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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 241 258
Rank change year-on-year -74 +17 +67
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 104 110 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.88% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.95% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 62 104
10th Percentile £413 £425 £410
25th Percentile £494 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £950 £750 £775
90th Percentile £1,000 £790 £899
England median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% -7.69%
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 £51.53 £58.90 £30.12
% change year-on-year -12.51% +95.53% -19.34%

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 16,854 11,524 15,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.35% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,217 7,730 11,175
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 209 315
10th Percentile £18.04 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +15.40% -28.60%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -25 13 £694 +2.78% 10
West London -22 4 £1,100 +51.72% 4
East London -2 1 £525 -12.50%
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 (1.92%) Camunda
1 2 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) CMS
2 1 (0.96%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.96%) IIS
2 1 (0.96%) nginx
2 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.96%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.73%) Azure
2 21 (20.19%) SaaS
3 17 (16.35%) AWS
4 11 (10.58%) IaaS
5 10 (9.62%) PaaS
6 9 (8.65%) GCP
6 9 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.81%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.88%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.92%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.96%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.96%) IBM Blueworks
11 1 (0.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) HTTP
1 1 (0.96%) LAN
1 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) Power BI
2 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.96%) GIS
4 1 (0.96%) Metadata
4 1 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 47 (45.19%) Finance
2 33 (31.73%) Social Skills
3 18 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.35%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.54%) Banking
5 12 (11.54%) Legal
6 11 (10.58%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (7.69%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (2.88%) Local Government
11 2 (1.92%) Marketing
11 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.92%) Retail
12 1 (0.96%) Aviation
12 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.96%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.96%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Architect
2 12 (11.54%) Senior
3 11 (10.58%) Lead
4 9 (8.65%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (5.77%) Analyst
7 5 (4.81%) Head of IT
7 5 (4.81%) Head of Technology
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.85%) Category Manager
8 4 (3.85%) Developer
8 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Senior IT Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (2.88%) Consultant
9 3 (2.88%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.85%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.85%) React
1 4 (3.85%) REST
2 3 (2.88%) Middleware
3 2 (1.92%) CrewAI
3 2 (1.92%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.92%) Vue
4 1 (0.96%) .NET
4 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.96%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.96%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (0.96%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.96%) Node.js
4 1 (0.96%) OAuth
4 1 (0.96%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.96%) RESTful
4 1 (0.96%) SAML
4 1 (0.96%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.96%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.96%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.92%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.92%) Equities
5 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.92%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.96%) BYOD
6 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Solaris
1 1 (0.96%) Windows
1 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (71.15%) Technology Strategy
2 38 (36.54%) Roadmaps
3 28 (26.92%) AI
4 26 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (22.12%) Enterprise Architecture
7 21 (20.19%) Decision-Making
8 20 (19.23%) Agile
9 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (17.31%) Migration
10 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.35%) Analytics
11 17 (16.35%) Business Strategy
12 16 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (13.46%) DevOps
13 14 (13.46%) Software Engineering
14 13 (12.50%) CI/CD
14 13 (12.50%) Event-Driven
14 13 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
15 12 (11.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.69%) Python
1 8 (7.69%) SQL
2 5 (4.81%) Java
3 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.92%) C#
5 2 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (0.96%) C
6 1 (0.96%) C++
6 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) Degree
4 1 (0.96%) ACCA
4 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.96%) CFA
4 1 (0.96%) CIMA
4 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.96%) MBA
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.96%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) GDPR
2 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.88%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.96%) COBIT
3 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.96%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) PMO
3 1 (0.96%) PSD2
3 1 (0.96%) SEPA
3 1 (0.96%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.81%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.81%) Terraform
2 1 (0.96%) Grafana
2 1 (0.96%) Kibana
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.85%) SAP
3 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.92%) Ariba
4 2 (1.92%) Google
4 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.92%) Oracle
4 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.92%) SimCorp
4 2 (1.92%) Vermilion
4 2 (1.92%) Workday
5 1 (0.96%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.96%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.96%) Databricks
5 1 (0.96%) HP
5 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.96%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.96%) Reuters
5 1 (0.96%) VMware