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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 300 276
Rank change year-on-year -79 -24 +21
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 270 213 260
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.78% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.86% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 124 182
10th Percentile £413 £450 £445
25th Percentile £512 £500 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £753 £736 £769
90th Percentile £950 £809 £874
UK median daily rate £608 £575 £660
% change year-on-year +5.65% -12.88% +1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £98.29 £26.01 £17.64
25th Percentile £98.82 £38.34 £19.72
Median hourly rate £100.00 £58.90 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year +69.79% +152.66% -37.57%
75th Percentile - £79.45 £26.78
90th Percentile £101.00 £91.78 £28.78
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £17.79 £23.31
% change year-on-year +462.11% -23.68% -37.57%

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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 September 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
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 3 September 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 -58 132 £650 - 546
South East -45 41 £650 - 105
North of England -56 35 £550 +2.14% 129
South West -14 28 £638 +24.39% 77
North West -50 19 £600 +12.73% 77
Midlands -50 16 £625 +26.01% 44
Yorkshire -34 15 £550 -16.82% 44
East of England -24 10 £510 -21.54% 57
West Midlands -48 9 £600 +19.94% 26
East Midlands -21 7 £675 +38.71% 18
North East - 1 - - 8
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 (1.11%) Confluence
2 2 (0.74%) Camunda
2 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.37%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.37%) IIS
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) nginx
3 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) SAP CO
1 6 (2.22%) SAP FI
1 6 (2.22%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.11%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 86 (31.85%) Azure
2 47 (17.41%) AWS
3 28 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (10.00%) SaaS
5 26 (9.63%) GCP
6 15 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 14 (5.19%) PaaS
8 13 (4.81%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.81%) IaaS
9 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (2.96%) Serverless
11 6 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.48%) Datadog
12 4 (1.48%) GitHub
13 3 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.11%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.04%) Firewall
2 13 (4.81%) LAN
3 11 (4.07%) DHCP
3 11 (4.07%) DNS
3 11 (4.07%) WAN
4 8 (2.96%) VSAN
5 7 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.59%) VLAN
6 6 (2.22%) VPN
6 6 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.85%) SAN
8 4 (1.48%) Radio Access Network
9 3 (1.11%) BGP
9 3 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.11%) OSPF
10 2 (0.74%) 4G
10 2 (0.74%) MPLS
10 2 (0.74%) Network Security
10 2 (0.74%) SSL
10 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.59%) Metadata
2 7 (2.59%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.48%) GIS
4 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.48%) Power BI
5 2 (0.74%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.74%) EDRMS
5 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.37%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.37%) Stardog
6 1 (0.37%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 5 (1.85%) JIRA
2 4 (1.48%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.37%) JMeter
3 1 (0.37%) JUnit
3 1 (0.37%) Maven
3 1 (0.37%) Postman
3 1 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.37%) Selenium
3 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.37%) TestNG
3 1 (0.37%) TestRail
General
1 94 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 72 (26.67%) Finance
3 44 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
6 23 (8.52%) Banking
7 16 (5.93%) Legal
8 12 (4.44%) Military
9 11 (4.07%) Financial Institution
9 11 (4.07%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.96%) Marketing
12 7 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.59%) Retail
13 6 (2.22%) Local Government
14 4 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (1.11%) Billing
15 3 (1.11%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (43.70%) Architect
2 46 (17.04%) Solutions Architect
3 34 (12.59%) Lead
4 33 (12.22%) Enterprise Architect
5 24 (8.89%) Technical Architect
6 22 (8.15%) Senior
7 11 (4.07%) Consultant
8 10 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (2.96%) Analyst
10 8 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.96%) IT Manager
10 8 (2.96%) Project Manager
10 8 (2.96%) Senior Architect
11 7 (2.59%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.59%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.59%) Network Manager
12 6 (2.22%) PMO Project Manager
12 6 (2.22%) SAP PMO Manager
12 6 (2.22%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.56%) Middleware
2 14 (5.19%) Terraform
3 12 (4.44%) REST
4 8 (2.96%) SOAP
5 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.48%) .NET
6 4 (1.48%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.48%) Node.js
7 3 (1.11%) Kafka
8 2 (0.74%) CSS
8 2 (0.74%) EDI
8 2 (0.74%) HTML
8 2 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.74%) OAuth
8 2 (0.74%) React
8 2 (0.74%) RESTful
9 1 (0.37%) FHIR
9 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.37%) Playwright
9 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.52%) Product Ownership
2 22 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.07%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.33%) PKI
7 8 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.59%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.22%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.85%) CMDB
11 4 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.11%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.30%) Windows
2 16 (5.93%) Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Solaris
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (75.56%) Technology Strategy
2 119 (44.07%) Roadmaps
3 79 (29.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 75 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
5 62 (22.96%) AI
6 58 (21.48%) Agile
6 58 (21.48%) Cybersecurity
7 50 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (18.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 48 (17.78%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (17.41%) Decision-Making
11 45 (16.67%) DevOps
12 42 (15.56%) Business Strategy
12 42 (15.56%) TOGAF
13 40 (14.81%) Migration
14 38 (14.07%) Architecture Governance
15 34 (12.59%) Microservices
16 33 (12.22%) CI/CD
16 33 (12.22%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.15%) Python
2 14 (5.19%) SQL
3 11 (4.07%) Java
4 9 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.59%) Bash
5 7 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.11%) C#
7 3 (1.11%) Go
8 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.37%) Bicep
9 1 (0.37%) Korn
9 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.74%) Degree
4 24 (8.89%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CCNP
8 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CISM
8 4 (1.48%) CISSP
8 4 (1.48%) VCAP
9 3 (1.11%) ISACA
9 3 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.11%) PMP
9 3 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.44%) PMO
2 8 (2.96%) NCSC
3 7 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.22%) GDPR
4 6 (2.22%) NIST
4 6 (2.22%) SLA
5 5 (1.85%) QA
6 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) COBIT
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.37%) ITGC
System Software
1 18 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.44%) Docker
4 11 (4.07%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.59%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.85%) vSphere
7 3 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.74%) Firmware
8 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.70%) Ansible
2 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.48%) SCCM
3 4 (1.48%) VxRail
4 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 63 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.52%) VMware
3 20 (7.41%) SAP
4 14 (5.19%) Google
5 11 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.96%) BiZZdesign
6 8 (2.96%) Cisco
7 7 (2.59%) Databricks
7 7 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.22%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.22%) Oracle
9 5 (1.85%) F5
9 5 (1.85%) Workday
10 4 (1.48%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.48%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.48%) Juniper
10 4 (1.48%) Tenable
11 3 (1.11%) BMC
11 3 (1.11%) HP
11 3 (1.11%) NetApp