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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 241 259
Rank change year-on-year -83 +18 +86
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 101 113 143
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.88% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.95% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 62 102
10th Percentile £413 £425 £410
25th Percentile £484 £503 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £650 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +11.83% -13.89%
75th Percentile £863 £750 £775
90th Percentile £1,008 £790 £910
England median daily rate £561 £625 £622
% change year-on-year -10.20% +0.48% -4.31%
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% +0.67%

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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -15 13 £694 +2.78% 19
West London -15 5 £1,100 +76.00% 8
East London -2 1 £525 -12.50% 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 2 (1.98%) Camunda
1 2 (1.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) CMS
2 1 (0.99%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.99%) IIS
2 1 (0.99%) nginx
2 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.99%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.68%) Azure
2 19 (18.81%) SaaS
3 17 (16.83%) AWS
4 11 (10.89%) IaaS
5 10 (9.90%) PaaS
6 9 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.92%) GCP
8 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.96%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.97%) Google Gemini
11 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.99%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.99%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.99%) IBM Blueworks
12 1 (0.99%) Serverless
12 1 (0.99%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) HTTP
1 1 (0.99%) LAN
1 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.95%) Power BI
2 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.98%) Tableau
4 1 (0.99%) GIS
4 1 (0.99%) Metadata
4 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.99%) Postman
2 1 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
General
1 44 (43.56%) Finance
2 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.83%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.88%) Banking
5 12 (11.88%) Legal
6 8 (7.92%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.92%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.96%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.97%) Local Government
9 3 (2.97%) Marketing
10 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.98%) Retail
11 1 (0.99%) Aviation
11 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Humanities
11 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.99%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 27 (26.73%) Architect
2 14 (13.86%) Senior
3 10 (9.90%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (8.91%) Lead
5 8 (7.92%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (5.94%) Analyst
7 5 (4.95%) Head of Technology
8 4 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.96%) Category Manager
8 4 (3.96%) Head of IT
8 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Senior IT Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (2.97%) Developer
9 3 (2.97%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.97%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.96%) React
2 3 (2.97%) Middleware
2 3 (2.97%) REST
3 2 (1.98%) CrewAI
3 2 (1.98%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.98%) Vue
4 1 (0.99%) .NET
4 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.99%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.99%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (0.99%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.99%) Node.js
4 1 (0.99%) OAuth
4 1 (0.99%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.99%) RESTful
4 1 (0.99%) SAML
4 1 (0.99%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.99%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.99%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.95%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.98%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.98%) Equities
5 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.98%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.99%) BYOD
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Solaris
1 1 (0.99%) Windows
1 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (73.27%) Technology Strategy
2 36 (35.64%) Roadmaps
3 31 (30.69%) AI
4 24 (23.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 24 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (21.78%) Decision-Making
6 20 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (19.80%) Enterprise Architecture
7 19 (18.81%) Migration
7 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.82%) Agile
8 18 (17.82%) Analytics
9 17 (16.83%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (15.84%) Business Strategy
11 13 (12.87%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.87%) DevOps
11 13 (12.87%) Machine Learning
12 12 (11.88%) Software Engineering
12 12 (11.88%) Technology Roadmap
13 11 (10.89%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.92%) Python
2 7 (6.93%) SQL
3 5 (4.95%) Java
4 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.98%) C#
6 2 (1.98%) Go
7 1 (0.99%) Korn
7 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Degree
4 1 (0.99%) ACCA
4 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.99%) CFA
4 1 (0.99%) CIMA
4 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.99%) MBA
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.99%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) GDPR
2 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.98%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) COBIT
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) PMO
4 1 (0.99%) PSD2
4 1 (0.99%) SEPA
4 1 (0.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.99%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (4.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.95%) Terraform
2 1 (0.99%) Grafana
2 1 (0.99%) Kibana
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.95%) SAP
3 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) Ariba
4 2 (1.98%) Databricks
4 2 (1.98%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle
4 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.98%) SimCorp
4 2 (1.98%) Vermilion
4 2 (1.98%) Workday
5 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.99%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.99%) IBM
5 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.99%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.99%) Reuters