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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 275 322
Rank change year-on-year +22 +47 -5
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 120 103 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.63% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.71% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 63 98
10th Percentile £493 £413 £450
25th Percentile £525 £482 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £754 £778 £750
90th Percentile £886 £830 £913
England median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 £30.12 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +232.01% -19.34% -
England median hourly rate £58.90 £30.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year +95.53% -19.34% +102.03%

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 12,460 14,546 19,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.52% 89.21% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,243 9,682 14,351
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 179 228
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -7.28% +4.86%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +10 20 £675 -3.57% 27
East London +9 3 - - 2
West London -5 3 £500 -6.45% 8
South London - 2 £713 -
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Endur
2 2 (1.67%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.83%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.83%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.83%) Azure
2 22 (18.33%) AWS
3 14 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.33%) GCP
5 7 (5.83%) SaaS
6 6 (5.00%) GitHub
6 6 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.17%) PaaS
8 4 (3.33%) IaaS
9 3 (2.50%) Asana
9 3 (2.50%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.67%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.83%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) Internet
2 2 (1.67%) LAN
2 2 (1.67%) WAN
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.50%) Big Data
2 3 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.67%) Power BI
4 1 (0.83%) AlloyDB
4 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.83%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.83%) Looker
4 1 (0.83%) Metadata
4 1 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) CircleCI
2 4 (3.33%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.83%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) JUnit
General
1 55 (45.83%) Finance
2 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.50%) Banking
4 12 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.17%) Back Office
5 11 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.50%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.33%) Automotive
10 4 (3.33%) Legal
11 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.50%) Retail
12 2 (1.67%) Local Government
12 2 (1.67%) Military
12 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.83%) Billing
13 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (51.67%) Architect
2 14 (11.67%) Technical Architect
3 13 (10.83%) Enterprise Architect
3 13 (10.83%) Lead
3 13 (10.83%) Security Architect
3 13 (10.83%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (8.33%) Senior
5 8 (6.67%) Senior Architect
6 7 (5.83%) Consultant
7 6 (5.00%) IT Director
8 5 (4.17%) Lead Architect
8 5 (4.17%) Senior Technical Architect
9 4 (3.33%) Analyst
9 4 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.33%) Developer
9 4 (3.33%) Endur Architect
9 4 (3.33%) OpenLink Architect
9 4 (3.33%) Security Manager
10 3 (2.50%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.50%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) Middleware
2 4 (3.33%) React
2 4 (3.33%) REST
3 3 (2.50%) JSON
3 3 (2.50%) Kafka
3 3 (2.50%) Swagger
4 2 (1.67%) .NET
4 2 (1.67%) CSS
4 2 (1.67%) FHIR
4 2 (1.67%) HTML
4 2 (1.67%) Node.js
4 2 (1.67%) XML
5 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.83%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.83%) jQuery
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.83%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.17%) NHS
4 4 (3.33%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.50%) Blog
5 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.50%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.67%) CCTV
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.67%) EPoS
6 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (59.17%) Technology Strategy
2 39 (32.50%) Roadmaps
3 30 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 26 (21.67%) Agile
4 26 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (19.17%) Microservices
5 23 (19.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (15.83%) DevOps
8 18 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 18 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
10 15 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
11 13 (10.83%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (10.83%) Project Management
12 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (10.00%) ITIL
12 12 (10.00%) Risk Management
12 12 (10.00%) TOGAF
13 11 (9.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.17%) Java
2 6 (5.00%) Python
2 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (4.17%) C#
4 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.33%) SQL
5 3 (2.50%) Bicep
5 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.50%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.67%) Bash
6 2 (1.67%) R
7 1 (0.83%) C
7 1 (0.83%) C++
7 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) Degree
4 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.33%) CISM
7 4 (3.33%) CISSP
7 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.50%) PMP
8 3 (2.50%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.83%) CITP
10 1 (0.83%) CRISC
10 1 (0.83%) GIAC
10 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) GDPR
2 6 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.50%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.50%) HL7
5 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (2.50%) NIST
5 3 (2.50%) QA
6 2 (1.67%) PMO
6 2 (1.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.83%) DICOM
7 1 (0.83%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.83%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (10.00%) Terraform
2 6 (5.00%) Ansible
3 5 (4.17%) Grafana
3 5 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.83%) CyberArk
2 7 (5.83%) Darktrace
2 7 (5.83%) Databricks
2 7 (5.83%) Oracle
2 7 (5.83%) Splunk
3 6 (5.00%) SAP
4 5 (4.17%) Google
5 3 (2.50%) Hitachi
5 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.67%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.67%) Cerner
6 2 (1.67%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.67%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.67%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.83%) Spotify