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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 238 270
Rank change year-on-year -84 +32 +50
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 122 128 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.94% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.02% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 71 82
10th Percentile £413 £456 £410
25th Percentile £522 £506 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £640
Median % change year-on-year - +1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £809 £753 £788
90th Percentile £963 £875 £898
England median daily rate £600 £600 £660
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £100.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +232.01% -19.34%
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £99.41 £58.90 £23.31
% change year-on-year +68.79% +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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 August 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 August 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 -31 12 £713 +9.62% 27
West London -13 6 £1,100 +120.00% 16
East London -1 1 £525 - 2
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 (1.64%) Camunda
2 1 (0.82%) CMS
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.82%) IIS
2 1 (0.82%) nginx
2 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.61%) Azure
2 19 (15.57%) SaaS
3 18 (14.75%) AWS
4 17 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.66%) IaaS
6 12 (9.84%) PaaS
7 11 (9.02%) GCP
7 11 (9.02%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (4.92%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.10%) Serverless
11 3 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.46%) Datadog
11 3 (2.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.46%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.64%) Google Gemini
13 1 (0.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 1 (0.82%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) Firewall
2 3 (2.46%) DHCP
2 3 (2.46%) DNS
2 3 (2.46%) SAN
2 3 (2.46%) VLAN
2 3 (2.46%) VPN
2 3 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.64%) 4G
3 2 (1.64%) 5G
3 2 (1.64%) LAN
3 2 (1.64%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.64%) WAN
4 1 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.10%) Power BI
1 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.28%) GIS
3 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.64%) Tableau
5 1 (0.82%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.82%) Metadata
5 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.28%) JIRA
2 3 (2.46%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.82%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.82%) Postman
3 1 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
General
1 43 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 41 (33.61%) Finance
3 24 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.75%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.66%) Legal
6 12 (9.84%) Banking
6 12 (9.84%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.74%) Financial Institution
7 7 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.28%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (3.28%) Local Government
10 4 (3.28%) Marketing
10 4 (3.28%) Retail
10 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.46%) Billing
12 2 (1.64%) Military
13 1 (0.82%) Front Office
13 1 (0.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (40.98%) Architect
2 21 (17.21%) Enterprise Architect
3 20 (16.39%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (12.30%) Senior
5 10 (8.20%) Lead
6 7 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Consultant
7 6 (4.92%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 4 (3.28%) AWS Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Category Manager
8 4 (3.28%) Head of Technology
8 4 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Architect
9 3 (2.46%) IT Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (2.46%) Technologist
9 3 (2.46%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) REST
2 4 (3.28%) Middleware
3 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.46%) React
4 2 (1.64%) .NET
4 2 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.64%) Node.js
4 2 (1.64%) SOAP
5 1 (0.82%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.82%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.82%) JSON
5 1 (0.82%) Kafka
5 1 (0.82%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.82%) OAuth
5 1 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.82%) RESTful
5 1 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.82%) SAML
5 1 (0.82%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.82%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.46%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.46%) TM Forum
6 2 (1.64%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.82%) Animation
7 1 (0.82%) Blog
7 1 (0.82%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.82%) FMCG
7 1 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.82%) Solaris
2 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (77.05%) Technology Strategy
2 56 (45.90%) Roadmaps
3 44 (36.07%) AI
4 35 (28.69%) Enterprise Architecture
5 34 (27.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (25.41%) Decision-Making
7 28 (22.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (19.67%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (18.03%) Agile
10 22 (18.03%) Analytics
10 22 (18.03%) Migration
11 21 (17.21%) Business Strategy
12 19 (15.57%) Architecture Governance
12 19 (15.57%) Event-Driven
13 18 (14.75%) Data Architecture
13 18 (14.75%) TOGAF
14 17 (13.93%) DevOps
15 16 (13.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.20%) SQL
2 8 (6.56%) Python
3 7 (5.74%) Java
4 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.46%) Go
5 3 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.64%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (0.82%) Korn
7 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) Degree
4 8 (6.56%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.64%) CISM
7 2 (1.64%) CISSP
7 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.64%) ISACA
7 2 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.82%) ACCA
8 1 (0.82%) CFA
8 1 (0.82%) CIMA
8 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.82%) MBA
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.82%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) PMO
1 6 (4.92%) SLA
2 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.46%) GDPR
2 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.46%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.82%) COBIT
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.46%) SCCM
3 3 (2.46%) Terraform
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) Kibana
4 1 (0.82%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 31 (25.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.20%) SAP
3 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.28%) Google
5 4 (3.28%) VMware
6 3 (2.46%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.46%) Tenable
6 3 (2.46%) Workday
7 2 (1.64%) Ariba
7 2 (1.64%) Databricks
7 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.82%) IBM
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle
8 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.82%) Reuters