IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IT/Technology Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 112 139
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +32
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 16 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.57% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £493 £643 -
25th Percentile £519 £675 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £718 £781 £813
90th Percentile £736 £815 £935
Central London median daily rate £650 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +4.00%
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 1,631 1,931 2,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.39% 91.91% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,201 1,845
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £774 £792 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 17
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.88 £21.25 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.15 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +40.00% -35.29%
75th Percentile £50.25 £102.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -18.57% +30.84% -35.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the City of London

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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 30 September 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Asana
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Back Office
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Category Manager
2 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Change Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (6.25%) IT Procurement Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support Assistant
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Procurement Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Equities
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Technology Strategy
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISM
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle