Strategy Consultant Contracts

Strategy Consultant
UK

The median Strategy Consultant daily rate in the UK is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 684 827
Rank change year-on-year +124 +143 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Strategy Consultant 24 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.023% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.025% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 15
10th Percentile £541 £631 £418
25th Percentile £609 £653 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £713 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +29.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £1,050 £775 £706
90th Percentile £1,100 £938 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £658 £813 £550
% change year-on-year -19.08% +47.73% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Strategy Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Strategy Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategy Consultant over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategy Consultant in the UK

Strategy Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategy Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +93 19 £800 +6.67% 14
Work from Home +124 16 £900 +26.32% 6
London +90 16 £900 +20.00% 11
UK excluding London +29 4 £658 -19.08% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £800 -20.00%
North of England +17 1 £550 -
Midlands +16 1 £800 -1.54%
Yorkshire +14 1 £550 -
South East - 1 £700 -
Scotland - 1 £615 -

Strategy Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Strategy Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Strategy Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (29.17%) Business Strategy
2 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (25.00%) German Language
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) Digital Strategy
3 5 (20.83%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (16.67%) FinOps
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 4 (16.67%) Finance
5 3 (12.50%) Marketing
5 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (8.33%) Data Strategy
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) CRM
6 2 (8.33%) NHS
6 2 (8.33%) CMS
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (8.33%) Business Transformation
6 2 (8.33%) Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) User Experience
6 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills

Strategy Consultant Skill Set
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 2 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) RStudio
General
1 6 (25.00%) German Language
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing
3 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (8.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Business Strategy
2 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.83%) Digital Strategy
3 5 (20.83%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (16.67%) FinOps
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 2 (8.33%) Business Transformation
5 2 (8.33%) CRM
5 2 (8.33%) Data Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) User Experience
6 1 (4.17%) Data Science
6 1 (4.17%) Decision-Making
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.17%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Python
1 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform