Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in South London

Business Strategy
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.35% 0.48% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 0.54% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £222 - -
25th Percentile £350 £425 £720
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £719 £450 £740
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -39.19% +13.85%
75th Percentile £747 £475 £760
90th Percentile £750 - -
London median daily rate £588 £627 £600
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.50% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 184 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.71% 88.89% 82.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 121 193
10th Percentile £237 £238 £318
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £637 £567 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £675
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 16
10th Percentile - - £14.44
25th Percentile - £17.25 £27.31
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.58
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.91% +19.20%
75th Percentile £17.98 £71.88 £55.20
90th Percentile - £73.75 £66.30
London median hourly rate £30.50 £35.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.08% -5.33% +5.63%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in South London

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in South London over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in South London

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Bromley -6 3 £750 +66.67% 2
Merton - 2 £231 - 1
Croydon - 1 £713 -
Business Strategy
London

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Payments Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
3 1 (16.67%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes