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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 283 307
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 +52
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 222 252 304
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.81% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.93% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 147 225
10th Percentile £452 £473 £416
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -1.92% +3.59%
75th Percentile £734 £775 £750
90th Percentile £814 £825 £908
UK median daily rate £601 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -5.80% -1.92% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.33 £27.25
25th Percentile - £21.44 £36.25
Median hourly rate £17.79 £26.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.50% -49.05% +210.01%
75th Percentile - £31.94 £58.13
90th Percentile - £34.98 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £16.56 £26.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.09% -49.05% +210.01%

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 26,361 27,078 35,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.72% 86.65% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,710 16,527 24,439
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,692 994 1,489
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.03 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.77 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.83 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £43.86
% change year-on-year -30.30% -17.73% +25.31%

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 30 October 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
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 30 October 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 +43 120 £662 -5.43% 146
North of England -39 37 £534 -12.60% 47
North West -29 27 £536 -13.45% 33
South East -23 20 £537 -7.89% 119
Midlands -43 20 £500 -11.66% 43
West Midlands -38 11 £500 -19.64% 24
East of England -3 10 £650 +23.81% 30
Yorkshire -27 10 £492 -20.90% 12
East Midlands -14 9 £492 +8.13% 19
South West -17 6 £600 -18.37% 49
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 (2.25%) Jupyter
1 5 (2.25%) SAS
2 4 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) CMS
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.25%) Endur
3 3 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.90%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.90%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.45%) Avolution ABACUS
5 1 (0.45%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.59%) Azure
2 58 (26.13%) AWS
3 33 (14.86%) GCP
4 23 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (8.11%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.05%) SaaS
7 8 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (3.15%) GitHub
8 7 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.15%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.25%) PaaS
10 4 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.80%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.35%) IaaS
11 3 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.05%) LAN
1 9 (4.05%) WAN
2 7 (3.15%) Firewall
3 6 (2.70%) VPN
4 5 (2.25%) BGP
4 5 (2.25%) MPLS
4 5 (2.25%) OSPF
4 5 (2.25%) VLAN
5 3 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.35%) DHCP
5 3 (1.35%) DNS
5 3 (1.35%) EIGRP
5 3 (1.35%) Internet
5 3 (1.35%) IPv4
5 3 (1.35%) IPv6
5 3 (1.35%) NetScaler
5 3 (1.35%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.35%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.35%) Wireless
5 3 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.70%) Power BI
3 5 (2.25%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.35%) Big Data
5 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (1.35%) Metadata
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.45%) AlloyDB
7 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.45%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) Looker
7 1 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.70%) CircleCI
1 6 (2.70%) Git
2 4 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.80%) JIRA
3 3 (1.35%) Hudson
4 2 (0.90%) GoCD
4 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 85 (38.29%) Finance
2 73 (32.88%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.81%) Banking
6 20 (9.01%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.86%) Legal
8 11 (4.95%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.50%) Back Office
10 9 (4.05%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.70%) Retail
13 5 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.80%) Automotive
15 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.90%) Law
16 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 122 (54.95%) Architect
2 37 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 28 (12.61%) Senior
4 27 (12.16%) Technical Architect
5 24 (10.81%) Enterprise Architect
6 19 (8.56%) Security Architect
7 16 (7.21%) Senior Architect
8 14 (6.31%) Consultant
8 14 (6.31%) Lead
9 10 (4.50%) Developer
10 8 (3.60%) Azure Architect
10 8 (3.60%) Senior Technical Architect
11 7 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.15%) Lead Architect
11 7 (3.15%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.70%) Analyst
12 6 (2.70%) Product Owner
12 6 (2.70%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.25%) Python Developer
13 5 (2.25%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.41%) Middleware
2 10 (4.50%) REST
3 9 (4.05%) .NET
4 7 (3.15%) React
5 6 (2.70%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.25%) Kafka
6 5 (2.25%) NumPy
6 5 (2.25%) Pandas
6 5 (2.25%) Plotly
6 5 (2.25%) Web Services
7 4 (1.80%) JSON
7 4 (1.80%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.80%) Swagger
8 3 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.35%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.35%) SciPy
8 3 (1.35%) Statsmodels
9 2 (0.90%) FHIR
9 2 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.95%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.50%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.25%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.25%) NHS
7 5 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.25%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.80%) Grid Computing
8 4 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.80%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.90%) CCTV
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.56%) Windows
2 11 (4.95%) Mac OS
3 8 (3.60%) Linux
4 7 (3.15%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.90%) Android
5 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.45%) VMS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (57.66%) Technology Strategy
2 89 (40.09%) Roadmaps
3 66 (29.73%) Business Strategy
4 46 (20.72%) Enterprise Architecture
5 42 (18.92%) Agile
5 42 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (16.22%) Strategic Roadmap
8 33 (14.86%) Decision-Making
8 33 (14.86%) Microservices
9 31 (13.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 29 (13.06%) TOGAF
11 28 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (12.16%) CI/CD
13 26 (11.71%) DevOps
14 25 (11.26%) ITIL
15 24 (10.81%) Analytics
15 24 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (9.46%) AI
17 20 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.46%) Python
2 15 (6.76%) Java
2 15 (6.76%) SQL
3 11 (4.95%) Bash
4 10 (4.50%) C#
4 10 (4.50%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.05%) R
6 7 (3.15%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.80%) Bicep
7 4 (1.80%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.90%) Go
8 2 (0.90%) Rust
9 1 (0.45%) C
9 1 (0.45%) C++
9 1 (0.45%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.45%) Swift
9 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (11.71%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.81%) Degree
3 15 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.15%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.70%) CISSP
8 5 (2.25%) CCIE
8 5 (2.25%) CCNP
8 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.80%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (1.80%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.35%) CCSP
10 3 (1.35%) CISM
10 3 (1.35%) GIAC
10 3 (1.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.46%) GDPR
2 15 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.70%) NIST
4 5 (2.25%) EU AI Act
5 4 (1.80%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.35%) HL7
6 3 (1.35%) QA
7 2 (0.90%) COBIT
7 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.90%) PMO
8 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.45%) GAMP
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.45%) MiFID
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (7.66%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.05%) Docker
4 3 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (10.81%) Terraform
2 18 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.50%) Ansible
5 9 (4.05%) SCCM
6 6 (2.70%) Grafana
6 6 (2.70%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.90%) rkt
Vendors
1 49 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.95%) VMware
3 10 (4.50%) Citrix
4 8 (3.60%) CyberArk
4 8 (3.60%) Darktrace
4 8 (3.60%) SAP
4 8 (3.60%) Splunk
5 7 (3.15%) MuleSoft
5 7 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.70%) Cisco
6 6 (2.70%) Databricks
7 5 (2.25%) F5
7 5 (2.25%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.25%) Google
7 5 (2.25%) Oracle
7 5 (2.25%) Pega
7 5 (2.25%) Workday
8 4 (1.80%) Apple
8 4 (1.80%) Meraki
8 4 (1.80%) Temenos