Business Strategy Contracts in England

Business Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 201 147 226
Rank change year-on-year -54 +79 -18
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 310 593 594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.60% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.85% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 381 372
10th Percentile £356 £363 £450
25th Percentile £427 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £635 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £688 £750 £721
90th Percentile £775 £925 £874
UK median daily rate £586 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -6.32% +4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 68 23
10th Percentile £43.23 £34.70 £29.30
25th Percentile £48.25 - £40.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.28% -19.75% -5.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.83
90th Percentile £79.25 £65.30 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £38.12 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.72% -19.75% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,228 32,110 45,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 86.56% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,553 21,055 31,791
10th Percentile £309 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 2,255 1,587
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.95 £10.94
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -20 175 £625 +4.17% 887
North West -10 39 £505 -15.33% 100
North of England -17 39 £505 -15.83% 165
South West +10 25 £650 - 77
Midlands -8 24 £447 -21.92% 71
South East -17 23 £400 -37.25% 267
East of England -6 16 £713 +8.78% 63
East Midlands +8 13 £443 +11.88% 18
West Midlands -7 11 £575 -19.37% 53
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.58%) Confluence
2 7 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) Smallworld
Applications
1 15 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.23%) Oracle Smart View
4 6 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (1.29%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.65%) InDesign
7 2 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.32%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Endur
1 4 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.65%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.32%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.32%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.26%) Azure
2 28 (9.03%) AWS
3 26 (8.39%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.87%) SaaS
5 11 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.23%) GCP
7 9 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.90%) OCI
8 8 (2.58%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.94%) Figma
10 5 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.29%) GitHub
12 3 (0.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.97%) PaaS
12 3 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.97%) Serverless
13 2 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.87%) LAN
1 12 (3.87%) WAN
2 9 (2.90%) Firewall
2 9 (2.90%) VPN
3 8 (2.58%) DNS
3 8 (2.58%) Network Security
4 6 (1.94%) DHCP
5 5 (1.61%) Wireless
6 4 (1.29%) 4G
6 4 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.29%) PSTN
6 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.29%) VoIP
7 3 (0.97%) Internet
7 3 (0.97%) IPsec
7 3 (0.97%) MPLS
7 3 (0.97%) NGFW
8 2 (0.65%) SAN
8 2 (0.65%) Skype
8 2 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.42%) Power BI
2 14 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.87%) Tableau
4 10 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 10 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (2.90%) Oracle ODI
6 6 (1.94%) Qlik Sense
6 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.29%) Big Data
7 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.32%) GIS
10 1 (0.32%) QlikView
10 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.32%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 16 (5.16%) JIRA
2 6 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.65%) ERwin
4 2 (0.65%) GitLab
4 2 (0.65%) MagicDraw
5 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.32%) Git
5 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.32%) Maven
5 1 (0.32%) Postman
5 1 (0.32%) Spock
General
1 133 (42.90%) Finance
2 110 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 58 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.71%) Banking
5 22 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (6.13%) Retail
8 17 (5.48%) Legal
9 11 (3.55%) Marketing
10 9 (2.90%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.58%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.94%) Billing
13 6 (1.94%) Law
13 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.94%) Military
14 5 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (24.84%) Architect
2 40 (12.90%) Analyst
3 38 (12.26%) Lead
4 32 (10.32%) Solutions Architect
5 31 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 28 (9.03%) Senior
7 17 (5.48%) Designer
7 17 (5.48%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.84%) Enterprise Architect
9 12 (3.87%) Consultant
10 11 (3.55%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.23%) Programme Manager
11 10 (3.23%) ServiceNow Architect
12 9 (2.90%) Domain Architect
12 9 (2.90%) Network Architect
12 9 (2.90%) Report Writer
13 8 (2.58%) Change Manager
13 8 (2.58%) Lead Architect
13 8 (2.58%) Solutions Designer
14 7 (2.26%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.19%) REST
2 12 (3.87%) Web Services
3 11 (3.55%) Middleware
3 11 (3.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (3.23%) HTML
5 9 (2.90%) Kafka
6 6 (1.94%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.94%) CSS
7 5 (1.61%) JSON
8 4 (1.29%) SOAP
9 3 (0.97%) PySpark
10 2 (0.65%) .NET
10 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.65%) OAuth
10 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.65%) OpenID
10 2 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.65%) SAP PI
10 2 (0.65%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.32%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.42%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.58%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.26%) CMDB
6 7 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.61%) Frameworx
7 5 (1.61%) TM Forum
8 4 (1.29%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.29%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.97%) FMCG
9 3 (0.97%) IVR
9 3 (0.97%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.97%) NHS
9 3 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.48%) Windows
2 7 (2.26%) Linux
3 3 (0.97%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.32%) Android
5 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (30.00%) Agile
2 91 (29.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (18.39%) Decision-Making
5 51 (16.45%) Roadmaps
6 47 (15.16%) Risk Management
7 46 (14.84%) Analytics
8 43 (13.87%) Enterprise Architecture
9 34 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (9.68%) Change Management
10 30 (9.68%) Mentoring
11 29 (9.35%) Business Case
11 29 (9.35%) Data Modelling
11 29 (9.35%) IT Strategy
12 28 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (8.71%) Data Analysis
14 26 (8.39%) Collaborative Working
14 26 (8.39%) Project Delivery
14 26 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.29%) SQL
2 19 (6.13%) Python
3 11 (3.55%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.26%) Java
5 6 (1.94%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.29%) R
7 3 (0.97%) VBA
8 2 (0.65%) C#
9 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.32%) C++
9 1 (0.32%) Groovy
9 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.32%) Magik
9 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 51 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 50 (16.13%) Degree
4 11 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.58%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.94%) CCNP
8 6 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.94%) PMP
9 5 (1.61%) CCNA
9 5 (1.61%) CISM
9 5 (1.61%) CISSP
10 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.52%) QA
3 13 (4.19%) PMO
4 10 (3.23%) NIST
5 7 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.61%) GDPR
7 5 (1.61%) GRC
7 5 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.65%) COBIT
8 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.65%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.65%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.65%) P3O
9 1 (0.32%) Basel III
9 1 (0.32%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.97%) Docker
3 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.29%) SCCM
3 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.97%) Terraform
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.65%) OPNET
5 1 (0.32%) Puppet
5 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.10%) Oracle
3 21 (6.77%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.55%) SAP
5 10 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.90%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.61%) Adobe
7 5 (1.61%) Cisco
8 4 (1.29%) Databricks
8 4 (1.29%) Google
9 3 (0.97%) F5
9 3 (0.97%) Genesys
9 3 (0.97%) Juniper
9 3 (0.97%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.97%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.65%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.65%) Citrix
10 2 (0.65%) IBM
10 2 (0.65%) Planview
10 2 (0.65%) TOWER Software