Business Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Business Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 86 145
Rank change year-on-year +1 +59 -30
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 26 47 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.36% 1.70% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 2.07% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 9
10th Percentile £356 £351 £383
25th Percentile £372 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +9.09% -6.98%
75th Percentile £547 £850 £650
90th Percentile £645 £945 £820
England median daily rate £599 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -4.92% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £12.75 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +325.93% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £14.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +44.28% -18.46% -6.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the Midlands

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the Midlands

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the Midlands

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the Midlands

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
East Midlands +8 13 £443 -1.67% 20
West Midlands -5 13 £599 -15.93% 49
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
1 4 (15.38%) SaaS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Aerospike
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
2 5 (19.23%) Legal
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.69%) International Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Back Office
6 1 (3.85%) Electronics
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Digital Product Owner
3 3 (11.54%) Product Owner
3 3 (11.54%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Finance Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Finance Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (3.85%) Junior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
1 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (38.46%) Risk Management
4 8 (30.77%) Scrum
5 7 (26.92%) Decision-Making
6 6 (23.08%) Project Delivery
7 5 (19.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Product Management
7 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
8 4 (15.38%) Business Case
8 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (11.54%) Acceptance Criteria
9 3 (11.54%) Business Analysis
9 3 (11.54%) Business Process Modelling
9 3 (11.54%) Cost Reduction
9 3 (11.54%) DevOps
9 3 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 3 (11.54%) User Stories
9 3 (11.54%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) CEH
2 2 (7.69%) CISM
2 2 (7.69%) CISSP
2 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CISA
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.85%) Basel III
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 31000
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.85%) MiFID
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Dell
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Veracode