Business Strategy Contracts in Birmingham

Business Strategy
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 52 71
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 5 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 1.94% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 2.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £528 £405 £368
25th Percentile £550 £650 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +81.25% -33.61%
75th Percentile £678 £925 £425
90th Percentile - £930 £433
West Midlands median daily rate £599 £713 £556
% change year-on-year -15.93% +28.21% -6.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in Birmingham

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in Birmingham

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Birmingham

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in Birmingham

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) International Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (20.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CEH
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft