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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 273 255
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 +69
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 112 86 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.64% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.70% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 48 95
10th Percentile £422 £413 £416
25th Percentile £513 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +21.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £778 £800 £706
90th Percentile £979 £841 £838
England median daily rate £607 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -3.73% +5.00% -6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.52 - -
Median hourly rate £28.55 - -
75th Percentile £30.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.78 £37.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +39.93% -34.22% +232.15%

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 14,067 12,226 16,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.56% 90.66% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 7,826 11,604
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.34% -17.37%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +2 21 £475 -40.63% 9
West London -18 4 £681 -6.07% 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 5 (4.46%) Confluence
2 4 (3.57%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.79%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.79%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.79%) SAP MM
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.00%) Azure
2 26 (23.21%) AWS
3 13 (11.61%) SaaS
4 11 (9.82%) GCP
5 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.68%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.68%) IaaS
7 3 (2.68%) PaaS
8 2 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.79%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.79%) Serverless
8 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.89%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.89%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) Network Security
1 5 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.68%) Firewall
3 2 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) DHCP
4 1 (0.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) Power BI
2 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.79%) Metadata
3 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.89%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) JIRA
2 4 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (1.79%) GoCD
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.79%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 47 (41.96%) Finance
2 32 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.96%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 7 (6.25%) Legal
7 5 (4.46%) Banking
8 4 (3.57%) Back Office
8 4 (3.57%) Retail
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing
9 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Publishing
10 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.89%) Aviation
10 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Local Government
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (34.82%) Architect
2 18 (16.07%) Analyst
3 16 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (13.39%) Senior
5 12 (10.71%) Lead
6 11 (9.82%) Security Architect
7 8 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 8 (7.14%) Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (6.25%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Head of IT
9 5 (4.46%) Lead Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Network Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Network Security Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Network Support
9 5 (4.46%) Network Support Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Security Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Security Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.25%) REST
2 4 (3.57%) NumPy
2 4 (3.57%) Pandas
2 4 (3.57%) Plotly
2 4 (3.57%) Web Services
3 3 (2.68%) .NET
3 3 (2.68%) React
3 3 (2.68%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.68%) SciPy
3 3 (2.68%) Statsmodels
4 2 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.79%) JSON
4 2 (1.79%) Kafka
4 2 (1.79%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.79%) Middleware
4 2 (1.79%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.79%) Vue
5 1 (0.89%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (0.89%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.46%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.46%) Taxonomies
3 5 (4.46%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.57%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (2.68%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.79%) Equities
6 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.79%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
1 1 (0.89%) VMS
1 1 (0.89%) Windows
1 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (65.18%) Technology Strategy
2 34 (30.36%) Roadmaps
3 29 (25.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (24.11%) Agile
5 22 (19.64%) Enterprise Architecture
6 21 (18.75%) Business Strategy
7 15 (13.39%) Analytics
7 15 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (11.61%) AI
8 13 (11.61%) CI/CD
8 13 (11.61%) DevOps
8 13 (11.61%) Migration
8 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (10.71%) Incident Response
9 12 (10.71%) Risk Management
10 11 (9.82%) Architecture Roadmap
10 11 (9.82%) Security Architecture
11 10 (8.93%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.93%) SQL
2 6 (5.36%) Python
3 3 (2.68%) C#
3 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.79%) Go
4 2 (1.79%) Java
4 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.79%) R
4 2 (1.79%) Rust
5 1 (0.89%) Bicep
5 1 (0.89%) C
5 1 (0.89%) C++
5 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) Degree
4 7 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.79%) CISSP
7 2 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.89%) CCNA
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.89%) CISM
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) GDPR
2 5 (4.46%) EU AI Act
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.89%) MiFID
4 1 (0.89%) PSD2
4 1 (0.89%) QA
4 1 (0.89%) SEPA
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (5.36%) Docker
2 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.46%) Terraform
3 2 (1.79%) Ansible
3 2 (1.79%) rkt
4 1 (0.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.89%) Kibana
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) SAP
3 5 (4.46%) CyberArk
3 5 (4.46%) Darktrace
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.46%) Splunk
3 5 (4.46%) VMware
4 4 (3.57%) Dataiku
5 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.79%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.79%) Vermilion
6 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.89%) Google
6 1 (0.89%) HP
6 1 (0.89%) Reuters
6 1 (0.89%) Temenos
6 1 (0.89%) Veeam