Business Strategy Contracts in London

Business Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 164 219
Rank change year-on-year -22 +55 -21
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 173 275 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.37% 1.54% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.74% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 190 176
10th Percentile £360 £363 £428
25th Percentile £451 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -3.23% -0.80%
75th Percentile £725 £815 £775
90th Percentile £844 £925 £894
England median daily rate £575 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile - £70.50 £34.98
25th Percentile £48.25 £71.25 £44.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £72.50 £64.13
Median % change year-on-year -31.72% +13.06% +26.98%
75th Percentile £72.88 £73.75 £66.94
90th Percentile £86.15 £74.50 £68.25
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
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

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 2 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Strategy in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 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
Central London +1 28 £675 +2.27% 41
East London +12 3 £600 -4.31% 4
West London +14 2 £500 -28.57% 12
South London - 1 £478 - 5
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 6 (3.47%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (5.78%) Oracle Smart View
3 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.16%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (1.16%) InDesign
4 2 (1.16%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.58%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Endur
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.58%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.58%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.45%) Azure
2 20 (11.56%) Power Platform
3 19 (10.98%) AWS
4 11 (6.36%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (5.20%) GCP
5 9 (5.20%) OCI
6 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.47%) SaaS
8 5 (2.89%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.31%) GitHub
10 3 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.73%) Figma
10 3 (1.73%) PaaS
11 2 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.16%) IaaS
11 2 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.05%) Firewall
2 6 (3.47%) LAN
2 6 (3.47%) WAN
3 5 (2.89%) DNS
3 5 (2.89%) Network Security
3 5 (2.89%) VPN
3 5 (2.89%) Wireless
4 4 (2.31%) 4G
4 4 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.31%) PSTN
4 4 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.31%) VoIP
5 3 (1.73%) DHCP
6 2 (1.16%) Internet
6 2 (1.16%) IPsec
6 2 (1.16%) MPLS
6 2 (1.16%) NGFW
6 2 (1.16%) SAN
6 2 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.58%) 5G NR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.40%) Power BI
2 13 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.36%) Tableau
4 10 (5.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 10 (5.78%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (5.20%) Oracle ODI
6 6 (3.47%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.73%) Big Data
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.58%) Metadata
10 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.58%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) JIRA
2 6 (3.47%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.16%) ERwin
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.58%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.58%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.58%) Git
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) Postman
4 1 (0.58%) Spock
General
1 71 (41.04%) Finance
2 68 (39.31%) Social Skills
3 37 (21.39%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.25%) Banking
4 16 (9.25%) Retail
5 13 (7.51%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.78%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.89%) Marketing
8 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Legal
10 3 (1.73%) Front Office
10 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.73%) Law
10 3 (1.73%) Military
10 3 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.73%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Advertising
11 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (23.70%) Architect
2 28 (16.18%) Analyst
3 21 (12.14%) Business Analyst
4 19 (10.98%) Senior
4 19 (10.98%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (10.40%) Lead
6 10 (5.78%) Consultant
7 9 (5.20%) Report Writer
7 9 (5.20%) ServiceNow Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Designer
8 8 (4.62%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Lead Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.47%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (2.89%) Developer
10 5 (2.89%) Programme Manager
10 5 (2.89%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.89%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.62%) HTML
2 8 (4.62%) Kafka
2 8 (4.62%) REST
3 6 (3.47%) Web Services
4 5 (2.89%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.31%) Middleware
5 4 (2.31%) SOAP
6 3 (1.73%) CSS
7 2 (1.16%) OAuth
7 2 (1.16%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.16%) OpenID
7 2 (1.16%) PySpark
8 1 (0.58%) Micronaut
8 1 (0.58%) Next.js
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.58%) SPFx
8 1 (0.58%) Spring
8 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.58%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.47%) CMDB
2 6 (3.47%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.73%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.73%) IVR
4 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.73%) PMI
4 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.16%) Animation
5 2 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.16%) Equities
5 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.16%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.16%) Photography
5 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Android
2 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.48%) Agile
2 43 (24.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (20.23%) Analytics
5 33 (19.08%) Decision-Making
6 30 (17.34%) Roadmaps
7 22 (12.72%) Data Modelling
7 22 (12.72%) Risk Management
8 21 (12.14%) Data Analysis
9 20 (11.56%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (10.98%) Mentoring
11 18 (10.40%) Enterprise Architecture
11 18 (10.40%) Process Improvement
11 18 (10.40%) Technology Strategy
12 17 (9.83%) IT Strategy
12 17 (9.83%) Visualisation
13 16 (9.25%) ITIL
13 16 (9.25%) Project Management
14 14 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.76%) SQL
2 16 (9.25%) Python
3 9 (5.20%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.47%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.89%) Java
6 4 (2.31%) R
7 3 (1.73%) VBA
8 2 (1.16%) C#
9 1 (0.58%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) Groovy
9 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (17.34%) Degree
2 24 (13.87%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.72%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.47%) CCNP
6 6 (3.47%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.89%) CCNA
8 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.73%) CISM
9 3 (1.73%) CISSP
9 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.73%) PMP
10 2 (1.16%) ACCA
10 2 (1.16%) CBAP
10 2 (1.16%) CCIE
10 2 (1.16%) CIMA
10 2 (1.16%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.20%) NIST
3 5 (2.89%) PMO
4 4 (2.31%) GDPR
4 4 (2.31%) GRC
4 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.73%) QA
5 3 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.16%) COBIT
6 2 (1.16%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.16%) P3O
7 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.58%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.73%) FortiGate
1 3 (1.73%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.73%) Terraform
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.16%) SCCM
3 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (11.56%) Oracle
2 17 (9.83%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.94%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.89%) Adobe
5 4 (2.31%) Cisco
5 4 (2.31%) Google
5 4 (2.31%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.31%) SAP
6 3 (1.73%) Genesys
7 2 (1.16%) Aruba
7 2 (1.16%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.16%) Databricks
7 2 (1.16%) F5
7 2 (1.16%) IBM
7 2 (1.16%) Jitterbit
7 2 (1.16%) Juniper
7 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.16%) Planview
7 2 (1.16%) SnapLogic