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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 294 299
Rank change year-on-year +34 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 125 92 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.59% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.66% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 62 84
10th Percentile £500 £475 £450
25th Percentile £538 £533 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £700 £648
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -4.07%
75th Percentile £770 £800 £750
90th Percentile £885 £898 £835
England median daily rate £601 £634 £650
% change year-on-year -5.25% -2.50% +3.17%

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 12,862 13,995 18,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.47% 89.11% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 9,006 13,076
10th Percentile £331 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 238
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +1.52% -
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £61.31
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +19 20 £675 -3.57% 148
West London - 4 £513 - 8
East London +5 3 - - 3
South London - 2 £713 -
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 (3.20%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.60%) CMS
2 2 (1.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.80%) JBoss
3 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Endur
2 2 (1.60%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.60%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.80%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.80%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.80%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.80%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (31.20%) Azure
2 31 (24.80%) AWS
3 14 (11.20%) GCP
4 10 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.40%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (5.60%) SaaS
7 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.20%) GitHub
9 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.40%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (2.40%) PaaS
11 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.60%) IaaS
11 2 (1.60%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.80%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Firewall
1 2 (1.60%) Internet
1 2 (1.60%) LAN
1 2 (1.60%) Network Security
1 2 (1.60%) VPN
1 2 (1.60%) WAN
1 2 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.80%) DHCP
2 1 (0.80%) DNS
2 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) Power BI
2 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.20%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.40%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (2.40%) Metadata
3 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.60%) Big Data
4 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.80%) AlloyDB
5 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.80%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.80%) Looker
5 1 (0.80%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) CircleCI
1 4 (3.20%) Git
1 4 (3.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) GoCD
2 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (40.80%) Finance
2 38 (30.40%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.00%) Banking
5 10 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 9 (7.20%) Back Office
6 9 (7.20%) Legal
7 6 (4.80%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.20%) Automotive
9 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.20%) Retail
10 3 (2.40%) Local Government
10 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Military
11 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Law
12 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (52.00%) Architect
2 18 (14.40%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (13.60%) Security Architect
4 16 (12.80%) Senior
5 14 (11.20%) Enterprise Architect
5 14 (11.20%) Technical Architect
6 12 (9.60%) Lead
7 11 (8.80%) Senior Architect
8 9 (7.20%) Consultant
8 9 (7.20%) Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Analyst
9 7 (5.60%) Lead Architect
10 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Endur Architect
11 5 (4.00%) OpenLink Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Project Manager
11 5 (4.00%) Security Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) REST
2 6 (4.80%) Middleware
2 6 (4.80%) React
3 5 (4.00%) .NET
3 5 (4.00%) Kafka
4 4 (3.20%) JSON
4 4 (3.20%) NumPy
4 4 (3.20%) Pandas
4 4 (3.20%) Plotly
4 4 (3.20%) Swagger
4 4 (3.20%) Web Services
5 3 (2.40%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.40%) SciPy
5 3 (2.40%) Statsmodels
6 2 (1.60%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.60%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.60%) FHIR
6 2 (1.60%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.80%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.60%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.00%) Taxonomies
4 4 (3.20%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.20%) Grid Computing
4 4 (3.20%) NHS
5 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.60%) CCTV
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.60%) Windows
2 3 (2.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.80%) VMS
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (64.80%) Technology Strategy
2 38 (30.40%) Roadmaps
3 31 (24.80%) Business Strategy
4 28 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (21.60%) Agile
6 24 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (16.80%) Microservices
8 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 20 (16.00%) DevOps
9 19 (15.20%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (13.60%) Risk Management
11 16 (12.80%) Enterprise Architecture
11 16 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (12.00%) AI
13 14 (11.20%) Decision-Making
13 14 (11.20%) Security Architecture
14 13 (10.40%) Data Modelling
15 12 (9.60%) Incident Response
15 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (9.60%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.60%) SQL
2 11 (8.80%) Java
3 8 (6.40%) C#
4 7 (5.60%) Python
5 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) Bicep
6 4 (3.20%) R
6 4 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.60%) Bash
8 2 (1.60%) Go
8 2 (1.60%) Rust
9 1 (0.80%) C
9 1 (0.80%) C++
9 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) Degree
4 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.40%) CISSP
7 3 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.60%) CISM
8 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.60%) PMP
9 1 (0.80%) CCNA
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CRISC
9 1 (0.80%) GIAC
9 1 (0.80%) MCP
9 1 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) GDPR
2 5 (4.00%) EU AI Act
2 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.40%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.40%) HL7
4 3 (2.40%) QA
5 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.80%) DICOM
6 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.80%) MiFID
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.80%) PMO
6 1 (0.80%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (11.20%) Kubernetes
1 14 (11.20%) Terraform
2 8 (6.40%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.20%) Grafana
4 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.40%) SCCM
6 2 (1.60%) rkt
Vendors
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) CyberArk
2 8 (6.40%) Darktrace
2 8 (6.40%) Splunk
3 4 (3.20%) Databricks
3 4 (3.20%) Dataiku
3 4 (3.20%) Google
3 4 (3.20%) SAP
4 3 (2.40%) Hitachi
4 3 (2.40%) Oracle
4 3 (2.40%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.40%) VMware
5 2 (1.60%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.60%) Cerner
5 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.60%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.60%) Refinitiv
5 2 (1.60%) Temenos
5 2 (1.60%) TOWER Software