Business Strategy Contracts in England

Business Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Business Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Strategy over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 223 201
Rank change year-on-year +68 -22 +49
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 568 573 1,012
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.56% 1.19% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.32% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 364 634
10th Percentile £363 £446 £413
25th Percentile £513 £512 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.29% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £725
90th Percentile £925 £825 £822
UK median daily rate £626 £600 £595
% change year-on-year +4.33% +0.84% +5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 23 16
10th Percentile £29.01 £29.30 £35.99
25th Percentile - £41.25 £39.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £47.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% -5.47% +11.67%
75th Percentile - £57.83 £62.57
90th Percentile £58.53 £66.60 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £47.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -19.75% -5.47% +11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Business Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,440 43,538 63,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.17% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,583 30,556 45,375
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,239 1,538 1,750
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Strategy in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Strategy in England

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
London +66 261 £610 +0.58% 244
South East -6 67 £625 +4.17% 85
North of England +10 64 £600 +12.94% 95
East of England +51 62 £655 +6.50% 38
North West +36 57 £596 +19.29% 57
Midlands +65 51 £573 +4.09% 62
South West +34 46 £650 +4.00% 37
West Midlands +37 32 £713 +34.24% 37
East Midlands +30 19 £396 -28.09% 25
Yorkshire -10 4 £600 +9.09% 29
North East +11 3 £897 - 10
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (1.41%) MTS
2 5 (0.88%) SAS
3 4 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.29%) Endur
2 8 (1.41%) Aligne
2 8 (1.41%) EuroRunner
3 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.53%) FastStats
4 3 (0.53%) Unica
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 46 (8.10%) Azure
2 43 (7.57%) SaaS
3 38 (6.69%) Cloud Computing
4 35 (6.16%) IaaS
4 35 (6.16%) PaaS
5 24 (4.23%) AWS
6 22 (3.87%) Power Platform
7 17 (2.99%) GCP
8 9 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (0.88%) Serverless
10 4 (0.70%) OpenShift
10 4 (0.70%) WhatsApp
11 3 (0.53%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.35%) Amazon Neptune
12 2 (0.35%) Asana
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.35%) Figma
12 2 (0.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.22%) WAN
2 39 (6.87%) LAN
3 24 (4.23%) Network Security
4 17 (2.99%) VPN
5 11 (1.94%) Firewall
6 9 (1.58%) BGP
6 9 (1.58%) MPLS
7 6 (1.06%) Internet
8 5 (0.88%) 5G
8 5 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.88%) IOS XR
9 4 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (0.70%) RSVP
10 3 (0.53%) Broadband
10 3 (0.53%) Intranet
10 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.35%) DNS
11 2 (0.35%) IPv6
11 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.58%) Metadata
2 22 (3.87%) Data Vault
2 22 (3.87%) Metadata Repository
2 22 (3.87%) NoSQL
3 21 (3.70%) Power BI
4 7 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.23%) Tableau
5 5 (0.88%) Big Data
6 4 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.70%) Impala
7 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.53%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.53%) OLAP
7 3 (0.53%) OLTP
7 3 (0.53%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.35%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.35%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 14 (2.46%) JIRA
2 7 (1.23%) Git
3 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.70%) kappa
4 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 203 (35.74%) Finance
2 194 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 83 (14.61%) Public Sector
4 73 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (11.97%) Influencing Skills
6 52 (9.15%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (7.04%) Banking
8 36 (6.34%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (5.99%) Marketing
10 33 (5.81%) Telecoms
11 24 (4.23%) Manufacturing
12 23 (4.05%) Legal
13 20 (3.52%) Electronics
13 20 (3.52%) Retail
14 14 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (2.29%) Front Office
