Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Business Strategy
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 4.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £388 £425 £556
% change year-on-year -8.82% -23.60% +1.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20 4 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 95.24% 80.00% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 81
10th Percentile £446 - £259
25th Percentile £544 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% +38.73%
75th Percentile £621 - £688
90th Percentile £705 - £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.71
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
East Kilbride - 1 £800 - 1
Business Strategy
Scotland

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft