Strategy Consultant Contracts

Strategy Consultant
UK

The median Strategy Consultant daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 533 653
Rank change year-on-year -13 +120 +182
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Strategy Consultant 8 26 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.067% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.072% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 11
10th Percentile £513 £560 £638
25th Percentile £537 £584 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £681 £919 £775
90th Percentile £780 £950 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +27.27%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,883 36,065 48,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.99% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,832 22,880 33,111
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,568 1,910 1,484
10th Percentile £13.73 £14.16 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.08 £19.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.32
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -0.73% +66.60%
75th Percentile £53.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +86.05%

Strategy Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Strategy Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Strategy Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Strategy Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategy Consultant over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Strategy Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Strategy Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Top 5 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategy Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +15 6 £559 -20.18% 13
England +4 6 £559 -26.72% 19
Work from Home +16 3 £543 -13.37% 8
Wales +7 1 £700 -
UK excluding London +5 1 £700 +3.70% 12

Strategy Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Strategy Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Strategy Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) Pricing Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Monetization
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Sales Enablement
3 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI

Strategy Consultant Skill Set
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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Pricing Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Monetization
3 1 (12.50%) Sales Enablement
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce