IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in London

IT/Technology Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 253 294
Rank change year-on-year -56 +41 +16
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 151 119 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.89% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.96% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 68 66
10th Percentile £433 £500 £450
25th Percentile £550 £536 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £664 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -1.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £800 £751 £797
90th Percentile £950 £914 £888
England median daily rate £625 £641 £638
% change year-on-year -2.51% +0.56% -1.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,262 12,381 14,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,971 8,179 9,290
10th Percentile £358 £334 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 241 177
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.69 £25.15 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -16.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IT Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in London

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in London

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IT Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London -22 14 £713 +6.58% 11
West London -19 7 £1,150 +124.39% 10
East London +3 2 £575 - 3
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.65%) CMS
1 4 (2.65%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.32%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Appian
3 1 (0.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.66%) Mendix
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.66%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.66%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (36.42%) Azure
2 20 (13.25%) AWS
3 17 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (9.93%) Power Platform
5 13 (8.61%) GCP
5 13 (8.61%) SaaS
6 11 (7.28%) PaaS
7 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (5.96%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.96%) IaaS
9 7 (4.64%) Serverless
10 5 (3.31%) Datadog
10 5 (3.31%) GitHub
10 5 (3.31%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.99%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) Firewall
2 4 (2.65%) DHCP
2 4 (2.65%) DNS
2 4 (2.65%) SAN
2 4 (2.65%) VLAN
2 4 (2.65%) VPN
2 4 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.32%) 4G
3 2 (1.32%) 5G
3 2 (1.32%) LAN
3 2 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.32%) WAN
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.64%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.97%) Data Lake
2 6 (3.97%) Metadata
3 5 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.31%) Power BI
3 5 (3.31%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.65%) GIS
5 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.66%) Big Data
6 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.66%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.66%) MySQL
6 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.66%) Redis
6 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Chocolatey
1 4 (2.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.66%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
General
1 50 (33.11%) Finance
2 44 (29.14%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.88%) Banking
4 22 (14.57%) Public Sector
5 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (12.58%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (6.62%) Marketing
8 6 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.97%) Retail
9 5 (3.31%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.31%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.65%) Legal
10 4 (2.65%) Local Government
10 4 (2.65%) Military
10 4 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.99%) Billing
11 3 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (50.99%) Architect
2 32 (21.19%) Enterprise Architect
3 25 (16.56%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (13.91%) Senior
5 20 (13.25%) Lead
6 10 (6.62%) Senior Architect
6 10 (6.62%) Technical Architect
7 9 (5.96%) Senior Enterprise Architect
8 8 (5.30%) Consultant
9 7 (4.64%) IT Director
10 6 (3.97%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.31%) Head of IT
11 5 (3.31%) Strategy Architect
11 5 (3.31%) Technical Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Security Architect
12 4 (2.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.96%) .NET
1 9 (5.96%) Terraform
2 5 (3.31%) Kafka
2 5 (3.31%) Next.js
2 5 (3.31%) REST
3 4 (2.65%) Node.js
4 3 (1.99%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.99%) Middleware
4 3 (1.99%) SOAP
5 2 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.32%) React
6 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.66%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.66%) CSS
6 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.66%) PySpark
6 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.28%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.64%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.64%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.65%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.65%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.99%) TM Forum
7 2 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.32%) NHS
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (87.42%) Technology Strategy
2 85 (56.29%) Roadmaps
3 64 (42.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 62 (41.06%) Enterprise Architecture
5 52 (34.44%) AI
6 38 (25.17%) Decision-Making
7 35 (23.18%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (21.19%) Architecture Governance
9 30 (19.87%) Business Strategy
10 28 (18.54%) Agile
10 28 (18.54%) Event-Driven
11 27 (17.88%) DevOps
11 27 (17.88%) Technology Roadmap
12 25 (16.56%) Architectural Patterns
12 25 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (16.56%) Migration
12 25 (16.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (16.56%) Strategic Roadmap
12 25 (16.56%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (15.89%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.28%) Python
2 10 (6.62%) SQL
3 8 (5.30%) Java
4 5 (3.31%) C#
4 5 (3.31%) Go
4 5 (3.31%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.32%) Bash
6 2 (1.32%) Korn
7 1 (0.66%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Degree
1 19 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.27%) TOGAF Certification
4 13 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.99%) CISSP
6 3 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.32%) CISM
7 2 (1.32%) ISACA
7 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CBAP
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.66%) IIBA
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) SLA
2 5 (3.31%) PMO
3 4 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.99%) GDPR
4 3 (1.99%) NCSC
5 2 (1.32%) COBIT
5 2 (1.32%) QA
5 2 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.66%) GRC
6 1 (0.66%) HL7
6 1 (0.66%) PSD2
6 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (4.64%) Docker
2 6 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.65%) SCCM
4 1 (0.66%) Grafana
4 1 (0.66%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.95%) SAP
3 9 (5.96%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.64%) Databricks
4 7 (4.64%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.97%) Google
5 6 (3.97%) Oracle
6 5 (3.31%) Murex
6 5 (3.31%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.65%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.65%) Tenable
7 4 (2.65%) VMware
7 4 (2.65%) Workday
8 3 (1.99%) Temenos
9 2 (1.32%) Calypso
9 2 (1.32%) FIS
9 2 (1.32%) Genesys
9 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.66%) OutSystems