Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Business Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 87 122
Rank change year-on-year +1 +35 -2
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 65 42 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.42% 1.56% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 1.88% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 28 20
10th Percentile £335 £357 £369
25th Percentile £358 £417 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -16.33% +11.36%
75th Percentile £513 £728 £766
90th Percentile £600 £779 £953
England median daily rate £527 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.25% - -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £37.00 £54.39
% change year-on-year +33.78% -31.97% -18.22%

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 2,373 2,236 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.41% 82.91% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,402 1,737
10th Percentile £236 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £698 £702
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 70 102
10th Percentile £13.77 £14.18 £13.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.35 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -18.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £41.61 £51.50
90th Percentile £40.74 £55.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.16%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the Midlands

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Business Strategy

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 28 September 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 +15 43 £368 -6.01% 13
West Midlands -14 22 £599 -11.65% 25
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 3 (4.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (4.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.08%) SAP PM
4 1 (1.54%) CA PPM
4 1 (1.54%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Azure
2 8 (12.31%) AWS
3 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.62%) SaaS
4 3 (4.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Serverless
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.08%) Collibra
5 2 (3.08%) GCP
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.85%) Network Security
2 8 (12.31%) DMZ
2 8 (12.31%) DNS
2 8 (12.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 8 (12.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (4.62%) Firewall
4 2 (3.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.62%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
3 2 (3.08%) GIS
3 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) LoadRunner
General
1 24 (36.92%) Finance
2 21 (32.31%) Banking
3 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
4 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Investment Banking
6 7 (10.77%) Legal
7 3 (4.62%) Marketing
8 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.54%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (16.92%) Architect
2 8 (12.31%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (10.77%) Product Owner
4 6 (9.23%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.23%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Analyst
5 5 (7.69%) Lead
5 5 (7.69%) Product Manager
5 5 (7.69%) Programme Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Change Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Project Change Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Salesforce Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Salesforce Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (3.08%) Finance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Payments Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Flash
2 3 (4.62%) Kafka
2 3 (4.62%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.54%) Express.js
4 1 (1.54%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.54%) J2EE
4 1 (1.54%) JDBC
4 1 (1.54%) JSON
4 1 (1.54%) MERN Stack
4 1 (1.54%) Node.js
4 1 (1.54%) React
4 1 (1.54%) Spring
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Management Information System
2 9 (13.85%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) IoT
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.08%) SCADA
6 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) Agile
2 21 (32.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (29.23%) Roadmaps
4 17 (26.15%) Decision-Making
5 15 (23.08%) Project Delivery
6 13 (20.00%) Product Management
7 10 (15.38%) Scrum
8 9 (13.85%) Design Patterns
8 9 (13.85%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (13.85%) IT Strategy
9 8 (12.31%) B2B
9 8 (12.31%) Load Balancing
9 8 (12.31%) Product Roadmap
9 8 (12.31%) Product Strategy
9 8 (12.31%) Technology Strategy
10 7 (10.77%) B2B Sales
10 7 (10.77%) Business Analysis
10 7 (10.77%) Change Management
10 7 (10.77%) ETL
10 7 (10.77%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) SQL
2 3 (4.62%) Python
3 2 (3.08%) Bicep
3 2 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.54%) Bash
4 1 (1.54%) Java
4 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) CEH
3 1 (1.54%) CISA
3 1 (1.54%) CISM
3 1 (1.54%) CISSP
3 1 (1.54%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (1.54%) PMP
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) GDPR
1 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.08%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Basel III
3 1 (1.54%) GRC
3 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.54%) MiFID
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Kibana
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.08%) SCCM
1 2 (3.08%) Terraform
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.38%) VMware
3 8 (12.31%) F5
4 4 (6.15%) Databricks
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle
5 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.08%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.08%) Citrix
6 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.08%) Informatica
6 2 (3.08%) New Relic
6 2 (3.08%) SAP
6 2 (3.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) IBM
7 1 (1.54%) Planview
7 1 (1.54%) Solace