Business Strategy Contracts in London

Business Strategy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 223 189
Rank change year-on-year +56 -34 +41
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 260 307 583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.49% 1.19% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.30% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 171 366
10th Percentile £363 £413 £428
25th Percentile £510 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £601 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% -3.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £838 £734 £740
90th Percentile £925 £888 £875
England median daily rate £638 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £68.70 £37.75 -
25th Percentile £69.75 £54.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £71.50 £64.25 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +27.23% +112.07%
75th Percentile £73.25 £67.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.30 £68.50 £68.85
England median hourly rate £38.12 £47.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -19.75% -5.47% +11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in London

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +29 33 £655 +6.94% 22
East London -1 6 £627 -21.63% 5
West London +14 4 £665 +17.70% 4
Business Strategy
England

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.08%) MTS
2 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (5.00%) Endur
2 8 (3.08%) Aligne
2 8 (3.08%) EuroRunner
3 4 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.08%) Azure
2 19 (7.31%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.15%) AWS
4 13 (5.00%) SaaS
5 7 (2.69%) IaaS
5 7 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.31%) GCP
7 4 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.54%) PaaS
8 3 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.15%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.77%) Asana
9 2 (0.77%) Figma
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.38%) Kong
10 1 (0.38%) Serverless
10 1 (0.38%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) BGP
1 9 (3.46%) MPLS
2 8 (3.08%) Network Security
3 6 (2.31%) Firewall
4 5 (1.92%) 5G
4 5 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (1.92%) Internet
4 5 (1.92%) IOS XR
5 4 (1.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (1.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (1.54%) RSVP
6 3 (1.15%) Broadband
7 2 (0.77%) DNS
7 2 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.77%) IPv6
7 2 (0.77%) L2TP
7 2 (0.77%) SSL
7 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.77%) VPLS
7 2 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.23%) Metadata
2 22 (8.46%) Data Vault
2 22 (8.46%) Metadata Repository
2 22 (8.46%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.31%) Power BI
4 6 (2.31%) Tableau
5 3 (1.15%) Big Data
5 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.77%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) OLAP
7 1 (0.38%) OLTP
7 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Git
2 5 (1.92%) JIRA
3 4 (1.54%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 91 (35.00%) Finance
2 75 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (8.08%) Marketing
7 19 (7.31%) Banking
7 19 (7.31%) Telecoms
8 16 (6.15%) Manufacturing
9 15 (5.77%) Electronics
9 15 (5.77%) Legal
10 13 (5.00%) Front Office
10 13 (5.00%) Law
11 10 (3.85%) Retail
12 8 (3.08%) German Language
12 8 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.69%) Investment Banking
14 6 (2.31%) Back Office
14 6 (2.31%) Local Government
15 5 (1.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (35.00%) Architect
2 54 (20.77%) Analyst
3 37 (14.23%) Business Analyst
4 25 (9.62%) Data Architect
5 20 (7.69%) Chief Architect
5 20 (7.69%) Chief Data Architect
6 18 (6.92%) Lead
6 18 (6.92%) Security Architect
7 16 (6.15%) Senior
8 15 (5.77%) Enterprise Architect
9 14 (5.38%) Consultant
10 11 (4.23%) Business Architect
10 11 (4.23%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.85%) Head of Architecture
11 10 (3.85%) Head of Data Architecture
11 10 (3.85%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.46%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.08%) Design Engineer
13 8 (3.08%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.08%) JSON
1 8 (3.08%) NETCONF
1 8 (3.08%) XML
1 8 (3.08%) YANG
2 4 (1.54%) Spring
2 4 (1.54%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.15%) ADO
3 3 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.15%) Node.js
3 3 (1.15%) OAuth
3 3 (1.15%) OpenID
3 3 (1.15%) pytest
3 3 (1.15%) React
3 3 (1.15%) SAML
4 2 (0.77%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.77%) Middleware
4 2 (0.77%) REST
4 2 (0.77%) SPML
5 1 (0.38%) Kafka
5 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.00%) Reference Data
2 17 (6.54%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.23%) Renewable Energy
3 11 (4.23%) Solar Panel
4 10 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.46%) Market Risk
5 9 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.31%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.54%) CMDB
7 4 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.54%) PMI
8 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.54%) Unix
2 3 (1.15%) Windows
3 2 (0.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (26.92%) Agile
1 70 (26.92%) Roadmaps
2 43 (16.54%) Cybersecurity
3 41 (15.77%) IT Strategy
4 38 (14.62%) Data Modelling
5 37 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (14.23%) Use Case
6 30 (11.54%) Data Strategy
6 30 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (10.77%) Data Architecture
7 28 (10.77%) DevOps
8 27 (10.38%) Data Governance
8 27 (10.38%) Strategic Roadmap
9 26 (10.00%) Data Integration
10 25 (9.62%) Analytics
11 24 (9.23%) Business Case
11 24 (9.23%) Data Analysis
12 23 (8.85%) Project Management
12 23 (8.85%) UML
13 22 (8.46%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.08%) Python
1 21 (8.08%) SQL
2 17 (6.54%) Java
3 5 (1.92%) C++
3 5 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.15%) VBA
5 2 (0.77%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.77%) Scala
6 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.77%) Degree
4 10 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.69%) CISSP
7 5 (1.92%) CCNP
7 5 (1.92%) CISM
7 5 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.54%) MBA
9 3 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.15%) CBAP
9 3 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (1.15%) CISA
9 3 (1.15%) CITP
10 2 (0.77%) CCSK
10 2 (0.77%) CFA
10 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.54%) NIST
2 12 (4.62%) QA
3 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.46%) GDPR
5 8 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.15%) PMO
8 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.77%) COBIT
8 2 (0.77%) GRC
8 2 (0.77%) NCSC
9 1 (0.38%) EMIR
9 1 (0.38%) GxP
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.38%) MiFID
9 1 (0.38%) P3O
9 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.54%) Ansible
1 4 (1.54%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.38%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (8.85%) SAP
2 21 (8.08%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.46%) Nokia
4 6 (2.31%) Cisco
4 6 (2.31%) Sparx
5 4 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (1.54%) F5
5 4 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.54%) Oracle
5 4 (1.54%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.15%) Databricks
6 3 (1.15%) Talend
6 3 (1.15%) VMware
6 3 (1.15%) Workday
7 2 (0.77%) CA
7 2 (0.77%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.77%) Google
7 2 (0.77%) Huawei
7 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.77%) Veeam