Strategy Consultant Contracts

Strategy Consultant
UK

The median Strategy Consultant daily rate in the UK is £900 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 712 813
Rank change year-on-year +144 +101 -145
Contract jobs requiring a Strategy Consultant 18 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.017% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.018% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 13
10th Percentile £569 £655 £415
25th Percentile £663 £663 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £750 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.00% +40.45%
75th Percentile £1,050 £775 £725
90th Percentile £1,140 £970 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £1,000 £550
% change year-on-year -25.00% +81.82% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Strategy Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Strategy Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategy Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategy Consultant over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategy Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategy Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +129 18 £900 +20.00% 15
London +114 16 £950 +26.67% 12
Work from Home +128 10 £950 +33.33% 6
UK excluding London +71 2 £750 -25.00% 3
West Midlands +28 1 £800 -20.00%
Midlands +26 1 £800 -20.00% 1
South East - 1 £700 - 1

Strategy Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Strategy Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Strategy Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Business Strategy
2 6 (33.33%) German Language
3 5 (27.78%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Marketing
4 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) CMS
5 2 (11.11%) CRM
5 2 (11.11%) NHS
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (5.56%) CIO Advisory
6 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.56%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (5.56%) SIAM
6 1 (5.56%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (5.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (5.56%) Due Diligence
6 1 (5.56%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Deployment

Strategy Consultant Skill Set
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 (11.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
General
1 6 (33.33%) German Language
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Business Strategy
2 5 (27.78%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) CRM
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
4 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 1 (5.56%) Business Case
5 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Enablement
5 1 (5.56%) Observability
5 1 (5.56%) Service Management
5 1 (5.56%) SIAM
5 1 (5.56%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (5.56%) Technology Transformation
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform