Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Business Strategy
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.31% - 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £450 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 276 196 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 91.09% 92.89% 84.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 93 103
10th Percentile £170 £306 £193
25th Percentile £350 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -14.09%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £575
90th Percentile £598 £650 £698
North East median daily rate £450 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 8
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.44 £16.81
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £52.06 £50.00 £23.19
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.53
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £28.14 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.58% +40.68% +14.29%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Business Strategy job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £450 - 4
Sunderland - 1 £450 -
Business Strategy
North East

Business Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) CRM Manager
1 1 (14.29%) CRM Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Designer
1 1 (14.29%) ERP Manager
1 1 (14.29%) ERP Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
1 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) AIOps
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (14.29%) Design Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Epics
4 1 (14.29%) Fintech
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce