Business Strategy Contracts in Berkshire

Business Strategy
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 80 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 -24 +23
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 11 42 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.94% 2.13% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 2.40% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 42
10th Percentile £325 £524 £464
25th Percentile - £563 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £613 £688
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -10.91% +22.77%
75th Percentile - £692 £721
90th Percentile £500 £739 £736
South East median daily rate £400 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -37.25% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £52.90 -
25th Percentile - £54.42 £55.94
Median hourly rate - £56.89 £56.89
75th Percentile - £62.88 £57.83
90th Percentile - £63.29 -
South East median hourly rate - £56.89 £56.89
% change year-on-year - - +21.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,090 1,753 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.32% 88.76% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 917 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £347
25th Percentile £414 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -3.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £19.00 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.50% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in Berkshire

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in Berkshire

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Berkshire

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in Berkshire

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
Reading +4 4 £350 -41.67% 12
Windsor -6 2 £650 -13.33% 1
Wokingham -10 1 - - 1
Bracknell - 1 - - 3
Business Strategy
South East

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) NGFW
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Billing
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Designer
1 5 (45.45%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Category Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Development Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Category Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Development Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Implementation Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Supply Chain Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) REST
1 5 (45.45%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Frameworx
1 5 (45.45%) TM Forum
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CRM
2 5 (45.45%) Customer Experience
2 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 5 (45.45%) Service Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (45.45%) UML
3 3 (27.27%) Data Mapping
3 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Business Case
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (9.09%) Product Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Product Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) ServiceNow
2 5 (45.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Zscaler