Business Strategy Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Business Strategy
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Business Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 100 94
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +25
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 30 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.93% 0.27% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 0.32% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 18
10th Percentile £378 £475 £496
25th Percentile £393 £570 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +3.67% +14.83%
75th Percentile £619 £629 £610
90th Percentile £638 £642 £881
England median daily rate £533 £622 £600
% change year-on-year -14.39% +3.67% -3.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,407 1,260 1,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.60% 83.83% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 757 1,193
10th Percentile £238 £310 £305
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £620
90th Percentile £638 £663 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 44 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £25.27
90th Percentile £69.75 £45.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in Yorkshire

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in Yorkshire

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Strategy

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
West Yorkshire +22 22 £450 +5.88% 24
South Yorkshire -4 11 £413 -33.68% 8
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 4
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Asana
3 2 (6.67%) Smartsheet
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) DMZ
1 7 (23.33%) DNS
1 7 (23.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 7 (23.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 7 (23.33%) Firewall
1 7 (23.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Power Query
General
1 16 (53.33%) Banking
2 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (33.33%) Finance
4 7 (23.33%) Investment Banking
5 6 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Legal
8 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) NetBackup Engineer
1 7 (23.33%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Software Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Business Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Business Project Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Project Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Performance Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Planning Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Project Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Veritas Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) .NET
1 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (10.00%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) Business Continuity
2 8 (26.67%) Data Protection
2 8 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (23.33%) Design Patterns
3 7 (23.33%) Load Balancing
3 7 (23.33%) RBAC
3 7 (23.33%) Security Monitoring
3 7 (23.33%) Task Automation
4 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (16.67%) Project Management
5 5 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (13.33%) Change Management
6 4 (13.33%) Resource Management
7 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) Bash
2 7 (23.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) PMP
2 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) NetBackup
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) VMware
2 7 (23.33%) CyberArk
2 7 (23.33%) F5
2 7 (23.33%) Google
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 7 (23.33%) Veritas
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) Wrike
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks