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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 59 69
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 8 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.13% 1.27% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.62% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £425 £439 £492
25th Percentile £451 £445 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -26.53% +67.81%
75th Percentile £533 £500 £619
90th Percentile £545 £575 £850
England median daily rate £625 £622 £650
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.31% -

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 622 679 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 88.10% 78.50% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 442 667
10th Percentile £224 £205 £213
25th Percentile £332 £320 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £592 £623 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 61 49
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £12.94
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -35.80% +23.16%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 -7 7 £481 +8.15% 19
Derbyshire - 1 - - 13
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 (87.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
2 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Payments Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 8 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 8 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
2 6 (75.00%) Data Transformation
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Technical Debt
3 5 (62.50%) Business Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP