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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 59 49
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 5 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.37% 1.24% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.44% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 11
10th Percentile - £438 £425
25th Percentile £663 £453 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £492 £455
Median % change year-on-year +37.20% +8.13% -25.71%
75th Percentile £688 £540 £644
90th Percentile - £571 £863
England median daily rate £620 £625 £638
% change year-on-year -0.80% -1.96% -1.92%

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 1,005 693 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.89% 85.98% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 481 410
10th Percentile £230 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £345 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £630 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 63 32
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.43 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.87 £15.08
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -5.22% -13.43%
75th Percentile £26.20 £25.15 £44.19
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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
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 24 September 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 -3 4 - - 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £675 - 9
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 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) Workday