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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 256 255
Rank change year-on-year -71 -1 +84
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 110 119 143
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.87% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.95% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 67 102
10th Percentile £413 £444 £410
25th Percentile £485 £506 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £786
90th Percentile £1,000 £826 £935
England median daily rate £557 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -7.13% -7.69% +1.96%
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 £98.82 £58.90 £23.31
% change year-on-year +67.79% +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 17,636 12,537 14,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.16% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,379 10,607
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 237 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.39
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.40% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -24 12 £713 +5.56% 29
West London -12 5 £1,100 +120.00% 6
East London -1 1 £525 -12.50% 4
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 (1.82%) Camunda
2 1 (0.91%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.91%) IIS
2 1 (0.91%) nginx
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.91%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.73%) Azure
2 18 (16.36%) AWS
2 18 (16.36%) SaaS
3 13 (11.82%) IaaS
4 12 (10.91%) GCP
4 12 (10.91%) PaaS
5 11 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.64%) Serverless
8 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.82%) Datadog
9 2 (1.82%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.82%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) 4G
1 2 (1.82%) 5G
1 2 (1.82%) DHCP
1 2 (1.82%) DNS
1 2 (1.82%) Firewall
1 2 (1.82%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.82%) SAN
1 2 (1.82%) VLAN
1 2 (1.82%) VPN
1 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.91%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) LAN
2 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.55%) Power BI
2 4 (3.64%) GIS
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.82%) Tableau
5 1 (0.91%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.91%) Metadata
5 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Chocolatey
1 2 (1.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.91%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.91%) Postman
2 1 (0.91%) PowerDesigner
General
1 43 (39.09%) Finance
2 34 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.36%) Public Sector
5 14 (12.73%) Banking
6 13 (11.82%) Legal
7 9 (8.18%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (7.27%) Financial Institution
9 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.64%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (3.64%) Marketing
10 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.73%) Billing
11 3 (2.73%) Local Government
12 2 (1.82%) Retail
12 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.91%) Front Office
13 1 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (35.45%) Architect
2 15 (13.64%) Enterprise Architect
2 15 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (12.73%) Senior
4 7 (6.36%) Lead
5 6 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) Head of Technology
7 4 (3.64%) Analyst
7 4 (3.64%) Category Manager
7 4 (3.64%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) Senior IT Engineer
8 3 (2.73%) AWS Architect
8 3 (2.73%) Azure Architect
8 3 (2.73%) Consultant
8 3 (2.73%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.73%) Technologist
8 3 (2.73%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.55%) REST
2 4 (3.64%) Middleware
3 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.73%) React
4 2 (1.82%) Node.js
4 2 (1.82%) SOAP
5 1 (0.91%) .NET
5 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.91%) Framer.js
5 1 (0.91%) GreenSock GSAP
5 1 (0.91%) JSON
5 1 (0.91%) Kafka
5 1 (0.91%) OAuth
5 1 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.91%) RESTful
5 1 (0.91%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.91%) SAML
5 1 (0.91%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.91%) Vue
5 1 (0.91%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.73%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.73%) TM Forum
6 2 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) BYOD
7 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.91%) Solaris
2 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (72.73%) Technology Strategy
2 45 (40.91%) Roadmaps
3 36 (32.73%) AI
4 28 (25.45%) Enterprise Architecture
5 26 (23.64%) Decision-Making
5 26 (23.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 25 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (20.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (20.00%) Agile
8 22 (20.00%) Migration
9 20 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (17.27%) Analytics
10 19 (17.27%) Business Strategy
11 17 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (15.45%) Event-Driven
12 16 (14.55%) Technology Roadmap
13 15 (13.64%) DevOps
14 14 (12.73%) Architecture Governance
14 14 (12.73%) ITIL
14 14 (12.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) SQL
2 9 (8.18%) Python
3 6 (5.45%) Java
4 4 (3.64%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.73%) Go
5 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.82%) C#
7 1 (0.91%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.91%) Korn
7 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) Degree
4 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.91%) ACCA
6 1 (0.91%) CFA
6 1 (0.91%) CIMA
6 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.91%) MBA
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.91%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.73%) PMO
2 3 (2.73%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.73%) SLA
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.91%) COBIT
4 1 (0.91%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) PSD2
4 1 (0.91%) SEPA
4 1 (0.91%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.73%) Terraform
3 2 (1.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) Kibana
4 1 (0.91%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 24 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) SAP
3 5 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.64%) Google
5 3 (2.73%) VMware
6 2 (1.82%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.82%) Ariba
6 2 (1.82%) Databricks
6 2 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.82%) Tenable
6 2 (1.82%) Workday
7 1 (0.91%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.91%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.91%) IBM
7 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.91%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.91%) Reuters