Technology Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

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 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 267 323 361
Rank change year-on-year +56 +38 +21
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 80 146 283
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.58% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.65% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 109 199
10th Percentile £456 £480 £386
25th Percentile £525 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £617 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.08% +5.91%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £828
90th Percentile £900 £920 £913
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.12 - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Technology Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Technology Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technology 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 Technology Strategy.

Technology Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Technology Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technology 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 Technology Strategy.

Technology Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technology 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 5 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.25%) Gliffy
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Shopify
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) Azure
2 18 (22.50%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) GCP
4 5 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.50%) BigCommerce
5 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.50%) IaaS
5 2 (2.50%) PaaS
5 2 (2.50%) SaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) LAN
1 8 (10.00%) WAN
2 4 (5.00%) Network Security
3 3 (3.75%) Firewall
4 2 (2.50%) SAN
4 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.50%) Wireless
5 1 (1.25%) BGP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.25%) Intranet
5 1 (1.25%) MPLS
5 1 (1.25%) NAS
5 1 (1.25%) NetScreen
5 1 (1.25%) OSPF
5 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Flink
2 2 (2.50%) MySQL
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.25%) Big Data
3 1 (1.25%) Metadata
3 1 (1.25%) MS Access
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.25%) OLAP
3 1 (1.25%) OLTP
3 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 34 (42.50%) Finance
2 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.25%) Banking
4 9 (11.25%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Retail
7 4 (5.00%) Front Office
7 4 (5.00%) Marketing
8 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.75%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Back Office
10 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.25%) Local Government
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (52.50%) Architect
2 12 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (13.75%) Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Senior
5 9 (11.25%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.00%) Lead
7 7 (8.75%) Analyst
7 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (8.75%) Security Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Azure Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Business Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Consultant
9 5 (6.25%) Technical Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Principal Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Digital Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Kafka
1 5 (6.25%) Middleware
2 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.75%) DAO
2 3 (3.75%) REST
3 2 (2.50%) CSS
3 2 (2.50%) J2EE
3 2 (2.50%) jQuery
3 2 (2.50%) React
3 2 (2.50%) Sass
3 2 (2.50%) Spring
3 2 (2.50%) Spring MVC
3 2 (2.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (2.50%) VML
3 2 (2.50%) Web Services
4 1 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.75%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.75%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) IoT
5 2 (2.50%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Linux
1 7 (8.75%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (73.75%) IT Strategy
2 33 (41.25%) Agile
3 24 (30.00%) Business Strategy
4 22 (27.50%) Roadmaps
5 17 (21.25%) Microservices
6 16 (20.00%) DevOps
7 13 (16.25%) Enterprise Architecture
8 12 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.25%) Risk Management
9 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (11.25%) Strategic Roadmap
9 9 (11.25%) TOGAF
10 8 (10.00%) Analytics
10 8 (10.00%) Business Case
10 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 8 (10.00%) Waterfall
11 7 (8.75%) Architectural Design
11 7 (8.75%) Data Strategy
11 7 (8.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) Java
2 4 (5.00%) SQL
3 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (1.25%) Python
5 1 (1.25%) VB
5 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) CISSP
4 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) CISM
5 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.50%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) CEH
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) MCSE
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) NIST
2 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.50%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) SLA
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) IASME
4 1 (1.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
1 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.25%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) VMware
4 3 (3.75%) Cisco
4 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.75%) SAP
5 2 (2.50%) Adobe
5 2 (2.50%) Dell
5 2 (2.50%) Google
5 2 (2.50%) Intel
5 2 (2.50%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.25%) Aruba
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.25%) F5
6 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.25%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.25%) Meraki
6 1 (1.25%) Riverbed
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Veeam