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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 251 235
Rank change year-on-year -58 -16 +98
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 103 101 161
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.81% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.88% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 58 110
10th Percentile £413 £413 £409
25th Percentile £463 £494 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £638 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +12.93% -13.15%
75th Percentile £900 £750 £675
90th Percentile £1,000 £800 £840
England median daily rate £575 £625 £595
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.10% -8.51%
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 £74.75 £100.00 £30.12
% change year-on-year -25.25% +232.01% -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 15,918 11,536 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.22% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,645 7,806 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £808 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -16 15 £554 -11.40% 16
West London -21 3 £1,100 +51.72% 2
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 5 (4.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Camunda
2 2 (1.94%) CMS
2 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.97%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.97%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (28.16%) Azure
2 21 (20.39%) SaaS
3 14 (13.59%) AWS
4 10 (9.71%) IaaS
5 9 (8.74%) PaaS
6 8 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.83%) GCP
8 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.91%) Google Gemini
9 3 (2.91%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.94%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.94%) Serverless
10 2 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.97%) GitHub
11 1 (0.97%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.97%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.97%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) Network Security
1 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) Power BI
2 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.97%) Metadata
3 1 (0.97%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.97%) Postman
General
1 48 (46.60%) Finance
2 29 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Public Sector
4 14 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.65%) Banking
5 12 (11.65%) Legal
6 11 (10.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.85%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.88%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.94%) Marketing
10 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Retail
11 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.97%) Front Office
11 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.97%) Local Government
11 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.97%) Publishing
11 1 (0.97%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (26.21%) Architect
2 13 (12.62%) Senior
3 11 (10.68%) Analyst
4 10 (9.71%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.77%) Enterprise Architect
5 8 (7.77%) Lead
6 6 (5.83%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Category Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Senior IT Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Developer
9 3 (2.91%) Head of IT
9 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.91%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.91%) LangGraph
2 3 (2.91%) Middleware
2 3 (2.91%) React
2 3 (2.91%) REST
3 2 (1.94%) CrewAI
3 2 (1.94%) Vue
4 1 (0.97%) .NET
4 1 (0.97%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.97%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.97%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (0.97%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.97%) LangChain
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.97%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (0.97%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.97%) SAML
4 1 (0.97%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.97%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.91%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.94%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.94%) Equities
5 2 (1.94%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.97%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.97%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.97%) Solaris
1 1 (0.97%) Windows
1 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.93%) Technology Strategy
2 38 (36.89%) Roadmaps
3 26 (25.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 24 (23.30%) AI
5 23 (22.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 23 (22.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (18.45%) Agile
7 18 (17.48%) Analytics
7 18 (17.48%) Migration
8 15 (14.56%) Business Strategy
8 15 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (14.56%) Decision-Making
9 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (11.65%) DevOps
11 12 (11.65%) Integration Patterns
12 11 (10.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (10.68%) Event-Driven
12 11 (10.68%) Technology Roadmap
12 11 (10.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.83%) Python
1 6 (5.83%) SQL
2 3 (2.91%) Java
3 1 (0.97%) C
3 1 (0.97%) C++
3 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.83%) Degree
4 1 (0.97%) ACCA
4 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.97%) CCNA
4 1 (0.97%) CFA
4 1 (0.97%) CIMA
4 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.97%) MBA
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.97%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) GDPR
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.97%) PMO
4 1 (0.97%) PSD2
4 1 (0.97%) SEPA
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (2.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Grafana
3 1 (0.97%) Kibana
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) SAP
3 3 (2.91%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.91%) Oracle
3 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.94%) Ariba
4 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.94%) SimCorp
4 2 (1.94%) Vermilion
4 2 (1.94%) Workday
5 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.97%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.97%) Google
5 1 (0.97%) HP
5 1 (0.97%) IBM
5 1 (0.97%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.97%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.97%) Reuters
5 1 (0.97%) VMware