Strategic Planning Contract Job Trends in the South West

Strategic Planning
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Strategic Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 123 148
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 +26
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 7 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £432 - £306
25th Percentile £442 - £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £338
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +48.15% -46.43%
75th Percentile £678 £569 £366
90th Percentile £684 £610 £379
England median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £81.00
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £89.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £43.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -3.44% -45.63% +75.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,964 1,947 2,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 85.10% 86.46% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,178 1,775
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 138 271
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £37.19 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Strategic Planning job vacancy trend in the South West

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in the South West over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the South West

Strategic Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Strategic Planning
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Bristol +3 3 £663 +6.00% 6
Devon - 2 £450 - 2
Wiltshire - 2 £447 - 3
Somerset -2 1 £447 -10.60% 7
Strategic Planning
England

Strategic Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Billing
4 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) PMO Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Finance Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior PMO Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) C++
1 1 (14.29%) Fortran
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
2 1 (14.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Foundry