IT Strategy Contracts in the South West

IT/Technology Strategy
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 150 139
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 21 17 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.47% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.52% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 29
10th Percentile £550 £489 £431
25th Percentile £644 £572 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £620
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +0.81% -9.82%
75th Percentile £766 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £709 £788
England median daily rate £595 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -7.80% +3.20% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
England median hourly rate £30.12 £24.92 £17.50
% change year-on-year +20.88% +42.39% +27.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Wiltshire +7 9 £700 +7.69%
Bristol +17 4 £500 -13.04% 6
Dorset +7 4 £763 +24.49%
Gloucestershire +7 2 £725 +61.11% 2
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) IaaS
3 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 3 (14.29%) PaaS
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) LAN
1 8 (38.10%) WAN
2 4 (19.05%) Unified Communications
2 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) OLAP
1 1 (4.76%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Lead Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Network Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.76%) IT Operations Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Office Automation Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Operational Security Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Middleware
2 3 (14.29%) ModSecurity
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.76%) PKI
5 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Technology Strategy
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Architectural Patterns
2 10 (47.62%) Business Strategy
2 10 (47.62%) TOGAF
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
3 5 (23.81%) Waterfall
3 5 (23.81%) Zero Trust
4 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (19.05%) Network Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) Network Management
4 4 (19.05%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (19.05%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (14.29%) ArchiMate
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) NsoIT
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) HND
4 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) CISM
5 1 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) COBIT
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) OPNET
2 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 3 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce