Strategic Planning Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Strategic Planning
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Strategic Planning 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 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 3.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £539 - -
25th Percentile £542 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 - -
75th Percentile £559 - -
90th Percentile £564 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £504 £369 £450
% change year-on-year +36.54% -18.06% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Strategic Planning 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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 80 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 93.52% 83.33% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 67 25
10th Percentile £350 £189 £313
25th Percentile £420 £310 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £420 £480
Median % change year-on-year +22.10% -12.50% -9.43%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £550
90th Percentile £550 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £23.60 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.33% -14.18% +55.19%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Strategic Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Strategic Planning job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the Shropshire 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
Telford - 6 £549 - 2
Strategic Planning
West Midlands

Strategic Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SSH
2 3 (42.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Management Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) LDAP
2 3 (42.86%) OAuth
2 3 (42.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) AIX
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Solaris
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Key Management
1 4 (57.14%) Privileged Access Management
1 4 (57.14%) RBAC
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Data Design
3 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
1 3 (42.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) BeyondTrust
1 4 (57.14%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Remedy