IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in Coventry

IT/Technology Strategy
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.81% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £850
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 - £875
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £623 £713
% change year-on-year -19.64% -12.63% +26.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 86 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 94.58% 89.58% 86.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 55 129
10th Percentile £261 £334 £345
25th Percentile £316 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £552 £581 £550
90th Percentile £634 £626 £645
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.58 £29.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.71% +5.45% +55.19%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in Coventry

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IT Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) IPv4
1 2 (66.67%) IPv6
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE Security
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIP
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Meraki
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Workday