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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 283 295
Rank change year-on-year +28 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 128 90 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.64% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 62 83
10th Percentile £466 £475 £450
25th Percentile £538 £533 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £700 £645
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.53% -5.49%
75th Percentile £769 £800 £750
90th Percentile £863 £898 £840
England median daily rate £600 £650 £645
% change year-on-year -7.69% +0.78% +1.98%

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 13,068 14,030 17,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 89.29% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 9,056 12,811
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 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 21 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 +11 20 £581 -22.53% 71
West London - 5 £525 - 4
East London +8 3 - - 5
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 (3.13%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.56%) CMS
2 2 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Endur
2 2 (1.56%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.56%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.78%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.78%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.78%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.69%) Azure
2 32 (25.00%) AWS
3 14 (10.94%) GCP
4 8 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.25%) SaaS
5 6 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.91%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.13%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.34%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.34%) GitHub
8 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.34%) PaaS
9 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.56%) IaaS
9 2 (1.56%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) Network Security
1 4 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.56%) Firewall
2 2 (1.56%) Internet
2 2 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (0.78%) DHCP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) LAN
3 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.91%) Power BI
2 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.34%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (2.34%) Metadata
3 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.56%) Big Data
4 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) AlloyDB
5 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.78%) Looker
5 1 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Git
2 3 (2.34%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.34%) JIRA
3 2 (1.56%) GoCD
3 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
General
1 49 (38.28%) Finance
2 36 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.84%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.81%) Financial Institution
6 9 (7.03%) Banking
7 8 (6.25%) Back Office
7 8 (6.25%) Legal
8 6 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.69%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.91%) Retail
10 4 (3.13%) Automotive
10 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.34%) Local Government
11 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Billing
12 1 (0.78%) Front Office
12 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Law
12 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (50.78%) Architect
2 19 (14.84%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (13.28%) Security Architect
4 15 (11.72%) Senior
5 14 (10.94%) Lead
6 13 (10.16%) Enterprise Architect
6 13 (10.16%) Technical Architect
7 11 (8.59%) Analyst
8 10 (7.81%) Senior Architect
9 9 (7.03%) Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Consultant
10 8 (6.25%) Lead Architect
11 6 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 5 (3.91%) Endur Architect
12 5 (3.91%) OpenLink Architect
12 5 (3.91%) Security Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.91%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.13%) Network Support
13 4 (3.13%) Python Developer
13 4 (3.13%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.81%) REST
2 6 (4.69%) React
3 5 (3.91%) .NET
3 5 (3.91%) Kafka
3 5 (3.91%) Middleware
4 4 (3.13%) JSON
4 4 (3.13%) NumPy
4 4 (3.13%) Pandas
4 4 (3.13%) Plotly
4 4 (3.13%) Swagger
4 4 (3.13%) Web Services
5 3 (2.34%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.34%) SciPy
5 3 (2.34%) Statsmodels
6 2 (1.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.56%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.56%) FHIR
6 2 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.28%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.03%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.91%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.91%) Taxonomies
5 4 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.13%) Grid Computing
5 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.34%) NHS
6 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.56%) CCTV
7 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.91%) Windows
2 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.56%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (64.06%) Technology Strategy
2 36 (28.13%) Roadmaps
3 31 (24.22%) Business Strategy
4 27 (21.09%) Agile
4 27 (21.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (17.19%) DevOps
5 22 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.41%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (16.41%) Microservices
7 20 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 19 (14.84%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (11.72%) Risk Management
11 14 (10.94%) AI
11 14 (10.94%) Incident Response
11 14 (10.94%) Security Architecture
12 13 (10.16%) Data Modelling
13 12 (9.38%) Decision-Making
13 12 (9.38%) Strategic Roadmap
14 11 (8.59%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.38%) SQL
2 10 (7.81%) Java
3 8 (6.25%) C#
4 7 (5.47%) Python
5 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.13%) Bicep
6 4 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.13%) R
7 3 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.56%) Bash
8 2 (1.56%) Go
8 2 (1.56%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.56%) Rust
9 1 (0.78%) C
9 1 (0.78%) C++
9 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) Degree
4 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.34%) CISSP
6 3 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.56%) CISM
7 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) CCNA
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.78%) CRISC
8 1 (0.78%) GIAC
8 1 (0.78%) MCP
8 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.59%) GDPR
2 5 (3.91%) EU AI Act
2 5 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.34%) HL7
4 2 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.56%) QA
5 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.78%) DICOM
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.78%) MiFID
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) PMO
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 8 (6.25%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (10.16%) Kubernetes
1 13 (10.16%) Terraform
2 8 (6.25%) Ansible
3 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.34%) Grafana
4 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.34%) SCCM
5 2 (1.56%) rkt
Vendors
1 21 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.25%) CyberArk
2 8 (6.25%) Darktrace
2 8 (6.25%) Splunk
3 6 (4.69%) VMware
4 5 (3.91%) Oracle
5 4 (3.13%) Dataiku
5 4 (3.13%) Google
5 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.13%) SAP
6 3 (2.34%) Databricks
6 3 (2.34%) Hitachi
6 3 (2.34%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.56%) Cerner
7 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.56%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.56%) Temenos
7 2 (1.56%) TOWER Software