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 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 166 234 209
Rank change year-on-year +68 -25 +62
Contract jobs citing Business Strategy 622 647 1,221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 1.13% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.26% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 409 775
10th Percentile £363 £437 £413
25th Percentile £500 £506 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% +0.84% +5.78%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £700
90th Percentile £925 £801 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £554
% change year-on-year +13.04% +3.79% +5.52%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £42.50 £46.98
% change year-on-year -10.31% -9.53% -18.30%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Strategy in the UK

Business Strategy
Top 16 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 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
England +68 568 £644 +7.29% 595
UK excluding London +60 314 £650 +13.04% 346
London +66 261 £610 +0.58% 257
Work from Home +80 228 £575 -4.17% 274
South East -6 67 £625 +4.17% 85
North of England +10 64 £600 +12.94% 97
East of England +51 62 £655 +6.50% 40
North West +36 57 £596 +19.29% 60
Midlands +65 51 £573 +4.09% 61
South West +34 46 £650 +4.00% 40
West Midlands +37 32 £713 +34.24% 35
Scotland +42 25 £544 -5.43% 19
East Midlands +30 19 £396 -28.09% 26
Yorkshire -10 4 £600 +9.09% 28
Wales +22 3 £513 +2.50% 9
North East +11 3 £897 - 10

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 8 (1.29%) MTS
2 5 (0.80%) SAS
3 4 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Endur
2 8 (1.29%) Aligne
2 8 (1.29%) EuroRunner
3 6 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.48%) FastStats
4 3 (0.48%) Unica
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.32%) SAP GTS
5 2 (0.32%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 56 (9.00%) Azure
2 46 (7.40%) SaaS
3 39 (6.27%) Cloud Computing
4 38 (6.11%) IaaS
4 38 (6.11%) PaaS
5 27 (4.34%) AWS
6 26 (4.18%) Power Platform
7 17 (2.73%) GCP
8 12 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.96%) Serverless
11 4 (0.64%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.64%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.48%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (0.48%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon Neptune
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (0.32%) Figma
13 2 (0.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.91%) WAN
2 41 (6.59%) LAN
3 25 (4.02%) Network Security
4 17 (2.73%) VPN
5 11 (1.77%) Firewall
6 9 (1.45%) BGP
6 9 (1.45%) MPLS
7 6 (0.96%) Internet
8 5 (0.80%) 5G
8 5 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.80%) IOS XR
9 4 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (0.64%) RSVP
10 3 (0.48%) Broadband
10 3 (0.48%) Intranet
10 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.32%) DNS
11 2 (0.32%) IPv6
11 2 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.18%) Metadata
2 23 (3.70%) Power BI
3 22 (3.54%) Data Vault
3 22 (3.54%) Metadata Repository
3 22 (3.54%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.13%) Tableau
5 6 (0.96%) Big Data
6 4 (0.64%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.64%) Impala
7 3 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.48%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.48%) OLAP
7 3 (0.48%) OLTP
7 3 (0.48%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.32%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (0.32%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.32%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 16 (2.57%) JIRA
2 8 (1.29%) Git
3 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.64%) kappa
4 3 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.16%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 218 (35.05%) Finance
2 212 (34.08%) Social Skills
3 94 (15.11%) Public Sector
4 78 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (11.41%) Influencing Skills
6 55 (8.84%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (6.59%) Banking
8 36 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (5.47%) Marketing
10 33 (5.31%) Telecoms
11 25 (4.02%) Legal
11 25 (4.02%) Manufacturing
12 20 (3.22%) Electronics
12 20 (3.22%) Retail
13 16 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (2.09%) Front Office
14 13 (2.09%) Law
15 11 (1.77%) Local Government
16 10 (1.61%) Billing
16 10 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (33.28%) Architect
2 97 (15.59%) Analyst
3 51 (8.20%) Business Analyst
4 42 (6.75%) Lead
5 38 (6.11%) Consultant
5 38 (6.11%) Security Architect
6 37 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
