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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 289 281
Rank change year-on-year -95 -8 +62
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 228 210 298
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.79% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.87% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 120 216
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £487 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £621
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% -3.38% -4.46%
75th Percentile £723 £738 £756
90th Percentile £900 £790 £889
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £626
% change year-on-year -2.61% -8.07% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £26.01 £17.64
25th Percentile £26.52 £38.34 £19.72
Median hourly rate £51.53 £58.90 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +152.66% -22.09%
75th Percentile £83.19 £79.45 £26.78
90th Percentile £94.78 £91.78 £28.78
UK median hourly rate £51.53 £58.90 £23.31
% change year-on-year -12.51% +152.66% -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 37,627 24,117 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.98% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,684 15,510 20,711
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,203 2,295
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.93 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.80
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.30 £72.95
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -95 101 £600 -7.69% 141
South East -39 39 £619 -4.81% 57
North of England -76 31 £507 -5.94% 60
Midlands -51 22 £560 +11.79% 20
North West -45 21 £500 -6.89% 40
South West -11 15 £550 +7.32% 20
West Midlands -53 14 £560 -6.75% 12
East of England -32 9 £510 -21.54% 21
Yorkshire -55 9 £513 -14.46% 13
East Midlands -16 8 £637 +30.95% 8
North East - 1 - - 8
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 3 (1.32%) Confluence
2 2 (0.88%) Apache
2 2 (0.88%) Camunda
2 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.44%) CMS
3 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) nginx
3 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.51%) SAP CO
1 8 (3.51%) SAP FI
1 8 (3.51%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (1.32%) Remedy AR System
2 3 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.82%) Azure
2 47 (20.61%) AWS
3 30 (13.16%) SaaS
4 20 (8.77%) GCP
5 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.70%) IaaS
6 13 (5.70%) PaaS
7 5 (2.19%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.75%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.32%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.44%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.44%) dbt
11 1 (0.44%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.14%) LAN
2 10 (4.39%) WAN
3 8 (3.51%) Firewall
4 4 (1.75%) VSAN
5 3 (1.32%) BGP
5 3 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.32%) Network Security
5 3 (1.32%) OSPF
5 3 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (1.32%) VLAN
5 3 (1.32%) VPN
6 2 (0.88%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.88%) MPLS
6 2 (0.88%) SAN
6 2 (0.88%) SSL
6 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.88%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.44%) HTTP
7 1 (0.44%) SMS
7 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.19%) Power BI
2 4 (1.75%) Metadata
2 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.32%) GIS
3 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.88%) Tableau
5 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.44%) Stardog
5 1 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 4 (1.75%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
2 2 (0.88%) Postman
3 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.44%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.44%) JMeter
3 1 (0.44%) JUnit
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.44%) Selenium
3 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.44%) TestNG
3 1 (0.44%) TestRail
General
1 66 (28.95%) Finance
2 64 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.23%) Public Sector
4 30 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.89%) Banking
6 15 (6.58%) Legal
7 14 (6.14%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 8 (3.51%) Military
11 7 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.19%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (2.19%) Marketing
12 5 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.19%) Retail
13 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.75%) Local Government
13 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.44%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 99 (43.42%) Architect
2 35 (15.35%) Solutions Architect
3 23 (10.09%) Technical Architect
4 21 (9.21%) Senior
5 19 (8.33%) Lead
6 18 (7.89%) Enterprise Architect
7 10 (4.39%) Network Architect
7 10 (4.39%) Project Manager
8 9 (3.95%) IT Manager
9 7 (3.07%) PMO Manager
9 7 (3.07%) PMO Project Manager
9 7 (3.07%) SAP Manager
9 7 (3.07%) SAP Project Manager
10 6 (2.63%) Analyst
10 6 (2.63%) Consultant
10 6 (2.63%) Developer
10 6 (2.63%) SAP PMO Manager
10 6 (2.63%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.19%) Data Architect
11 5 (2.19%) Head of Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.02%) Middleware
2 11 (4.82%) REST
3 7 (3.07%) SOAP
4 5 (2.19%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.75%) React
6 3 (1.32%) Kafka
6 3 (1.32%) OAuth
6 3 (1.32%) SAML
7 2 (0.88%) .NET
7 2 (0.88%) CrewAI
7 2 (0.88%) LangGraph
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.88%) Node.js
7 2 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.88%) RESTful
7 2 (0.88%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.88%) Vue
8 1 (0.44%) Framer.js
8 1 (0.44%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.14%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.07%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.63%) CMDB
7 6 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.63%) PKI
8 5 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.32%) CCTV
10 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.14%) Linux
2 9 (3.95%) Windows
3 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Solaris
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (70.61%) Technology Strategy
2 83 (36.40%) Roadmaps
3 52 (22.81%) Enterprise Architecture
4 48 (21.05%) Agile
4 48 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 47 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (18.42%) AI
7 39 (17.11%) Business Strategy
7 39 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (16.67%) DevOps
9 36 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (15.35%) TOGAF
11 30 (13.16%) Decision-Making
12 29 (12.72%) CI/CD
12 29 (12.72%) Microservices
12 29 (12.72%) Migration
13 28 (12.28%) Integration Patterns
14 27 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (10.96%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.58%) Python
1 15 (6.58%) SQL
2 12 (5.26%) Java
3 7 (3.07%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.19%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.88%) C#
5 2 (0.88%) Go
5 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.88%) Rust
6 1 (0.44%) Korn
6 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.09%) Degree
4 17 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.07%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (2.63%) CCNP
6 6 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.75%) MCSE
9 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.44%) ACCA
11 1 (0.44%) CFA
11 1 (0.44%) CIMA
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) MBA
11 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.26%) GDPR
1 12 (5.26%) NCSC
2 11 (4.82%) NIST
3 9 (3.95%) PMO
4 7 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.63%) QA
6 5 (2.19%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.88%) ITGC
10 1 (0.44%) COBIT
10 1 (0.44%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.44%) GRC
10 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.44%) PSD2
10 1 (0.44%) RMADS
10 1 (0.44%) SEPA
10 1 (0.44%) SLA
10 1 (0.44%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (3.07%) Docker
1 7 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.63%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.88%) Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.07%) Terraform
3 4 (1.75%) Ansible
4 3 (1.32%) Grafana
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.88%) Kiali
5 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 38 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.02%) SAP
3 13 (5.70%) Cisco
4 12 (5.26%) Google
4 12 (5.26%) VMware
5 9 (3.95%) BiZZdesign
6 8 (3.51%) F5
7 7 (3.07%) Oracle
8 6 (2.63%) Juniper
8 6 (2.63%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.75%) HP
10 4 (1.75%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.32%) BMC
11 3 (1.32%) Remedy
12 2 (0.88%) Ariba
12 2 (0.88%) Dell
12 2 (0.88%) Forcepoint
12 2 (0.88%) SimCorp