IT Strategy Contracts in England

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 287 329
Rank change year-on-year -13 +42 -28
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 191 298 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.80% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.93% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 217 261
10th Percentile £413 £410 £425
25th Percentile £494 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £605 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.46% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £739 £756 £750
90th Percentile £790 £882 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £621
% change year-on-year -4.00% +0.64% -1.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £26.01 - £22.86
25th Percentile £38.34 - £25.27
Median hourly rate £58.90 £30.12 £29.92
Median % change year-on-year +95.53% +0.67% +13.98%
75th Percentile £79.45 - £33.94
90th Percentile £91.78 - £35.98
UK median hourly rate £58.90 £30.12 £29.92
% change year-on-year +95.53% +0.67% +70.97%

All Process and 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 22,947 31,985 42,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.42% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,830 20,733 29,654
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 2,360 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.82 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.53 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.54 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in England.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

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 25 June 2025. 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 +11 110 £650 +13.04% 361
North of England +1 33 £540 -16.92% 93
North West -16 23 £539 -6.35% 53
South East +27 17 £688 +17.92% 101
Midlands -3 12 £481 -31.25% 53
East of England +27 11 £650 +44.44% 40
Yorkshire +12 10 £600 -5.66% 28
East Midlands 0 5 £453 +0.56% 17
West Midlands -5 5 £600 -20.00% 34
South West +22 2 £450 -38.25% 27
IT Strategy
UK

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
4 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.52%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.57%) Maximo
3 2 (1.05%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.52%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (33.51%) Azure
2 32 (16.75%) AWS
3 28 (14.66%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (12.04%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.33%) GCP
6 11 (5.76%) GitHub
6 11 (5.76%) PaaS
6 11 (5.76%) SaaS
7 10 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.71%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (4.19%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (3.66%) IaaS
11 5 (2.62%) Serverless
12 4 (2.09%) Asana
13 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.57%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.76%) WAN
2 10 (5.24%) LAN
3 7 (3.66%) VPN
4 6 (3.14%) Firewall
5 4 (2.09%) BGP
5 4 (2.09%) MPLS
5 4 (2.09%) Network Security
5 4 (2.09%) OSPF
5 4 (2.09%) SSL
5 4 (2.09%) VLAN
6 3 (1.57%) DNS
7 2 (1.05%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.05%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.52%) Internet
8 1 (0.52%) NAS
8 1 (0.52%) SAN
8 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.09%) Power BI
3 3 (1.57%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.05%) Big Data
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) Looker
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (4.71%) CircleCI
2 5 (2.62%) JIRA
3 2 (1.05%) Git
3 2 (1.05%) Hudson
3 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.52%) JUnit
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 74 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 64 (33.51%) Finance
3 26 (13.61%) Banking
4 17 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.71%) Retail
8 8 (4.19%) Back Office
9 6 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.62%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.62%) Legal
10 5 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Front Office
11 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.57%) Military
12 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.05%) Law
12 2 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 99 (51.83%) Architect
2 28 (14.66%) Technical Architect
3 26 (13.61%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (12.04%) Enterprise Architect
5 22 (11.52%) Senior
6 12 (6.28%) Lead
6 12 (6.28%) Senior Architect
7 10 (5.24%) Analyst
8 9 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (4.71%) IT Support
8 9 (4.71%) Senior Technical Architect
9 7 (3.66%) Azure Architect
9 7 (3.66%) Consultant
10 6 (3.14%) Designer
10 6 (3.14%) IT Director
11 5 (2.62%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.62%) Support Officer
12 4 (2.09%) Business Analyst
12 4 (2.09%) Coordinator
12 4 (2.09%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.90%) Middleware
2 8 (4.19%) .NET
3 7 (3.66%) REST
4 6 (3.14%) XML
5 5 (2.62%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.62%) LDAP
5 5 (2.62%) SAML
6 4 (2.09%) CSS
6 4 (2.09%) HTML
6 4 (2.09%) JDBC
6 4 (2.09%) JSON
6 4 (2.09%) ODBC
6 4 (2.09%) SOAP
6 4 (2.09%) Web Services
7 3 (1.57%) Kafka
7 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.57%) Node.js
8 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.05%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.05%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.90%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.24%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.14%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.62%) NHS
7 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.57%) Blog
8 3 (1.57%) EPoS
8 3 (1.57%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.57%) PKI
9 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.05%) CCTV
9 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.38%) Windows
2 13 (6.81%) Linux
3 4 (2.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (54.45%) Technology Strategy
2 82 (42.93%) Roadmaps
3 41 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (20.94%) Strategic Roadmap
5 39 (20.42%) Agile
6 36 (18.85%) Business Strategy
7 32 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (15.18%) Enterprise Architecture
8 29 (15.18%) TOGAF
9 28 (14.66%) Microservices
10 24 (12.57%) DevOps
11 22 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (10.47%) Migration
13 19 (9.95%) Project Management
14 18 (9.42%) Analytics
14 18 (9.42%) CI/CD
14 18 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (8.90%) ITIL
16 16 (8.38%) Artificial Intelligence
17 15 (7.85%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.42%) Java
2 10 (5.24%) TypeScript
3 8 (4.19%) Kotlin
3 8 (4.19%) Python
4 7 (3.66%) SQL
5 6 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.62%) Bash
6 5 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.57%) Bicep
7 3 (1.57%) C#
8 2 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (8.90%) Degree
1 17 (8.90%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.28%) TOGAF Certification
3 11 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.09%) CCIE
7 4 (2.09%) CCNP
7 4 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.09%) JNCIE
7 4 (2.09%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.57%) CISM
8 3 (1.57%) CISSP
8 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.57%) PMP
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.71%) GDPR
3 5 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.62%) NIST
4 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.09%) QA
5 3 (1.57%) HL7
5 3 (1.57%) PMO
6 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.05%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.52%) DICOM
7 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (9.95%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (9.42%) Terraform
2 14 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.19%) Grafana
3 8 (4.19%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.85%) SAP
3 10 (5.24%) MuleSoft
3 10 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.66%) Databricks
4 7 (3.66%) Oracle
5 6 (3.14%) Cisco
5 6 (3.14%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.62%) Google
6 5 (2.62%) OpenText
6 5 (2.62%) Qualtrics
7 4 (2.09%) Apple
7 4 (2.09%) F5
7 4 (2.09%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.57%) VMware
9 2 (1.05%) Cerner
9 2 (1.05%) Citrix
9 2 (1.05%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.05%) Workday