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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 252 282
Rank change year-on-year -70 +30 +26
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 141 116 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.87% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.94% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 61 63
10th Percentile £434 £500 £450
25th Percentile £538 £530 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -5.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £801 £775 £800
90th Percentile £950 £888 £895
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 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 6 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 -21 12 £719 +10.58% 52
West London -17 7 £1,150 +130.00% 15
East London +1 2 £575 - 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 3 (2.13%) CMS
1 3 (2.13%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.42%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) Appian
3 1 (0.71%) IIS
3 1 (0.71%) Mendix
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.71%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
1 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.75%) Azure
2 18 (12.77%) AWS
3 17 (12.06%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (10.64%) SaaS
5 13 (9.22%) Power Platform
6 12 (8.51%) GCP
7 11 (7.80%) PaaS
8 10 (7.09%) IaaS
8 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (6.38%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.96%) Serverless
11 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.84%) Datadog
11 4 (2.84%) GitHub
11 4 (2.84%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (2.13%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (2.13%) Snowflake
13 2 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Firewall
2 4 (2.84%) DHCP
2 4 (2.84%) DNS
2 4 (2.84%) SAN
2 4 (2.84%) VLAN
2 4 (2.84%) VPN
2 4 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.42%) 4G
3 2 (1.42%) 5G
3 2 (1.42%) LAN
3 2 (1.42%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.84%) GIS
4 4 (2.84%) Metadata
5 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.13%) Power BI
6 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.71%) Big Data
7 1 (0.71%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.71%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.71%) MySQL
7 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.71%) Redis
7 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Chocolatey
1 4 (2.84%) JIRA
2 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
General
1 45 (31.91%) Finance
2 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.31%) Banking
4 20 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.18%) Public Sector
5 18 (12.77%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.38%) Marketing
7 6 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.26%) Legal
7 6 (4.26%) Retail
8 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.84%) Local Government
8 4 (2.84%) Military
8 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.13%) Billing
9 3 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.13%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (49.65%) Architect
2 30 (21.28%) Enterprise Architect
3 23 (16.31%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (13.48%) Lead
5 18 (12.77%) Senior
6 9 (6.38%) Technical Architect
7 8 (5.67%) Consultant
7 8 (5.67%) Senior Architect
8 7 (4.96%) IT Director
8 7 (4.96%) Senior Enterprise Architect
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Head of IT
10 5 (3.55%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Lead Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) .NET
2 7 (4.96%) Terraform
3 5 (3.55%) Kafka
3 5 (3.55%) REST
4 4 (2.84%) Middleware
4 4 (2.84%) Next.js
4 4 (2.84%) Node.js
5 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.13%) SOAP
6 2 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.42%) React
7 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.71%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.71%) CrewAI
7 1 (0.71%) LangChain
7 1 (0.71%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.71%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.96%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.26%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.84%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.84%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.13%) TM Forum
9 2 (1.42%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.42%) NHS
9 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (85.82%) Technology Strategy
2 82 (58.16%) Roadmaps
3 61 (43.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (40.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 50 (35.46%) AI
6 38 (26.95%) Decision-Making
7 34 (24.11%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (21.28%) Architecture Governance
9 29 (20.57%) Business Strategy
10 28 (19.86%) Event-Driven
11 27 (19.15%) Agile
12 26 (18.44%) Technology Roadmap
13 25 (17.73%) DevOps
14 24 (17.02%) Analytics
14 24 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (17.02%) Migration
14 24 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (17.02%) Strategic Roadmap
15 23 (16.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (16.31%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.09%) SQL
2 9 (6.38%) Python
3 8 (5.67%) Java
4 5 (3.55%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.84%) C#
5 4 (2.84%) Go
5 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.42%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.42%) Korn
7 1 (0.71%) Bash
7 1 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.35%) Degree
3 15 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.93%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (7.09%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.13%) CISSP
7 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.42%) CISM
8 2 (1.42%) ISACA
8 2 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.71%) CBAP
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.71%) IIBA
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) SLA
2 5 (3.55%) PMO
3 4 (2.84%) GDPR
3 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.13%) NCSC
4 3 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.42%) COBIT
5 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.42%) QA
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.71%) GRC
6 1 (0.71%) HL7
6 1 (0.71%) PSD2
6 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 6 (4.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.84%) SCCM
4 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 31 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.22%) SAP
3 8 (5.67%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.55%) Databricks
4 5 (3.55%) Google
4 5 (3.55%) Workday
5 4 (2.84%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.84%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.84%) Murex
5 4 (2.84%) Oracle
5 4 (2.84%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.84%) Tenable
5 4 (2.84%) VMware
6 3 (2.13%) Temenos
7 2 (1.42%) Ariba
7 2 (1.42%) Calypso
7 2 (1.42%) FIS
7 2 (1.42%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.71%) OutSystems