Strategic Management Contracts

Strategic Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 696 834
Rank change year-on-year +113 +138 -138
Contract jobs citing Strategic Management 7 7 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.012% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.013% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 15
10th Percentile £474 £361 £260
25th Percentile £491 £414 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -15.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £581 £518 £650
90th Percentile £593 £522 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £350 £599
% change year-on-year +43.00% -41.52% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £60.50 - £33.12
25th Percentile £61.25 - £33.90
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.20
75th Percentile £63.75 - £35.98
90th Percentile £64.50 - £36.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.98

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Management 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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Strategic Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Management in the UK

Strategic Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Management in the UK

Strategic Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Management in the UK

Strategic Management
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +125 7 £525 +3.50% 20
UK excluding London +59 6 £501 +43.00% 17
South East - 3 £488 - 2
Work from Home +125 2 £488 -5.52% 4
South West - 2 - - 7
London +89 1 £550 +6.54% 3
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Strategic Management
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:

General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Back Office
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (14.29%) Military
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Business Change Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Business Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Change Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Change Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Change Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Communications
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Project Change Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Graphic Design
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Business Transformation
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (28.57%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Culture Change
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Data Collection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP