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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 50 61
Rank change year-on-year -26 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.69% 0.84% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.97% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £440 - £673
25th Percentile £447 - £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £391 £750
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -47.87% +20.39%
75th Percentile £645 - £775
90th Percentile £793 - -
England median daily rate £600 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.73%

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 849 518 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.14% 87.35% 81.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 323 430
10th Percentile £190 £201 £188
25th Percentile £359 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £538
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 20 63
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.54 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +25.97% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.93 £26.00 £27.63
90th Percentile £25.77 £34.34 £51.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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
Northamptonshire -20 4 £447 +14.32% 1
Lincolnshire -14 1 - -
Leicestershire - 1 £828 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £625 - 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Change Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Director
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Business Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
4 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (42.86%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) User Experience
4 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
6 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
6 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Citrix
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) SAP