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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 299 280
Rank change year-on-year -80 -19 +44
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 249 211 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.77% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.85% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 121 200
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £493 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% -3.85% +1.17%
75th Percentile £722 £738 £769
90th Percentile £900 £790 £903
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.61% -11.54% +5.69%
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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -72 112 £625 -3.85% 227
South East -45 40 £638 -1.92% 79
North of England -74 33 £507 -5.94% 58
Midlands -50 22 £600 +17.02% 37
North West -51 22 £496 -7.64% 27
South West -21 21 £550 +7.32% 26
West Midlands -48 15 £600 -11.11% 18
East of England -20 11 £510 -21.54% 20
Yorkshire -44 10 £520 -13.33% 26
East Midlands -14 7 £828 +70.05% 19
North East - 1 - - 5
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%) 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 (3.21%) SAP CO
1 8 (3.21%) SAP FI
1 8 (3.21%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (2.41%) 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 67 (26.91%) Azure
2 46 (18.47%) AWS
3 27 (10.84%) SaaS
4 22 (8.84%) GCP
5 18 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (6.02%) IaaS
6 15 (6.02%) PaaS
7 7 (2.81%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.81%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.01%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (1.61%) 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 16 (6.43%) Firewall
1 16 (6.43%) LAN
2 12 (4.82%) WAN
3 8 (3.21%) DHCP
3 8 (3.21%) DNS
3 8 (3.21%) VSAN
4 6 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.01%) VLAN
5 5 (2.01%) VPN
6 4 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (1.61%) SAN
6 4 (1.61%) 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%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.80%) MPLS
8 2 (0.80%) SSL
8 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.41%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.01%) Power BI
3 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.61%) GIS
3 4 (1.61%) 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 72 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.10%) Finance
3 45 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 35 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.23%) Banking
6 16 (6.43%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (6.43%) Legal
7 11 (4.42%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.02%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.61%) Military
9 9 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.81%) Marketing
12 5 (2.01%) Local Government
12 5 (2.01%) Retail
13 4 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.20%) Billing
15 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.80%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (41.37%) Architect
2 37 (14.86%) Solutions Architect
3 27 (10.84%) Lead
4 23 (9.24%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (8.43%) Technical Architect
6 20 (8.03%) Senior
7 10 (4.02%) IT Manager
7 10 (4.02%) Network Architect
7 10 (4.02%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.21%) Consultant
8 8 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (2.81%) PMO Manager
9 7 (2.81%) PMO Project Manager
9 7 (2.81%) SAP Manager
9 7 (2.81%) SAP Project Manager
10 6 (2.41%) Analyst
10 6 (2.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.41%) Chief Technology Officer
10 6 (2.41%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.62%) Middleware
2 12 (4.82%) REST
3 9 (3.61%) SOAP
4 4 (1.61%) 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 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.61%) PKI
6 8 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.81%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.41%) CMDB
8 6 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.20%) CCTV
11 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.20%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.43%) Linux
2 15 (6.02%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Solaris
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (71.08%) Technology Strategy
2 98 (39.36%) Roadmaps
3 55 (22.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 52 (20.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 50 (20.08%) Agile
5 50 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (19.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (18.88%) AI
8 42 (16.87%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (15.66%) Decision-Making
10 37 (14.86%) Business Strategy
10 37 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (14.46%) DevOps
12 34 (13.65%) TOGAF
13 33 (13.25%) Migration
14 29 (11.65%) Integration Patterns
15 28 (11.24%) CI/CD
15 28 (11.24%) ITIL
15 28 (11.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.03%) Python
2 13 (5.22%) SQL
3 9 (3.61%) Java
4 8 (3.21%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.81%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.41%) Bash
7 5 (2.01%) 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 56 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.04%) Degree
4 22 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.61%) CCNP
7 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.20%) VCAP
9 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.80%) CISM
9 2 (0.80%) CISSP
9 2 (0.80%) ISACA
9 2 (0.80%) MCSE
9 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) ACCA
10 1 (0.40%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.42%) PMO
2 10 (4.02%) NCSC
3 9 (3.61%) GDPR
4 8 (3.21%) NIST
5 7 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.81%) QA
6 5 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.01%) 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
System Software
1 13 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.02%) VMware NSX
3 9 (3.61%) Docker
4 6 (2.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.61%) vSphere
6 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.80%) Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.42%) Terraform
3 10 (4.02%) Ansible
4 7 (2.81%) 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 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.03%) SAP
3 17 (6.83%) VMware
4 13 (5.22%) Cisco
4 13 (5.22%) Google
5 9 (3.61%) BiZZdesign
6 8 (3.21%) F5
7 7 (2.81%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.41%) Juniper
9 5 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.61%) HP
10 4 (1.61%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.61%) Oracle
10 4 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.20%) BMC
11 3 (1.20%) Remedy
12 2 (0.80%) Ariba
12 2 (0.80%) Dell
12 2 (0.80%) Forcepoint
12 2 (0.80%) Fortinet