IT Strategy Contracts in Central London

IT/Technology Strategy
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 115 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +38 +14
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 19 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 0.88% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.96% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £520 - £513
25th Percentile £600 £410 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £735 £825 £763
90th Percentile £741 £934 £925
London median daily rate £675 £630 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.08% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
London median hourly rate £100.00 £30.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year +232.01% -19.34% -42.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,939 2,087 3,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.45% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,446 2,207
10th Percentile £327 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
London median daily rate £541 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 19
10th Percentile £22.15 £18.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £15.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -18.36%
75th Percentile £50.75 £70.00 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £56.75
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.25
% change year-on-year -16.90% -11.80% +12.59%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Central London

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Central London

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Central London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Central London

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in Central London

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
City of London -1 18 £683 -2.50% 22
Southwark - 1 - -
IT Strategy
London

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Asana
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) LAN
1 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Back Office
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Military
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Coordinator
2 4 (21.05%) IT Assistant
2 4 (21.05%) IT Support
2 4 (21.05%) IT Support Assistant
2 4 (21.05%) Support Assistant
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Category Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (5.26%) CIO
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) CSS
1 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
1 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Fixed Income
1 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Equities
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Technology Strategy
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Service Management
6 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CISM
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow