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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 295 289
Rank change year-on-year -50 -6 +57
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 230 182 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.81% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 102 196
10th Percentile £413 £417 £400
25th Percentile £481 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +13.04% -8.73%
75th Percentile £706 £750 £700
90th Percentile £899 £825 £794
UK median daily rate £583 £630 £588
% change year-on-year -7.42% +7.23% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £26.52 - -
25th Percentile £37.39 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £74.75 - £52.50
75th Percentile £84.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £94.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.75 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +210.01%

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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -4 117 £662 -5.43% 89
North of England -58 45 £492 -22.82% 35
North West -39 26 £513 -20.29% 18
South East -49 22 £581 -9.18% 68
Midlands -59 22 £525 -13.51% 20
Yorkshire -53 19 £481 -8.33% 13
West Midlands -54 15 £525 -13.51% 14
East of England -19 9 £650 +20.37% 7
South West -25 7 £675 +3.85% 11
East Midlands -28 7 £625 - 6
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 7 (3.04%) SAS
1 7 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.61%) Confluence
3 5 (2.17%) CMS
3 5 (2.17%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) Apache
5 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) Camunda
6 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) SAP CO
1 3 (1.30%) SAP FI
1 3 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.87%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.43%) Endur
3 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (32.17%) Azure
2 66 (28.70%) AWS
3 33 (14.35%) GCP
4 20 (8.70%) SaaS
5 14 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.78%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.91%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.48%) IaaS
9 7 (3.04%) PaaS
10 5 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.30%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.30%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.30%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.87%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.87%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.83%) Firewall
2 8 (3.48%) LAN
2 8 (3.48%) Network Security
3 7 (3.04%) DHCP
3 7 (3.04%) DNS
3 7 (3.04%) WAN
4 6 (2.61%) VPN
4 6 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.74%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.74%) Wireless
6 3 (1.30%) BGP
6 3 (1.30%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.30%) IPv4
6 3 (1.30%) IPv6
6 3 (1.30%) MPLS
6 3 (1.30%) OSPF
6 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.30%) VLAN
6 3 (1.30%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (3.48%) Power BI
2 5 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.74%) Metadata
4 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.43%) Looker
5 1 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Jaeger
1 8 (3.48%) JIRA
2 5 (2.17%) Git
3 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.87%) GoCD
4 2 (0.87%) Postman
4 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 74 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.30%) Finance
3 33 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.91%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.83%) Banking
6 15 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.65%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.78%) Telecoms
9 10 (4.35%) Legal
10 6 (2.61%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Marketing
11 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Retail
12 3 (1.30%) Back Office
12 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Publishing
14 1 (0.43%) Front Office
14 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 99 (43.04%) Architect
2 35 (15.22%) Solutions Architect
3 32 (13.91%) Senior
4 19 (8.26%) Lead
5 18 (7.83%) Analyst
6 15 (6.52%) Technical Architect
7 12 (5.22%) Enterprise Architect
8 11 (4.78%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 10 (4.35%) Developer
10 9 (3.91%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.91%) Lead Architect
10 9 (3.91%) Product Owner
11 8 (3.48%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.48%) Consultant
11 8 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.48%) Network Architect
11 8 (3.48%) Senior Architect
12 7 (3.04%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.04%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.61%) Business Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.65%) Middleware
2 12 (5.22%) REST
3 11 (4.78%) Kafka
4 8 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.48%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.17%) NumPy
5 5 (2.17%) Pandas
5 5 (2.17%) Plotly
5 5 (2.17%) React
5 5 (2.17%) Web Services
6 4 (1.74%) .NET
6 4 (1.74%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.74%) OAuth
7 3 (1.30%) JSON
7 3 (1.30%) LangGraph
7 3 (1.30%) SAML
7 3 (1.30%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.30%) SciPy
7 3 (1.30%) SOAP
7 3 (1.30%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.96%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.65%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.65%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.04%) Credit Risk
6 7 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.61%) PKI
7 6 (2.61%) Taxonomies
7 6 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.74%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.83%) Linux
2 16 (6.96%) Windows
3 6 (2.61%) Mac OS
3 6 (2.61%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.87%) Unix
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) Solaris
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (65.65%) Technology Strategy
2 80 (34.78%) Roadmaps
3 60 (26.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 57 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 54 (23.48%) Business Strategy
6 53 (23.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (21.30%) Agile
8 43 (18.70%) Cybersecurity
9 40 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (14.78%) Analytics
11 32 (13.91%) CI/CD
11 32 (13.91%) DevOps
12 31 (13.48%) Decision-Making
12 31 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (13.04%) TOGAF
14 26 (11.30%) Identity Access Management
15 25 (10.87%) Data Modelling
16 24 (10.43%) ITIL
16 24 (10.43%) Machine Learning
16 24 (10.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.87%) Python
2 22 (9.57%) SQL
3 14 (6.09%) Java
4 13 (5.65%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.35%) Bash
5 10 (4.35%) Rust
6 9 (3.91%) R
7 5 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.74%) C#
9 2 (0.87%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Bicep
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) C++
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.48%) Degree
4 13 (5.65%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.17%) CCNP
8 5 (2.17%) CISSP
9 3 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.30%) CCIE
9 3 (1.30%) CCIE Security
9 3 (1.30%) CCSP
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.87%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.70%) GDPR
2 12 (5.22%) NIST
3 10 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (3.04%) NCSC
5 5 (2.17%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.74%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.30%) QA
7 3 (1.30%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.87%) PMO
9 1 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.43%) ITGC
9 1 (0.43%) PSD2
9 1 (0.43%) SEPA
9 1 (0.43%) TARGET2
System Software
1 17 (7.39%) Docker
1 17 (7.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.74%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.78%) Terraform
3 10 (4.35%) Ansible
4 9 (3.91%) Grafana
5 8 (3.48%) Kiali
5 8 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.04%) SCCM
7 2 (0.87%) rkt
8 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.43%) Kibana
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.43%) SCOM
8 1 (0.43%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.74%) VMware
3 10 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.35%) SAP
3 10 (4.35%) Splunk
4 9 (3.91%) Cisco
4 9 (3.91%) Google
4 9 (3.91%) Oracle
5 7 (3.04%) Pega
6 6 (2.61%) Citrix
6 6 (2.61%) F5
7 5 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.74%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.74%) Juniper
8 4 (1.74%) Temenos
9 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.30%) Meraki
9 3 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.30%) SolarWinds