Business Strategy Contracts in Cheshire

Business Strategy
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 45 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +19
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Strategy 28 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.42% 2.59% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 3.04% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 3
10th Percentile £270 £463 £395
25th Percentile £374 £472 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £688 £535
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +28.50% +1.23%
75th Percentile £480 £738 £544
90th Percentile £538 - £546
North West median daily rate £465 £668 £500
% change year-on-year -30.34% +33.50% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 578 428 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.31% 85.26% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 285 207
10th Percentile £307 £322 £312
25th Percentile £358 £392 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% -8.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £589
90th Percentile £644 £650 £646
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 32
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.15
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £36.75 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in Cheshire

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Cheshire

Business Strategy
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -4 18 £438 -7.89%
Chester -6 7 £700 -3.45% 6
Macclesfield -1 1 - -
Business Strategy
North West

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DMZ
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
1 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (17.86%) Network Security
2 4 (14.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
1 3 (10.71%) Impala
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (46.43%) Banking
3 11 (39.29%) Finance
4 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (17.86%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Architect
2 7 (25.00%) Analyst
2 7 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Payments Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Governance Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Change Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Product Owner
6 2 (7.14%) Programme Manager
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Business Change Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Business Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Product Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
1 4 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 5 (17.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (14.29%) PACS
4 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
4 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (32.14%) Enterprise Architecture
2 9 (32.14%) Strategic Thinking
3 7 (25.00%) Change Management
3 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 5 (17.86%) Load Balancing
5 5 (17.86%) Risk Management
6 4 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
6 4 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Fintech
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Requirements Management
7 3 (10.71%) Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Business Case
7 3 (10.71%) Data Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
1 3 (10.71%) R
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CSPO
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) BC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.14%) CBAP
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) ISO 8583
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 20022
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
3 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) F5
1 5 (17.86%) VMware
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) IBM Sterling