Strategy Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Strategy Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Strategy Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 359 402
Rank change year-on-year -31 +43 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Strategy Manager 2 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.030% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.033% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 14
10th Percentile - £425 £412
25th Percentile - £461 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% +9.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile - £609 £628
90th Percentile - £634 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -14.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,543 15,349 19,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 92.26% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,622 8,804 13,026
10th Percentile £206 £219 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,534 1,055 1,281
10th Percentile £13.77 £15.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.25 £19.74 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%

Strategy Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Strategy Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Strategy Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Strategy Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Strategy Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Strategy Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Strategy Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Strategy Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Strategy Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Strategy Manager
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 Strategy Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East - 2 £600 - 5
Strategy Manager
UK

Strategy Manager Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, Strategy Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Strategy Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Management
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) QA

Strategy Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Management
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP