IT Strategy Contracts in the South East

IT/Technology Strategy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 171 202
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 -21
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 30 44 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 0.78% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.87% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 48
10th Percentile £313 £513 £397
25th Percentile £400 £607 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £688 £581
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +18.28% +19.23%
75th Percentile £609 £819 £691
90th Percentile £700 £833 £815
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Thames Valley +15 18 £498 -12.33% 15
Berkshire +1 15 £448 -31.15% 10
Surrey +5 7 £325 -59.38% 3
Buckinghamshire +22 3 £650 +18.99% 2
Hampshire -9 3 £589 -3.78% 3
West Sussex +8 1 £550 -15.38% 1
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) PaaS
2 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) LAN
1 2 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Retail
4 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Architect
2 9 (30.00%) Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Customer Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Customer Experience Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Digital Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Digital Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Head of Development
8 1 (3.33%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Robotics
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Roadmaps
2 12 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (26.67%) Analytics
5 6 (20.00%) Data Management
5 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (13.33%) Budgeting
7 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
7 4 (13.33%) Channel Management
7 4 (13.33%) Coaching
7 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 4 (13.33%) Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Project Management
7 4 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (13.33%) User Experience
7 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) C#
1 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) ACCA
2 4 (13.33%) CIMA
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Cognizant
1 4 (13.33%) Sun
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle