Digital Strategy Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Digital Strategy
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Digital Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.99% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £513 £180 £600
% change year-on-year +184.72% -70.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 104 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 77.34% 89.66% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 95
10th Percentile £350 £189 £175
25th Percentile £396 £311 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £630
90th Percentile £743 £575 £718
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 23
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.96 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £15.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £60.33 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +289.23% -0.77% -72.25%
75th Percentile £72.02 £15.75 £47.83
90th Percentile £72.82 £67.50 £61.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Digital Strategy job vacancy trend in Dorset

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Digital Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Digital Strategy

Digital Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Strategy within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. 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
Poole - 2 - -
Digital Strategy
South West

Digital Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Designer
1 2 (100.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 2 (100.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Product Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility