Business Strategy Contracts in the West Midlands

Business Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 79 114
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 -20
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 11 32 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 1.65% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.96% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 7
10th Percentile £389 £358 £403
25th Percentile £484 £518 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £713 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.37% +18.75% +0.84%
75th Percentile £613 £919 £700
90th Percentile £658 £948 £890
England median daily rate £575 £635 £600
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.12 £47.50
% change year-on-year +44.28% -19.75% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Business 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,189 1,632 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.34% 83.95% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 1,084 1,439
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £58.00 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the West Midlands

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the West Midlands

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the West Midlands

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Strategy in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the West Midlands

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Strategy within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +2 4 £575 -20.69% 26
Warwickshire -2 3 £400 -50.00% 10
Solihull - 2 £600 - 2
Coventry +6 1 £375 -34.50% 2
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) International Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Coach
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Security Advisor
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) ArchiMate
4 2 (18.18%) Business Case
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Domain Models
4 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Product Management
4 2 (18.18%) Product Requirements
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) CEH
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 31000
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow