Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Business Strategy
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.39% 2.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 3.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £203 - -
25th Percentile £204 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -65.42% - -
75th Percentile £209 - -
90th Percentile £210 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £599 £678 £650
% change year-on-year -11.65% +4.31% +10.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46 95 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 77.97% 73.64% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 124
10th Percentile £140 £128 £263
25th Percentile £174 £259 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £390 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.90% -22.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £481 £497 £602
90th Percentile £590 £594 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 11
10th Percentile £24.43 - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £33.93 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.47 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +25.33% +22.60%
75th Percentile £31.00 £38.44 £28.75
90th Percentile £34.68 £44.63 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in Staffordshire

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Uttoxeter - 2 £208 - 1
Business Strategy
West Midlands

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft