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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 259 294
Rank change year-on-year -51 +35 +11
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 144 115 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.87% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.94% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 64 65
10th Percentile £443 £500 £450
25th Percentile £548 £536 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £800 £760 £800
90th Percentile £950 £949 £890
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% -1.92%

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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -25 12 £719 +7.52% 60
West London -17 7 £1,150 +124.39% 20
East London +3 2 £575 - 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 4 (2.78%) CMS
1 4 (2.78%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.39%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Appian
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
3 1 (0.69%) Mendix
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.69%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.50%) Azure
2 19 (13.19%) AWS
3 17 (11.81%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (10.42%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.03%) SaaS
6 12 (8.33%) GCP
7 11 (7.64%) PaaS
8 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 9 (6.25%) IaaS
10 7 (4.86%) Serverless
11 5 (3.47%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.78%) Datadog
12 4 (2.78%) GitHub
13 3 (2.08%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) Firewall
2 4 (2.78%) DHCP
2 4 (2.78%) DNS
2 4 (2.78%) SAN
2 4 (2.78%) VLAN
2 4 (2.78%) VPN
2 4 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.39%) 4G
3 2 (1.39%) 5G
3 2 (1.39%) LAN
3 2 (1.39%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.39%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 6 (4.17%) Metadata
3 5 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.47%) Power BI
3 5 (3.47%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.78%) GIS
5 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.69%) Big Data
6 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.69%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.69%) MySQL
6 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.69%) Redis
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Chocolatey
1 4 (2.78%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.69%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
General
1 45 (31.25%) Finance
2 43 (29.86%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.97%) Banking
4 21 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 19 (13.19%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (6.94%) Marketing
7 6 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Retail
8 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.78%) Legal
9 4 (2.78%) Local Government
9 4 (2.78%) Military
9 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.78%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.08%) Billing
11 2 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (50.69%) Architect
2 30 (20.83%) Enterprise Architect
3 23 (15.97%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (13.89%) Lead
5 18 (12.50%) Senior
6 10 (6.94%) Technical Architect
7 8 (5.56%) Consultant
7 8 (5.56%) Senior Architect
8 7 (4.86%) IT Director
8 7 (4.86%) Senior Enterprise Architect
9 6 (4.17%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.47%) Head of IT
10 5 (3.47%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Lead Architect
11 4 (2.78%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.25%) .NET
2 8 (5.56%) Terraform
3 5 (3.47%) Kafka
3 5 (3.47%) Next.js
3 5 (3.47%) REST
4 4 (2.78%) Node.js
5 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.08%) Middleware
5 3 (2.08%) SOAP
6 2 (1.39%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.39%) React
7 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.69%) CrewAI
7 1 (0.69%) FHIR
7 1 (0.69%) LangChain
7 1 (0.69%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.69%) MACH
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.69%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.81%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.86%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.17%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.78%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.78%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.08%) TM Forum
9 2 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.39%) NHS
9 2 (1.39%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (86.81%) Technology Strategy
2 81 (56.25%) Roadmaps
3 61 (42.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (39.58%) Enterprise Architecture
5 49 (34.03%) AI
6 37 (25.69%) Decision-Making
7 35 (24.31%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (20.83%) Architecture Governance
9 28 (19.44%) Business Strategy
9 28 (19.44%) Event-Driven
10 27 (18.75%) Agile
11 26 (18.06%) DevOps
11 26 (18.06%) Technology Roadmap
12 24 (16.67%) Analytics
12 24 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
12 24 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (16.67%) Migration
12 24 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
12 24 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (15.97%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.94%) Python
1 10 (6.94%) SQL
2 8 (5.56%) Java
3 5 (3.47%) C#
3 5 (3.47%) Go
3 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.39%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.39%) Bash
5 2 (1.39%) Korn
6 1 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (13.19%) Degree
2 18 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.72%) TOGAF Certification
5 13 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.94%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.08%) CISSP
7 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.39%) CISM
8 2 (1.39%) ISACA
8 2 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.69%) CBAP
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.69%) IIBA
9 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) SLA
2 5 (3.47%) PMO
3 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.08%) NCSC
5 2 (1.39%) COBIT
5 2 (1.39%) QA
5 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) HL7
6 1 (0.69%) PSD2
6 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (4.86%) Docker
2 6 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.78%) SCCM
4 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 34 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.33%) SAP
3 8 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.86%) Databricks
4 7 (4.86%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.17%) Oracle
6 5 (3.47%) Google
6 5 (3.47%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.78%) Murex
7 4 (2.78%) Tenable
7 4 (2.78%) VMware
7 4 (2.78%) Workday
8 3 (2.08%) Temenos
9 2 (1.39%) Calypso
9 2 (1.39%) FIS
9 2 (1.39%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.69%) OutSystems