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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 46 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 9 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.02% 1.37% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.57% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £470 £502 £568
25th Percentile £509 £670 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +6.67% +49.25%
75th Percentile £595 £866 £775
90th Percentile £640 £871 £895
England median daily rate £607 £634 £625
% change year-on-year -4.30% +1.40% -0.79%

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 746 509 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.39% 86.86% 83.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 314 427
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -6.18% -4.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 45
10th Percentile £15.90 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.00 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 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 -9 7 £533 +36.19% 11
Nottinghamshire -9 1 £625 -26.47% 10
Lincolnshire -12 1 - - 6
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Payments Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Change Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Director
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Change Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Transformation Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Mac OS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Roadmaps
2 7 (77.78%) Business Strategy
2 7 (77.78%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (44.44%) Application Packaging
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (44.44%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (44.44%) User Experience
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 3 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (33.33%) Technical Debt
5 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) SAP