IT Strategy Contracts in the City of London

IT/Technology Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 95 154
Rank change year-on-year -13 +59 +2
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 14 30 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 1.37% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.52% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 17
10th Percentile £525 £410 £565
25th Percentile £547 £445 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -9.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £742 £813 £780
90th Percentile £778 £950 £865
Central London median daily rate £663 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +15.22% -11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,975 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.51% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,399 2,240
10th Percentile £363 £361 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the City of London

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the City of London

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the City of London

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the City of London

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 4 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
IT Strategy
Central London

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Asana
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Back Office
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Local Government
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Coordinator
2 4 (28.57%) IT Assistant
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support Assistant
2 4 (28.57%) Support Assistant
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) XML
1 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) SUSE
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Rancher
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow