IT Strategy Contracts in the East Midlands

IT/Technology Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 58 74
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 18 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.26% 1.37% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.59% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 13
10th Percentile £425 £461 £325
25th Percentile £445 £505 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £613 £365
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +67.81% -27.00%
75th Percentile £644 £769 £395
90th Percentile £863 £975 £403
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.12 £37.34 £18.48
% change year-on-year -19.34% +102.03% +9.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

IT Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 663 755 1,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.40% 85.89% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 547 870
10th Percentile £263 £213 £200
25th Percentile £360 £360 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £465
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% +15.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £551
90th Percentile £627 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 48 64
10th Percentile £12.75 £12.70 £9.74
25th Percentile £15.03 £16.56 £13.99
Median hourly rate £17.66 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.78% +48.65% +27.59%
75th Percentile £41.61 £53.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £35.26
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.90 £29.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +51.38% +37.77%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the East Midlands

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the East Midlands

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the East Midlands

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the East Midlands

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Northamptonshire - 9 £445 - 6
Lincolnshire +5 4 - - 2
Leicestershire +13 3 £500 +5.26% 1
Nottinghamshire +4 1 £850 +16.84% 6
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (22.22%) Route 53
3 4 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) LAN
1 4 (22.22%) Network Security
1 4 (22.22%) NGFW
1 4 (22.22%) SD-WAN
1 4 (22.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Network Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Experience Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) ETL Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Payments Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) gRPC
2 1 (5.56%) JMS
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.56%) RAML
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 13 (72.22%) Technology Strategy
3 10 (55.56%) High Availability
4 9 (50.00%) Business Strategy
5 8 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (44.44%) Strategic Roadmap
6 7 (38.89%) Data Transformation
7 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (33.33%) ETL
7 6 (33.33%) Microservices
7 6 (33.33%) Technical Debt
8 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
8 4 (22.22%) Security Architecture
9 3 (16.67%) Budgeting
9 3 (16.67%) Customer Experience
10 2 (11.11%) Channel Management
10 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
1 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
1 4 (22.22%) Juniper
1 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.11%) Cognizant
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce