IT Strategy Contracts in South Wales

IT/Technology Strategy
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.90% - 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £302
25th Percentile - - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - £594
Wales median daily rate £650 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.24
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £12.75
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate - - £12.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

IT 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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 268 462 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.00% 88.85% 83.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 353 553
10th Percentile £160 £190 £257
25th Percentile £356 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £668 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 28
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.46
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £21.63
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -16.12% +5.36%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £31.97
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year +19.59% -16.38% +15.38%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in South Wales

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in South Wales

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in South Wales

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Cardiff - 3 £650 -
IT Strategy
Wales

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Line Management
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace