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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 288 281
Rank change year-on-year +37 -7 +57
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 120 91 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 0.58% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.65% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 58 92
10th Percentile £463 £480 £450
25th Percentile £538 £541 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £711 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +18.54% -11.11%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £716
90th Percentile £885 £883 £798
England median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -0.79%

All Process and 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 12,998 13,962 17,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.90% 89.74% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,565 9,018 12,564
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 164 235
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.65
25th Percentile £24.53 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +2.67% -9.30%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.53 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 21 £500 -28.57% 8
West London - 5 £525 - 3
East London +5 3 - - 7
South London - 2 £713 - 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 4 (3.33%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Endur
2 2 (1.67%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.67%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.83%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.83%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.00%) Azure
2 30 (25.00%) AWS
3 12 (10.00%) GCP
4 8 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.67%) SaaS
5 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.67%) PaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) Network Security
1 5 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.50%) Firewall
3 2 (1.67%) Internet
3 2 (1.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) LAN
4 1 (0.83%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.33%) Power BI
1 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.67%) Big Data
3 2 (1.67%) Metadata
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Git
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) GoCD
3 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (40.00%) Finance
2 31 (25.83%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.83%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 9 (7.50%) Banking
7 8 (6.67%) Back Office
7 8 (6.67%) Legal
8 6 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.33%) Automotive
9 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.33%) Retail
10 3 (2.50%) Local Government
11 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.67%) Publishing
12 1 (0.83%) Aviation
12 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (47.50%) Architect
2 17 (14.17%) Security Architect
3 15 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (11.67%) Lead
5 13 (10.83%) Enterprise Architect
6 12 (10.00%) Analyst
6 12 (10.00%) Senior
7 9 (7.50%) Developer
7 9 (7.50%) Technical Architect
8 8 (6.67%) Lead Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Consultant
9 7 (5.83%) Senior Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 5 (4.17%) Endur Architect
11 5 (4.17%) Network Analyst
11 5 (4.17%) Network Security Analyst
11 5 (4.17%) Network Support Analyst
11 5 (4.17%) OpenLink Architect
11 5 (4.17%) Security Analyst
11 5 (4.17%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) REST
2 6 (5.00%) React
3 5 (4.17%) .NET
4 4 (3.33%) JSON
4 4 (3.33%) Kafka
4 4 (3.33%) Middleware
4 4 (3.33%) NumPy
4 4 (3.33%) Pandas
4 4 (3.33%) Plotly
4 4 (3.33%) Swagger
4 4 (3.33%) Web Services
5 3 (2.50%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.50%) SciPy
5 3 (2.50%) Statsmodels
6 2 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.67%) Vue
7 1 (0.83%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.17%) Taxonomies
4 5 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.33%) Grid Computing
5 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.67%) Linux
4 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (63.33%) Technology Strategy
2 33 (27.50%) Roadmaps
3 32 (26.67%) Business Strategy
4 27 (22.50%) Agile
4 27 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (16.67%) DevOps
5 20 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
8 15 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 15 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 14 (11.67%) Microservices
9 14 (11.67%) Security Architecture
9 14 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (10.83%) AI
11 12 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 12 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 11 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (9.17%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.17%) SQL
2 8 (6.67%) C#
2 8 (6.67%) Java
3 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.00%) Python
4 4 (3.33%) Bicep
4 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.33%) R
5 2 (1.67%) Go
5 2 (1.67%) Rust
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) C
6 1 (0.83%) C++
6 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) Degree
4 7 (5.83%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.67%) CCNA
7 2 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.67%) CISSP
7 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) CISM
8 1 (0.83%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.83%) MCP
8 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) GDPR
2 5 (4.17%) EU AI Act
3 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.67%) QA
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) HL7
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.83%) MiFID
5 1 (0.83%) PMO
5 1 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.67%) Docker
3 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (8.33%) Terraform
2 8 (6.67%) Ansible
3 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.50%) SCCM
5 2 (1.67%) rkt
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.67%) CyberArk
2 8 (6.67%) Darktrace
2 8 (6.67%) Splunk
3 6 (5.00%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) VMware
4 5 (4.17%) SAP
5 4 (3.33%) Dataiku
5 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.50%) Databricks
6 3 (2.50%) Hitachi
6 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.67%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.67%) Google
7 2 (1.67%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.67%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.67%) Temenos
7 2 (1.67%) TOWER Software