Digital Strategy Contracts in the North of England

Digital Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Digital Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital 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 155 181 218
Rank change year-on-year +26 +37 -5
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 11 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.084% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.098% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £543 £443 £466
25th Percentile £603 £506 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +28.21% -12.00%
75th Percentile £750 £669 £497
90th Percentile - £688 £499
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
England median hourly rate £15.33 £23.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -33.37% -23.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Digital 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 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in the North of England

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in the North of England

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Strategy in the North of England

Digital Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Strategy in the North of England

Digital 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 Digital Strategy within the North of England 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
North West +22 7 £700 +5.66% 47
North East 0 2 £750 +87.50% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 23
Digital Strategy
England

Digital 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 1 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) HBase
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) Pentaho
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ERwin
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Programme Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Change Manager
2 2 (18.18%) HR Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Payroll Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Next.js
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Change Management
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Business Transformation
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
3 2 (18.18%) Due Diligence
3 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle