Strategic Thinking Contracts in Birmingham

Strategic Thinking
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking 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 46 66 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.13% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.16% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £508 - £490
25th Percentile £519 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.33%
75th Percentile £594 - £609
90th Percentile £613 - £626
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.29% +14.29% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Strategic Thinking 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%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Birmingham

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Birmingham

Strategic Thinking
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (50.00%) PLM
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Product Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica