Business Strategy Contracts in Central London

Business Strategy
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 103 143
Rank change year-on-year +11 +40 +2
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 33 33 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.67% 1.36% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.50% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 23
10th Percentile £375 £540 £463
25th Percentile £500 £575 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £756 £834 £738
90th Percentile £825 £950 £950
London median daily rate £625 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48.25 - -
Median hourly rate £49.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £49.50 £75.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year -34.00% +16.73% +27.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,843 2,196 3,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.08% 90.59% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 1,564 2,339
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.18
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £30.41 £55.00
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £28.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year +23.21% -26.80% +4.08%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in Central London

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in Central London

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Central London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Central London

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in Central London

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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
City of London +6 27 £675 -2.53% 34
West End of London - 3 £825 - 8
City of Westminster +3 1 £825 +57.14% 5
Business Strategy
London

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) GCP
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (3.03%) dbt
4 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.03%) IaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
1 2 (6.06%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) Parquet
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Retail
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Law
5 2 (6.06%) Legal
5 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Back Office
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Architect
2 7 (21.21%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Project Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Business IT Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Network Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Data Product Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
1 2 (6.06%) HTML
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (6.06%) Web Services
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Avro
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.03%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) CMDB
1 2 (6.06%) Equities
1 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) IVR
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (18.18%) Analytics
2 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 5 (15.15%) Agile
3 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
3 5 (15.15%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (12.12%) IT Strategy
4 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
4 4 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (12.12%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (12.12%) Use Case
4 4 (12.12%) Waterfall
5 3 (9.09%) Business Case
5 3 (9.09%) Change Control
5 3 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) CCIE
4 2 (6.06%) CCNP
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.06%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.06%) PMP
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CISM
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.03%) SCCM
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (3.03%) Genesys
4 1 (3.03%) IFS
4 1 (3.03%) Murex
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce