Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Business Strategy
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 2 14 3
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.80% 7.25% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 9.27% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £618 - £365
25th Percentile £627 £167 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £185 £383
Median % change year-on-year +255.41% -51.63% -4.38%
75th Percentile £692 £650 £389
90th Percentile £703 - £390
UK median daily rate £528 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £24.18 £61.79
% change year-on-year +140.90% -60.87% -9.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 151 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.40% 78.24% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 68 80
10th Percentile £253 £147 £198
25th Percentile £325 £169 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -19.96%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £527
90th Percentile £638 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 17 12
10th Percentile £12.55 £21.19 £11.19
25th Percentile £14.25 - £12.98
Median hourly rate £17.15 £24.18 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% +76.69% +29.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £14.43
90th Percentile - £43.00 £17.80
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £38.50 £43.17
% change year-on-year -34.87% -10.81% +30.80%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 22 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
County Antrim -24 2 £658 +255.41% 7
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Impala
1 2 (100.00%) KDB
1 2 (100.00%) Kdb+
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) KDB Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality