Strategic Management Contracts

Strategic Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 709 827
Rank change year-on-year +129 +118 -156
Contract jobs citing Strategic Management 6 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.012% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.013% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 16
10th Percentile £505 £361 £263
25th Percentile £513 £414 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -15.42% -
75th Percentile £588 £518 £650
90th Percentile £595 £522 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £350 £600
% change year-on-year +58.93% -41.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £60.50 - £33.12
25th Percentile £61.25 - £33.90
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.20
75th Percentile £63.75 - £35.98
90th Percentile £64.50 - £36.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.98

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Strategic Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Strategic Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Management in the UK

Strategic Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Management.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Management in the UK

Strategic Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Management.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Management in the UK

Strategic Management
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Management within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +114 6 £550 +8.37% 14
UK excluding London +74 5 £556 +58.93% 9
South West - 2 - -
London +103 1 £550 +6.54% 5
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
South East - 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £563 -

Strategic Management
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:

General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Communications
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Graphic Design
2 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
3 1 (16.67%) Culture Change
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP