Technology Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 359 320
Rank change year-on-year +95 -39 -3
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 122 97 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.41% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.46% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 78 138
10th Percentile £500 £457 £300
25th Percentile £573 £520 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £625 £565
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +10.64% +12.98%
75th Percentile £769 £709 £700
90th Percentile £925 £800 £811
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £85.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.56% +30.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technology Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +56 52 £669 +8.78% 30
North West +54 39 £666 +0.53% 21
Midlands +43 20 £750 +13.21% 12
Scotland +47 19 £590 -2.07% 8
West Midlands +39 17 £800 +18.52% 7
South West +23 17 £725 +11.54% 14
South East -15 13 £613 +0.62% 20
Yorkshire +20 9 - - 8
East Midlands +17 3 £750 +21.21% 5
North East - 3 £897 - 1
East of England +2 1 £575 -17.86% 5
Wales - 1 £1,000 -
Technology Strategy
UK

Technology Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (5.74%) Confluence
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Shopify
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.95%) Azure
2 16 (13.11%) AWS
3 7 (5.74%) GCP
4 5 (4.10%) OpenShift
4 5 (4.10%) PaaS
4 5 (4.10%) SaaS
5 4 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.46%) BigCommerce
6 3 (2.46%) IaaS
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.46%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.64%) GitHub
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.20%) Network Security
2 9 (7.38%) WAN
3 8 (6.56%) LAN
4 6 (4.92%) Firewall
5 5 (4.10%) 5G
6 4 (3.28%) VPN
6 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.46%) Intranet
7 3 (2.46%) VoIP
8 1 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.82%) DNS
8 1 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.82%) NAS
8 1 (0.82%) SAN
8 1 (0.82%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.46%) Big Data
2 3 (2.46%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.64%) OLAP
3 2 (1.64%) OLTP
3 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.82%) DB2
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (7.38%) JIRA
2 8 (6.56%) Git
3 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.10%) Postman
5 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.46%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.46%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.46%) JUnit
6 3 (2.46%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.05%) Finance
3 17 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.48%) Banking
5 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.74%) Marketing
8 6 (4.92%) Retail
9 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.46%) Electronics
11 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.64%) Legal
13 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.82%) Local Government
13 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (68.85%) Architect
2 21 (17.21%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (11.48%) Enterprise Architect
3 14 (11.48%) Security Architect
4 11 (9.02%) Analyst
4 11 (9.02%) Senior
4 11 (9.02%) Technical Architect
5 8 (6.56%) Domain Architect
5 8 (6.56%) Senior Architect
6 7 (5.74%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (4.92%) Azure Architect
8 5 (4.10%) Lead
9 4 (3.28%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.28%) Developer
9 4 (3.28%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
9 4 (3.28%) Functional Analyst
9 4 (3.28%) Senior Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.28%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.46%) Network Engineer
10 3 (2.46%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.20%) Middleware
2 4 (3.28%) Kafka
2 4 (3.28%) ModSecurity
3 3 (2.46%) .NET
3 3 (2.46%) Apache Camel
3 3 (2.46%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.46%) J2EE
3 3 (2.46%) REST
3 3 (2.46%) Spring
3 3 (2.46%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.46%) VML
4 2 (1.64%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.64%) CSS
4 2 (1.64%) HTML
4 2 (1.64%) Jest
4 2 (1.64%) Node.js
4 2 (1.64%) Playwright
4 2 (1.64%) React
4 2 (1.64%) RESTful
4 2 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.92%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.10%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.64%) Clustering
5 2 (1.64%) PKI
5 2 (1.64%) Robotics
6 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.82%) CMDB
6 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.82%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.82%) NHS
6 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.02%) Linux
2 10 (8.20%) Windows
3 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (79.51%) IT Strategy
2 51 (41.80%) Business Strategy
3 42 (34.43%) Agile
4 33 (27.05%) Roadmaps
4 33 (27.05%) TOGAF
5 20 (16.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 19 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (15.57%) Risk Management
7 18 (14.75%) Architectural Patterns
8 17 (13.93%) DevOps
9 16 (13.11%) Information Security
10 15 (12.30%) CI/CD
10 15 (12.30%) Waterfall
11 14 (11.48%) Project Delivery
11 14 (11.48%) Project Management
11 14 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (10.66%) Security Architecture
13 12 (9.84%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.38%) SQL
2 7 (5.74%) Python
3 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.46%) Bash
4 3 (2.46%) Go
4 3 (2.46%) Java
5 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.82%) C#
6 1 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.75%) Degree
4 14 (11.48%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.28%) HND
5 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.46%) CCNP
6 3 (2.46%) MCSE
7 2 (1.64%) CISM
7 2 (1.64%) CISSP
7 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.64%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.64%) PMP
8 1 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.48%) NIST
2 13 (10.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.56%) QA
4 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.46%) IASME
4 3 (2.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (9.84%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.82%) vCloud
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.74%) Ansible
3 5 (4.10%) Terraform
4 4 (3.28%) OPNET
5 3 (2.46%) HP Fortify
5 3 (2.46%) Kibana
6 2 (1.64%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.82%) SCCM
7 1 (0.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.02%) VMware
3 8 (6.56%) SAP
4 7 (5.74%) Cisco
5 6 (4.92%) Databricks
6 5 (4.10%) Google
6 5 (4.10%) Oracle
7 4 (3.28%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.28%) Meraki
7 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.46%) Adobe
8 3 (2.46%) Aruba
8 3 (2.46%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (2.46%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.46%) Dell
8 3 (2.46%) F5
8 3 (2.46%) Intel
8 3 (2.46%) Sitecore
8 3 (2.46%) Splunk
8 3 (2.46%) Veeam