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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 176 201
Rank change year-on-year +25 +25 +57
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Strategic Planning 15 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.28% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 9
10th Percentile £405 £430 £459
25th Percentile £420 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -8.41% -10.20%
75th Percentile £644 £539 £638
90th Percentile £741 £744 £650
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.39
25th Percentile - £55.94 £45.49
Median hourly rate - £56.89 £49.44
Median % change year-on-year - +15.05% +359.29%
75th Percentile - £57.83 £53.87
90th Percentile - - £56.24
England median hourly rate £39.50 £41.06 £73.16
% change year-on-year -3.79% -43.88% +85.22%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,181 3,923 4,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.58% 82.17% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,987 2,368 3,373
10th Percentile £239 £260 £250
25th Percentile £394 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 309 240
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%
75th Percentile £53.50 £70.18 £65.06
90th Percentile £70.38 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +56.36%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Strategic Planning

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 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the South East

Strategic Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +15 11 £420 -16.00% 45
Berkshire +23 7 £420 -18.85% 26
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £480 -4.00% 12
Hampshire +15 2 £800 +57.64% 9
Oxfordshire -10 1 - - 7
West Sussex - 1 £650 - 3
Surrey - 1 £525 - 3
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 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DTS
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
1 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Actuary
2 1 (6.67%) Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Financial Controller
2 1 (6.67%) Head of IT
2 1 (6.67%) Information Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Operations Director
2 1 (6.67%) PMO Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Portfolio Delivery Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) CMDB
2 1 (6.67%) AS400
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) iSeries
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Service Delivery
2 6 (40.00%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 4 (26.67%) Service Design
5 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
7 1 (6.67%) Contextual Inquiry
7 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) PgMP
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) COBIT
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Infor