Business Strategy Contracts in the East of England

Business Strategy
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 54 106
Rank change year-on-year -6 +52 +3
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 16 62 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.70% 3.24% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 3.76% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 19
10th Percentile £453 £518 £442
25th Percentile £528 £553 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £655 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% +0.77% +26.34%
75th Percentile £800 £675 £763
90th Percentile £845 £683 £818
England median daily rate £575 £635 £600
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 49 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.63% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £47.50
% change year-on-year +44.28% -19.75% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 838 1,647 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.15% 86.01% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 703 1,050
10th Percentile £225 £209 £204
25th Percentile £400 £332 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 611 338
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the East of England

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the East of England

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the East of England

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the East of England

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Hertfordshire -14 6 £825 +43.48% 25
Suffolk - 4 £475 - 5
Cambridgeshire - 4 £550 - 14
Bedfordshire +4 2 £800 - 6
Business Strategy
England

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

Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Workday HCM
2 1 (6.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Akamai
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) iPaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BGP
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) DWDM
1 1 (6.25%) GLBP
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.25%) IGRP
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) IPsec
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) MPLS
1 1 (6.25%) Multicast
1 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.25%) OSPF
1 1 (6.25%) SNMP
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) QlikView
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Head of Operations
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Workday Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technology Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) FMCG
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Change Management
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 2 (12.50%) Business Case
5 2 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
5 2 (12.50%) Contract Management
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 2 (12.50%) Major Incident Management
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Measurement
5 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) APMG
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) CCDP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Workday
2 1 (6.25%) Arista
2 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) F5
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Riverbed
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) SnapLogic
2 1 (6.25%) Zscaler