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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 48 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Strategy 9 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.56% 2.43% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.98% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 5
10th Percentile £524 £513 £398
25th Percentile £541 £650 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +61.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £656 £925 £550
90th Percentile £668 - £708
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £725 £563
% change year-on-year -17.24% +28.89% -2.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 505 571 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.37% 81.46% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 391 481
10th Percentile £166 £208 £270
25th Percentile £358 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £638 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 27
10th Percentile - £14.60 £13.22
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.88 £19.37
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.41% +47.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £22.08 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £81.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.90% -23.64% +63.45%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Birmingham over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Birmingham

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Strategy

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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 5 (55.56%) DMZ
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (55.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Investment Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Manager
2 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
2 1 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
2 1 (11.11%) Service Integration Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
1 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Information Management
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Logistics
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Management
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CEH
1 1 (11.11%) CISA
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) F5
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Planview