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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 301 277
Rank change year-on-year -82 -24 +52
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 226 191 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.77% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.85% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 104 212
10th Percentile £413 £413 £410
25th Percentile £481 £488 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £750
90th Percentile £963 £789 £859
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £621
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.38% -0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £26.01 -
25th Percentile £26.52 £38.34 -
Median hourly rate £51.53 £58.90 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +95.53% -19.34%
75th Percentile £83.19 £79.45 -
90th Percentile £94.78 £91.78 -
UK median hourly rate £51.53 £58.90 £30.12
% change year-on-year -12.51% +95.53% -19.34%

All Process & 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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IT Strategy job vacancy trend 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 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 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
London -87 104 £700 +7.69% 164
North of England -65 38 £494 -9.36% 87
South East -38 36 £639 -7.09% 77
North West -43 19 £500 -7.41% 51
Midlands -51 19 £559 +13.88% 29
Yorkshire -46 18 £493 -17.83% 24
East of England -28 12 £510 -23.02% 27
West Midlands -53 11 £559 -8.73% 12
East Midlands -20 8 £637 +40.83% 17
South West -22 7 £550 +22.22% 41
North East - 1 - - 12
IT Strategy
UK

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (2.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) Apache
3 2 (0.88%) Camunda
3 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) SAP CO
1 8 (3.54%) SAP FI
1 8 (3.54%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.88%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.88%) Azure
2 42 (18.58%) AWS
3 31 (13.72%) SaaS
4 17 (7.52%) GCP
5 14 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.75%) IaaS
6 13 (5.75%) PaaS
7 5 (2.21%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.77%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.33%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.88%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.88%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.44%) Apigee
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.44%) GitHub
11 1 (0.44%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.75%) LAN
2 10 (4.42%) Firewall
3 9 (3.98%) WAN
4 4 (1.77%) VSAN
5 3 (1.33%) BGP
5 3 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.33%) Network Security
5 3 (1.33%) OSPF
5 3 (1.33%) VLAN
5 3 (1.33%) VPN
6 2 (0.88%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.88%) MPLS
6 2 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.88%) SAN
6 2 (0.88%) SSL
6 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.88%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.44%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.44%) HTTP
7 1 (0.44%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.21%) Power BI
2 4 (1.77%) Metadata
3 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.44%) GIS
5 1 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.44%) Stardog
5 1 (0.44%) Tableau
5 1 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (2.65%) JIRA
2 5 (2.21%) Jaeger
3 3 (1.33%) Postman
4 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.44%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.44%) JMeter
4 1 (0.44%) JUnit
4 1 (0.44%) Maven
4 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.44%) Selenium
4 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.44%) TestNG
4 1 (0.44%) TestRail
General
1 74 (32.74%) Finance
2 60 (26.55%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.73%) Banking
5 17 (7.52%) Financial Institution
6 14 (6.19%) Legal
7 12 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (4.87%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.65%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.21%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.21%) Retail
11 4 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.77%) Marketing
11 4 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Local Government
14 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (38.50%) Architect
2 30 (13.27%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (10.62%) Technical Architect
4 23 (10.18%) Senior
5 18 (7.96%) Lead
6 11 (4.87%) Enterprise Architect
7 10 (4.42%) Network Architect
8 9 (3.98%) Analyst
8 9 (3.98%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.54%) IT Manager
10 7 (3.10%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.10%) PMO Manager
10 7 (3.10%) PMO Project Manager
10 7 (3.10%) Product Owner
10 7 (3.10%) SAP Manager
10 7 (3.10%) SAP Project Manager
11 6 (2.65%) Developer
11 6 (2.65%) Head of Technology
11 6 (2.65%) SAP PMO Manager
11 6 (2.65%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.52%) Middleware
2 12 (5.31%) REST
3 7 (3.10%) SOAP
4 6 (2.65%) Kafka
5 5 (2.21%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (2.21%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.77%) OAuth
6 4 (1.77%) React
7 3 (1.33%) SAML
8 2 (0.88%) .NET
8 2 (0.88%) CrewAI
8 2 (0.88%) JSON
8 2 (0.88%) LangGraph
8 2 (0.88%) Node.js
8 2 (0.88%) RESTful
8 2 (0.88%) Vue
9 1 (0.44%) Hugging Face
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.44%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.62%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.96%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.87%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.54%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.65%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.65%) PKI
7 6 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.21%) CMDB
8 5 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.77%) SCADA
10 3 (1.33%) CCTV
11 2 (0.88%) Blog
11 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.52%) Linux
2 9 (3.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Solaris
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (69.03%) Technology Strategy
2 81 (35.84%) Roadmaps
3 51 (22.57%) Agile
3 51 (22.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 49 (21.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 47 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (17.70%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (17.26%) Business Strategy
8 39 (17.26%) DevOps
9 38 (16.81%) AI
10 37 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (13.72%) CI/CD
11 31 (13.72%) Decision-Making
12 30 (13.27%) Microservices
13 28 (12.39%) Migration
13 28 (12.39%) TOGAF
14 27 (11.95%) ITIL
15 26 (11.50%) Integration Patterns
15 26 (11.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.52%) SQL
2 13 (5.75%) Java
2 13 (5.75%) Python
3 6 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.21%) Rust
5 4 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.44%) C
7 1 (0.44%) C++
7 1 (0.44%) Go
7 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.37%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.95%) Degree
4 14 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.65%) CCNP
6 6 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.77%) MCSE
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.44%) ACCA
10 1 (0.44%) CBAP
10 1 (0.44%) CIMA
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.44%) MBA
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.19%) NIST
2 12 (5.31%) GDPR
3 11 (4.87%) NCSC
4 9 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (3.98%) PMO
5 7 (3.10%) QA
6 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.77%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.88%) ITGC
9 1 (0.44%) COBIT
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) PSD2
9 1 (0.44%) RMADS
9 1 (0.44%) SEPA
9 1 (0.44%) SLA
9 1 (0.44%) TARGET2
System Software
1 9 (3.98%) Docker
2 7 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.65%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.88%) Firmware
6 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.65%) Grafana
3 5 (2.21%) Kiali
3 5 (2.21%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.21%) Terraform
4 3 (1.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 30 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.64%) VMware
3 13 (5.75%) Cisco
3 13 (5.75%) SAP
4 8 (3.54%) F5
4 8 (3.54%) Google
5 7 (3.10%) Oracle
6 6 (2.65%) Juniper
7 5 (2.21%) HP
7 5 (2.21%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.21%) Splunk
8 4 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.88%) Ariba
9 2 (0.88%) BMC
9 2 (0.88%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.88%) Dell
9 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.88%) Vermilion