Business Strategy Contracts in the City of London

Business Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 97 127
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 27 30 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.55% 1.39% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.53% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 23
10th Percentile £484 £557 £463
25th Percentile £519 £593 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £761 £891 £738
90th Percentile £800 £950 £950
Central London median daily rate £670 £660 £613
% change year-on-year +1.52% +7.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,635 1,957 3,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.59% 90.39% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,377 2,170
10th Percentile £353 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £564 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the City of London

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) GCP
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (3.70%) dbt
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
1 2 (7.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.70%) Parquet
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Retail
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Project Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Data Product Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Network Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Product Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Marketing Manager
6 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
1 2 (7.41%) HTML
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
1 2 (7.41%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (7.41%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) CMDB
1 2 (7.41%) Equities
1 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (22.22%) Analytics
3 5 (18.52%) Agile
3 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
3 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
3 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (18.52%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (14.81%) Business Case
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (14.81%) Use Case
4 4 (14.81%) Waterfall
5 3 (11.11%) Change Control
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Data Management
5 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (11.11%) UML
6 2 (7.41%) OO
6 2 (7.41%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) CCIE
2 2 (7.41%) CCNP
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.41%) PMP
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Adobe
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Blue Prism
4 1 (3.70%) Genesys
4 1 (3.70%) IFS
4 1 (3.70%) UiPath