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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 314 277
Rank change year-on-year -75 -37 +51
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 251 209 286
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.76% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.84% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 120 204
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £493 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -5.77% +2.97%
75th Percentile £719 £738 £769
90th Percentile £883 £790 £918
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.61% -11.54% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.01 £17.64
25th Percentile £72.25 £38.34 £19.72
Median hourly rate £98.82 £58.90 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year +67.79% +152.66% -22.09%
75th Percentile £100.00 £79.45 £26.78
90th Percentile £100.50 £91.78 £28.78
UK median hourly rate £98.82 £17.79 £23.31
% change year-on-year +455.48% -23.68% -22.09%

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 38,601 25,022 29,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.73% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,205 16,045 19,444
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £421 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,390 1,351 1,859
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -78 112 £615 -5.38% 212
South East -53 42 £638 -4.67% 72
North of England -78 33 £520 -3.44% 51
North West -48 23 £500 -6.89% 26
Midlands -41 22 £600 +17.02% 32
South West -19 21 £550 +7.32% 32
West Midlands -42 15 £600 -11.11% 16
East of England -27 11 £510 -21.54% 20
Yorkshire -47 9 £535 -10.83% 19
East Midlands -15 7 £828 +70.05% 16
North East - 1 - - 6
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 2 (0.80%) Camunda
1 2 (0.80%) Confluence
1 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.40%) Apache
2 1 (0.40%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.40%) IIS
2 1 (0.40%) nginx
2 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.19%) SAP CO
1 8 (3.19%) SAP FI
1 8 (3.19%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.20%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.29%) Azure
2 49 (19.52%) AWS
3 27 (10.76%) SaaS
4 23 (9.16%) GCP
5 18 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.98%) IaaS
6 15 (5.98%) PaaS
7 7 (2.79%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.79%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (1.59%) Serverless
10 3 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.80%) Datadog
11 2 (0.80%) GitHub
11 2 (0.80%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.80%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.98%) Firewall
1 15 (5.98%) LAN
2 11 (4.38%) WAN
3 8 (3.19%) DHCP
3 8 (3.19%) DNS
3 8 (3.19%) VSAN
4 6 (2.39%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.99%) VLAN
5 5 (1.99%) VPN
6 4 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (1.59%) SAN
6 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.20%) BGP
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.20%) OSPF
8 2 (0.80%) 4G
8 2 (0.80%) MPLS
8 2 (0.80%) Network Security
8 2 (0.80%) SSL
8 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.39%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.99%) Power BI
3 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.59%) GIS
3 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.20%) Metadata
4 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.80%) Tableau
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.40%) Redis
6 1 (0.40%) Stardog
6 1 (0.40%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 3 (1.20%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.80%) Postman
3 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.40%) JMeter
3 1 (0.40%) JUnit
3 1 (0.40%) Maven
3 1 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.40%) Selenium
3 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.40%) TestNG
3 1 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 71 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 66 (26.29%) Finance
3 45 (17.93%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.97%) Banking
6 16 (6.37%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (6.37%) Legal
7 12 (4.78%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.98%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.19%) Military
9 8 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.79%) Marketing
11 5 (1.99%) Local Government
11 5 (1.99%) Retail
12 4 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.20%) Billing
14 2 (0.80%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (42.63%) Architect
2 39 (15.54%) Solutions Architect
3 26 (10.36%) Lead
4 24 (9.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 22 (8.76%) Technical Architect
6 21 (8.37%) Senior
7 10 (3.98%) IT Manager
7 10 (3.98%) Network Architect
7 10 (3.98%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (2.79%) Consultant
9 7 (2.79%) PMO Manager
9 7 (2.79%) PMO Project Manager
9 7 (2.79%) SAP Manager
9 7 (2.79%) SAP Project Manager
10 6 (2.39%) Analyst
10 6 (2.39%) Chief Technology Officer
10 6 (2.39%) Developer
10 6 (2.39%) SAP PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.98%) Middleware
2 12 (4.78%) REST
3 9 (3.59%) SOAP
4 4 (1.59%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.20%) Kafka
5 3 (1.20%) Node.js
5 3 (1.20%) OAuth
5 3 (1.20%) React
5 3 (1.20%) SAML
6 2 (0.80%) .NET
6 2 (0.80%) EDI
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.80%) RESTful
7 1 (0.40%) Framer.js
7 1 (0.40%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.40%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.40%) Playwright
7 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.40%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.17%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.58%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.38%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.59%) PKI
6 8 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.79%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.39%) CMDB
8 6 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.20%) CCTV
11 3 (1.20%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.20%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.37%) Linux
2 15 (5.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Solaris
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (71.31%) Technology Strategy
2 98 (39.04%) Roadmaps
3 61 (24.30%) Enterprise Architecture
4 53 (21.12%) Agile
5 51 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 48 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (18.33%) AI
9 42 (16.73%) Cybersecurity
10 41 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (15.94%) Business Strategy
12 38 (15.14%) DevOps
13 37 (14.74%) Decision-Making
13 37 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
13 37 (14.74%) TOGAF
14 34 (13.55%) Migration
15 31 (12.35%) Microservices
16 29 (11.55%) CI/CD
16 29 (11.55%) Integration Patterns
16 29 (11.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.97%) Python
2 13 (5.18%) SQL
3 9 (3.59%) Java
4 8 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.39%) Bash
7 5 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.20%) Go
9 2 (0.80%) C#
10 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.40%) Korn
10 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.96%) Degree
4 23 (9.16%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (2.39%) CCNP
6 6 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.59%) MCSE
9 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.20%) VCAP
10 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.80%) CISM
10 2 (0.80%) CISSP
10 2 (0.80%) ISACA
10 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.40%) ACCA
11 1 (0.40%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.78%) NCSC
2 11 (4.38%) PMO
3 10 (3.98%) NIST
4 9 (3.59%) GDPR
5 7 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.79%) QA
6 5 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.20%) SLA
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.80%) ITGC
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.40%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) TARGET2
System Software
1 13 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.98%) Docker
2 10 (3.98%) VMware NSX
3 9 (3.59%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.59%) vSphere
6 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.80%) Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.38%) Terraform
3 10 (3.98%) Ansible
4 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.20%) VxRail
6 2 (0.80%) SCCM
7 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.40%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 45 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.37%) SAP
3 19 (7.57%) VMware
4 14 (5.58%) Google
5 13 (5.18%) Cisco
6 9 (3.59%) BiZZdesign
7 8 (3.19%) F5
8 7 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.39%) Juniper
10 5 (1.99%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.59%) HP
11 4 (1.59%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.59%) Oracle
11 4 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.20%) BMC
12 3 (1.20%) Remedy
13 2 (0.80%) Ariba
13 2 (0.80%) Dell
13 2 (0.80%) Forcepoint
13 2 (0.80%) Fortinet