Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Business Strategy
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.08% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 173 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 91.00% 93.51% 84.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 80 96
10th Percentile £170 £305 £244
25th Percentile £353 £357 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £476
Median % change year-on-year - -5.46% -13.45%
75th Percentile £544 £578 £576
90th Percentile £600 £657 £715
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £473
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 7
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £52.06 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +35.71%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Designer
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Protection
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Competitor Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (16.67%) PLM
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) Product Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree