Business Strategy Contracts in the East Midlands

Business Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 47 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 13 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.43% 2.45% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 3.13% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 1
10th Percentile £320 £356 -
25th Percentile £356 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £396 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -28.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £450 £544 -
90th Percentile £481 £713 -
England median daily rate £575 £635 £600
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £47.75
% change year-on-year +44.28% -20.17% -4.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 607 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.42% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 409 704
10th Percentile £200 £200 £213
25th Percentile £322 £270 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -8.89% +2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 73
10th Percentile - £11.33 £11.98
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.64 £17.00 £18.37
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% -7.43% -4.60%
75th Percentile £24.30 £26.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £32.76 £38.75 £54.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -19.76% -0.18% +49.47%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the East Midlands

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the East Midlands

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the East Midlands

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the East Midlands

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Northamptonshire +3 11 £443 +13.46% 6
Derbyshire +10 1 £175 -33.29% 5
Nottinghamshire +7 1 £450 - 11
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Aerospike
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (23.08%) Product Owner
1 3 (23.08%) Programme Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Finance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (7.69%) IT Technician
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Decision-Making
1 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
2 6 (46.15%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Business Process Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Product Management
4 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (23.08%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) User Stories
4 3 (23.08%) UX Design
5 2 (15.38%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) IT Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Basel III
1 1 (7.69%) GRC
1 1 (7.69%) MiFID
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Dell
1 1 (7.69%) HP
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) SAP
1 1 (7.69%) Veracode