Business Strategy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Business Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 137 223
Rank change year-on-year -55 +86 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 112 241 289
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.57% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.79% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 150 177
10th Percentile £356 £356 £475
25th Percentile £411 £443 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £713 £738 £721
90th Percentile £785 £902 £875
UK median daily rate £598 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.40% +4.17% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 53 4
10th Percentile £50.92 £22.02 £39.95
25th Percentile £53.68 - £54.13
Median hourly rate £61.25 £38.12 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +60.68% -40.67% +5.47%
75th Percentile £68.36 - £66.94
90th Percentile £70.84 - £67.28
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £38.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +37.72% -18.46% -6.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Business Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Strategy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Strategy.

Business Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Business Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Business Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Strategy.

Business Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Business Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Business Strategy hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.79%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.89%) CMS
2 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.89%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.68%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.39%) Azure
2 6 (5.36%) AWS
3 4 (3.57%) SaaS
4 3 (2.68%) GCP
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.79%) IaaS
5 2 (1.79%) PaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Akamai
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.89%) GitHub
6 1 (0.89%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) VPN
2 6 (5.36%) DHCP
2 6 (5.36%) DNS
2 6 (5.36%) LAN
2 6 (5.36%) WAN
3 5 (4.46%) Firewall
4 4 (3.57%) 4G
4 4 (3.57%) Network Security
5 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.68%) Wireless
6 2 (1.79%) PSTN
6 2 (1.79%) SAN
6 2 (1.79%) Skype
6 2 (1.79%) VoIP
7 1 (0.89%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.89%) GLBP
7 1 (0.89%) Multicast
7 1 (0.89%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.68%) Big Data
1 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (2.68%) Power BI
1 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.79%) Tableau
3 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.89%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) Spock
General
1 34 (30.36%) Finance
2 31 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Banking
4 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.04%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Retail
6 6 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Billing
7 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.68%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.68%) Law
8 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Advertising
10 1 (0.89%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.89%) Local Government
10 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (28.57%) Architect
2 17 (15.18%) Senior
3 14 (12.50%) Analyst
4 13 (11.61%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.71%) Business Analyst
6 11 (9.82%) Lead
7 8 (7.14%) Consultant
7 8 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
8 7 (6.25%) Programme Manager
9 6 (5.36%) Domain Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Designer
10 5 (4.46%) Network Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Network Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Solutions Designer
10 5 (4.46%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Lead Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) HTML
1 9 (8.04%) Web Services
2 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.57%) CSS
3 4 (3.57%) JSON
3 4 (3.57%) REST
4 3 (2.68%) Middleware
5 2 (1.79%) PySpark
6 1 (0.89%) .NET
6 1 (0.89%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.89%) Kafka
6 1 (0.89%) MACH
6 1 (0.89%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.89%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.89%) Next.js
6 1 (0.89%) Pandas
6 1 (0.89%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.89%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.46%) CMDB
1 5 (4.46%) Management Information System
1 5 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.57%) Frameworx
2 4 (3.57%) TM Forum
3 3 (2.68%) FMCG
3 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.79%) PKI
4 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.89%) PropTech
5 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.04%) Windows
2 3 (2.68%) Linux
3 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (29.46%) Agile
3 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (15.18%) Analytics
5 15 (13.39%) Business Case
5 15 (13.39%) Decision-Making
6 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 14 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 14 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (11.61%) Enterprise Architecture
7 13 (11.61%) IT Strategy
7 13 (11.61%) Risk Management
8 11 (9.82%) Technology Strategy
9 10 (8.93%) Change Management
9 10 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (8.93%) ITIL
9 10 (8.93%) ITSM
9 10 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.04%) GAP Analysis
10 9 (8.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 8 (7.14%) SQL
2 4 (3.57%) Java
2 4 (3.57%) Python
3 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.89%) Groovy
4 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.89%) R
4 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.82%) Degree
4 6 (5.36%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.68%) CCNA
6 3 (2.68%) CCNP
7 2 (1.79%) APMG
7 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.79%) MCSA
7 2 (1.79%) MCSE
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.79%) PMP
8 1 (0.89%) ACCA
8 1 (0.89%) CCDP
8 1 (0.89%) CIMA
8 1 (0.89%) CSPO
8 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) NIST
1 8 (7.14%) PMO
2 7 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) GRC
4 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.79%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.79%) P3O
6 1 (0.89%) COBIT
6 1 (0.89%) IFRS
6 1 (0.89%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.89%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.89%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) FortiGate
1 3 (2.68%) SCCM
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.79%) OPNET
3 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.68%) IBM
4 3 (2.68%) SAP
5 2 (1.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle
5 2 (1.79%) Planview
5 2 (1.79%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.89%) Arista
6 1 (0.89%) Blue Coat
6 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.89%) F5
6 1 (0.89%) Google
6 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.89%) Pega
6 1 (0.89%) Riverbed
6 1 (0.89%) Splunk