Strategic Planning Contracts in the Thames Valley

Strategic Planning
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Strategic Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 137 138
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 7 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 0.30% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.34% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £472 £407
25th Percentile - £485 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +6.60% +13.74%
75th Percentile - £538 £538
90th Percentile - £598 -
South East median daily rate £488 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -0.51% +3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 £55.94 £55.94
Median hourly rate £63.75 £56.89 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +12.06% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 £60.15 £57.83
90th Percentile - £61.54 -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £56.89 £56.89
% change year-on-year +12.06% - +59.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Strategic Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in the Thames Valley

Strategic Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Planning in the Thames Valley

Strategic Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Planning in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Planning in the Thames Valley

Strategic Planning
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +31 6 £600 +22.45% 19
Oxfordshire +4 1 - - 10
Strategic Planning
South East

Strategic Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Military
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Commercial Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Oracle SQL Server DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AS400
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) iSeries
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (57.14%) Process Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Facilities Management
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Management
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Infor