Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Business Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 108 134 137
Rank change year-on-year +26 +3 +26
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 83 34 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.08% 0.82% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 0.98% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 22 38
10th Percentile £378 £428 £413
25th Percentile £408 £503 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £636 £584
Median % change year-on-year -28.46% +9.00% +6.09%
75th Percentile £619 £738 £713
90th Percentile £685 £750 £775
England median daily rate £527 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.25% - -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £35.43 - -
25th Percentile £42.44 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £58.25 £37.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% -12.94% -30.92%
75th Percentile £77.44 - £46.64
90th Percentile £86.48 - £48.37
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,545 3,487 4,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.89% 84.23% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,321 1,947 3,020
10th Percentile £263 £300 £280
25th Percentile £375 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £676
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 180 206
10th Percentile £13.91 £13.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.76 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.67% +27.93% +37.05%
75th Percentile £36.38 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.75 £70.00 £63.38
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the North of England

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the North of England

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Strategy in the North of England

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +17 52 £484 -25.62% 58
Yorkshire +14 31 £413 -33.68% 38
North East +1 8 £450 -49.83% 11
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (6.02%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) IIS
3 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) SAP ERP
1 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) Azure
2 11 (13.25%) AWS
3 9 (10.84%) GCP
4 7 (8.43%) SaaS
5 3 (3.61%) Smartsheet
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.41%) Asana
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub
6 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.20%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.20%) OCI
7 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.87%) DMZ
1 14 (16.87%) DNS
1 14 (16.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 14 (16.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 14 (16.87%) Network Security
2 7 (8.43%) Firewall
3 4 (4.82%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.61%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.61%) Impala
3 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.20%) Big Data
4 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) Power BI
4 1 (1.20%) Power Query
4 1 (1.20%) Redis
4 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) Postman
General
1 28 (33.73%) Banking
2 26 (31.33%) Finance
2 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.02%) Legal
7 4 (4.82%) Marketing
8 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Billing
9 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.41%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Games
10 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (20.48%) Architect
2 12 (14.46%) Senior
3 11 (13.25%) Analyst
4 9 (10.84%) Domain Architect
4 9 (10.84%) Network Architect
4 9 (10.84%) Senior Architect
4 9 (10.84%) Senior Network Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Operations Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Project Manager
6 7 (8.43%) NetBackup Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Business Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Governance Manager
8 4 (4.82%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Software Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) REST
1 5 (6.02%) Web Services
2 3 (3.61%) .NET
2 3 (3.61%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET
2 3 (3.61%) MSMQ
3 2 (2.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.20%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.20%) HTML
4 1 (1.20%) Laravel
4 1 (1.20%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.20%) Middleware
4 1 (1.20%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.20%) Pandas
4 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.20%) Swagger
4 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.23%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.82%) PACS
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) N-Tier
5 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (22.89%) Agile
3 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (16.87%) Data Protection
4 14 (16.87%) Load Balancing
5 12 (14.46%) Change Management
5 12 (14.46%) Roadmaps
5 12 (14.46%) Strategic Thinking
6 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.05%) Containerisation
7 10 (12.05%) Project Management
8 9 (10.84%) Business Continuity
8 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (9.64%) Design Patterns
9 8 (9.64%) Strategic Planning
10 7 (8.43%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (8.43%) PRINCE2
10 7 (8.43%) RBAC
10 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.46%) Python
2 7 (8.43%) Bash
2 7 (8.43%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.23%) SQL
4 3 (3.61%) R
4 3 (3.61%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.61%) CSPO
4 3 (3.61%) PMP
4 3 (3.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (3.61%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.41%) ACCA
5 2 (2.41%) BC Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) CBAP
5 2 (2.41%) CIMA
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) ISO 8583
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.41%) ISO 22301
3 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.41%) PMO
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) SEPA
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (25.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) NetBackup
1 7 (8.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) VMware
2 14 (16.87%) F5
3 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
4 8 (9.64%) Google
4 8 (9.64%) Oracle
5 7 (8.43%) CyberArk
5 7 (8.43%) Veritas
6 3 (3.61%) SAP
7 2 (2.41%) IBM
7 2 (2.41%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (2.41%) Wrike
8 1 (1.20%) Ariba
8 1 (1.20%) Databricks
8 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow