Technology Strategy Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Technology Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Technology Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.46% 0.50% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.58% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £530 £465 -
25th Percentile £536 £577 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +3.33% +54.64%
75th Percentile £573 £831 £825
90th Percentile £612 £858 £915
England median daily rate £625 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Technology 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 737 519 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.04% 87.08% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 319 431
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -8.32% +2.15%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 47
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.05 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +2.46% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.14 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Technology Strategy job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Technology Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Strategy within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Northamptonshire -15 3 £540 +38.11% 4
Nottinghamshire -6 1 £625 -26.47% 5
Technology Strategy
England

Technology Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Payments Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (75.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft