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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 169 209
Rank change year-on-year -11 +40 -16
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 183 261 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.46% 1.49% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.68% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 176 172
10th Percentile £363 £363 £414
25th Percentile £465 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +1.62% -3.96%
75th Percentile £706 £838 £730
90th Percentile £779 £925 £886
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile - £68.70 £37.75
25th Percentile £48.25 £69.75 £54.13
Median hourly rate £49.50 £71.50 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +11.28% +27.23%
75th Percentile £72.88 £73.25 £67.13
90th Percentile £86.15 £74.30 £68.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £47.50
% change year-on-year +44.28% -19.75% -5.47%

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 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +4 32 £670 +1.52% 46
East London +14 2 £540 -13.88% 4
West London +9 2 £500 -24.81% 15
South London - 1 £478 - 9
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 7 (3.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (5.46%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.09%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.09%) InDesign
3 2 (1.09%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Endur
2 3 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.55%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.55%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.39%) Azure
2 23 (12.57%) AWS
3 21 (11.48%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.10%) GCP
5 11 (6.01%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (4.92%) OCI
7 8 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.83%) SaaS
9 6 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.28%) GitHub
10 5 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.73%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.64%) dbt
12 3 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.64%) Figma
12 3 (1.64%) PaaS
13 2 (1.09%) Boomi
13 2 (1.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.37%) Firewall
1 8 (4.37%) LAN
1 8 (4.37%) WAN
2 6 (3.28%) 4G
2 6 (3.28%) DNS
2 6 (3.28%) Network Security
2 6 (3.28%) VPN
2 6 (3.28%) Wireless
3 5 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.19%) DHCP
4 4 (2.19%) PSTN
4 4 (2.19%) VoIP
5 2 (1.09%) Internet
5 2 (1.09%) IPsec
5 2 (1.09%) LTE
5 2 (1.09%) MPLS
5 2 (1.09%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (1.09%) SAN
5 2 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.93%) Power BI
2 14 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (5.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 10 (5.46%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (5.46%) Tableau
4 9 (4.92%) Oracle ODI
5 6 (3.28%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (2.73%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.19%) Big Data
8 3 (1.64%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.55%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.55%) Parquet
10 1 (0.55%) QGIS
10 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.55%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 12 (6.56%) JIRA
2 6 (3.28%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.09%) ERwin
3 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.09%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.55%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.55%) Git
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Postman
4 1 (0.55%) Spock
General
1 74 (40.44%) Finance
2 73 (39.89%) Social Skills
3 40 (21.86%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.38%) Banking
5 17 (9.29%) Retail
6 12 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.46%) Marketing
8 9 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.37%) Investment Banking
9 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.28%) Legal
12 3 (1.64%) Front Office
12 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.64%) Law
12 3 (1.64%) Military
12 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.64%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Advertising
13 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (22.40%) Architect
2 35 (19.13%) Analyst
3 25 (13.66%) Business Analyst
4 20 (10.93%) Senior
5 19 (10.38%) Lead
5 19 (10.38%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.01%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.46%) Consultant
8 9 (4.92%) Report Writer
9 8 (4.37%) Designer
9 8 (4.37%) Enterprise Architect
9 8 (4.37%) Lead Architect
9 8 (4.37%) ServiceNow Architect
10 6 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.28%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.28%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.73%) Data Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) Developer
11 5 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.73%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.37%) HTML
2 8 (4.37%) Kafka
2 8 (4.37%) REST
3 6 (3.28%) Web Services
4 5 (2.73%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.73%) Middleware
5 4 (2.19%) SOAP
6 3 (1.64%) CSS
6 3 (1.64%) PySpark
7 2 (1.09%) OAuth
7 2 (1.09%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.09%) OpenID
7 2 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.55%) ADO
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.55%) ATL
8 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.28%) CMDB
2 6 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.19%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.64%) IVR
5 3 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.64%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.64%) PMI
6 2 (1.09%) Animation
6 2 (1.09%) Equities
6 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.09%) Photography
6 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.46%) Windows
2 2 (1.09%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Android
3 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.42%) Agile
2 43 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (21.31%) Analytics
3 39 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (18.58%) Decision-Making
5 28 (15.30%) Roadmaps
6 27 (14.75%) Data Modelling
7 23 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (12.57%) Data Analysis
8 22 (12.02%) Mentoring
9 21 (11.48%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (11.48%) Process Improvement
10 19 (10.38%) Risk Management
11 17 (9.29%) DevOps
11 17 (9.29%) Technology Strategy
11 17 (9.29%) Visualisation
12 16 (8.74%) Enterprise Architecture
12 16 (8.74%) IT Strategy
12 16 (8.74%) ITIL
13 15 (8.20%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.39%) SQL
2 16 (8.74%) Python
3 9 (4.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.28%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.73%) Java
6 3 (1.64%) R
6 3 (1.64%) VBA
7 2 (1.09%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) C++
8 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.55%) Groovy
8 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (17.49%) Degree
2 24 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 23 (12.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.37%) PMI Certification
6 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.28%) CCNP
7 5 (2.73%) CCNA
7 5 (2.73%) PMP
8 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.64%) CISM
8 3 (1.64%) CISSP
8 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.09%) ACCA
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.09%) CCIE
9 2 (1.09%) CIMA
9 2 (1.09%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.84%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.92%) NIST
3 6 (3.28%) GDPR
4 5 (2.73%) PMO
5 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.19%) QA
6 3 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.09%) COBIT
7 2 (1.09%) GRC
7 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.09%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.55%) COREP
8 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.55%) IFRS
8 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.28%) Terraform
2 4 (2.19%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.64%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.09%) SCCM
5 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.29%) Oracle
3 10 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.37%) Google
5 6 (3.28%) Adobe
5 6 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.73%) SAP
7 4 (2.19%) Cisco
7 4 (2.19%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.64%) Databricks
8 3 (1.64%) Genesys
9 2 (1.09%) Aruba
9 2 (1.09%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.09%) F5
9 2 (1.09%) IBM
9 2 (1.09%) Jitterbit
9 2 (1.09%) Juniper
9 2 (1.09%) Nokia
9 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.09%) SnapLogic