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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 243 282
Rank change year-on-year -72 +39 +44
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 128 127 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.94% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.02% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 69 79
10th Percentile £413 £473 £410
25th Percentile £525 £513 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year - +3.17% -2.33%
75th Percentile £825 £755 £784
90th Percentile £955 £878 £840
England median daily rate £600 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -2.04% -5.77% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £100.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +232.01% -19.34%
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £99.41 £58.90 £23.31
% change year-on-year +68.79% +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 17,902 12,422 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.40% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,269 10,048
10th Percentile £361 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 197
10th Percentile £17.18 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.29 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.22% -16.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -17 13 £694 +6.73% 12
West London -21 6 £1,100 +120.00% 6
East London -3 1 £525 - 3
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 (1.56%) Camunda
1 2 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) CMS
2 1 (0.78%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.78%) IIS
2 1 (0.78%) nginx
2 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.94%) Azure
2 20 (15.63%) SaaS
3 19 (14.84%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (14.06%) AWS
5 14 (10.94%) IaaS
6 13 (10.16%) PaaS
7 12 (9.38%) Power Platform
8 11 (8.59%) GCP
9 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (5.47%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.69%) Serverless
12 4 (3.13%) Datadog
13 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (2.34%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
14 2 (1.56%) Azure Functions
14 2 (1.56%) Google Gemini
15 1 (0.78%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Firewall
2 4 (3.13%) DHCP
2 4 (3.13%) DNS
2 4 (3.13%) SAN
2 4 (3.13%) VLAN
2 4 (3.13%) VPN
2 4 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.56%) 4G
3 2 (1.56%) 5G
3 2 (1.56%) LAN
3 2 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.91%) Data Lake
2 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.13%) GIS
3 4 (3.13%) Power BI
4 3 (2.34%) Metadata
4 3 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.78%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
6 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.91%) JIRA
2 4 (3.13%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.78%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (32.81%) Finance
1 42 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.84%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.94%) Banking
5 13 (10.16%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (10.16%) Legal
6 7 (5.47%) Financial Institution
6 7 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.13%) Local Government
8 4 (3.13%) Marketing
8 4 (3.13%) Retail
8 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.34%) Billing
10 2 (1.56%) Military
11 1 (0.78%) Games
11 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (42.19%) Architect
2 23 (17.97%) Enterprise Architect
3 21 (16.41%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (12.50%) Senior
5 11 (8.59%) Lead
6 9 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Technical Architect
9 6 (4.69%) Consultant
10 4 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 4 (3.13%) Category Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Head of Technology
10 4 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.13%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.34%) IT Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 3 (2.34%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.91%) REST
2 4 (3.13%) Middleware
3 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.34%) React
4 2 (1.56%) .NET
4 2 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.56%) Node.js
4 2 (1.56%) SOAP
5 1 (0.78%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.78%) Framer.js
5 1 (0.78%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.78%) Kafka
5 1 (0.78%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.78%) OAuth
5 1 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.78%) RESTful
5 1 (0.78%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.78%) SAML
5 1 (0.78%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.78%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.34%) TM Forum
6 2 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Blog
7 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.78%) Podcast
7 1 (0.78%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Solaris
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (78.13%) Technology Strategy
2 60 (46.88%) Roadmaps
3 48 (37.50%) AI
4 40 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (30.47%) Enterprise Architecture
6 32 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 29 (22.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (20.31%) Migration
10 25 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (17.97%) Agile
11 23 (17.97%) Analytics
12 22 (17.19%) Architecture Governance
12 22 (17.19%) Business Strategy
12 22 (17.19%) Event-Driven
13 20 (15.63%) Data Architecture
13 20 (15.63%) DevOps
13 20 (15.63%) TOGAF
14 19 (14.84%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.03%) SQL
2 8 (6.25%) Python
3 7 (5.47%) Java
4 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.34%) Go
5 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.56%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (0.78%) Bicep
7 1 (0.78%) Korn
7 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 16 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.81%) Degree
3 9 (7.03%) TOGAF Certification
4 6 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.56%) CISM
7 2 (1.56%) CISSP
7 2 (1.56%) ISACA
7 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.78%) ACCA
8 1 (0.78%) CBAP
8 1 (0.78%) CFA
8 1 (0.78%) CIMA
8 1 (0.78%) IIBA
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) MBA
8 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) SLA
2 6 (4.69%) PMO
3 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.34%) GDPR
4 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.56%) QA
6 1 (0.78%) COBIT
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.13%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.13%) SCCM
3 4 (3.13%) Terraform
4 1 (0.78%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 36 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.81%) SAP
3 6 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.91%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.91%) VMware
5 4 (3.13%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.13%) Google
5 4 (3.13%) Tenable
6 3 (2.34%) Databricks
6 3 (2.34%) Workday
7 2 (1.56%) Ariba
7 2 (1.56%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle
8 1 (0.78%) Red Hat