Business Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 138 206
Rank change year-on-year -57 +68 -20
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 153 322 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.57% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.86% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 191 195
10th Percentile £355 £356 £443
25th Percentile £425 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £586 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -6.32% +4.17% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 65 16
10th Percentile £30.01 £31.29 £29.30
25th Percentile £35.91 - £38.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.28% -10.31% -9.53%
75th Percentile £69.06 - £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £60.96 £53.67
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £38.12 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.72% -19.75% -5.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,573 17,298 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.45% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,212 10,313 14,528
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,056 1,281
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.44
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.26 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England -2 41 £505 -15.83% 294
North West -1 38 £505 -15.33% 195
South East +1 26 £550 -12.00% 350
South West +25 25 £650 - 104
Midlands -7 25 £447 -21.92% 140
Scotland -2 17 £478 -18.68% 142
East of England -21 17 £675 +3.05% 111
East Midlands +3 13 £443 +11.88% 60
West Midlands -2 12 £550 -22.81% 73
Wales +3 2 £644 +25.61% 19
North East -7 2 £440 -50.95% 21
Yorkshire +12 1 £625 +4.17% 80
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 18
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.27%) Confluence
2 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.31%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.65%) Smallworld
Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.92%) MS Visio
1 6 (3.92%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.96%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) SAP PM
1 2 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.31%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.65%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.65%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.11%) Azure
2 10 (6.54%) Power Platform
2 10 (6.54%) SaaS
3 9 (5.88%) AWS
4 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.96%) Figma
5 3 (1.96%) GitHub
5 3 (1.96%) Serverless
6 2 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.31%) Collibra
6 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.31%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.31%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) LAN
1 7 (4.58%) WAN
2 4 (2.61%) Firewall
2 4 (2.61%) VPN
3 3 (1.96%) DHCP
3 3 (1.96%) DNS
3 3 (1.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.31%) Skype
5 1 (0.65%) DMVPN
5 1 (0.65%) DWDM
5 1 (0.65%) GLBP
5 1 (0.65%) GPON
5 1 (0.65%) HTTP
5 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.65%) MPLS
5 1 (0.65%) Multicast
5 1 (0.65%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.65%) SNMP
5 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.88%) Power BI
2 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.96%) GIS
3 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.31%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.31%) Tableau
5 1 (0.65%) Aerospike
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) Big Data
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.65%) Maven
2 1 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 69 (45.10%) Finance
2 51 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.80%) Legal
6 13 (8.50%) Banking
7 12 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.23%) Marketing
8 8 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.58%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.27%) Billing
11 4 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.61%) Retail
12 3 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.96%) Law
12 3 (1.96%) Military
13 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (26.80%) Architect
2 19 (12.42%) Lead
3 16 (10.46%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (9.80%) Analyst
5 13 (8.50%) Designer
5 13 (8.50%) Project Manager
5 13 (8.50%) Senior
6 12 (7.84%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.88%) Solutions Designer
8 8 (5.23%) Change Manager
8 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (5.23%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.58%) Programme Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Domain Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Network Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Network Architect
11 4 (2.61%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.61%) Operational Change Manager
12 3 (1.96%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.88%) Middleware
2 6 (3.92%) REST
2 6 (3.92%) Web Services
3 5 (3.27%) JSON
4 3 (1.96%) CSS
4 3 (1.96%) Kafka
5 2 (1.31%) .NET
5 2 (1.31%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.31%) LDAP
5 2 (1.31%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.65%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.65%) HTML
6 1 (0.65%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.65%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.65%) Pandas
6 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.65%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.07%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.92%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.92%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.27%) Frameworx
3 5 (3.27%) TM Forum
4 4 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.96%) FMCG
5 3 (1.96%) IoT
5 3 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.96%) NHS
5 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.96%) Social Media
6 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.31%) PKI
6 2 (1.31%) SCADA
6 2 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.54%) Windows
2 7 (4.58%) Linux
3 3 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (35.29%) Agile
2 45 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (19.61%) Decision-Making
4 29 (18.95%) Enterprise Architecture
5 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (15.69%) Risk Management
6 24 (15.69%) Roadmaps
7 21 (13.73%) Business Case
7 21 (13.73%) Change Management
8 20 (13.07%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.11%) IT Strategy
9 17 (11.11%) Project Delivery
10 16 (10.46%) Project Management
10 16 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (10.46%) Waterfall
11 15 (9.80%) Contract Negotiation
12 14 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (9.15%) Systems Engineering
13 13 (8.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.23%) SQL
2 4 (2.61%) Python
3 2 (1.31%) Bicep
3 2 (1.31%) Java
3 2 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.65%) Magik
Qualifications
1 31 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.99%) SC Cleared
3 24 (15.69%) Degree
4 5 (3.27%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.61%) PMP
6 3 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.31%) APMG
7 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.31%) CEH
7 2 (1.31%) CISSP
7 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.31%) MBA
7 2 (1.31%) MCSA
7 2 (1.31%) MCSE
7 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) QA
2 8 (5.23%) PMO
3 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.96%) GDPR
5 2 (1.31%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) Basel III
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.65%) MiFID
6 1 (0.65%) NIST
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) PMBOK
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.31%) OPNET
1 2 (1.31%) SCCM
1 2 (1.31%) Terraform
2 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.23%) SAP
2 8 (5.23%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.92%) MuleSoft
3 6 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.27%) Databricks
5 4 (2.61%) Oracle
6 2 (1.31%) Informatica
6 2 (1.31%) TOWER Software
6 2 (1.31%) Workday
6 2 (1.31%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.65%) Arista
7 1 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.65%) F5
7 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.65%) Riverbed
7 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.65%) Splunk
7 1 (0.65%) Veracode
7 1 (0.65%) VMware