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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 296 262
Rank change year-on-year +30 -34 +70
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 118 87 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.58% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.64% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 54 90
10th Percentile £463 £475 £436
25th Percentile £525 £527 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +16.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £700
90th Percentile £975 £893 £775
England median daily rate £601 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -5.80% +2.00% -0.79%

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 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +12 20 £488 -30.36% 7
West London - 5 £525 - 5
East London +6 3 - - 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 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.54%) CMS
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Endur
2 2 (1.69%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.69%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.85%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.85%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.85%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.42%) Azure
2 28 (23.73%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) GCP
4 8 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.93%) SaaS
6 6 (5.08%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.08%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.39%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.54%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.69%) GitHub
9 2 (1.69%) Serverless
9 2 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Network Security
1 5 (4.24%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.54%) Firewall
3 2 (1.69%) Internet
3 2 (1.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) DHCP
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
1 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.39%) Power BI
1 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.69%) Big Data
2 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.69%) Metadata
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.85%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) JIRA
2 4 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (1.69%) GoCD
3 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 46 (38.98%) Finance
2 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.80%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.47%) Financial Institution
6 8 (6.78%) Back Office
7 7 (5.93%) Legal
8 6 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (4.24%) Banking
9 5 (4.24%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.39%) Automotive
10 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.39%) Retail
11 3 (2.54%) Local Government
12 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.69%) Publishing
13 1 (0.85%) Aviation
13 1 (0.85%) Law
13 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (47.46%) Architect
2 17 (14.41%) Security Architect
3 16 (13.56%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (11.86%) Enterprise Architect
5 13 (11.02%) Analyst
5 13 (11.02%) Lead
5 13 (11.02%) Senior
6 9 (7.63%) Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Lead Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Consultant
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Network Analyst
9 5 (4.24%) Network Security Analyst
9 5 (4.24%) Network Support
9 5 (4.24%) Network Support Analyst
9 5 (4.24%) Security Analyst
9 5 (4.24%) Security Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) REST
2 5 (4.24%) React
3 4 (3.39%) .NET
3 4 (3.39%) JSON
3 4 (3.39%) NumPy
3 4 (3.39%) Pandas
3 4 (3.39%) Plotly
3 4 (3.39%) Swagger
3 4 (3.39%) Web Services
4 3 (2.54%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.54%) SciPy
4 3 (2.54%) Statsmodels
5 2 (1.69%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.69%) Kafka
5 2 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.85%) MACH
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.10%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.63%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.24%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.24%) Taxonomies
4 5 (4.24%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.39%) Grid Computing
5 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.69%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.69%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Windows
2 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (67.80%) Technology Strategy
2 37 (31.36%) Roadmaps
3 30 (25.42%) Business Strategy
4 27 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (22.03%) Agile
6 21 (17.80%) Enterprise Architecture
7 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
10 16 (13.56%) Incident Response
11 15 (12.71%) AI
11 15 (12.71%) DevOps
11 15 (12.71%) Risk Management
12 14 (11.86%) Security Architecture
13 13 (11.02%) Data Modelling
14 12 (10.17%) Decision-Making
14 12 (10.17%) Microservices
15 11 (9.32%) Cloud Security
15 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (9.32%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.32%) SQL
2 7 (5.93%) C#
2 7 (5.93%) Java
2 7 (5.93%) Python
3 6 (5.08%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.39%) R
5 2 (1.69%) Go
5 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.69%) Rust
6 1 (0.85%) Bash
6 1 (0.85%) Bicep
6 1 (0.85%) C
6 1 (0.85%) C++
6 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) Degree
4 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.69%) CCNA
6 2 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.69%) CISSP
6 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) MCP
6 2 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CISM
7 1 (0.85%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) GDPR
2 5 (4.24%) EU AI Act
3 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.85%) MiFID
5 1 (0.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.85%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.78%) Docker
3 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.93%) Terraform
3 5 (4.24%) Ansible
3 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.54%) SCCM
5 2 (1.69%) rkt
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) CyberArk
2 8 (6.78%) Darktrace
2 8 (6.78%) Splunk
3 6 (5.08%) Oracle
3 6 (5.08%) VMware
4 5 (4.24%) SAP
5 4 (3.39%) Dataiku
5 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.54%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.69%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.69%) Databricks
7 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.69%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.69%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.69%) Temenos
7 2 (1.69%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) HP