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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 239 250
Rank change year-on-year -95 +11 +98
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 105 119 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.89% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.97% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 66 101
10th Percentile £413 £425 £410
25th Percentile £494 £503 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.64% -12.96%
75th Percentile £813 £750 £775
90th Percentile £1,000 £801 £915
England median daily rate £560 £600 £622
% change year-on-year -6.75% -3.54% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.52 - -
Median hourly rate £28.55 £100.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -71.45% +232.01% -19.34%
75th Percentile £53.67 - -
90th Percentile £67.52 - -
England median hourly rate £51.53 £58.90 £23.31
% change year-on-year -12.51% +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 17,355 12,260 15,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.20% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 8,183 11,073
10th Percentile £359 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.80 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Strategy in London over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 July 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 -21 12 £694 +2.78% 17
West London -18 5 £1,100 +109.52% 7
East London -2 1 £525 -12.50% 5
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 (1.90%) Camunda
1 2 (1.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) CMS
2 1 (0.95%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.95%) IIS
2 1 (0.95%) nginx
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.95%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.43%) Azure
2 19 (18.10%) SaaS
3 18 (17.14%) AWS
4 11 (10.48%) IaaS
5 10 (9.52%) GCP
5 10 (9.52%) PaaS
6 9 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.81%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.86%) Google Gemini
9 3 (2.86%) Serverless
10 2 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.95%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.95%) IBM Blueworks
11 1 (0.95%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) 4G
1 1 (0.95%) 5G
1 1 (0.95%) HTTP
1 1 (0.95%) LAN
1 1 (0.95%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Power BI
2 4 (3.81%) GIS
2 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.90%) Tableau
5 1 (0.95%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.95%) Metadata
5 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (0.95%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.95%) Postman
2 1 (0.95%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (40.00%) Finance
2 33 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (17.14%) Public Sector
5 13 (12.38%) Legal
6 12 (11.43%) Banking
7 9 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (7.62%) Financial Institution
9 6 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (4.76%) Marketing
11 4 (3.81%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (2.86%) Local Government
12 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.90%) Billing
13 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.90%) Retail
14 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.95%) Front Office
14 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (32.38%) Architect
2 13 (12.38%) Senior
3 12 (11.43%) Enterprise Architect
3 12 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (8.57%) Lead
5 5 (4.76%) Analyst
5 5 (4.76%) Head of Technology
6 4 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Category Manager
6 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) IT Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (2.86%) Consultant
7 3 (2.86%) Developer
7 3 (2.86%) Head of IT
7 3 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (2.86%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.81%) React
2 3 (2.86%) Middleware
2 3 (2.86%) REST
3 2 (1.90%) CrewAI
3 2 (1.90%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.90%) Node.js
3 2 (1.90%) Vue
4 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.95%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.95%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (0.95%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.95%) Kafka
4 1 (0.95%) OAuth
4 1 (0.95%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.95%) RESTful
4 1 (0.95%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.95%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.90%) Equities
6 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) TM Forum
7 1 (0.95%) BYOD
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Solaris
1 1 (0.95%) Windows
1 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (75.24%) Technology Strategy
2 38 (36.19%) Roadmaps
3 34 (32.38%) AI
4 24 (22.86%) Enterprise Architecture
5 23 (21.90%) Decision-Making
5 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (20.00%) Agile
6 21 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (18.10%) Analytics
7 19 (18.10%) Migration
7 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.14%) Business Strategy
9 17 (16.19%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (15.24%) Machine Learning
11 14 (13.33%) CI/CD
11 14 (13.33%) Event-Driven
11 14 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
12 13 (12.38%) DevOps
13 12 (11.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.57%) Python
1 9 (8.57%) SQL
2 6 (5.71%) Java
3 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.86%) Go
4 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.90%) C#
6 1 (0.95%) Korn
6 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Degree
4 2 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.95%) ACCA
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.95%) CFA
5 1 (0.95%) CIMA
5 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.95%) MBA
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.90%) QA
4 1 (0.95%) COBIT
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) PMO
4 1 (0.95%) PSD2
4 1 (0.95%) SEPA
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Kibana
3 1 (0.95%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) SAP
3 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.86%) Google
5 2 (1.90%) Ariba
5 2 (1.90%) Databricks
5 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle
5 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.90%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.90%) Vermilion
5 2 (1.90%) Workday
6 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.95%) IBM
6 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.95%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.95%) Reuters
6 1 (0.95%) VMware