Business Strategy Contracts in London

Business Strategy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Business Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Strategy over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 221 201
Rank change year-on-year +58 -20 +31
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 267 323 578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.50% 1.19% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.30% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 175 371
10th Percentile £363 £450 £425
25th Percentile £503 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £620 £610
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £834 £775 £739
90th Percentile £925 £888 £875
England median daily rate £636 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +6.00% +0.04% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £70.50 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £39.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £64.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +26.73% +98.04%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £68.00 £68.85
England median hourly rate £38.12 £46.75 £50.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -7.43% +12.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Business Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,769 24,761 35,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 91.14% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,293 17,773 26,130
10th Percentile £338 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 287 421
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.83 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.59 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Central London +38 37 £655 -2.96% 31
East London -5 6 £627 -21.63% 9
West London +12 4 £700 +23.89% 8
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.00%) MTS
2 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (5.62%) Endur
2 8 (3.00%) Aligne
2 8 (3.00%) EuroRunner
3 4 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.36%) Azure
2 20 (7.49%) Power Platform
3 15 (5.62%) AWS
4 14 (5.24%) SaaS
5 9 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.62%) IaaS
7 6 (2.25%) GCP
8 5 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.87%) PaaS
9 4 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.12%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.75%) Asana
11 2 (0.75%) Figma
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.37%) Kong
12 1 (0.37%) Serverless
12 1 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.49%) BGP
1 12 (4.49%) MPLS
2 9 (3.37%) Network Security
3 7 (2.62%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (2.62%) Firewall
3 7 (2.62%) IOS XR
4 6 (2.25%) 5G
5 5 (1.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (1.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (1.87%) Internet
5 5 (1.87%) RSVP
6 3 (1.12%) Broadband
6 3 (1.12%) VPN
7 2 (0.75%) DNS
7 2 (0.75%) IPv6
7 2 (0.75%) L2TP
7 2 (0.75%) LAN
7 2 (0.75%) SSL
7 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.61%) Metadata
2 21 (7.87%) Data Vault
2 21 (7.87%) Metadata Repository
2 21 (7.87%) NoSQL
3 20 (7.49%) Power BI
4 5 (1.87%) Tableau
5 3 (1.12%) Big Data
5 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.37%) OLAP
7 1 (0.37%) OLTP
7 1 (0.37%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (3.75%) Git
2 5 (1.87%) JIRA
3 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 87 (32.58%) Finance
2 80 (29.96%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (10.11%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (8.61%) Marketing
7 19 (7.12%) Telecoms
8 18 (6.74%) Banking
9 15 (5.62%) Manufacturing
10 14 (5.24%) Electronics
11 13 (4.87%) Front Office
11 13 (4.87%) Legal
12 12 (4.49%) Law
13 8 (3.00%) German Language
13 8 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (3.00%) Local Government
13 8 (3.00%) Retail
14 7 (2.62%) Investment Banking
14 7 (2.62%) Police
15 6 (2.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 89 (33.33%) Architect
2 57 (21.35%) Analyst
3 40 (14.98%) Business Analyst
4 23 (8.61%) Data Architect
5 20 (7.49%) Lead
6 19 (7.12%) Chief Architect
6 19 (7.12%) Chief Data Architect
7 18 (6.74%) Senior
8 17 (6.37%) Security Architect
9 16 (5.99%) Consultant
10 14 (5.24%) Technical Architect
11 13 (4.87%) Enterprise Architect
12 12 (4.49%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.49%) Project Manager
13 11 (4.12%) Business Architect
13 11 (4.12%) Design Engineer
13 11 (4.12%) Network Design Engineer
14 10 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (3.37%) Head of Architecture
15 9 (3.37%) Head of Data Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.12%) JSON
1 11 (4.12%) NETCONF
1 11 (4.12%) XML
1 11 (4.12%) YANG
2 4 (1.50%) Spring
2 4 (1.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.12%) ADO
3 3 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.12%) Middleware
3 3 (1.12%) Node.js
3 3 (1.12%) OAuth
3 3 (1.12%) OpenID
3 3 (1.12%) pytest
3 3 (1.12%) React
3 3 (1.12%) SAML
4 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.75%) REST
4 2 (0.75%) SPML
5 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.36%) Reference Data
2 19 (7.12%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.12%) Renewable Energy
3 11 (4.12%) Solar Panel
4 10 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.37%) Market Risk
6 8 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.62%) PMI
8 6 (2.25%) Credit Risk
8 6 (2.25%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.12%) PKI
11 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.25%) Windows
2 5 (1.87%) Unix
3 3 (1.12%) Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Solaris
4 1 (0.37%) VMS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.97%) Agile
2 68 (25.47%) Roadmaps
3 41 (15.36%) IT Strategy
4 40 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (13.48%) Use Case
7 33 (12.36%) Data Modelling
8 30 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (10.49%) Data Strategy
9 28 (10.49%) DevOps
10 27 (10.11%) Business Case
10 27 (10.11%) Data Architecture
10 27 (10.11%) Project Management
11 26 (9.74%) Analytics
11 26 (9.74%) Data Governance
11 26 (9.74%) Strategic Roadmap
12 25 (9.36%) Data Integration
12 25 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (8.99%) Data Analysis
14 23 (8.61%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.99%) Python
2 22 (8.24%) SQL
3 14 (5.24%) Java
4 5 (1.87%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.12%) VBA
6 2 (0.75%) C++
6 2 (0.75%) MATLAB
6 2 (0.75%) Scala
7 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.36%) Degree
4 12 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.37%) CISSP
7 8 (3.00%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.62%) CCNP
9 5 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.87%) CBAP
9 5 (1.87%) CISM
9 5 (1.87%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (1.50%) CCSK
10 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.50%) MBA
11 3 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (1.12%) CISA
11 3 (1.12%) CITP
12 2 (0.75%) CFA
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.12%) NIST
2 12 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.49%) QA
3 9 (3.37%) GDPR
4 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.87%) PMO
6 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.50%) NCSC
7 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 22301
7 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.75%) COBIT
8 2 (0.75%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) GxP
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) P3O
9 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.25%) Ansible
2 5 (1.87%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.37%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.49%) SAP
3 12 (4.49%) Nokia
4 8 (3.00%) Cisco
5 6 (2.25%) Sparx
6 5 (1.87%) F5
6 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.87%) Oracle
6 5 (1.87%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (1.12%) Databricks
7 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.12%) VMware
7 3 (1.12%) Workday
8 2 (0.75%) CA
8 2 (0.75%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.75%) Google
8 2 (0.75%) Huawei
8 2 (0.75%) Talend
8 2 (0.75%) Veeam