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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 297 283
Rank change year-on-year -72 -14 +39
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 232 191 297
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.84% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 107 215
10th Percentile £413 £413 £410
25th Percentile £482 £496 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £605
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +3.39% -7.00%
75th Percentile £738 £739 £753
90th Percentile £961 £790 £893
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.00% -
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% +0.67%
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% +0.67%

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 36,902 22,811 32,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 91.37% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,326 14,743 20,763
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,306 1,092 2,399
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.25 £61.47
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.88 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -73 104 £675 +3.85% 107
South East -42 37 £639 -7.09% 48
North of England -70 37 £493 -8.70% 51
North West -41 20 £500 -7.15% 33
Midlands -48 20 £559 +13.88% 16
Yorkshire -48 16 £492 -18.00% 12
South West -21 14 £550 +22.22% 20
West Midlands -52 12 £559 -8.73% 6
East of England -24 11 £510 -21.54% 18
East Midlands -15 8 £637 +40.83% 10
North East - 1 - - 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 3 (1.29%) Confluence
2 2 (0.86%) Apache
2 2 (0.86%) Camunda
2 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.86%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.45%) SAP CO
1 8 (3.45%) SAP FI
1 8 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.86%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.02%) Azure
2 45 (19.40%) AWS
3 31 (13.36%) SaaS
4 20 (8.62%) GCP
5 14 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.60%) IaaS
6 13 (5.60%) PaaS
7 5 (2.16%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.72%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.29%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.86%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.86%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Blueworks
11 1 (0.43%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.60%) LAN
2 9 (3.88%) Firewall
2 9 (3.88%) WAN
3 4 (1.72%) VSAN
4 3 (1.29%) BGP
4 3 (1.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.29%) Network Security
4 3 (1.29%) OSPF
4 3 (1.29%) VLAN
4 3 (1.29%) VPN
5 2 (0.86%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.86%) MPLS
5 2 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.86%) SAN
5 2 (0.86%) SSL
5 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.86%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.43%) HTTP
6 1 (0.43%) TETRA
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.16%) Power BI
2 4 (1.72%) Metadata
3 3 (1.29%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.43%) GIS
5 1 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.43%) Stardog
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
5 1 (0.43%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Jaeger
1 4 (1.72%) JIRA
2 2 (0.86%) Postman
3 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.43%) JMeter
3 1 (0.43%) JUnit
3 1 (0.43%) Maven
3 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.43%) Selenium
3 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.43%) TestNG
3 1 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 72 (31.03%) Finance
2 67 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.48%) Banking
5 16 (6.90%) Financial Institution
6 14 (6.03%) Legal
7 12 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (4.74%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.45%) Military
10 6 (2.59%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.16%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Retail
12 4 (1.72%) Marketing
12 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.29%) Local Government
14 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 93 (40.09%) Architect
2 30 (12.93%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (10.78%) Technical Architect
4 21 (9.05%) Senior
5 19 (8.19%) Lead
6 16 (6.90%) Enterprise Architect
7 10 (4.31%) Network Architect
8 9 (3.88%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.45%) IT Manager
10 7 (3.02%) Analyst
10 7 (3.02%) PMO Manager
10 7 (3.02%) PMO Project Manager
10 7 (3.02%) SAP Manager
10 7 (3.02%) SAP Project Manager
11 6 (2.59%) Developer
11 6 (2.59%) SAP PMO Manager
11 6 (2.59%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.16%) Product Owner
12 5 (2.16%) Voice Design Engineer
12 5 (2.16%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.76%) Middleware
2 11 (4.74%) REST
3 6 (2.59%) SOAP
4 5 (2.16%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.16%) Kafka
5 4 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.72%) React
5 4 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.29%) OAuth
6 3 (1.29%) SAML
7 2 (0.86%) CrewAI
7 2 (0.86%) LangGraph
7 2 (0.86%) Node.js
7 2 (0.86%) Vue
8 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.43%) Framer.js
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.43%) Playwright
8 1 (0.43%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.43%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.91%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.60%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.59%) PKI
7 6 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.16%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.16%) CMDB
8 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.16%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) CCTV
10 3 (1.29%) SCADA
11 2 (0.86%) Blog
11 2 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.90%) Linux
2 9 (3.88%) Windows
3 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Solaris
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (69.83%) Technology Strategy
2 89 (38.36%) Roadmaps
3 58 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 51 (21.98%) Agile
5 50 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (21.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 46 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (16.81%) Business Strategy
8 39 (16.81%) DevOps
8 39 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (16.38%) AI
10 37 (15.95%) Cybersecurity
11 35 (15.09%) TOGAF
12 34 (14.66%) Decision-Making
13 31 (13.36%) CI/CD
13 31 (13.36%) Microservices
14 28 (12.07%) Integration Patterns
14 28 (12.07%) Migration
15 26 (11.21%) Strategic Roadmap
15 26 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.33%) SQL
2 14 (6.03%) Python
3 13 (5.60%) Java
4 7 (3.02%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.16%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.72%) Rust
7 2 (0.86%) C#
7 2 (0.86%) Go
8 1 (0.43%) C
8 1 (0.43%) C++
8 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 53 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.21%) Degree
4 17 (7.33%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.59%) CCNP
6 6 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.72%) MCSE
9 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) ACCA
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CISM
10 1 (0.43%) CISSP
10 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.60%) NIST
2 12 (5.17%) GDPR
3 11 (4.74%) NCSC
4 9 (3.88%) PMO
5 8 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (3.02%) QA
7 5 (2.16%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.29%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.86%) ITGC
10 1 (0.43%) COBIT
10 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.43%) PSD2
10 1 (0.43%) RMADS
10 1 (0.43%) SEPA
10 1 (0.43%) TARGET2
System Software
1 9 (3.88%) Docker
2 7 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.59%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.86%) Firmware
6 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.02%) Terraform
3 5 (2.16%) Grafana
4 4 (1.72%) Ansible
4 4 (1.72%) Kiali
4 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 37 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.03%) VMware
3 13 (5.60%) Cisco
3 13 (5.60%) SAP
4 10 (4.31%) Google
5 9 (3.88%) BiZZdesign
6 8 (3.45%) F5
7 7 (3.02%) Oracle
8 6 (2.59%) Juniper
9 5 (2.16%) HP
9 5 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.72%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.72%) Splunk
11 2 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.86%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.86%) Remedy
11 2 (0.86%) Vermilion
11 2 (0.86%) Workday
245 IT Strategy jobs in England