15 13 (2.29%) Law
16 11 (1.94%) Local Government
17 10 (1.76%) Investment Banking
18 8 (1.41%) German Language
Job Titles
1 190 (33.45%) Architect
2 93 (16.37%) Analyst
3 48 (8.45%) Business Analyst
4 37 (6.51%) Lead
5 36 (6.34%) Consultant
5 36 (6.34%) Security Architect
6 34 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
7 33 (5.81%) Senior
8 31 (5.46%) Network Architect
9 30 (5.28%) Enterprise Architect
10 29 (5.11%) Data Architect
11 25 (4.40%) Project Manager
12 20 (3.52%) Chief Architect
12 20 (3.52%) Chief Data Architect
13 18 (3.17%) Technical Architect
14 15 (2.64%) Business Architect
15 13 (2.29%) Data Analyst
15 13 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (2.11%) Business Consultant
17 11 (1.94%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.11%) Middleware
2 8 (1.41%) JSON
2 8 (1.41%) NETCONF
2 8 (1.41%) XML
2 8 (1.41%) YANG
3 4 (0.70%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.70%) Node.js
3 4 (0.70%) React
3 4 (0.70%) Spring
3 4 (0.70%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.53%) .NET
4 3 (0.53%) ADO
4 3 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.53%) OAuth
4 3 (0.53%) OpenID
4 3 (0.53%) pytest
4 3 (0.53%) SAML
5 2 (0.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.35%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.51%) Data Centre
2 36 (6.34%) Management Information System
3 30 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.58%) Reference Data
5 13 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
7 11 (1.94%) Solar Panel
8 10 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.58%) Market Risk
10 8 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.23%) PMI
11 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.06%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.06%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.88%) FMCG
13 5 (0.88%) PKI
14 4 (0.70%) CMDB
14 4 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.87%) Windows
2 14 (2.46%) Linux
3 7 (1.23%) Windows 7
4 5 (0.88%) Unix
5 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.18%) Solaris
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (23.06%) Agile
2 127 (22.36%) Roadmaps
3 105 (18.49%) Project Management
4 103 (18.13%) IT Strategy
5 70 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 68 (11.97%) Technology Strategy
7 61 (10.74%) Cybersecurity
8 54 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (8.80%) Business Development
10 50 (8.80%) Data Modelling
10 50 (8.80%) Information Security
11 48 (8.45%) Enterprise Architecture
11 48 (8.45%) Use Case
12 47 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (7.75%) TOGAF
14 42 (7.39%) Analytics
14 42 (7.39%) Project Delivery
15 41 (7.22%) Business Case
15 41 (7.22%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (6.16%) Python
1 35 (6.16%) SQL
2 24 (4.23%) Java
3 6 (1.06%) JavaScript
4 5 (0.88%) C++
4 5 (0.88%) R
5 4 (0.70%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.70%) VBA
6 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.35%) Scala
8 1 (0.18%) C#
8 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.56%) Degree
4 45 (7.92%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.58%) CISSP
7 9 (1.58%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (0.88%) CCNP
8 5 (0.88%) CIPD
8 5 (0.88%) CISM
8 5 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.70%) CBAP
9 4 (0.70%) CCSK
9 4 (0.70%) HND
10 3 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.53%) CISA
10 3 (0.53%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.87%) NIST
2 28 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.35%) QA
4 13 (2.29%) GDPR
5 10 (1.76%) PMO
6 9 (1.58%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.23%) SLA
8 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.70%) COBIT
10 4 (0.70%) GRC
10 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.70%) NCSC
11 3 (0.53%) IASME
11 3 (0.53%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.35%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (1.41%) Ansible
2 5 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.70%) OPNET
4 2 (0.35%) PowerCLI
4 2 (0.35%) Terraform
5 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.18%) SCOM
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.10%) SAP
3 16 (2.82%) Google
4 11 (1.94%) Cisco
5 9 (1.58%) Nokia
5 9 (1.58%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.41%) Databricks
6 8 (1.41%) Oracle
6 8 (1.41%) VMware
7 7 (1.23%) Sparx
8 6 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.88%) Computacenter
9 5 (0.88%) F5
10 4 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.53%) Adobe
11 3 (0.53%) Cadence
11 3 (0.53%) Facebook
11 3 (0.53%) Talend
11 3 (0.53%) Workday