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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 310 287
Rank change year-on-year -59 -23 +12
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 286 213 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.76% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.84% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 130 156
10th Percentile £479 £452 £450
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £775
90th Percentile £875 £825 £828
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £644
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £83.86 - £18.33
25th Percentile £95.37 - £21.44
Median hourly rate £98.82 £17.79 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +455.48% -33.50% -28.36%
75th Percentile £100.00 - £31.94
90th Percentile - - £34.98
UK median hourly rate £98.82 £16.56 £26.75
% change year-on-year +496.74% -38.09% -28.36%

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 39,523 25,365 27,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.87% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,845 16,097 16,849
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,022 1,590 1,111
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.27
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.44 £44.80 £66.80
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -51 144 £650 -2.26% 493
North of England -50 42 £600 +11.33% 153
South East -51 36 £660 +10.92% 100
South West -10 28 £638 +24.39% 42
Yorkshire -19 23 £599 -17.09% 49
North West -56 19 £600 +11.73% 91
Midlands -42 18 £625 +27.03% 63
West Midlands -43 13 £600 +23.08% 34
East of England -25 11 £510 -21.54% 56
East Midlands -16 5 £725 +47.36% 29
North East - 1 £625 - 13
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 5 (1.75%) Confluence
2 4 (1.40%) CMS
2 4 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) Mendix
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.10%) SAP CO
1 6 (2.10%) SAP FI
1 6 (2.10%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.05%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.05%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.70%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 87 (30.42%) Azure
2 46 (16.08%) AWS
3 27 (9.44%) GCP
4 23 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (6.99%) SaaS
6 17 (5.94%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.90%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.55%) PaaS
9 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (3.15%) IaaS
11 8 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.45%) Serverless
12 7 (2.45%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (2.10%) GitHub
13 6 (2.10%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.40%) Datadog
14 4 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.64%) Firewall
2 11 (3.85%) DHCP
2 11 (3.85%) DNS
3 7 (2.45%) LAN
3 7 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.45%) VLAN
3 7 (2.45%) WAN
4 6 (2.10%) VPN
4 6 (2.10%) VSAN
4 6 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.40%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (1.40%) SAN
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
6 3 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.05%) Network Security
6 3 (1.05%) OSPF
7 2 (0.70%) 4G
7 2 (0.70%) MPLS
7 2 (0.70%) SSL
7 2 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.50%) Metadata
2 8 (2.80%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.45%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.10%) Power BI
5 4 (1.40%) GIS
6 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.70%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.35%) Ataccama
7 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.35%) MySQL
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.35%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 7 (2.45%) JIRA
2 4 (1.40%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.35%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.35%) JMeter
4 1 (0.35%) JUnit
4 1 (0.35%) Maven
4 1 (0.35%) Postman
4 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.35%) Selenium
4 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.35%) TestNG
4 1 (0.35%) TestRail
General
1 103 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 79 (27.62%) Finance
3 47 (16.43%) Public Sector
4 38 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (11.54%) Banking
6 31 (10.84%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (5.59%) Marketing
8 13 (4.55%) Military
9 11 (3.85%) Legal
9 11 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.45%) Retail
11 6 (2.10%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.75%) Local Government
13 4 (1.40%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.05%) Billing
14 3 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (46.50%) Architect
2 46 (16.08%) Solutions Architect
3 43 (15.03%) Enterprise Architect
3 43 (15.03%) Lead
4 31 (10.84%) Senior
5 20 (6.99%) Technical Architect
6 17 (5.94%) Senior Architect
7 11 (3.85%) Consultant
7 11 (3.85%) Data Architect
7 11 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (3.15%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.15%) Senior Enterprise Architect
9 8 (2.80%) Analyst
9 8 (2.80%) Lead Architect
9 8 (2.80%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.45%) Azure Architect
10 7 (2.45%) Business Analyst
10 7 (2.45%) IT Director
10 7 (2.45%) Network Manager
11 6 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.29%) Terraform
2 12 (4.20%) REST
3 10 (3.50%) .NET
4 9 (3.15%) Middleware
4 9 (3.15%) SOAP
5 7 (2.45%) Kafka
6 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (1.75%) Next.js
6 5 (1.75%) Node.js
7 3 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.05%) OAuth
8 2 (0.70%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.70%) CSS
8 2 (0.70%) EDI
8 2 (0.70%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.70%) HTML
8 2 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.70%) React
8 2 (0.70%) RESTful
8 2 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.44%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.50%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.80%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.45%) CMDB
8 7 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.45%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.45%) PKI
9 6 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.75%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.85%) Windows
2 9 (3.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (81.82%) Technology Strategy
2 146 (51.05%) Roadmaps
3 105 (36.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 93 (32.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 69 (24.13%) AI
5 69 (24.13%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (22.38%) Agile
7 58 (20.28%) Technical Leadership
8 51 (17.83%) Decision-Making
9 50 (17.48%) Architecture Governance
10 49 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (17.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 46 (16.08%) TOGAF
12 45 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (15.38%) DevOps
14 43 (15.03%) Risk Management
15 41 (14.34%) Business Strategy
16 39 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
17 38 (13.29%) CI/CD
17 38 (13.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.34%) Python
2 14 (4.90%) SQL
3 12 (4.20%) Java
4 9 (3.15%) Bash
4 9 (3.15%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.45%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.10%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.75%) C#
7 5 (1.75%) Go
8 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.70%) Korn
9 1 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 59 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.69%) SC Cleared
3 36 (12.59%) Degree
4 21 (7.34%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (6.64%) TOGAF Certification
6 15 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.10%) CISSP
7 6 (2.10%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.10%) PMP
8 5 (1.75%) CISM
9 4 (1.40%) VCAP
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.05%) ISACA
10 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.70%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.20%) PMO
2 8 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.10%) GDPR
4 6 (2.10%) NCSC
4 6 (2.10%) SLA
5 5 (1.75%) QA
6 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.70%) COBIT
8 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 2 (0.70%) NIST
8 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) HL7
9 1 (0.35%) ITGC
9 1 (0.35%) PSD2
9 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (5.24%) Active Directory
1 15 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (4.55%) Docker
3 7 (2.45%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.45%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.75%) vSphere
5 2 (0.70%) Firmware
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.15%) Ansible
4 4 (1.40%) SCCM
4 4 (1.40%) VxRail
5 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.69%) SAP
3 18 (6.29%) VMware
4 17 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.55%) Google
6 10 (3.50%) Databricks
7 9 (3.15%) Oracle
7 9 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.80%) BiZZdesign
9 6 (2.10%) Workday
10 5 (1.75%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.40%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.40%) Murex
11 4 (1.40%) Tenable
12 3 (1.05%) BMC
12 3 (1.05%) Cisco
12 3 (1.05%) NetApp
12 3 (1.05%) Temenos
12 3 (1.05%) Zscaler