IT Strategy Contracts in the East of England

IT/Technology Strategy
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 104 114
Rank change year-on-year +31 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 9 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.96% 0.42% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.49% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £555 - £478
25th Percentile £576 £450 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £713
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -28.07% +31.34%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £789
90th Percentile £678 - £796
England median daily rate £650 £600 £645
% change year-on-year +8.33% -6.98% +3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the East of England

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the East of England

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the East of England

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the East of England

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bedfordshire +6 5 - - 7
Hertfordshire +26 2 £608 +18.54% 21
Cambridgeshire +8 1 £625 - 16
Suffolk - 1 - - 4
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) IT Support
1 5 (55.56%) Support Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) BCP
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCIE
1 1 (11.11%) CCIE Data Center
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow