IT Strategy Contracts in Buckinghamshire

IT/Technology Strategy
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 23 49 68
Rank change year-on-year +26 +19 -5
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 15 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.36% 1.05% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 1.27% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 11
10th Percentile £571 - £401
25th Percentile £625 £600 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £643 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +28.61% -9.09%
75th Percentile £743 £700 £563
90th Percentile - - £633
South East median daily rate £650 £525 £628
% change year-on-year +23.81% -16.33% +21.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Buckinghamshire

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Buckinghamshire

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Buckinghamshire

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in Buckinghamshire

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +22 13 £630 -2.56% 13
Bletchley - 1 - -
IT Strategy
South East

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) IaaS
2 5 (33.33%) PaaS
2 5 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) VSAN
2 3 (20.00%) BGP
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) MPLS
2 3 (20.00%) NGFW
2 3 (20.00%) OSPF
2 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) VLAN
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (20.00%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
2 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Architect
2 8 (53.33%) Technical Architect
3 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Architect
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (33.33%) Principal Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (13.33%) VMware Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Principal Enterprise Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 1 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Public Cloud
2 7 (46.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (46.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Technology Strategy
1 14 (93.33%) TOGAF
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) ITIL
2 11 (73.33%) Microservices
3 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 10 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (66.67%) Matrix Organization
3 10 (66.67%) Zachman Framework
4 9 (60.00%) DevSecOps
5 7 (46.67%) Requirements Management
6 5 (33.33%) Agile
6 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (33.33%) Use Case
6 5 (33.33%) User Experience
6 5 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (26.67%) DevOps
7 4 (26.67%) Prototyping
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) MCSE
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 4 (26.67%) CCNP
5 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (80.00%) NCSC
1 12 (80.00%) NIST
2 8 (53.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (60.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) VMware
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 9 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Ariba
4 1 (6.67%) Aruba
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) SAP