Business Strategy Contracts

Business Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 232 207
Rank change year-on-year +67 -25 +60
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 630 624 1,260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 1.12% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.24% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 406 819
10th Percentile £375 £435 £408
25th Percentile £503 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £713
90th Percentile £919 £800 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 22 15
10th Percentile £24.18 £29.30 £31.39
25th Percentile - £36.75 £38.48
Median hourly rate £38.12 £44.25 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -12.38% +44.78%
75th Percentile - £49.52 £64.22
90th Percentile £58.70 £65.18 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £42.50 £46.98
% change year-on-year -10.31% -9.53% -12.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,061 50,135 80,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.39% 89.71% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,729 34,705 56,261
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,551 1,672 1,888
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.60
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Business Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Strategy over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Strategy over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 June 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
England +70 579 £650 +8.33% 568
UK excluding London +64 320 £650 +8.33% 325
London +67 270 £627 +4.50% 242
Work from Home +78 222 £600 - 278
North of England +19 71 £638 +18.60% 85
South East -1 67 £650 +6.56% 75
East of England +46 63 £675 +11.11% 41
North West +34 62 £613 +22.50% 52
Midlands +50 48 £538 +1.27% 57
South West +24 45 £650 - 46
West Midlands +22 25 £750 +41.31% 43
East Midlands +32 23 £445 - 14
Scotland +31 22 £650 +13.54% 17
Northern Ireland +6 5 £176 - 10
Yorkshire -15 5 £525 -4.55% 24
North East +11 4 £897 - 10
Wales +15 3 £513 -4.65% 6

Business Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (1.11%) MTS
2 4 (0.63%) Confluence
2 4 (0.63%) SAS
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Endur
2 7 (1.11%) Aligne
2 7 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.11%) EuroRunner
2 7 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.48%) FastStats
4 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.48%) Unica
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.32%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 61 (9.68%) Azure
2 41 (6.51%) SaaS
3 39 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
4 36 (5.71%) PaaS
5 35 (5.56%) IaaS
6 32 (5.08%) AWS
7 23 (3.65%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.02%) GCP
9 12 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (0.95%) OpenShift
12 5 (0.79%) Serverless
13 4 (0.63%) Boomi
13 4 (0.63%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.48%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.48%) GitHub
15 2 (0.32%) Amazon SageMaker
15 2 (0.32%) Asana
15 2 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.46%) WAN
2 46 (7.30%) LAN
3 25 (3.97%) Network Security
4 20 (3.17%) VPN
5 11 (1.75%) Firewall
6 10 (1.59%) MPLS
7 9 (1.43%) BGP
8 7 (1.11%) Internet
9 5 (0.79%) 5G
9 5 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.79%) IOS XR
10 4 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.63%) RSVP
11 3 (0.48%) Broadband
11 3 (0.48%) Intranet
11 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.32%) DNS
12 2 (0.32%) SSL
12 2 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.49%) Data Vault
1 22 (3.49%) Metadata
1 22 (3.49%) Metadata Repository
1 22 (3.49%) NoSQL
1 22 (3.49%) Power BI
2 8 (1.27%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.27%) Tableau
3 5 (0.79%) Big Data
3 5 (0.79%) SAP HANA
4 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.63%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.63%) Impala
5 3 (0.48%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.48%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.48%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.32%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 2 (0.32%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.32%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 12 (1.90%) JIRA
2 8 (1.27%) Git
3 7 (1.11%) Visual Studio Team System
4 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.95%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.32%) kappa
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 224 (35.56%) Finance
2 214 (33.97%) Social Skills
3 92 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 76 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
6 53 (8.41%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (7.94%) Banking
8 37 (5.87%) Telecoms
9 36 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (5.08%) Manufacturing
10 32 (5.08%) Marketing
11 24 (3.81%) Legal
12 21 (3.33%) Electronics
13 18 (2.86%) Retail
14 17 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (2.22%) Law
16 13 (2.06%) Front Office
17 10 (1.59%) Billing
17 10 (1.59%) Investment Banking
18 9 (1.43%) German Language
Job Titles
1 223 (35.40%) Architect
2 97 (15.40%) Analyst
3 52 (8.25%) Business Analyst
4 51 (8.10%) Solutions Architect
5 40 (6.35%) Lead
6 37 (5.87%) Consultant
7 36 (5.71%) Senior
8 34 (5.40%) Project Manager
9 33 (5.24%) Security Architect
10 31 (4.92%) Network Architect
11 30 (4.76%) Data Architect
11 30 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
12 27 (4.29%) Technical Architect
13 20 (3.17%) Business Architect
13 20 (3.17%) Chief Architect
13 20 (3.17%) Chief Data Architect
14 16 (2.54%) Developer
15 14 (2.22%) Azure Architect
15 14 (2.22%) Data Analyst
15 14 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.02%) Middleware
2 11 (1.75%) .NET
3 10 (1.59%) .NET Framework
4 8 (1.27%) JSON
4 8 (1.27%) NETCONF
4 8 (1.27%) XML
4 8 (1.27%) YANG
5 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET
5 6 (0.95%) HTML
5 6 (0.95%) ModSecurity
5 6 (0.95%) REST
6 4 (0.63%) Node.js
6 4 (0.63%) OAuth
6 4 (0.63%) OpenID
6 4 (0.63%) RAML
6 4 (0.63%) SOAP
6 4 (0.63%) Spring
6 4 (0.63%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.48%) ADO
7 3 (0.48%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 32 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 27 (4.29%) Reference Data
5 20 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
9 10 (1.59%) Solar Panel
10 9 (1.43%) FMCG
11 8 (1.27%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.27%) Market Risk
12 7 (1.11%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.11%) PKI
12 7 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.79%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.44%) Windows
2 20 (3.17%) Linux
3 7 (1.11%) Windows 7
4 4 (0.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (23.97%) Roadmaps
2 143 (22.70%) Agile
3 118 (18.73%) IT Strategy
4 116 (18.41%) Project Management
5 81 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (12.38%) Technology Strategy
7 61 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
8 60 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
9 56 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (8.89%) Use Case
10 55 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (8.41%) Business Development
11 53 (8.41%) Strategic Roadmap
12 52 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (7.78%) Analytics
14 48 (7.62%) Information Security
15 47 (7.46%) Business Case
15 47 (7.46%) DevOps
16 45 (7.14%) Data Modelling
16 45 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (6.51%) SQL
2 40 (6.35%) Python
3 25 (3.97%) Java
4 12 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.11%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.95%) C#
6 6 (0.95%) T-SQL
6 6 (0.95%) VB.NET
7 5 (0.79%) C++
7 5 (0.79%) VBA
8 4 (0.63%) R
9 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.32%) Scala
10 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 119 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 81 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.00%) Degree
4 41 (6.51%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.54%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.27%) CIPD
9 7 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.95%) CCNP
10 6 (0.95%) MBA
10 6 (0.95%) PMP
11 5 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.63%) CBAP
12 4 (0.63%) CISM
12 4 (0.63%) CISSP
12 4 (0.63%) HND
13 3 (0.48%) CITP
13 3 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.87%) NIST
2 28 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.97%) QA
4 14 (2.22%) GDPR
5 12 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.90%) SLA
6 10 (1.59%) PMO
7 9 (1.43%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.63%) GRC
9 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.48%) COBIT
10 3 (0.48%) IASME
10 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) EMIR
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
11 1 (0.16%) P3O
11 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (1.27%) Docker
2 7 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.95%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (1.90%) Ansible
2 9 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.11%) Terraform
4 6 (0.95%) OPNET
5 4 (0.63%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.63%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) SCOM
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (8.73%) SAP
2 52 (8.25%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.02%) Google
4 18 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.22%) Cisco
6 12 (1.90%) Databricks
7 10 (1.59%) Oracle
7 10 (1.59%) VMware
8 9 (1.43%) Nokia
9 8 (1.27%) Sparx
10 6 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.95%) Computacenter
10 6 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.79%) Dell
11 5 (0.79%) F5
12 4 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.48%) Facebook
13 3 (0.48%) Snapchat
13 3 (0.48%) Workday