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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 272 260
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 +67
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 117 88 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.62% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.69% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 92
10th Percentile £463 £472 £426
25th Percentile £575 £525 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £594
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +17.89% -10.04%
75th Percentile £819 £800 £688
90th Percentile £985 £895 £774
England median daily rate £641 £634 £625
% change year-on-year +1.16% +1.40% -0.79%

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 12,967 12,718 16,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.24% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 8,128 11,528
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 155 254
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £16.78
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £43.84
% change year-on-year -27.63% -20.73% +25.25%

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 10 January 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
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 10 January 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 +8 22 £488 -39.06% 12
West London - 2 £681 - 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 5 (4.27%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.85%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.85%) Endur
2 1 (0.85%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.85%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.79%) Azure
2 27 (23.08%) AWS
3 11 (9.40%) GCP
4 10 (8.55%) SaaS
5 6 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.42%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.71%) GitHub
8 2 (1.71%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.71%) Serverless
8 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.85%) IaaS
9 1 (0.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) Network Security
1 5 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.56%) Firewall
3 2 (1.71%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) DHCP
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) Power BI
1 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.71%) Metadata
3 2 (1.71%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.85%) Big Data
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.27%) JIRA
2 4 (3.42%) Git
3 2 (1.71%) GoCD
3 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.71%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (41.03%) Finance
2 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.24%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.55%) Financial Institution
5 10 (8.55%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Legal
7 5 (4.27%) Banking
8 4 (3.42%) Back Office
8 4 (3.42%) Retail
9 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Publishing
9 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Aviation
10 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) Law
10 1 (0.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (41.03%) Architect
2 17 (14.53%) Security Architect
2 17 (14.53%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (12.82%) Analyst
3 15 (12.82%) Lead
4 13 (11.11%) Senior
5 10 (8.55%) Developer
5 10 (8.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 7 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 7 (5.98%) Consultant
6 7 (5.98%) Lead Architect
7 6 (5.13%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.27%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.27%) Head of IT
8 5 (4.27%) Network Analyst
8 5 (4.27%) Network Security Analyst
8 5 (4.27%) Network Support
8 5 (4.27%) Network Support Analyst
8 5 (4.27%) Security Analyst
8 5 (4.27%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.84%) REST
2 4 (3.42%) .NET
2 4 (3.42%) NumPy
2 4 (3.42%) Pandas
2 4 (3.42%) Plotly
2 4 (3.42%) Web Services
3 3 (2.56%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.56%) SciPy
3 3 (2.56%) Statsmodels
4 2 (1.71%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.71%) Kafka
4 2 (1.71%) React
4 2 (1.71%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth
5 1 (0.85%) OpenID
5 1 (0.85%) Swagger
5 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.27%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.27%) Taxonomies
3 5 (4.27%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.71%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) VMS
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
1 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (65.81%) Technology Strategy
2 36 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 27 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (21.37%) Agile
5 24 (20.51%) Business Strategy
6 23 (19.66%) Enterprise Architecture
7 18 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (13.68%) Incident Response
9 15 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (11.97%) CI/CD
10 14 (11.97%) Security Architecture
11 13 (11.11%) DevOps
12 12 (10.26%) AI
12 12 (10.26%) Analytics
12 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (9.40%) Architecture Roadmap
13 11 (9.40%) Cloud Security
13 11 (9.40%) Risk Management
13 11 (9.40%) Software Engineering
14 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.40%) SQL
2 6 (5.13%) Python
3 4 (3.42%) C#
4 3 (2.56%) Java
4 3 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.56%) R
5 2 (1.71%) C
5 2 (1.71%) C++
5 2 (1.71%) Go
5 2 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.71%) Rust
6 1 (0.85%) Bicep
6 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.55%) Degree
4 8 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.98%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.71%) CCNA
7 2 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.71%) CISSP
7 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.71%) MCP
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CISM
8 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) GDPR
2 5 (4.27%) EU AI Act
3 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.71%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.85%) MiFID
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
1 5 (4.27%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.27%) Terraform
3 2 (1.71%) Ansible
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.71%) rkt
4 1 (0.85%) Grafana
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.84%) CyberArk
2 8 (6.84%) Darktrace
2 8 (6.84%) Splunk
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle
3 5 (4.27%) SAP
3 5 (4.27%) VMware
4 4 (3.42%) Dataiku
4 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.71%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.71%) HP
5 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.85%) Ariba
6 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.85%) Google
6 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.85%) Mitel
6 1 (0.85%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.85%) Temenos