Business Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 137 197 186
Rank change year-on-year +60 -11 +45
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 314 275 422
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.55% 1.19% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.33% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 194 257
10th Percentile £356 £441 £389
25th Percentile £506 £500 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £554
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +3.79% +5.52%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £645
90th Percentile £803 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £626 £600 £595
% change year-on-year +4.33% +0.84% +5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 16 10
10th Percentile £27.87 £29.30 £35.00
25th Percentile - £38.31 £40.36
Median hourly rate £38.12 £42.50 £46.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -9.53% -18.30%
75th Percentile - £49.52 £59.57
90th Percentile £57.83 £53.67 £62.88
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,110 20,642 27,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,201 14,252 18,911
10th Percentile £250 £255 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,261 1,359
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.71 £61.30
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Business Strategy in the UK excluding London

Business Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East -6 67 £625 +4.17% 86
North of England +10 64 £600 +12.94% 101
East of England +51 62 £655 +6.50% 41
North West +36 57 £596 +19.29% 62
Midlands +65 51 £573 +4.09% 67
South West +34 46 £650 +4.00% 40
West Midlands +37 32 £713 +34.24% 39
Scotland +42 25 £544 -5.43% 18
East Midlands +30 19 £396 -28.09% 28
Yorkshire -10 4 £600 +9.09% 30
Wales +22 3 £513 +2.50% 10
North East +11 3 £897 - 10
Business Strategy
UK

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (1.27%) Confluence
2 3 (0.96%) SAS
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (0.96%) FastStats
1 3 (0.96%) Unica
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.32%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (10.83%) Cloud Computing
2 30 (9.55%) PaaS
3 29 (9.24%) SaaS
4 28 (8.92%) IaaS
5 27 (8.60%) Azure
6 11 (3.50%) GCP
7 8 (2.55%) AWS
8 6 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.27%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.27%) Serverless
10 2 (0.64%) Amazon Neptune
10 2 (0.64%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.64%) GitHub
10 2 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.64%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.32%) OCI
11 1 (0.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.38%) WAN
2 40 (12.74%) LAN
3 15 (4.78%) Network Security
4 14 (4.46%) VPN
5 4 (1.27%) Firewall
6 3 (0.96%) Intranet
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.32%) NAS
7 1 (0.32%) SAN
7 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.27%) Hadoop
1 4 (1.27%) Impala
2 3 (0.96%) Power BI
3 2 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.64%) Big Data
3 2 (0.64%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (0.64%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.64%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.64%) Lumira
3 2 (0.64%) Metadata
3 2 (0.64%) OLAP
3 2 (0.64%) OLTP
3 2 (0.64%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.32%) Power Query
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.87%) JIRA
2 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.27%) kappa
3 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
General
1 121 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 116 (36.94%) Finance
3 63 (20.06%) Influencing Skills
4 56 (17.83%) Public Sector
5 53 (16.88%) Organisational Skills
6 43 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (7.01%) Banking
8 14 (4.46%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.14%) Marketing
10 12 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (3.18%) Retail
12 9 (2.87%) Legal
13 8 (2.55%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.91%) Billing
15 5 (1.59%) Electronics
16 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.96%) Local Government
17 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (33.12%) Architect
2 41 (13.06%) Analyst
3 31 (9.87%) Network Architect
3 31 (9.87%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (6.37%) Lead
5 19 (6.05%) Consultant
6 18 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 16 (5.10%) Enterprise Architect
7 16 (5.10%) Senior
8 15 (4.78%) Security Architect
9 14 (4.46%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 11 (3.50%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (3.50%) Technical Architect
11 9 (2.87%) Finance Manager
12 8 (2.55%) Change Manager
12 8 (2.55%) Test Analyst
13 7 (2.23%) Business Manager
13 7 (2.23%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.23%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.14%) Middleware
2 4 (1.27%) .NET
2 4 (1.27%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.64%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (0.32%) CSS
4 1 (0.32%) HTML
4 1 (0.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.60%) Data Centre
2 22 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.73%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.82%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.96%) FMCG
8 3 (0.96%) NHS
8 3 (0.96%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.64%) iPad
9 2 (0.64%) PKI
9 2 (0.64%) PMI
9 2 (0.64%) Robotics
9 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.32%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.37%) Windows
2 13 (4.14%) Linux
3 7 (2.23%) Windows 7
4 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (26.11%) Project Management
2 66 (21.02%) IT Strategy
2 66 (21.02%) Roadmaps
3 64 (20.38%) Agile
4 51 (16.24%) Technology Strategy
5 50 (15.92%) Business Development
6 39 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (10.19%) Enterprise Architecture
9 28 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (8.60%) Network Management
10 27 (8.60%) Open Source
10 27 (8.60%) Zero Trust
11 26 (8.28%) Risk Management
11 26 (8.28%) TOGAF
12 25 (7.96%) Information Security
13 23 (7.32%) Business Case
14 22 (7.01%) Project Delivery
15 21 (6.69%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (6.37%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.46%) Python
1 14 (4.46%) SQL
2 7 (2.23%) Java
3 4 (1.27%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.27%) R
4 1 (0.32%) C#
4 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (22.29%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.06%) DV Cleared
3 39 (12.42%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.87%) Degree
5 8 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.59%) CIPD
7 4 (1.27%) HND
8 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.64%) PgMP
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.32%) CBAP
10 1 (0.32%) ISEB
10 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.05%) NIST
2 14 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.18%) QA
4 8 (2.55%) SLA
5 7 (2.23%) PMO
6 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.27%) GDPR
8 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.96%) IASME
9 2 (0.64%) COBIT
9 2 (0.64%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.64%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.32%) IFRS
10 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.27%) Docker
1 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (1.27%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.27%) Ansible
1 4 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.27%) OPNET
2 2 (0.64%) PowerCLI
2 2 (0.64%) Terraform
3 1 (0.32%) SCCM
3 1 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.32%) SAP
3 14 (4.46%) Google
4 7 (2.23%) Databricks
5 5 (1.59%) Computacenter
5 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.27%) Cisco
6 4 (1.27%) Oracle
6 4 (1.27%) VMware
7 3 (0.96%) Adobe
7 3 (0.96%) Facebook
7 3 (0.96%) Snapchat
8 2 (0.64%) Mitel
8 2 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.32%) BT
9 1 (0.32%) Citrix
9 1 (0.32%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.32%) MuleSoft