Business Strategy Contracts in West Yorkshire

Business Strategy
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 68 81
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +20
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 12 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.66% 0.24% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.28% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £431 £438 £498
25th Percentile £500 £475 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £688
90th Percentile £645 £663 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £636 £605
% change year-on-year -13.52% +5.08% +18.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 712 1,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 90.44% 84.66% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 456 843
10th Percentile £301 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 18
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.90 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.63% -30.27% -7.50%
75th Percentile £46.16 £23.63 £21.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £25.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.26%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in West Yorkshire

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in West Yorkshire

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in West Yorkshire

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Leeds +10 11 £600 +41.18% 20
Business Strategy
Yorkshire

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Asana
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Smartsheet
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DMZ
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 3 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Planning Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Chief Information Security Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Chief Security Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) NetBackup Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (25.00%) Business Case
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 2 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 2 (16.67%) Scorecard
3 2 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) Wrike
4 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Veritas