IT Strategy Contracts in England

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 281 343
Rank change year-on-year -9 +62 -37
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 210 298 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.80% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.93% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 216 261
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £621 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -4.46% -
75th Percentile £738 £756 £750
90th Percentile £790 £889 £875
UK median daily rate £575 £626 £615
% change year-on-year -8.07% +1.71% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £26.01 £17.64 £22.86
25th Percentile £38.34 £19.72 £25.27
Median hourly rate £58.90 £23.31 £29.92
Median % change year-on-year +152.66% -22.09% +13.98%
75th Percentile £79.45 £26.78 £33.94
90th Percentile £91.78 £28.78 £35.98
UK median hourly rate £58.90 £23.31 £29.92
% change year-on-year +152.66% -22.09% +70.97%

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 24,122 31,895 43,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.96% 85.58% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,512 20,709 30,160
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 2,293 1,566
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.12 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%
75th Percentile £54.94 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.10 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in England.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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 +22 119 £650 +10.64% 743
North of England -12 34 £539 -17.15% 223
North West -14 24 £537 -11.28% 139
South East +19 22 £650 +11.49% 186
Midlands -4 15 £501 -28.50% 123
East of England +29 11 £650 +44.44% 101
Yorkshire +9 10 £600 -5.66% 68
East Midlands +1 9 £487 +6.95% 49
West Midlands -4 5 £600 -20.00% 73
South West +10 3 £513 -30.27% 88
IT Strategy
UK

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.48%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.43%) Endur
3 3 (1.43%) Maximo
4 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.48%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.71%) Azure
2 42 (20.00%) AWS
3 35 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (12.38%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.57%) GCP
6 13 (6.19%) PaaS
6 13 (6.19%) SaaS
7 11 (5.24%) GitHub
8 10 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.29%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (3.81%) IaaS
11 7 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.38%) Serverless
13 4 (1.90%) Asana
14 3 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.43%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.24%) WAN
2 10 (4.76%) LAN
3 7 (3.33%) VPN
4 6 (2.86%) Firewall
5 4 (1.90%) BGP
5 4 (1.90%) MPLS
5 4 (1.90%) Network Security
5 4 (1.90%) OSPF
5 4 (1.90%) SSL
5 4 (1.90%) VLAN
6 3 (1.43%) DNS
6 3 (1.43%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.95%) Internet
7 2 (0.95%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.48%) NAS
8 1 (0.48%) SAN
8 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.43%) Big Data
2 3 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (1.43%) Power BI
3 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.48%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.48%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.48%) Looker
4 1 (0.48%) Metadata
4 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (4.29%) CircleCI
2 5 (2.38%) JIRA
3 3 (1.43%) Hudson
4 2 (0.95%) Git
4 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.48%) JUnit
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 83 (39.52%) Social Skills
2 71 (33.81%) Finance
3 29 (13.81%) Banking
4 19 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (5.24%) Back Office
8 10 (4.76%) Retail
9 6 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.38%) Legal
10 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.43%) Automotive
12 3 (1.43%) Military
12 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 115 (54.76%) Architect
2 31 (14.76%) Technical Architect
3 30 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 28 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (11.43%) Senior
6 13 (6.19%) Lead
6 13 (6.19%) Senior Architect
7 12 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (4.29%) Analyst
8 9 (4.29%) IT Support
8 9 (4.29%) Senior Technical Architect
9 8 (3.81%) Azure Architect
9 8 (3.81%) Consultant
10 6 (2.86%) Designer
10 6 (2.86%) IT Director
11 5 (2.38%) Lead Architect
11 5 (2.38%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.38%) Support Officer
11 5 (2.38%) Technical Consultant
12 4 (1.90%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.10%) Middleware
2 8 (3.81%) .NET
3 7 (3.33%) REST
4 6 (2.86%) JSON
4 6 (2.86%) XML
5 5 (2.38%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.38%) LDAP
5 5 (2.38%) SAML
6 4 (1.90%) CSS
6 4 (1.90%) HTML
6 4 (1.90%) JDBC
6 4 (1.90%) ODBC
6 4 (1.90%) React
6 4 (1.90%) SOAP
6 4 (1.90%) Web Services
7 3 (1.43%) Kafka
7 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.43%) Node.js
8 2 (0.95%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.95%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.10%) Public Cloud
2 13 (6.19%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.33%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.38%) NHS
7 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.43%) Blog
8 3 (1.43%) EPoS
8 3 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.43%) PKI
9 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.95%) CCTV
9 2 (0.95%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.00%) Windows
2 13 (6.19%) Linux
3 8 (3.81%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.90%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (55.71%) Technology Strategy
2 95 (45.24%) Roadmaps
3 51 (24.29%) Business Strategy
4 45 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (20.48%) Agile
5 43 (20.48%) Strategic Roadmap
6 41 (19.52%) Enterprise Architecture
7 39 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (16.67%) Microservices
9 32 (15.24%) TOGAF
10 26 (12.38%) DevOps
11 23 (10.95%) ITIL
11 23 (10.95%) Migration
11 23 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (10.00%) Analytics
12 21 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (10.00%) CI/CD
13 20 (9.52%) Decision-Making
13 20 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (9.52%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.00%) Java
2 10 (4.76%) TypeScript
3 9 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.29%) Python
4 8 (3.81%) Bash
4 8 (3.81%) Kotlin
5 7 (3.33%) SQL
6 6 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.38%) C#
8 3 (1.43%) Bicep
9 2 (0.95%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (9.52%) Degree
2 19 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (4.29%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.90%) CCIE
8 4 (1.90%) CCNP
8 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Citrix Certification
8 4 (1.90%) JNCIE
8 4 (1.90%) SAP Certification
9 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.43%) CISM
9 3 (1.43%) CISSP
9 3 (1.43%) PMP
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.19%) GDPR
3 9 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.38%) NIST
5 4 (1.90%) PMO
5 4 (1.90%) QA
6 3 (1.43%) HL7
6 3 (1.43%) SLA
7 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.48%) COBIT
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.48%) DICOM
8 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (10.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.90%) Docker
4 3 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (9.52%) Terraform
2 16 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.81%) Grafana
4 8 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.38%) Ansible
5 5 (2.38%) SCCM
5 5 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 53 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.62%) SAP
3 10 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 10 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.81%) Databricks
4 8 (3.81%) Oracle
5 7 (3.33%) Cisco
5 7 (3.33%) Citrix
5 7 (3.33%) VMware
6 5 (2.38%) Google
6 5 (2.38%) OpenText
6 5 (2.38%) Qualtrics
6 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.90%) Apple
7 4 (1.90%) F5
7 4 (1.90%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.43%) Workday
9 2 (0.95%) Cerner
9 2 (0.95%) Hitachi