Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Business Strategy
South East > Surrey

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 54 76
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.16% 0.81% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.95% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £526 £408 £465
25th Percentile £561 £563 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +24.44% +14.50%
75th Percentile £699 £750 £675
90th Percentile £737 - £743
South East median daily rate £575 £573 £600
% change year-on-year +0.44% -4.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £67.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 325 422 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.48% 85.77% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 296 565
10th Percentile £201 £203 £200
25th Percentile £235 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £539 £638
90th Percentile £624 £625 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 34
10th Percentile £19.52 £19.95 £24.14
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £44.70
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.64% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.90 £76.53
90th Percentile - £76.12 £78.10
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £58.49 £54.38
% change year-on-year -61.53% +7.56% +70.41%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Surrey

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Surrey over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Surrey

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Guildford -2 3 £628 -10.36% 1
Business Strategy
South East

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Swim Lanes
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks