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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 244 258
Rank change year-on-year -80 +14 +85
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 106 121 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.90% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.97% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 67 101
10th Percentile £413 £425 £410
25th Percentile £485 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £775
90th Percentile £1,000 £799 £915
England median daily rate £556 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -7.42% -4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.52 - -
Median hourly rate £28.55 £100.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -71.45% +232.01% -19.34%
75th Percentile £53.67 - -
90th Percentile £67.52 - -
England median hourly rate £100.00 £58.90 £23.31
% change year-on-year +69.79% +152.66% -22.09%

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 17,586 12,456 15,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.16% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,692 8,329 11,079
10th Percentile £360 £331 £338
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 234 288
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +6.45% -27.57%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 10 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Strategy in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Strategy in London

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 10 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
Central London -13 12 £713 +5.56% 17
West London -16 5 £1,100 +114.63% 6
East London -3 1 £525 -12.50% 5
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 2 (1.89%) Camunda
1 2 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) CMS
2 1 (0.94%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.94%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) nginx
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.94%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.08%) Azure
2 19 (17.92%) SaaS
3 17 (16.04%) AWS
4 12 (11.32%) IaaS
5 11 (10.38%) PaaS
6 10 (9.43%) GCP
6 10 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.66%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.83%) Google Gemini
8 3 (2.83%) Serverless
8 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.94%) Datadog
10 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.94%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) 4G
1 1 (0.94%) 5G
1 1 (0.94%) DHCP
1 1 (0.94%) DNS
1 1 (0.94%) Firewall
1 1 (0.94%) HTTP
1 1 (0.94%) LAN
1 1 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.94%) SAN
1 1 (0.94%) VLAN
1 1 (0.94%) VPN
1 1 (0.94%) WAN
1 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) Power BI
2 4 (3.77%) GIS
2 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.83%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.89%) Tableau
5 1 (0.94%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.94%) Metadata
5 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.94%) Chocolatey
2 1 (0.94%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.94%) Postman
2 1 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
General
1 43 (40.57%) Finance
2 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.98%) Public Sector
5 13 (12.26%) Banking
5 13 (12.26%) Legal
6 8 (7.55%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.77%) Marketing
9 3 (2.83%) Local Government
9 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Billing
10 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Retail
11 1 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.94%) Games
11 1 (0.94%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (33.02%) Architect
2 14 (13.21%) Senior
3 13 (12.26%) Enterprise Architect
4 12 (11.32%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.55%) Lead
6 5 (4.72%) Analyst
6 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.72%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.72%) Head of Technology
6 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) Category Manager
7 4 (3.77%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) Senior IT Engineer
8 3 (2.83%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.83%) Consultant
8 3 (2.83%) Developer
8 3 (2.83%) Head of IT
8 3 (2.83%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.77%) React
2 3 (2.83%) Middleware
2 3 (2.83%) REST
3 2 (1.89%) CrewAI
3 2 (1.89%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.89%) Node.js
3 2 (1.89%) Vue
4 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.94%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.94%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (0.94%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.94%) Kafka
4 1 (0.94%) OAuth
4 1 (0.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.94%) RESTful
4 1 (0.94%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.94%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.94%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.72%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.89%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.89%) TM Forum
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.94%) Solaris
2 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (74.53%) Technology Strategy
2 39 (36.79%) Roadmaps
3 33 (31.13%) AI
4 25 (23.58%) Enterprise Architecture
5 23 (21.70%) Decision-Making
5 23 (21.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (21.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (18.87%) Agile
7 20 (18.87%) Migration
7 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (16.98%) Analytics
9 17 (16.04%) Business Strategy
9 17 (16.04%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (14.15%) Machine Learning
11 14 (13.21%) Event-Driven
11 14 (13.21%) Technology Roadmap
12 13 (12.26%) CI/CD
12 13 (12.26%) DevOps
13 12 (11.32%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.49%) Python
1 9 (8.49%) SQL
2 6 (5.66%) Java
3 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.83%) Go
4 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (0.94%) Korn
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.94%) ACCA
5 1 (0.94%) CFA
5 1 (0.94%) CIMA
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.94%) MBA
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.94%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) GDPR
2 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.89%) QA
3 2 (1.89%) SLA
4 1 (0.94%) COBIT
4 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) PMO
4 1 (0.94%) PSD2
4 1 (0.94%) SEPA
4 1 (0.94%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.77%) Terraform
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.94%) Grafana
4 1 (0.94%) Kibana
4 1 (0.94%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.55%) SAP
3 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.83%) Google
5 2 (1.89%) Ariba
5 2 (1.89%) Databricks
5 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle
5 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.89%) VMware
5 2 (1.89%) Workday
6 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.94%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.94%) IBM
6 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.94%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.94%) Reuters