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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 65 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 26 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.63% 0.30% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 0.35% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £378 £424 -
25th Percentile £379 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% - -
75th Percentile £475 £541 -
90th Percentile £575 £561 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £390 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% -18.75% +9.09%

All Process and 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 637 579 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.97% 86.16% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 360 607
10th Percentile £311 £300 £320
25th Percentile £400 £400 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.86% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 7
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.31 £18.50 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +52.51% +0.28%
75th Percentile £27.06 £41.50 £22.86
90th Percentile £28.08 £96.64 £39.05
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.80%

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 23 November 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 (3.85%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Asana
3 1 (3.85%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) DMZ
1 14 (53.85%) DNS
1 14 (53.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 14 (53.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 14 (53.85%) Network Security
2 7 (26.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
General
1 20 (76.92%) Banking
2 14 (53.85%) Investment Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) NetBackup Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 2 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Veritas Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Chief Information Security Officer
4 1 (3.85%) Chief Security Officer
4 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Information Security Officer
4 1 (3.85%) Lead
4 1 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Performance Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Planning Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Design Patterns
1 14 (53.85%) Load Balancing
2 8 (30.77%) Data Protection
3 7 (26.92%) Business Continuity
3 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
3 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (26.92%) RBAC
3 7 (26.92%) Security Monitoring
3 7 (26.92%) Task Automation
4 3 (11.54%) Agile
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (7.69%) Business Case
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2
5 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.85%) Cyber Resilience
6 1 (3.85%) Decision-Making
6 1 (3.85%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) Bash
2 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (80.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) NetBackup
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) VMware
2 14 (53.85%) F5
3 7 (26.92%) CyberArk
3 7 (26.92%) Google
3 7 (26.92%) Oracle
3 7 (26.92%) Veritas
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Wrike