1 (0.87%) Aruba
7 1 (0.87%) Citrix
7 1 (0.87%) EMC
7 1 (0.87%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.87%) Instagram
7 1 (0.87%) Sage
7 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.87%) TikTok
7 1 (0.87%) Twitter
7 1 (0.87%) UiPath