Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Business Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 46 64
Rank change year-on-year +16 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 41 22 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.20% 2.77% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 3.34% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 13 5
10th Percentile £344 £285 £253
25th Percentile £358 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% - -
75th Percentile £473 £445 £750
90th Percentile £525 £721 £885
England median daily rate £528 £618 £600
% change year-on-year -14.53% +2.96% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £38.12 £54.39
% change year-on-year +29.85% -29.91% -16.33%

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 675 658 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.55% 82.87% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 410 533
10th Percentile £223 £263 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -8.16% +5.38%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Strategy

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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the East Midlands

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Strategy

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 18 September 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 +11 40 £360 -11.76% 32
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) AWS
1 7 (17.07%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) SaaS
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 20 (48.78%) Finance
2 12 (29.27%) Banking
3 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
4 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Legal
6 3 (7.32%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Architect
2 6 (14.63%) Product Owner
3 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Product Manager
4 4 (9.76%) Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Programme Manager
4 4 (9.76%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Change Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Project Change Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Salesforce Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Change Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) Flash
2 3 (7.32%) REST
3 1 (2.44%) Express.js
3 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.44%) J2EE
3 1 (2.44%) JDBC
3 1 (2.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.44%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) MERN Stack
3 1 (2.44%) Node.js
3 1 (2.44%) React
3 1 (2.44%) Spring
3 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Product Ownership
2 6 (14.63%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
1 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (36.59%) Roadmaps
3 14 (34.15%) Agile
4 13 (31.71%) Decision-Making
4 13 (31.71%) Project Delivery
5 11 (26.83%) Product Management
6 8 (19.51%) B2B
6 8 (19.51%) Scrum
7 7 (17.07%) B2B Sales
7 7 (17.07%) Customer Insight
7 7 (17.07%) Development Roadmap
7 7 (17.07%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (17.07%) IT Strategy
7 7 (17.07%) Microservices
7 7 (17.07%) Product Roadmap
7 7 (17.07%) Product Strategy
8 6 (14.63%) Budget Management
8 6 (14.63%) Business Analysis
8 6 (14.63%) Change Management
8 6 (14.63%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) SQL
2 1 (2.44%) Bash
2 1 (2.44%) Java
2 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (2.44%) PMP
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GDPR
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.88%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Basel III
2 1 (2.44%) GRC
2 1 (2.44%) MiFID
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) PMO
2 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kibana
1 2 (4.88%) SCCM
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.88%) Citrix
3 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.88%) New Relic
3 2 (4.88%) Splunk
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Solace