IT Strategy Contracts in Birmingham

IT/Technology Strategy
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 73 80
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -19
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 11 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.46% 0.57% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 0.64% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 9
10th Percentile £648 - £385
25th Percentile £669 £313 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £375 £675
Median % change year-on-year +106.67% -44.44% +53.41%
75th Percentile £925 £700 £775
90th Percentile £928 - £800
West Midlands median daily rate £750 £443 £675
% change year-on-year +69.20% -34.33% +22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

IT 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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 626 779 1,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.80% 88.12% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 521 880
10th Percentile £252 £275 £225
25th Percentile £375 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £593
90th Percentile £685 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 22
10th Percentile £13.19 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.29 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +59.66% -5.54% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £19.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.91
% change year-on-year +21.62% +9.39% +0.55%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Birmingham

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Birmingham

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Birmingham

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) LAN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Director
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Director
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Technology Strategy
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Business Strategy
3 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
5 2 (18.18%) Community of Practice
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) PHP
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft