Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Business Strategy
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 36 14 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 11.61% 5.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.08% 5.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 35 11 0
10th Percentile £338 £356 -
25th Percentile £355 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £391 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% - -
75th Percentile £448 £445 -
90th Percentile £516 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £360 £391 £425
% change year-on-year -7.93% -8.00% +17.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 238 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 96.13% 89.14% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 180 139
10th Percentile £298 £340 £213
25th Percentile £350 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -13.09% +5.05%
75th Percentile £450 £520 £544
90th Percentile £539 £600 £627
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £445 £490
% change year-on-year -6.74% -9.09% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 13
10th Percentile - - £12.37
25th Percentile - £23.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +56.92%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.84% -7.00% +42.86%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Northamptonshire

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Northampton +1 35 £360 -7.93% 4
Business Strategy
East Midlands

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 12 (33.33%) Banking
3 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Legal
5 3 (8.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Business Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Lead
2 5 (13.89%) Product Manager
2 5 (13.89%) Product Owner
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Change Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Project Change Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Change Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Payments Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Flash
2 3 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.78%) J2EE
3 1 (2.78%) JDBC
3 1 (2.78%) JSON
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
1 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Roadmaps
2 13 (36.11%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Decision-Making
2 13 (36.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (25.00%) Product Management
3 9 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 9 (25.00%) Scrum
4 8 (22.22%) B2B
5 7 (19.44%) B2B Sales
5 7 (19.44%) Customer Insight
5 7 (19.44%) Development Roadmap
5 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (19.44%) IT Strategy
5 7 (19.44%) Product Roadmap
5 7 (19.44%) Product Strategy
6 6 (16.67%) Microservices
6 6 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (13.89%) Data Transformation
7 5 (13.89%) ETL
7 5 (13.89%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) Bash
2 1 (2.78%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kibana
1 2 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.56%) Citrix
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) New Relic
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Solace