IT Strategy Contracts in London

IT/Technology Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 259 345
Rank change year-on-year +18 +86 -49
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 113 143 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.92% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 102 110
10th Percentile £425 £410 £463
25th Percentile £503 £452 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £581 £675
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -13.89% -3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £850
90th Percentile £790 £910 £925
England median daily rate £625 £622 £650
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.31% -
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% -42.55%
England median hourly rate £58.90 £30.12 £29.92
% change year-on-year +95.53% +0.67% +13.98%

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 11,891 15,474 22,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.55% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,950 11,028 16,622
10th Percentile £333 £343 £372
25th Percentile £425 £446 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £587
Median % change year-on-year - -6.34% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 303 260
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.01 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.47% +11.17%
75th Percentile £50.13 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.30 £68.60 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in London.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in London

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in London

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in London

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 1 July 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 -1 17 £675 +12.97% 80
East London +12 3 £600 -4.76% 29
West London +11 3 £625 +16.93% 15
South London - 3 £581 - 6
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 7 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.88%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.88%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Endur
2 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.20%) Azure
2 22 (19.47%) AWS
3 14 (12.39%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.85%) GCP
5 9 (7.96%) PaaS
6 8 (7.08%) GitHub
6 8 (7.08%) SaaS
7 7 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.31%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (5.31%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.31%) IaaS
8 6 (5.31%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.42%) Serverless
9 5 (4.42%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (3.54%) Asana
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) SSL
1 4 (3.54%) WAN
2 3 (2.65%) LAN
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.77%) DNS
3 2 (1.77%) Firewall
3 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
4 1 (0.88%) NAS
4 1 (0.88%) SAN
4 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.42%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.65%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (2.65%) Power BI
3 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.88%) Big Data
4 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.88%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.88%) Looker
4 1 (0.88%) Metadata
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) CircleCI
2 4 (3.54%) JIRA
3 2 (1.77%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
General
1 41 (36.28%) Social Skills
2 40 (35.40%) Finance
3 15 (13.27%) Banking
4 12 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.85%) Back Office
6 6 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.31%) Retail
7 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.65%) Automotive
8 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Legal
8 3 (2.65%) Military
8 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.77%) Front Office
9 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Billing
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 61 (53.98%) Architect
2 16 (14.16%) Technical Architect
3 15 (13.27%) Enterprise Architect
4 14 (12.39%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.73%) Senior
6 10 (8.85%) Senior Architect
7 8 (7.08%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (7.08%) Lead
8 6 (5.31%) Consultant
8 6 (5.31%) Senior Technical Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) IT Director
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Architect
10 4 (3.54%) Coordinator
10 4 (3.54%) IT Assistant
10 4 (3.54%) IT Support
10 4 (3.54%) IT Support Assistant
10 4 (3.54%) Support Assistant
11 3 (2.65%) Endur Architect
11 3 (2.65%) OpenLink Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) REST
2 6 (5.31%) JSON
2 6 (5.31%) Middleware
2 6 (5.31%) XML
3 4 (3.54%) CSS
3 4 (3.54%) HTML
3 4 (3.54%) JDBC
3 4 (3.54%) LDAP
3 4 (3.54%) ODBC
3 4 (3.54%) SAML
3 4 (3.54%) SOAP
3 4 (3.54%) Web Services
4 3 (2.65%) .NET
4 3 (2.65%) Kafka
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.65%) React
5 2 (1.77%) FHIR
5 2 (1.77%) Node.js
5 2 (1.77%) Swagger
6 1 (0.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.42%) NHS
3 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.65%) Blog
5 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.65%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.77%) CCTV
6 2 (1.77%) EPoS
6 2 (1.77%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.77%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.31%) Windows
2 4 (3.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (57.52%) Technology Strategy
2 45 (39.82%) Roadmaps
3 32 (28.32%) Agile
4 26 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (19.47%) Business Strategy
6 22 (19.47%) DevOps
6 22 (19.47%) Microservices
7 19 (16.81%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (14.16%) Analytics
8 16 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (13.27%) CI/CD
10 14 (12.39%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (11.50%) Strategic Roadmap
11 13 (11.50%) Technology Roadmap
11 13 (11.50%) TOGAF
12 12 (10.62%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (10.62%) Decision-Making
12 12 (10.62%) Migration
12 12 (10.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.04%) Java
2 7 (6.19%) TypeScript
3 6 (5.31%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.42%) Kotlin
4 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.54%) Python
6 3 (2.65%) Bicep
6 3 (2.65%) C#
6 3 (2.65%) SQL
7 2 (1.77%) Bash
7 2 (1.77%) C++
8 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.96%) Degree
4 8 (7.08%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.65%) CISM
7 3 (2.65%) CISSP
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.65%) PMP
7 3 (2.65%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.88%) CITP
9 1 (0.88%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CRISC
9 1 (0.88%) GIAC
9 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) GDPR
2 6 (5.31%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.42%) NIST
4 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.54%) PMO
4 4 (3.54%) QA
5 3 (2.65%) HL7
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.77%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.88%) COBIT
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.88%) DICOM
7 1 (0.88%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.88%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.54%) Docker
3 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (11.50%) Kubernetes
1 13 (11.50%) Terraform
2 6 (5.31%) Grafana
2 6 (5.31%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.42%) Ansible
4 4 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.73%) SAP
3 6 (5.31%) Databricks
3 6 (5.31%) Oracle
4 5 (4.42%) OpenText
4 5 (4.42%) Qualtrics
4 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.54%) Google
5 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.77%) Cerner
7 2 (1.77%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.77%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.77%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.88%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.88%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.88%) UiPath