Strategic Planning Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Strategic Planning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Strategic Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 114 119
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +64
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 13 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.72% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.52% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £462 £513 £574
25th Percentile £477 £519 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £519 £619 £609
90th Percentile £578 £643 £626
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +50.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Strategic Planning 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 1,626 1,728 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.59% 92.01% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,052 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Strategic Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Strategic Planning job vacancy trend in the City of London

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the City of London

Strategic Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Marketing
2 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Environment Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Marketing Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Product Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Marketing Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Director
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Director
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery Director
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Services Director
3 1 (7.69%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Business Case
2 5 (38.46%) Business Strategy
2 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) ERP
4 3 (23.08%) ITSM
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) B2B Marketing
5 2 (15.38%) Business Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Lead Generation
5 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
5 2 (15.38%) Marketing Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Product Management
5 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 9001
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) Google
4 2 (15.38%) Adobe
4 2 (15.38%) Databricks
4 2 (15.38%) Guidewire
4 2 (15.38%) OpenAI
4 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
4 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.69%) IBM