7 36 (5.79%) Senior
8 34 (5.47%) Enterprise Architect
9 32 (5.14%) Data Architect
10 31 (4.98%) Network Architect
10 31 (4.98%) Project Manager
11 23 (3.70%) Technical Architect
12 20 (3.22%) Chief Architect
12 20 (3.22%) Chief Data Architect
13 18 (2.89%) Business Architect
14 14 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (2.09%) Data Analyst
16 12 (1.93%) Business Consultant
16 12 (1.93%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.57%) Middleware
2 8 (1.29%) JSON
2 8 (1.29%) NETCONF
2 8 (1.29%) XML
2 8 (1.29%) YANG
3 4 (0.64%) .NET
3 4 (0.64%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.64%) Node.js
3 4 (0.64%) OAuth
3 4 (0.64%) OpenID
3 4 (0.64%) React
3 4 (0.64%) Spring
3 4 (0.64%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.48%) ADO
4 3 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.48%) pytest
4 3 (0.48%) SAML
5 2 (0.32%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.32%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.27%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.95%) Data Centre
3 36 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.34%) Reference Data
5 15 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.77%) Solar Panel
9 9 (1.45%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.13%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.13%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.13%) PMI
10 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.80%) FMCG
11 5 (0.80%) PKI
11 5 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.64%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.18%) Windows
2 16 (2.57%) Linux
3 7 (1.13%) Unix
3 7 (1.13%) Windows 7
4 3 (0.48%) Solaris
4 3 (0.48%) VMS
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (23.63%) Agile
2 140 (22.51%) Roadmaps
3 113 (18.17%) Project Management
4 111 (17.85%) IT Strategy
5 79 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (11.58%) Technology Strategy
7 64 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
8 63 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
10 54 (8.68%) Enterprise Architecture
11 52 (8.36%) Business Development
11 52 (8.36%) Information Security
12 51 (8.20%) Use Case
13 50 (8.04%) Analytics
13 50 (8.04%) Business Case
13 50 (8.04%) Data Modelling
14 49 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (7.56%) TOGAF
16 46 (7.40%) Project Delivery
17 45 (7.23%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.95%) Python
2 35 (5.63%) SQL
3 25 (4.02%) Java
4 7 (1.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.80%) C++
5 5 (0.80%) R
5 5 (0.80%) VBA
6 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.32%) Scala
9 1 (0.16%) C#
9 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 117 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 65 (10.45%) Degree
4 45 (7.23%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.09%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.09%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.61%) CISSP
6 10 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.96%) CISM
7 6 (0.96%) PMP
8 5 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (0.80%) CCNP
8 5 (0.80%) CIPD
8 5 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.64%) CBAP
9 4 (0.64%) CCSK
9 4 (0.64%) HND
9 4 (0.64%) MBA
10 3 (0.48%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.75%) NIST
2 31 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.70%) QA
4 13 (2.09%) GDPR
5 10 (1.61%) PMO
6 9 (1.45%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.29%) SLA
8 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.64%) COBIT
9 4 (0.64%) GRC
9 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.64%) NCSC
10 3 (0.48%) IASME
10 3 (0.48%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.32%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (0.80%) Docker
1 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (1.29%) Ansible
2 6 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.64%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.64%) OPNET
4 3 (0.48%) Terraform
5 2 (0.32%) 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 52 (8.36%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.72%) SAP
3 16 (2.57%) Google
4 13 (2.09%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.93%) Oracle
6 11 (1.77%) Cisco
7 10 (1.61%) Databricks
8 9 (1.45%) Nokia
9 8 (1.29%) Sparx
9 8 (1.29%) VMware
10 6 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.80%) Computacenter
11 5 (0.80%) F5
12 4 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.64%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.48%) Adobe
13 3 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.48%) Cadence
13 3 (0.48%) Facebook
13 3 (0.48%) Talend