IT Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 293 320
Rank change year-on-year +58 +27 +23
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 110 167 340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 0.68% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.76% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 133 243
10th Percentile £412 £450 £397
25th Percentile £463 £550 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £613 £620
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -1.21% +7.83%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £818 £850 £900
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £61.17 £17.50
% change year-on-year -50.76% +249.54% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

IT Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Strategy.

IT Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

IT Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Strategy.

IT Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.55%) Apache
1 5 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.91%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) SAS
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.91%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.91%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.27%) Azure
2 18 (16.36%) AWS
3 10 (9.09%) SaaS
4 7 (6.36%) PaaS
5 6 (5.45%) IaaS
6 5 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (4.55%) GCP
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.82%) Serverless
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.91%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.91%) Miro
8 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.82%) LAN
2 12 (10.91%) WAN
3 6 (5.45%) Network Security
4 2 (1.82%) Firewall
4 2 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.82%) Wireless
4 2 (1.82%) WLAN
5 1 (0.91%) BGP
5 1 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.91%) Intranet
5 1 (0.91%) MPLS
5 1 (0.91%) NetScreen
5 1 (0.91%) OSPF
5 1 (0.91%) SAN
5 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (4.55%) Flink
2 3 (2.73%) Metadata
2 3 (2.73%) OLAP
2 3 (2.73%) OLTP
2 3 (2.73%) QlikView
3 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.91%) Big Data
4 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (3.64%) JIRA
2 1 (0.91%) kappa
General
1 34 (30.91%) Finance
2 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.82%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (9.09%) Banking
7 7 (6.36%) Legal
7 7 (6.36%) Retail
8 3 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.73%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.82%) Marketing
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.91%) Front Office
10 1 (0.91%) Local Government
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 61 (55.45%) Architect
2 18 (16.36%) Enterprise Architect
3 17 (15.45%) Developer
4 14 (12.73%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.91%) Technical Architect
6 11 (10.00%) Security Architect
6 11 (10.00%) Senior
7 9 (8.18%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Analyst
9 7 (6.36%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.36%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (6.36%) IT Manager
10 6 (5.45%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Category Manager
11 5 (4.55%) Lead
11 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Business Architect
12 4 (3.64%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.09%) Middleware
2 5 (4.55%) Kafka
3 3 (2.73%) .NET
3 3 (2.73%) DAO
4 2 (1.82%) React
4 2 (1.82%) REST
5 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.91%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.91%) JSON
5 1 (0.91%) Node.js
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.18%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.73%) IoT
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.82%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.91%) EPoS
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.91%) SCADA
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Windows
2 7 (6.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (55.45%) Technology Strategy
2 46 (41.82%) Agile
3 43 (39.09%) Roadmaps
4 31 (28.18%) Business Strategy
5 26 (23.64%) Enterprise Architecture
6 19 (17.27%) Strategic Roadmap
7 18 (16.36%) TOGAF
8 14 (12.73%) Architectural Patterns
8 14 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.73%) Waterfall
9 13 (11.82%) Project Delivery
10 12 (10.91%) Microservices
10 12 (10.91%) Risk Management
11 11 (10.00%) Analytics
11 11 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 11 (10.00%) Data Strategy
12 10 (9.09%) Security Architecture
13 9 (8.18%) Machine Learning
13 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.91%) Java
2 6 (5.45%) SQL
3 3 (2.73%) C#
3 3 (2.73%) PHP
4 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.91%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (14.55%) SC Cleared
1 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.64%) PMP
4 3 (2.73%) CISSP
4 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.82%) CISM
5 2 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.91%) CCNP
6 1 (0.91%) CEH
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.91%) MCSE
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) NIST
2 8 (7.27%) QA
3 7 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.91%) IASME
6 1 (0.91%) NCSC
6 1 (0.91%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.91%) Ansible
2 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle
3 7 (6.36%) Databricks
4 3 (2.73%) VMware
5 2 (1.82%) Aruba
5 2 (1.82%) Cisco
5 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.91%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.91%) BT
6 1 (0.91%) Citrix
6 1 (0.91%) F5
6 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.91%) HP
6 1 (0.91%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.91%) Juniper
6 1 (0.91%) Mitel
6 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.91%) Riverbed