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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 312 266
Rank change year-on-year -50 -46 +84
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 228 172 318
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.71% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.77% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 98 224
10th Percentile £413 £413 £400
25th Percentile £479 £503 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +9.31% -8.51%
75th Percentile £716 £750 £738
90th Percentile £951 £800 £846
UK median daily rate £560 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £26.52 - -
25th Percentile £37.39 - -
Median hourly rate £74.75 £100.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +232.01% +20.88%
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £94.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.75 £100.00 £30.12
% change year-on-year -25.25% +232.01% -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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -37 108 £606 -4.90% 104
North of England -42 42 £492 -21.28% 50
South East -39 35 £640 -6.91% 58
North West -38 22 £492 -18.00% 28
Midlands -56 22 £542 -11.51% 33
Yorkshire -42 19 £487 +36.77% 15
East Midlands -18 12 £536 - 15
West Midlands -51 10 £542 -11.51% 18
East of England -34 9 £600 -4.00% 34
South West -37 5 £713 +14.00% 19
North East -20 1 - - 7
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 (3.07%) Confluence
2 5 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) CMS
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) Camunda
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.88%) SAS
4 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 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 3 (1.32%) SAP CO
1 3 (1.32%) SAP FI
1 3 (1.32%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (29.39%) Azure
2 49 (21.49%) AWS
3 29 (12.72%) SaaS
4 20 (8.77%) GCP
4 20 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.26%) IaaS
6 11 (4.82%) PaaS
7 7 (3.07%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.63%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.32%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.32%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.88%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.88%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.88%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.88%) Serverless
11 2 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.44%) GitHub
12 1 (0.44%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.14%) Firewall
2 9 (3.95%) LAN
3 6 (2.63%) Network Security
3 6 (2.63%) WAN
4 5 (2.19%) VSAN
5 4 (1.75%) DHCP
5 4 (1.75%) DNS
5 4 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.88%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.88%) SAN
7 2 (0.88%) VPN
8 1 (0.44%) BGP
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.44%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.44%) OSPF
8 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.44%) SSL
8 1 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.19%) Power BI
2 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.32%) Metadata
3 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.44%) Looker
4 1 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.44%) Stardog
4 1 (0.44%) Tableau
4 1 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (3.95%) JIRA
2 8 (3.51%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 76 (33.33%) Finance
2 69 (30.26%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.33%) Banking
6 16 (7.02%) Financial Institution
7 13 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.70%) Legal
8 9 (3.95%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.63%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.63%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.75%) Marketing
12 2 (0.88%) Aviation
12 2 (0.88%) Back Office
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (40.79%) Architect
2 27 (11.84%) Senior
2 27 (11.84%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (10.96%) Technical Architect
4 17 (7.46%) Lead
5 15 (6.58%) Analyst
6 11 (4.82%) Network Architect
7 10 (4.39%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (3.51%) Business Analyst
8 8 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (3.51%) Product Owner
9 7 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 6 (2.63%) Consultant
10 6 (2.63%) Head of IT
10 6 (2.63%) Project Manager
10 6 (2.63%) Senior Architect
10 6 (2.63%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.19%) Chief Technology Officer
11 5 (2.19%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.89%) Middleware
2 9 (3.95%) Kafka
3 8 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (3.51%) REST
3 8 (3.51%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.75%) OAuth
4 4 (1.75%) SOAP
5 3 (1.32%) LangGraph
5 3 (1.32%) React
5 3 (1.32%) SAML
6 2 (0.88%) .NET
6 2 (0.88%) CrewAI
6 2 (0.88%) JSON
6 2 (0.88%) RESTful
6 2 (0.88%) Vue
7 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.44%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.44%) WebGL
7 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.65%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.58%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.14%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.51%) PKI
7 7 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.19%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.19%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.75%) SCADA
10 3 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.88%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.53%) Linux
2 19 (8.33%) Windows
3 5 (2.19%) Mac OS
3 5 (2.19%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.88%) Solaris
5 2 (0.88%) Unix
5 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (69.30%) Technology Strategy
2 82 (35.96%) Roadmaps
3 59 (25.88%) Enterprise Architecture
4 58 (25.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 54 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (21.93%) Business Strategy
7 49 (21.49%) Agile
8 47 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (17.98%) DevOps
10 39 (17.11%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (14.91%) AI
12 32 (14.04%) Decision-Making
12 32 (14.04%) Microservices
13 31 (13.60%) Analytics
13 31 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (13.16%) CI/CD
14 30 (13.16%) Migration
15 26 (11.40%) TOGAF
16 25 (10.96%) Data Modelling
17 24 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.02%) SQL
2 15 (6.58%) Python
3 13 (5.70%) Java
4 11 (4.82%) PowerShell
5 9 (3.95%) Bash
6 8 (3.51%) Rust
7 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.88%) R
9 1 (0.44%) C
9 1 (0.44%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) C++
9 1 (0.44%) Perl
9 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.72%) Degree
4 12 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.75%) CCNP
8 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.75%) MCSE
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.44%) CCNA
11 1 (0.44%) CFA
11 1 (0.44%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.02%) GDPR
2 14 (6.14%) NIST
3 12 (5.26%) NCSC
4 10 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.75%) Def Stans
6 4 (1.75%) QA
7 3 (1.32%) PMO
7 3 (1.32%) SLA
8 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.88%) ITGC
8 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) PSD2
9 1 (0.44%) RMADS
9 1 (0.44%) TARGET2
System Software
1 18 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (6.14%) Docker
3 11 (4.82%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.63%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.95%) Grafana
3 8 (3.51%) Kiali
3 8 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.07%) Ansible
5 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.63%) SCCM
5 6 (2.63%) Terraform
6 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.44%) SCOM
6 1 (0.44%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.72%) VMware
3 12 (5.26%) Cisco
3 12 (5.26%) Google
4 11 (4.82%) SAP
5 9 (3.95%) Oracle
6 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.51%) Splunk
7 6 (2.63%) F5
7 6 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.19%) Citrix
8 5 (2.19%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.75%) Juniper
9 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.32%) Ariba
10 3 (1.32%) HP
10 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.32%) Workday
11 2 (0.88%) Dell
11 2 (0.88%) Red Hat