IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in England

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > England

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 279 297
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 214 268 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.81% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.95% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 168 249
10th Percentile £450 £445 £424
25th Percentile £500 £512 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £736 £759 £750
90th Percentile £824 £866 £913
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £26.01 £19.02 £24.47
25th Percentile £38.34 £23.19 £29.30
Median hourly rate £58.90 £30.12 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +95.53% -19.34% +102.03%
75th Percentile £79.45 £33.56 £49.92
90th Percentile £91.78 £35.62 £57.47
UK median hourly rate £17.79 £30.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -40.94% -19.34% +102.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,260 28,349 37,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.08% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,060 17,666 25,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,499 1,306 1,419
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +38 119 £650 - 147
North of England -22 30 £528 -20.44% 41
North West -24 22 £514 -22.86% 27
South East -8 21 £650 +11.49% 69
Midlands -44 17 £496 -29.14% 24
East of England +17 15 £650 +44.44% 26
East Midlands -10 10 £492 +8.13% 10
Yorkshire -10 8 £723 +16.16% 12
West Midlands -29 7 £500 -33.33% 14
South West +7 4 £513 -30.51% 22
IT Strategy
UK

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.87%) Endur
3 2 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.47%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 72 (33.64%) Azure
2 44 (20.56%) AWS
3 33 (15.42%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.68%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.35%) GCP
6 10 (4.67%) SaaS
7 9 (4.21%) GitHub
7 9 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.27%) PaaS
9 6 (2.80%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.34%) IaaS
11 3 (1.40%) Asana
11 3 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.40%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.93%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.93%) Serverless
12 2 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.21%) LAN
1 9 (4.21%) WAN
2 6 (2.80%) Firewall
3 4 (1.87%) BGP
3 4 (1.87%) MPLS
3 4 (1.87%) Network Security
3 4 (1.87%) OSPF
3 4 (1.87%) VLAN
3 4 (1.87%) VPN
4 3 (1.40%) Internet
4 3 (1.40%) NetScaler
5 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.47%) DNS
6 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.87%) Big Data
3 3 (1.40%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.40%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.93%) Power BI
5 1 (0.47%) AlloyDB
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.47%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Looker
5 1 (0.47%) Metadata
5 1 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.74%) CircleCI
2 4 (1.87%) JIRA
3 3 (1.40%) Hudson
4 2 (0.93%) Git
4 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 84 (39.25%) Finance
2 72 (33.64%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.62%) Banking
4 22 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.01%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (5.14%) Back Office
8 10 (4.67%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.74%) Legal
10 7 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.27%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.34%) Retail
12 4 (1.87%) Automotive
12 4 (1.87%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.93%) Law
14 2 (0.93%) Local Government
14 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (50.47%) Architect
2 30 (14.02%) Technical Architect
3 25 (11.68%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (10.75%) Enterprise Architect
5 22 (10.28%) Senior
6 16 (7.48%) Lead
7 15 (7.01%) Security Architect
8 12 (5.61%) Senior Architect
9 11 (5.14%) Consultant
10 8 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (3.74%) IT Support
10 8 (3.74%) Senior Technical Architect
11 7 (3.27%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.27%) IT Director
12 6 (2.80%) Designer
13 5 (2.34%) Analyst
13 5 (2.34%) Developer
13 5 (2.34%) Lead Architect
13 5 (2.34%) Security Manager
13 5 (2.34%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.54%) Middleware
2 7 (3.27%) .NET
3 5 (2.34%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.34%) React
4 4 (1.87%) REST
5 3 (1.40%) JSON
5 3 (1.40%) Kafka
5 3 (1.40%) Node.js
5 3 (1.40%) Swagger
6 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.93%) CSS
6 2 (0.93%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.93%) FHIR
6 2 (0.93%) HTML
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.93%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.93%) XML
7 1 (0.47%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.47%) Blazor
7 1 (0.47%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.07%) Product Ownership
1 13 (6.07%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.27%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.27%) Driving Licence
2 7 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.80%) NHS
4 5 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.87%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.40%) Blog
6 3 (1.40%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.40%) Grid Computing
6 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.93%) CCTV
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.75%) Windows
2 12 (5.61%) Linux
3 11 (5.14%) Mac OS
4 7 (3.27%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (54.67%) Technology Strategy
2 88 (41.12%) Roadmaps
3 57 (26.64%) Business Strategy
4 45 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (20.09%) Strategic Roadmap
6 40 (18.69%) Enterprise Architecture
7 39 (18.22%) Agile
8 34 (15.89%) Microservices
9 32 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (13.55%) TOGAF
11 25 (11.68%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (10.75%) Decision-Making
14 22 (10.28%) CI/CD
14 22 (10.28%) DevOps
14 22 (10.28%) ITIL
14 22 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (9.81%) Migration
16 20 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence
16 20 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.01%) Java
2 11 (5.14%) Bash
3 10 (4.67%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.67%) Python
4 9 (4.21%) TypeScript
5 7 (3.27%) C#
5 7 (3.27%) SQL
6 6 (2.80%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.40%) Bicep
7 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.93%) R
9 1 (0.47%) C
9 1 (0.47%) C++
9 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.35%) Degree
3 13 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.21%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.34%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.34%) CISM
5 5 (2.34%) CISSP
6 4 (1.87%) CCIE
6 4 (1.87%) CCNP
6 4 (1.87%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.87%) JNCIE
7 3 (1.40%) PMP
7 3 (1.40%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.93%) CRISC
8 2 (0.93%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.88%) GDPR
2 14 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.61%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.34%) NIST
5 4 (1.87%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.40%) HL7
6 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (1.40%) PMO
6 3 (1.40%) QA
6 3 (1.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.47%) COBIT
8 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.47%) GAMP
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (11.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.34%) Docker
4 3 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (9.35%) Terraform
2 15 (7.01%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.21%) SCCM
5 7 (3.27%) Grafana
5 7 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.80%) Ansible
7 4 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.67%) Citrix
2 10 (4.67%) MuleSoft
3 9 (4.21%) Databricks
3 9 (4.21%) Oracle
4 8 (3.74%) SAP
4 8 (3.74%) VMware
5 7 (3.27%) CyberArk
5 7 (3.27%) Darktrace
5 7 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.27%) Splunk
6 5 (2.34%) Cisco
6 5 (2.34%) Google
6 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.87%) Apple
7 4 (1.87%) F5
7 4 (1.87%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.87%) Workday
8 3 (1.40%) Hitachi
8 3 (1.40%) Red Hat