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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 300 260
Rank change year-on-year -60 -40 +86
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 236 172 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.71% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.77% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 96 220
10th Percentile £413 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £701 £750 £738
90th Percentile £915 £800 £839
UK median daily rate £560 £627 £600
% change year-on-year -10.70% +4.42% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £26.52 - £32.23
25th Percentile £37.39 - £35.40
Median hourly rate £74.75 £100.00 £41.31
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +142.07% +143.93%
75th Percentile £84.50 - £47.84
90th Percentile £94.25 - £51.39
UK median hourly rate £74.75 £100.00 £41.31
% change year-on-year -25.25% +142.07% +143.93%

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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -29 120 £600 -14.29% 82
North of England -51 42 £485 -19.17% 43
South East -45 30 £638 -1.92% 58
Midlands -47 23 £525 -15.66% 20
Yorkshire -36 21 £481 +35.26% 15
North West -40 20 £496 -9.82% 26
West Midlands -52 14 £525 -15.66% 13
East Midlands - 9 £536 - 7
East of England -29 8 £650 +4.00% 10
South West -32 5 £650 +4.00% 15
North East -20 1 - - 2
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 (2.54%) Confluence
1 6 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.12%) Jupyter
2 5 (2.12%) SAS
3 3 (1.27%) CMS
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) Camunda
4 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) SAP CO
1 3 (1.27%) SAP FI
1 3 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.85%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 79 (33.47%) Azure
2 62 (26.27%) AWS
3 27 (11.44%) SaaS
4 26 (11.02%) GCP
5 20 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.66%) IaaS
7 10 (4.24%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.81%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.81%) PaaS
9 5 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.27%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.27%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.27%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.27%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.20%) Firewall
2 12 (5.08%) LAN
3 9 (3.81%) WAN
4 8 (3.39%) Network Security
5 7 (2.97%) DHCP
5 7 (2.97%) DNS
6 6 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.12%) VPN
8 4 (1.69%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.69%) VSAN
8 4 (1.69%) Wireless
9 3 (1.27%) BGP
9 3 (1.27%) EIGRP
9 3 (1.27%) IPv4
9 3 (1.27%) IPv6
9 3 (1.27%) MPLS
9 3 (1.27%) OSPF
9 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.27%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.81%) Power BI
2 6 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.27%) Metadata
4 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.42%) Looker
5 1 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Jaeger
1 8 (3.39%) JIRA
2 5 (2.12%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) Postman
4 1 (0.42%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (31.78%) Finance
1 75 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (13.14%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.05%) Banking
5 15 (6.36%) Financial Institution
5 15 (6.36%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (4.66%) Legal
7 8 (3.39%) Retail
8 7 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.54%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.27%) Marketing
13 2 (0.85%) Back Office
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 91 (38.56%) Architect
2 31 (13.14%) Senior
3 29 (12.29%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (8.47%) Technical Architect
5 19 (8.05%) Lead
6 18 (7.63%) Analyst
7 11 (4.66%) Product Owner
8 10 (4.24%) Enterprise Architect
8 10 (4.24%) Network Architect
9 8 (3.39%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.39%) Developer
9 8 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 7 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (2.97%) IT Manager
10 7 (2.97%) Lead Architect
10 7 (2.97%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.54%) Consultant
11 6 (2.54%) Head of IT
11 6 (2.54%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.78%) Middleware
2 13 (5.51%) REST
3 9 (3.81%) Kafka
4 8 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.39%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.12%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.12%) NumPy
5 5 (2.12%) Pandas
5 5 (2.12%) Plotly
5 5 (2.12%) Web Services
6 4 (1.69%) OAuth
6 4 (1.69%) React
7 3 (1.27%) .NET
7 3 (1.27%) LangGraph
7 3 (1.27%) SAML
7 3 (1.27%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.27%) SciPy
7 3 (1.27%) SOAP
7 3 (1.27%) Statsmodels
7 3 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.78%) Public Cloud
3 13 (5.51%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.39%) PKI
7 7 (2.97%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.12%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.12%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.69%) SCADA
11 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.75%) Linux
2 19 (8.05%) Windows
3 5 (2.12%) Mac OS
3 5 (2.12%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Solaris
5 2 (0.85%) Unix
5 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (69.92%) Technology Strategy
2 84 (35.59%) Roadmaps
3 59 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 58 (24.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (24.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 52 (22.03%) Business Strategy
7 51 (21.61%) Agile
8 43 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (17.80%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (16.10%) Decision-Making
11 36 (15.25%) Analytics
11 36 (15.25%) DevOps
12 34 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (13.98%) CI/CD
14 30 (12.71%) Migration
15 29 (12.29%) AI
15 29 (12.29%) Microservices
15 29 (12.29%) TOGAF
16 25 (10.59%) Data Modelling
16 25 (10.59%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.02%) Python
2 21 (8.90%) SQL
3 14 (5.93%) Java
4 11 (4.66%) PowerShell
5 9 (3.81%) Bash
6 8 (3.39%) Rust
7 5 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.12%) R
8 2 (0.85%) C#
9 1 (0.42%) C
9 1 (0.42%) C++
9 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.42%) Perl
9 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.42%) Swift
9 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.29%) Degree
4 11 (4.66%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.97%) CCNP
8 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.12%) CISSP
9 5 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.69%) MCSE
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.27%) CCIE
11 3 (1.27%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.27%) CCSP
11 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.63%) GDPR
2 16 (6.78%) NIST
3 11 (4.66%) NCSC
4 9 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.69%) Def Stans
6 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.27%) QA
6 3 (1.27%) SLA
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) PMO
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.42%) ITGC
8 1 (0.42%) PSD2
8 1 (0.42%) RMADS
8 1 (0.42%) SEPA
8 1 (0.42%) TARGET2
System Software
1 20 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.93%) Docker
3 13 (5.51%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.39%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.97%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.24%) Ansible
3 9 (3.81%) Grafana
3 9 (3.81%) Terraform
4 8 (3.39%) Kiali
4 8 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.54%) SCCM
6 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.42%) SCOM
6 1 (0.42%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.56%) VMware
3 14 (5.93%) Cisco
4 12 (5.08%) SAP
5 10 (4.24%) Google
5 10 (4.24%) Oracle
6 8 (3.39%) F5
6 8 (3.39%) Splunk
7 7 (2.97%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.54%) Juniper
9 5 (2.12%) Citrix
9 5 (2.12%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.12%) Pega
10 4 (1.69%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.27%) Meraki
11 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.27%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.27%) Workday
192 IT Strategy jobs in England