Digital Strategy Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Digital Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Digital Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 139
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +44
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 1 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.057% 0.047% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.052% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £153
25th Percentile £663 £563 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £340
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +69.12% -40.48%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £694
90th Percentile - - £715
Central London median daily rate £675 £575 £340
% change year-on-year +17.39% +69.12% -40.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Digital 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,646 1,941 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.63% 91.51% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,189 1,740
10th Percentile £328 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £765 £788 £810
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +29.77% -35.78%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -41.33%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Digital Strategy job vacancy trend in the City of London

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Digital Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Digital Strategy

Digital Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Digital Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Digital Strategy

Digital Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On