Technology Strategy Contracts

Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 329 427 397
Rank change year-on-year +98 -30 +25
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 289 311 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.58% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 226 421
10th Percentile £448 £469 £413
25th Percentile £525 £541 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £756 £750
90th Percentile £925 £881 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £625 £565
% change year-on-year +8.00% +10.64% +12.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £35.95 -
25th Percentile - £44.13 £62.50
Median hourly rate £30.12 £58.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.07% -10.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £71.63 £67.50
90th Percentile - £79.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +98 241 £625 -3.85% 192
UK excluding London +104 135 £675 +8.00% 104
London +64 131 £560 -20.00% 104
Work from Home +70 90 £669 +7.04% 71
North of England +62 53 £669 +9.18% 32
North West +48 40 £666 +2.46% 24
Scotland +47 28 £675 +12.03% 9
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
Wales +19 4 £650 +85.71%
East Midlands +16 3 £750 +21.21% 4
North East - 3 £897 -
East of England +10 1 £575 -20.69% 8

Technology Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.23%) Apache
2 7 (2.42%) Confluence
3 5 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (0.35%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.35%) InVision
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (6.92%) Shopify
2 4 (1.38%) Primavera
2 4 (1.38%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.69%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.69%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (23.88%) Azure
2 58 (20.07%) AWS
3 20 (6.92%) BigCommerce
4 18 (6.23%) Amazon Kinesis
4 18 (6.23%) GCP
5 11 (3.81%) SaaS
6 6 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.08%) IaaS
6 6 (2.08%) PaaS
6 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.38%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.38%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.38%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.04%) Figma
9 3 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.19%) WAN
2 14 (4.84%) LAN
3 13 (4.50%) Network Security
4 9 (3.11%) Firewall
5 6 (2.08%) 5G
5 6 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.38%) VoIP
7 3 (1.04%) Intranet
7 3 (1.04%) VPN
7 3 (1.04%) Wireless
8 2 (0.69%) DNS
8 2 (0.69%) SAN
9 1 (0.35%) BGP
9 1 (0.35%) Broadband
9 1 (0.35%) FTP
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) MPLS
9 1 (0.35%) NetScreen
9 1 (0.35%) OSPF
9 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.23%) Flink
2 6 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.38%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.04%) Big Data
4 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.04%) MySQL
4 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.69%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) MS Access
6 1 (0.35%) OLAP
6 1 (0.35%) OLTP
6 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.81%) Git
1 11 (3.81%) JIRA
2 8 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.73%) Postman
4 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.04%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.04%) JUnit
4 3 (1.04%) Maven
4 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 89 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 78 (26.99%) Finance
3 33 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 32 (11.07%) Banking
5 29 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (9.69%) Retail
7 21 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (6.92%) Marketing
9 10 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.08%) Legal
12 5 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.38%) Front Office
13 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.04%) Electronics
14 3 (1.04%) Local Government
14 3 (1.04%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 151 (52.25%) Architect
2 44 (15.22%) Solutions Architect
3 29 (10.03%) Enterprise Architect
4 25 (8.65%) Developer
4 25 (8.65%) Senior
5 22 (7.61%) Lead
6 21 (7.27%) Security Architect
7 20 (6.92%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.57%) Analyst
9 16 (5.54%) Technical Architect
10 14 (4.84%) Full Stack Developer
10 14 (4.84%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 12 (4.15%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.46%) Azure Architect
12 10 (3.46%) React Developer
12 10 (3.46%) Senior Architect
13 8 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.77%) Domain Architect
13 8 (2.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.61%) Kafka
2 15 (5.19%) Middleware
3 13 (4.50%) VML
4 7 (2.42%) J2EE
4 7 (2.42%) REST
4 7 (2.42%) Spring
5 5 (1.73%) CSS
5 5 (1.73%) React
6 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.38%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.38%) Node.js
6 4 (1.38%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.04%) .NET
7 3 (1.04%) Apache Camel
7 3 (1.04%) jQuery
7 3 (1.04%) ModSecurity
7 3 (1.04%) Sass
7 3 (1.04%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.57%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.46%) Operational Technology
3 10 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.73%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.38%) Blog
8 4 (1.38%) CMDB
8 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.04%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.04%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.69%) Clustering
10 2 (0.69%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.69%) NHS
10 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.92%) Windows
2 19 (6.57%) Linux
3 4 (1.38%) Unix
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (71.28%) IT Strategy
2 111 (38.41%) Agile
3 86 (29.76%) Roadmaps
4 72 (24.91%) Business Strategy
5 52 (17.99%) TOGAF
6 49 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (15.92%) DevOps
8 41 (14.19%) Enterprise Architecture
8 41 (14.19%) Project Delivery
9 32 (11.07%) CI/CD
9 32 (11.07%) Risk Management
10 31 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (10.38%) Microservices
11 30 (10.38%) Waterfall
12 29 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (9.69%) Project Management
14 27 (9.34%) Analytics
14 27 (9.34%) Strategic Roadmap
15 26 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (9.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.34%) Java
2 16 (5.54%) SQL
3 13 (4.50%) Python
4 10 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.42%) Go
6 5 (1.73%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.04%) Bash
7 3 (1.04%) Ruby
7 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.69%) C#
8 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
9 1 (0.35%) VB
9 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.99%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.76%) Degree
4 18 (6.23%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.42%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.38%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.38%) CISSP
6 4 (1.38%) CITP
6 4 (1.38%) HND
6 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.04%) CCNP
7 3 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.04%) MCSE
7 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.04%) PMP
8 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.69%) CISM
8 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.23%) NIST
3 12 (4.15%) QA
4 7 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.04%) IASME
6 3 (1.04%) NCSC
6 3 (1.04%) SLA
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (4.84%) Docker
2 9 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) vCloud
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (4.84%) Kubernetes
1 14 (4.84%) Terraform
2 7 (2.42%) Ansible
3 3 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.04%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.04%) Kibana
3 3 (1.04%) OPNET
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.35%) SCCM
4 1 (0.35%) SCOM
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.03%) SAP
3 21 (7.27%) Salesforce
4 20 (6.92%) Adobe
4 20 (6.92%) Sitecore
5 15 (5.19%) Google
5 15 (5.19%) VMware
6 12 (4.15%) Cisco
6 12 (4.15%) Dell
6 12 (4.15%) Intel
7 8 (2.77%) Oracle
8 7 (2.42%) Databricks
9 5 (1.73%) Aruba
9 5 (1.73%) F5
9 5 (1.73%) Meraki
10 4 (1.38%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.38%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.38%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.38%) Splunk