Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Business Strategy
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 18 30
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 2.37% 1.03% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.16% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +57.58%
75th Percentile £538 £625 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £678 £613
% change year-on-year -22.57% +10.69% +13.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 86 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 95.27% 88.66% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 55 129
10th Percentile £228 £334 £345
25th Percentile £306 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% - -
75th Percentile £538 £581 £563
90th Percentile £630 £626 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £28.06 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.86% +2.98% +53.78%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Coventry

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (25.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Collibra
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) IPv4
2 2 (50.00%) IPv6
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) WLAN
3 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Workday