Strategic Planning Contracts in the South East

Strategic Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Strategic Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Planning over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 178 201
Rank change year-on-year +34 +23 +42
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 11 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 14
10th Percentile £407 £334 £356
25th Percentile £450 £405 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £569 £538
90th Percentile £975 £638 £608
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - - £44.79
25th Percentile £61.87 £55.94 £48.97
Median hourly rate £63.75 £56.89 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +12.06% - +59.68%
75th Percentile £65.62 £57.83 £57.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.29 £56.89 £50.50
% change year-on-year -18.63% +12.64% +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.74% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,739 3,581
10th Percentile £254 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 437 224
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.20 £22.34
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.55
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Strategic Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in the South East

Strategic Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Planning in the South East

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the South East

Strategic Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Planning in the South East

Strategic Planning
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +34 7 £600 +14.29% 18
Berkshire +29 6 £600 +22.45% 8
Hampshire +32 4 £469 +40.34% 7
Oxfordshire +5 1 - - 4
Strategic Planning
England

Strategic Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
1 1 (9.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (9.09%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Military
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) DBA
3 3 (27.27%) Senior DBA
4 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Commercial Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Operations Director
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Planning Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Planning Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) AS400
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (9.09%) iSeries
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Process Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.09%) Network Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
3 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (9.09%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Infor