IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

IT/Technology Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 55 60
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 11 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.99% 0.17% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.20% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £438 - £435
25th Percentile £442 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.35%
75th Percentile £669 - £453
90th Percentile £802 - £603
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & 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 873 500 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.30% 87.26% 77.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 340 417
10th Percentile £200 £232 £200
25th Percentile £388 £331 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £427 £411
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +3.89% -13.47%
75th Percentile £550 £520 £550
90th Percentile £628 £588 £622
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 36 55
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.22 £12.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +13.47% -27.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.78 £24.20
90th Percentile £30.25 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IT Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IT Strategy

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 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the East Midlands

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IT Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IT Strategy

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 27 May 2026. 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
Derbyshire -1 6 - - 2
Northamptonshire - 3 £442 -
Leicestershire - 1 £828 - 4
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Change Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Change Manager
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) IoT
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Application Packaging
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Citrix
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
1 2 (18.18%) VMware