Strategy Architect Contracts in England

Strategy Architect
UK > England

The median Strategy Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 539 645
Rank change year-on-year +65 +106 +115
Contract jobs requiring a Strategy Architect 11 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.008% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.009% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £600 - £625
25th Percentile £620 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £788
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.76% +26.00%
75th Percentile £750 - £922
90th Percentile £960 - £950
UK median daily rate £675 £750 £688
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Strategy Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Strategy Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Strategy Architect in England

Strategy Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Strategy Architect in England

Strategy Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategy Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategy Architect in England

Strategy Architect
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 Strategy Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +41 6 £750 -
North of England - 3 £650 -
North West - 2 £650 -
South East - 1 £600 -
Yorkshire - 1 £700 -
Strategy Architect
UK

Strategy Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Strategy Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Strategy Architect in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Data Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
4 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Data Management
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) Degree
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Google
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
5 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy

Strategy Architect Skill Set
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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ERwin
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) Data Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Data Management
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft