Technology Strategy Contracts in England

Technology Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 406 361
Rank change year-on-year +98 -45 +58
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 241 268 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.53% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.59% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 192 383
10th Percentile £425 £464 £413
25th Percentile £505 £550 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £750
90th Percentile £950 £900 £875
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £30.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £30.12 £31.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% -52.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £31.50 £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £58.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.07% -10.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Technology Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Technology Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in England.

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +64 131 £560 -20.00% 103
North of England +62 53 £669 +9.18% 32
North West +48 40 £666 +2.46% 24
Midlands +34 20 £750 +11.11% 12
South West +26 18 £725 +11.54% 14
West Midlands +42 17 £800 +16.36% 8
South East +7 12 £601 +11.80% 26
Yorkshire +13 9 - - 8
East Midlands +16 3 £750 +21.21% 4
North East - 3 £897 -
East of England +10 1 £575 -20.69% 8
Technology Strategy
UK

Technology Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (7.47%) Apache
2 5 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.41%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.41%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.41%) InVision
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (8.30%) Shopify
2 4 (1.66%) Primavera
2 4 (1.66%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.83%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.83%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (23.65%) Azure
2 55 (22.82%) AWS
3 20 (8.30%) BigCommerce
4 18 (7.47%) Amazon Kinesis
5 15 (6.22%) GCP
6 8 (3.32%) SaaS
7 6 (2.49%) IaaS
7 6 (2.49%) PaaS
8 5 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.66%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.24%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.24%) GitHub
10 3 (1.24%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.24%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.98%) Network Security
2 11 (4.56%) WAN
3 10 (4.15%) LAN
4 8 (3.32%) Firewall
5 6 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.66%) VoIP
7 3 (1.24%) Intranet
7 3 (1.24%) VPN
8 2 (0.83%) DNS
8 2 (0.83%) SAN
8 2 (0.83%) Wireless
9 1 (0.41%) Broadband
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.41%) FTP
9 1 (0.41%) Internet
9 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.41%) MPLS
9 1 (0.41%) NAS
9 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.47%) Flink
2 6 (2.49%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.66%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.24%) MySQL
4 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.83%) Big Data
5 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) OLAP
6 1 (0.41%) OLTP
6 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Git
1 6 (2.49%) JIRA
2 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.24%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.24%) Maven
2 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 75 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 66 (27.39%) Finance
3 29 (12.03%) Banking
3 29 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.62%) Retail
5 24 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.47%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (7.47%) Marketing
7 10 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.49%) Legal
9 6 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.66%) Front Office
11 4 (1.66%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Electronics
12 3 (1.24%) Local Government
12 3 (1.24%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 124 (51.45%) Architect
2 34 (14.11%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (9.96%) Enterprise Architect
4 21 (8.71%) Developer
5 20 (8.30%) Lead
6 17 (7.05%) Java Developer
7 16 (6.64%) Security Architect
7 16 (6.64%) Senior
8 15 (6.22%) Analyst
9 14 (5.81%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (5.81%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 13 (5.39%) Technical Architect
11 12 (4.98%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.73%) React Developer
13 8 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Domain Architect
13 8 (3.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 7 (2.90%) Azure Architect
14 7 (2.90%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.88%) Kafka
2 13 (5.39%) VML
3 11 (4.56%) Middleware
4 4 (1.66%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.66%) REST
4 4 (1.66%) Spring
5 3 (1.24%) CSS
5 3 (1.24%) DAO
5 3 (1.24%) J2EE
5 3 (1.24%) jQuery
5 3 (1.24%) ModSecurity
5 3 (1.24%) React
5 3 (1.24%) Sass
5 3 (1.24%) Spring MVC
5 3 (1.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.24%) Web Services
6 2 (0.83%) .NET
6 2 (0.83%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.83%) Flask
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.64%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.24%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.24%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.83%) Blog
10 2 (0.83%) CMDB
10 2 (0.83%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.83%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.83%) Robotics
10 2 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.05%) Windows
2 16 (6.64%) Linux
3 4 (1.66%) Unix
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (69.71%) IT Strategy
2 83 (34.44%) Agile
3 68 (28.22%) Business Strategy
4 65 (26.97%) Roadmaps
5 45 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (17.01%) Enterprise Architecture
7 38 (15.77%) DevOps
7 38 (15.77%) TOGAF
8 30 (12.45%) Risk Management
9 27 (11.20%) Microservices
10 26 (10.79%) Project Delivery
11 24 (9.96%) CI/CD
11 24 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (9.54%) Project Management
13 22 (9.13%) B2B
13 22 (9.13%) Strategic Roadmap
13 22 (9.13%) Strategic Thinking
14 20 (8.30%) Customer Acquisition
14 20 (8.30%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.54%) Java
2 12 (4.98%) Python
3 11 (4.56%) SQL
4 8 (3.32%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.90%) Go
6 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.24%) Bash
7 3 (1.24%) Ruby
7 3 (1.24%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.83%) C#
9 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (31.54%) Security Cleared
2 72 (29.88%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.11%) Degree
4 15 (6.22%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.66%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.66%) CITP
6 4 (1.66%) HND
6 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.24%) CCNP
7 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.24%) CISSP
7 3 (1.24%) MCSE
7 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.24%) PMP
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) CSPO
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (6.64%) NIST
3 9 (3.73%) QA
4 7 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.24%) IASME
5 3 (1.24%) NCSC
5 3 (1.24%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) GRC
6 2 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (4.15%) Docker
2 8 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.41%) vCloud
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.15%) Terraform
3 6 (2.49%) Ansible
4 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
4 3 (1.24%) OPNET
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.41%) SCCM
5 1 (0.41%) SCOM
5 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.79%) SAP
3 21 (8.71%) Salesforce
4 20 (8.30%) Adobe
4 20 (8.30%) Sitecore
5 14 (5.81%) VMware
6 13 (5.39%) Google
7 12 (4.98%) Dell
7 12 (4.98%) Intel
8 11 (4.56%) Cisco
9 5 (2.07%) Aruba
9 5 (2.07%) Databricks
9 5 (2.07%) Meraki
9 5 (2.07%) Oracle
10 4 (1.66%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.66%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.66%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.66%) F5
10 4 (1.66%) Splunk
11 3 (1.24%) Pegasus