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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 297 269
Rank change year-on-year -83 -28 +76
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 221 174 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.72% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.78% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 99 220
10th Percentile £413 £413 £400
25th Percentile £466 £506 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £650 £589
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +10.33% -9.36%
75th Percentile £747 £750 £738
90th Percentile £959 £792 £839
UK median daily rate £559 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.56% +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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -48 103 £588 -9.62% 76
North of England -49 42 £492 -14.43% 33
South East -46 35 £640 -6.91% 48
North West -34 22 £492 -10.55% 21
Midlands -41 22 £542 -11.51% 21
Yorkshire -39 19 £487 +36.77% 8
East Midlands -22 12 £536 - 6
West Midlands -59 10 £542 -11.51% 15
East of England -30 7 £650 +4.00% 24
South West -34 6 £750 +20.00% 16
North East -18 1 - - 4
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 (3.17%) Confluence
2 5 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) Camunda
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.90%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) SAP CO
1 3 (1.36%) SAP FI
1 3 (1.36%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (28.05%) Azure
2 44 (19.91%) AWS
3 29 (13.12%) SaaS
4 19 (8.60%) GCP
4 19 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.43%) IaaS
5 12 (5.43%) PaaS
6 7 (3.17%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.71%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.36%) Google Gemini
9 3 (1.36%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.90%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.90%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.90%) Serverless
10 2 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.45%) GitHub
11 1 (0.45%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.88%) Firewall
2 9 (4.07%) LAN
3 6 (2.71%) Network Security
3 6 (2.71%) WAN
4 5 (2.26%) VSAN
5 4 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.36%) DHCP
6 3 (1.36%) DNS
6 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.90%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.90%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.90%) SAN
8 1 (0.45%) BGP
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.45%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.45%) OSPF
8 1 (0.45%) SSL
8 1 (0.45%) VPN
8 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.26%) Power BI
2 3 (1.36%) Metadata
3 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.45%) Looker
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.45%) Stardog
4 1 (0.45%) Tableau
4 1 (0.45%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (4.07%) JIRA
2 8 (3.62%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.90%) Postman
General
1 73 (33.03%) Finance
2 68 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.60%) Banking
5 16 (7.24%) Financial Institution
6 13 (5.88%) Legal
7 12 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.07%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.71%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.71%) Retail
10 5 (2.26%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.81%) Marketing
12 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.90%) Back Office
13 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.45%) Law
14 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (39.37%) Architect
2 27 (12.22%) Senior
3 24 (10.86%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (10.86%) Technical Architect
4 14 (6.33%) Analyst
4 14 (6.33%) Lead
5 11 (4.98%) Enterprise Architect
5 11 (4.98%) Network Architect
6 9 (4.07%) Product Owner
7 8 (3.62%) Business Analyst
7 8 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.71%) Consultant
9 6 (2.71%) Project Manager
9 6 (2.71%) Senior Architect
9 6 (2.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (2.26%) Design Engineer
10 5 (2.26%) IT Manager
10 5 (2.26%) Voice Design Engineer
10 5 (2.26%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.14%) Middleware
2 9 (4.07%) Kafka
3 8 (3.62%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (3.62%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.17%) REST
5 4 (1.81%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.81%) OAuth
6 3 (1.36%) LangGraph
6 3 (1.36%) React
6 3 (1.36%) SAML
6 3 (1.36%) SOAP
7 2 (0.90%) .NET
7 2 (0.90%) CrewAI
7 2 (0.90%) JSON
7 2 (0.90%) RESTful
7 2 (0.90%) Vue
8 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.45%) GreenSock GSAP
8 1 (0.45%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.45%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.07%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.62%) PKI
6 6 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.71%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.26%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.81%) SCADA
9 3 (1.36%) CCTV
9 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.36%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.41%) Linux
2 18 (8.14%) Windows
3 5 (2.26%) Mac OS
3 5 (2.26%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.90%) Solaris
5 2 (0.90%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (69.23%) Technology Strategy
2 81 (36.65%) Roadmaps
3 56 (25.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 55 (24.89%) Enterprise Architecture
5 51 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (21.72%) Business Strategy
7 46 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (20.36%) Agile
9 40 (18.10%) DevOps
10 37 (16.74%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (14.48%) AI
11 32 (14.48%) Decision-Making
11 32 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (14.03%) Microservices
13 29 (13.12%) CI/CD
14 27 (12.22%) Analytics
14 27 (12.22%) Migration
15 25 (11.31%) Data Modelling
15 25 (11.31%) TOGAF
16 23 (10.41%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.24%) SQL
2 14 (6.33%) Python
3 13 (5.88%) Java
4 10 (4.52%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.07%) Bash
6 8 (3.62%) Rust
7 3 (1.36%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) C++
8 1 (0.45%) Perl
8 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.45%) R
8 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.22%) Degree
4 12 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.81%) CCNP
7 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.81%) MCSE
7 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.45%) CCNA
9 1 (0.45%) CFA
9 1 (0.45%) ISSMP
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.79%) GDPR
2 14 (6.33%) NIST
3 12 (5.43%) NCSC
4 9 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.81%) Def Stans
6 4 (1.81%) QA
7 3 (1.36%) PMO
7 3 (1.36%) SLA
8 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.90%) ITGC
8 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) PSD2
9 1 (0.45%) RMADS
9 1 (0.45%) SEPA
9 1 (0.45%) TARGET2
System Software
1 16 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (6.33%) Docker
3 10 (4.52%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.71%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.07%) Grafana
3 8 (3.62%) Kiali
3 8 (3.62%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.71%) Ansible
4 6 (2.71%) SCCM
5 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.26%) Terraform
6 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.45%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.45%) SCOM
6 1 (0.45%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.86%) VMware
3 12 (5.43%) Cisco
3 12 (5.43%) Google
4 10 (4.52%) SAP
5 8 (3.62%) Splunk
6 7 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.71%) F5
7 6 (2.71%) Oracle
8 5 (2.26%) Citrix
8 5 (2.26%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.81%) Juniper
9 4 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.36%) HP
10 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.36%) Workday
11 2 (0.90%) Ariba
11 2 (0.90%) Dell
11 2 (0.90%) Pure Storage