IT Strategy Contracts in Berkshire

IT/Technology Strategy
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 111 111
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 +12
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 6 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.66% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.74% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £630 - -
25th Percentile £638 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £613
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -34.69% -2.00%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £650 £525 £628
% change year-on-year +23.81% -16.33% +21.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

IT Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Berkshire

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Berkshire

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in Berkshire

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Windsor - 3 £650 -
Wokingham - 2 £625 - 2
Reading +29 1 - - 14
IT Strategy
South East

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) SAP Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Enterprise Architect
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) EPoS
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
5 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle