Pricing Strategy Contracts

Pricing Strategies
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Pricing Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pricing Strategy 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 510 567 715
Rank change year-on-year +57 +148 +124
Contract jobs citing Pricing Strategy 10 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.034% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.040% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 1
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £463 £428 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £676 £675
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% +0.15% +31.71%
75th Percentile £581 £725 £688
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -5.52% +1.93% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Pricing 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Pricing Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Pricing Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Pricing Strategy in the UK

Pricing Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pricing Strategy.

Daily rate trend for Pricing Strategy in the UK

Pricing Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pricing Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pricing Strategy in the UK

Pricing Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pricing Strategy.

Hourly rate trend for Pricing Strategy in the UK

Pricing Strategy
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pricing Strategy within the UK 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
England +52 9 £475 -29.73% 218
Work from Home +45 7 £650 +30.00% 116
London +37 7 £475 +8.57% 155
UK excluding London +60 3 £650 -5.52% 87
East of England - 2 £650 - 7
Scotland - 1 - - 8

Pricing Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (30.00%) Tableau
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Retail
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Retail Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Data Modeller
1 3 (30.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Commercial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) Matplotlib
2 2 (20.00%) NumPy
2 2 (20.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Decision-Making
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 5 (50.00%) Financial Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Wealth Management
5 3 (30.00%) Analytical Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) Economics
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) A/B Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (20.00%) Business Forecasting
6 2 (20.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 2 (20.00%) Data Science
6 2 (20.00%) DataOps
6 2 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce