Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Business Strategy
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 3.32% 1.23% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 1.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £528 - -
25th Percentile £550 £511 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £523 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% - -
75th Percentile £638 £534 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £505 £593
% change year-on-year -0.99% -14.82% +18.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 129 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 75.53% 79.14% 78.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 79 91
10th Percentile £133 £143 £145
25th Percentile £151 £203 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.11% +9.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £488 £560 £506
90th Percentile £623 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 27
10th Percentile £17.18 £13.28 £13.70
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -5.73% +2.78%
75th Percentile £35.16 £20.00 £34.27
90th Percentile £49.80 £25.22 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £48.72 £32.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +52.23% +52.38% -40.00%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
Liverpool -12 11 £600 - 7
Business Strategy
North West

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DMZ
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 4 (36.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (36.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Lead Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Healthcare Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Healthcare Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Managed Services Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
2 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (27.27%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (9.09%) Data Security
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Project Governance
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Supplier Management
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) F5
1 4 (36.36%) VMware