Strategic Planning Contracts

Strategic Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Strategic Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Planning over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 446 556
Rank change year-on-year +94 +110 +108
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 203 124 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.37% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 81 82
10th Percentile £318 £375 £316
25th Percentile £405 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £700
90th Percentile £723 £791 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £521 £600
% change year-on-year -4.08% -13.12% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 4
10th Percentile £20.08 £20.79 £46.18
25th Percentile £31.13 £23.65 £52.46
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.62 £73.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -48.59% +96.41%
75th Percentile £47.13 £51.96 £89.58
90th Percentile £50.75 £55.48 £89.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.62 £37.89 £73.16
% change year-on-year -37.66% -48.21% +579.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Planning 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 29,988 33,146 46,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.50% 85.48% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,666 21,203 31,824
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,727 1,822 1,504
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.25 £18.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.54 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.07% +13.33% +70.45%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Planning over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Planning in the UK

Strategic Planning
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 16 August 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 +72 178 £500 -9.09% 494
London +58 102 £500 -13.04% 304
UK excluding London +42 93 £500 -4.08% 226
Work from Home +27 43 £494 -4.60% 238
North of England -1 35 £518 -7.59% 61
Yorkshire +3 22 £495 -11.61% 22
South East +27 14 £450 -11.33% 70
West Midlands +7 14 £490 +3.16% 15
Midlands -2 14 £490 -6.67% 31
Scotland -1 12 £320 - 18
North West -7 10 £625 +54.32% 36
South West +17 7 £650 +4.00% 17
Wales +9 6 £306 +35.07% 5
East of England - 4 £500 - 25
North East -3 3 - - 3
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Strategic Planning
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 6 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.48%) IIS
3 2 (0.99%) CMS
3 2 (0.99%) Confluence
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 18 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (6.90%) FLEXCUBE
1 14 (6.90%) Oracle BPM
2 6 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.99%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.99%) Workfront
5 1 (0.49%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.37%) Azure
2 15 (7.39%) AWS
3 14 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.93%) SaaS
5 7 (3.45%) GCP
6 5 (2.46%) Adobe Analytics
6 5 (2.46%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.46%) Smartsheet
7 4 (1.97%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.97%) PaaS
8 3 (1.48%) Veeva
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.99%) GitHub
9 2 (0.99%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.99%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.99%) OCI
9 2 (0.99%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) Firewall
1 3 (1.48%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.48%) VLAN
1 3 (1.48%) WAN
2 2 (0.99%) BGP
2 2 (0.99%) DNS
2 2 (0.99%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.99%) FlexRay
2 2 (0.99%) IPsec
2 2 (0.99%) LAN
2 2 (0.99%) Multicast
2 2 (0.99%) OSPF
2 2 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.99%) SSH
2 2 (0.99%) VPN
2 2 (0.99%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.49%) Network Security
3 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.49%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.93%) Power BI
2 6 (2.96%) Metadata
3 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.46%) Power Query
4 4 (1.97%) Spark SQL
4 4 (1.97%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.49%) DTS
6 1 (0.49%) MySQL
6 1 (0.49%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.93%) JIRA
3 3 (1.48%) Git
3 3 (1.48%) GitLab
4 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 115 (56.65%) Social Skills
2 99 (48.77%) Finance
3 54 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (17.24%) Banking
5 26 (12.81%) Public Sector
6 21 (10.34%) Marketing
7 15 (7.39%) Military
8 13 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.94%) Legal
10 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.96%) Advertising
12 5 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.46%) Local Government
12 5 (2.46%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.97%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.97%) Law
13 4 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (11.33%) Analyst
2 17 (8.37%) Architect
2 17 (8.37%) Lead
3 14 (6.90%) Senior
4 11 (5.42%) Project Manager
5 10 (4.93%) Consultant
6 9 (4.43%) Data Analyst
7 7 (3.45%) Business Manager
7 7 (3.45%) Developer
7 7 (3.45%) IT Manager
7 7 (3.45%) Software Engineer
8 6 (2.96%) Data Architect
8 6 (2.96%) Senior Manager
9 5 (2.46%) Account Manager
9 5 (2.46%) Digital Account Manager
9 5 (2.46%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (2.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (2.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (2.46%) Marketing Manager
9 5 (2.46%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (1.97%) PySpark
2 3 (1.48%) .NET
2 3 (1.48%) .NET Framework
2 3 (1.48%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.48%) MSMQ
2 3 (1.48%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (0.99%) LDAP
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.49%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.49%) CSS
4 1 (0.49%) EDI
4 1 (0.49%) HTML
4 1 (0.49%) Next.js
4 1 (0.49%) OAuth
4 1 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.49%) React
4 1 (0.49%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.49%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.43%) Social Media
2 8 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.96%) Digital Media
5 5 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.97%) CMDB
6 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.97%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.97%) PMI
7 3 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.48%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.48%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.48%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.99%) Life Science
8 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.43%) Windows
2 3 (1.48%) Linux
3 2 (0.99%) AIX
3 2 (0.99%) Solaris
4 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.95%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (33.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (29.56%) Agile
4 57 (28.08%) Roadmaps
5 51 (25.12%) Decision-Making
6 40 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 31 (15.27%) Project Management
9 27 (13.30%) Risk Management
10 26 (12.81%) Change Management
10 26 (12.81%) Strategic Thinking
11 25 (12.32%) Business Strategy
12 24 (11.82%) Business Case
12 24 (11.82%) Portfolio Management
13 23 (11.33%) Analytics
14 22 (10.84%) Software Engineering
15 21 (10.34%) Programme Management
16 19 (9.36%) DevOps
17 18 (8.87%) CI/CD
17 18 (8.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.84%) SQL
2 19 (9.36%) Java
3 15 (7.39%) Python
4 14 (6.90%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.46%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.48%) VB.NET
6 3 (1.48%) VBA
7 2 (0.99%) Bash
7 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.49%) Ruby
8 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (14.78%) Degree
2 24 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.91%) PMP
5 7 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.48%) CISM
7 3 (1.48%) CISSP
8 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.99%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.99%) PgMP
8 2 (0.99%) RIBA
9 1 (0.49%) CCIE
9 1 (0.49%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.49%) CRISC
9 1 (0.49%) EnCE
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) PMO
2 6 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.96%) QA
3 4 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.48%) GDPR
4 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.48%) NIST
4 3 (1.48%) P3O
5 2 (0.99%) NCSC
5 2 (0.99%) SLA
6 1 (0.49%) COBIT
6 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.49%) EMIR
6 1 (0.49%) GMP
6 1 (0.49%) GxP
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.49%) MiFID
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.99%) Firmware
3 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.97%) Ansible
2 2 (0.99%) HAProxy
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.99%) SCCM
2 2 (0.99%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (0.49%) Control-M
3 1 (0.49%) EnCase
3 1 (0.49%) FTK
3 1 (0.49%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.36%) Oracle
3 16 (7.88%) Google
4 11 (5.42%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.93%) SAP
6 8 (3.94%) Adobe
7 6 (2.96%) VMware
8 5 (2.46%) Cisco
9 4 (1.97%) Planview
9 4 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.48%) Anaplan
10 3 (1.48%) Hyperion
10 3 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.48%) Workday
11 2 (0.99%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.99%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.99%) Juniper
11 2 (0.99%) Nokia
11 2 (0.99%) Spotify
11 2 (0.99%) UiPath