Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Business Strategy
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 63 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 22 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.96% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 0.19% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £378 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - -
75th Percentile £500 £575 -
90th Percentile £590 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £393 £550 -
% change year-on-year -28.64% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 647 514 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.20% 86.97% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 321 531
10th Percentile £301 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -0.95%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £613
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 4
10th Percentile - £15.54 £14.32
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £17.01
Median hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +63.71% -14.61%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £31.98
90th Percentile £33.88 £98.79 £49.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £18.32
% change year-on-year -34.46% +77.40% -14.79%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Leeds

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Leeds

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (4.55%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) DMZ
1 14 (63.64%) DNS
1 14 (63.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 14 (63.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 14 (63.64%) Network Security
2 6 (27.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
General
1 19 (86.36%) Banking
2 14 (63.64%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Operations Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) NetBackup Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Veritas Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Performance Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Planning Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Design Patterns
1 14 (63.64%) Load Balancing
2 7 (31.82%) Data Protection
3 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
3 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (27.27%) RBAC
3 6 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 1 (4.55%) Agile
4 1 (4.55%) Balanced Scorecard
4 1 (4.55%) Decision-Making
4 1 (4.55%) ETL
4 1 (4.55%) Performance Management
4 1 (4.55%) Project Management
4 1 (4.55%) Quality Management
4 1 (4.55%) Resource Management
4 1 (4.55%) Scorecard
4 1 (4.55%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Bash
2 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) NetBackup
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) VMware
2 14 (63.64%) F5
3 6 (27.27%) CyberArk
3 6 (27.27%) Google
3 6 (27.27%) Oracle
3 6 (27.27%) Veritas
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft