Strategy Manager Contracts

Strategy Manager
UK

The median Strategy Manager daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 559 680
Rank change year-on-year +63 +121 +128
Contract jobs requiring a Strategy Manager 24 23 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.053% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.057% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 29
10th Percentile £297 £546 £400
25th Percentile £435 £578 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £690 £538
90th Percentile £656 £940 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £665 £500
% change year-on-year -32.33% +33.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £33.39 - -
25th Percentile £37.46 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £46.50 £34.21 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.93% -31.58% -
75th Percentile £52.34 £46.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £54.49 £47.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £34.21 -
% change year-on-year +53.46% - -

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Strategy Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategy Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategy Manager in the UK

Strategy Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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 +61 23 £450 -30.77% 73
UK excluding London +71 17 £450 -32.33% 16
Work from Home +47 12 £450 -21.74% 16
South West +52 7 - - 2
London +31 7 £455 -30.00% 64
South East - 6 £328 - 9
North of England +18 2 £769 - 4
North West +16 2 £769 - 2
Scotland +10 1 - -
East of England - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Strategy Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (37.50%) Marketing
4 8 (33.33%) Banking
4 8 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 8 (33.33%) Analytics
5 7 (29.17%) Business Transformation
5 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
5 7 (29.17%) Critical Thinking
5 7 (29.17%) Digital Banking
5 7 (29.17%) Storytelling
5 7 (29.17%) Digital Strategy
5 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (29.17%) ETL
5 7 (29.17%) SAS
5 7 (29.17%) Adobe
5 7 (29.17%) Teradata
5 7 (29.17%) Migration
5 7 (29.17%) Data Extraction
5 7 (29.17%) R
5 7 (29.17%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (29.17%) Adobe Analytics
5 7 (29.17%) Web Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) QA
6 6 (25.00%) Azure
6 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 5 (20.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making

Strategy Manager 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 7 (29.17%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Adobe Analytics
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Google Sheets
5 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Appium
1 4 (16.67%) JUnit
1 4 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (37.50%) Marketing
4 8 (33.33%) Banking
5 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Local Government
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Analytics
1 8 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 7 (29.17%) Business Transformation
2 7 (29.17%) Critical Thinking
2 7 (29.17%) Data Extraction
2 7 (29.17%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (29.17%) Digital Banking
2 7 (29.17%) Digital Strategy
2 7 (29.17%) ETL
2 7 (29.17%) Migration
2 7 (29.17%) Storytelling
2 7 (29.17%) Web Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (20.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
5 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Adobe
1 7 (29.17%) Teradata
2 2 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft