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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 272 302
Rank change year-on-year -55 +30 +49
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 233 260 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.84% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.97% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 154 204
10th Percentile £460 £472 £413
25th Percentile £500 £525 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £634 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -2.50% +1.97%
75th Percentile £734 £775 £750
90th Percentile £820 £825 £918
UK median daily rate £609 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.08% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.33 £27.25
25th Percentile - £21.44 £36.25
Median hourly rate £17.79 £26.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.50% -49.05% +210.01%
75th Percentile - £31.94 £58.13
90th Percentile - £34.98 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £16.56 £26.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.09% -49.05% +210.01%

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 27,308 26,910 34,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.41% 86.73% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,359 16,435 23,883
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,779 970 1,470
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.70 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.87 £74.04 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 +34 130 £665 -5.00% 201
North of England -32 39 £531 -13.13% 45
North West -23 27 £536 -10.75% 27
Midlands -57 20 £500 -11.66% 51
South East -40 16 £503 -15.90% 92
East of England -8 12 £650 +22.07% 28
Yorkshire -26 12 £484 -22.27% 17
West Midlands -41 11 £500 -19.64% 29
East Midlands -18 9 £492 +8.13% 21
South West -18 6 £600 -18.37% 34
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 6 (2.58%) SAS
2 5 (2.15%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.86%) CMS
5 2 (0.86%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.15%) Endur
3 2 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.86%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.43%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.76%) Azure
2 65 (27.90%) AWS
3 34 (14.59%) GCP
4 24 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.87%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.29%) SaaS
7 8 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (3.00%) GitHub
8 7 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.15%) PaaS
10 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.72%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.29%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.29%) IaaS
11 3 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.43%) Firewall
2 7 (3.00%) VPN
3 6 (2.58%) LAN
3 6 (2.58%) WAN
4 5 (2.15%) BGP
4 5 (2.15%) MPLS
4 5 (2.15%) Network Security
4 5 (2.15%) OSPF
4 5 (2.15%) VLAN
5 4 (1.72%) DHCP
5 4 (1.72%) DNS
6 3 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.29%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.29%) IPv4
6 3 (1.29%) IPv6
6 3 (1.29%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.29%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.29%) Wireless
6 3 (1.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.58%) Power BI
3 5 (2.15%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.15%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (1.29%) Metadata
6 2 (0.86%) Big Data
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.43%) AlloyDB
7 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.43%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.43%) Looker
7 1 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.58%) CircleCI
1 6 (2.58%) Git
2 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.72%) JIRA
3 2 (0.86%) GoCD
3 2 (0.86%) Hudson
3 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 81 (34.76%) Finance
2 71 (30.47%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.87%) Banking
6 16 (6.87%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.58%) Legal
8 10 (4.29%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.86%) Back Office
9 9 (3.86%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.15%) Retail
12 4 (1.72%) Automotive
12 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.29%) Local Government
13 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.86%) Law
14 2 (0.86%) Marketing
14 2 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 125 (53.65%) Architect
2 40 (17.17%) Solutions Architect
3 28 (12.02%) Senior
4 24 (10.30%) Enterprise Architect
5 23 (9.87%) Technical Architect
6 19 (8.15%) Security Architect
7 18 (7.73%) Lead
8 16 (6.87%) Senior Architect
9 13 (5.58%) Consultant
10 10 (4.29%) Analyst
10 10 (4.29%) Developer
11 9 (3.86%) Lead Architect
12 8 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 8 (3.43%) Product Owner
12 8 (3.43%) Senior Technical Architect
13 7 (3.00%) Azure Architect
13 7 (3.00%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.58%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.58%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 5 (2.15%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.72%) REST
2 10 (4.29%) .NET
3 9 (3.86%) Middleware
4 7 (3.00%) React
5 6 (2.58%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.15%) Kafka
6 5 (2.15%) NumPy
6 5 (2.15%) Pandas
6 5 (2.15%) Plotly
6 5 (2.15%) Web Services
7 4 (1.72%) JSON
7 4 (1.72%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.72%) Swagger
8 3 (1.29%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.29%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.29%) SciPy
8 3 (1.29%) Statsmodels
9 2 (0.86%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.72%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.58%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.15%) NHS
7 5 (2.15%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.15%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.72%) Grid Computing
8 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.30%) Windows
2 11 (4.72%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.00%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.58%) Linux
5 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.86%) Android
6 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (60.52%) Technology Strategy
2 89 (38.20%) Roadmaps
3 64 (27.47%) Business Strategy
4 48 (20.60%) Enterprise Architecture
5 46 (19.74%) Agile
6 45 (19.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (15.45%) Strategic Roadmap
9 34 (14.59%) Microservices
10 33 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (13.30%) Decision-Making
12 30 (12.88%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (12.88%) TOGAF
13 29 (12.45%) CI/CD
14 27 (11.59%) DevOps
15 26 (11.16%) Analytics
15 26 (11.16%) ITIL
16 25 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (10.30%) AI
18 21 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.44%) Python
2 16 (6.87%) Java
3 15 (6.44%) SQL
4 11 (4.72%) Bash
4 11 (4.72%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.29%) C#
5 10 (4.29%) R
6 7 (3.00%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.72%) Bicep
9 2 (0.86%) Go
9 2 (0.86%) Rust
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) C++
10 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.16%) Degree
3 18 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.29%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.29%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.00%) CISSP
6 7 (3.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.15%) CCIE
8 5 (2.15%) CCNP
8 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.72%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (1.72%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.29%) CCSP
10 3 (1.29%) CISM
10 3 (1.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.44%) GDPR
2 16 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.58%) NIST
5 5 (2.15%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.29%) HL7
8 2 (0.86%) COBIT
8 2 (0.86%) PMO
8 2 (0.86%) QA
9 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.43%) DICOM
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.43%) MiFID
9 1 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (6.87%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.86%) Docker
4 4 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (10.73%) Terraform
2 18 (7.73%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.72%) Ansible
5 9 (3.86%) SCCM
6 6 (2.58%) Grafana
6 6 (2.58%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.86%) rkt
Vendors
1 51 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.30%) VMware
3 9 (3.86%) Citrix
3 9 (3.86%) Oracle
4 8 (3.43%) CyberArk
4 8 (3.43%) Darktrace
4 8 (3.43%) Splunk
5 7 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.58%) Cisco
6 6 (2.58%) Pega
7 5 (2.15%) F5
7 5 (2.15%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.15%) Google
7 5 (2.15%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.15%) SAP
7 5 (2.15%) Workday
8 4 (1.72%) Apple
8 4 (1.72%) Databricks
8 4 (1.72%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.72%) Temenos