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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 249 261
Rank change year-on-year -72 +12 +74
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 112 122 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.90% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.97% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 69 90
10th Percentile £413 £450 £410
25th Percentile £508 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £610
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.56% -6.15%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £779
90th Percentile £1,000 £823 £904
England median daily rate £552 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -11.68% -3.85% +1.17%
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 £98.82 £58.90 £23.31
% change year-on-year +67.79% +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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -19 11 £713 +5.56% 32
West London -14 6 £1,100 +120.00% 8
East London 0 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 (1.79%) Camunda
2 1 (0.89%) CMS
2 1 (0.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.89%) IIS
2 1 (0.89%) nginx
2 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.89%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.89%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 35 (31.25%) Azure
2 18 (16.07%) AWS
2 18 (16.07%) SaaS
3 13 (11.61%) IaaS
4 12 (10.71%) PaaS
5 11 (9.82%) GCP
5 11 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.57%) Serverless
8 3 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.79%) Datadog
9 2 (1.79%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.79%) 4G
2 2 (1.79%) 5G
2 2 (1.79%) DHCP
2 2 (1.79%) DNS
2 2 (1.79%) LAN
2 2 (1.79%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.79%) SAN
2 2 (1.79%) VLAN
2 2 (1.79%) VPN
2 2 (1.79%) WAN
2 2 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.46%) Power BI
2 4 (3.57%) GIS
2 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.68%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.79%) Tableau
5 1 (0.89%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.89%) Metadata
5 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Chocolatey
1 2 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.89%) Postman
2 1 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (37.50%) Finance
2 37 (33.04%) Social Skills
3 21 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.96%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.61%) Legal
6 12 (10.71%) Banking
7 10 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (6.25%) Financial Institution
9 6 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (3.57%) Local Government
11 4 (3.57%) Marketing
12 3 (2.68%) Billing
13 2 (1.79%) Military
13 2 (1.79%) Retail
13 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.89%) Front Office
14 1 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (34.82%) Architect
2 16 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 14 (12.50%) Senior
3 14 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (7.14%) Lead
5 6 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Head of Technology
7 4 (3.57%) Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) AWS Architect
7 4 (3.57%) Category Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Consultant
7 4 (3.57%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (3.57%) Senior IT Engineer
8 3 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (2.68%) Azure Architect
8 3 (2.68%) Technologist
8 3 (2.68%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) REST
2 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.68%) Middleware
2 3 (2.68%) React
3 2 (1.79%) Node.js
3 2 (1.79%) SOAP
4 1 (0.89%) .NET
4 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.89%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (0.89%) JSON
4 1 (0.89%) Kafka
4 1 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.89%) OAuth
4 1 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.89%) RESTful
4 1 (0.89%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.89%) SAML
4 1 (0.89%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.89%) Vue
4 1 (0.89%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.46%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.68%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.68%) TM Forum
6 2 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.89%) BYOD
7 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Solaris
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (74.11%) Technology Strategy
2 47 (41.96%) Roadmaps
3 37 (33.04%) AI
4 29 (25.89%) Decision-Making
5 28 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (23.21%) Enterprise Architecture
6 26 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (18.75%) Agile
8 21 (18.75%) Migration
9 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (16.96%) Analytics
11 18 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (15.18%) Business Strategy
12 17 (15.18%) Event-Driven
13 16 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
14 15 (13.39%) DevOps
14 15 (13.39%) Machine Learning
15 14 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
15 14 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.93%) SQL
2 9 (8.04%) Python
3 6 (5.36%) Java
4 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.68%) Go
5 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.89%) Korn
7 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 4 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) ACCA
7 1 (0.89%) CFA
7 1 (0.89%) CIMA
7 1 (0.89%) CISM
7 1 (0.89%) CISSP
7 1 (0.89%) ISACA
7 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.89%) MBA
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) GDPR
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.68%) PMO
2 3 (2.68%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.68%) SLA
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.89%) COBIT
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.68%) Terraform
4 2 (1.79%) SCCM
5 1 (0.89%) Grafana
5 1 (0.89%) Kibana
5 1 (0.89%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 24 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.93%) SAP
3 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.57%) Google
5 3 (2.68%) VMware
6 2 (1.79%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.79%) Ariba
6 2 (1.79%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.79%) Tenable
6 2 (1.79%) Workday
7 1 (0.89%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.89%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.89%) Reuters
7 1 (0.89%) Zscaler