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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 254 234
Rank change year-on-year -44 -20 +91
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 114 94 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.75% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.81% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 54 111
10th Percentile £413 £413 £410
25th Percentile £463 £494 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £663 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% +16.23% -15.56%
75th Percentile £859 £763 £675
90th Percentile £1,000 £826 £838
England median daily rate £575 £650 £595
% change year-on-year -11.54% +9.31% -8.51%
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 £74.75 £100.00 £30.12
% change year-on-year -25.25% +232.01% +20.88%

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 15,718 11,590 15,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 92.20% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,522 7,861 11,306
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 171 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £66.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -7 20 £508 -23.40% 31
West London -24 4 £900 +24.14% 4
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 (4.39%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) Camunda
2 2 (1.75%) CMS
2 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) nginx
3 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.88%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.07%) Azure
2 22 (19.30%) SaaS
3 20 (17.54%) AWS
4 10 (8.77%) IaaS
5 9 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.89%) PaaS
6 6 (5.26%) GCP
7 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.63%) Google Gemini
8 3 (2.63%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.75%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.75%) Serverless
9 2 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.88%) IBM Blueworks
10 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) Network Security
1 5 (4.39%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.75%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) DHCP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.51%) Power BI
2 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 49 (42.98%) Finance
2 34 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 14 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (10.53%) Legal
6 10 (8.77%) Banking
7 5 (4.39%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.51%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.51%) Retail
9 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.75%) Aviation
10 2 (1.75%) Back Office
10 2 (1.75%) Local Government
10 2 (1.75%) Marketing
10 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.88%) Front Office
11 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Architect
2 15 (13.16%) Analyst
3 13 (11.40%) Senior
4 12 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (8.77%) Lead
6 8 (7.02%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 5 (4.39%) Head of IT
8 5 (4.39%) Network Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Network Security Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Network Support
8 5 (4.39%) Network Support Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.39%) Security Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Category Manager
9 4 (3.51%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.51%) REST
2 3 (2.63%) LangGraph
2 3 (2.63%) Middleware
2 3 (2.63%) React
3 2 (1.75%) .NET
3 2 (1.75%) CrewAI
3 2 (1.75%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (1.75%) Vue
4 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.88%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.88%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth
4 1 (0.88%) RESTful
4 1 (0.88%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.88%) SAML
4 1 (0.88%) SOAP
4 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.88%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.39%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.75%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.75%) Equities
7 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Solaris
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (68.42%) Technology Strategy
2 40 (35.09%) Roadmaps
3 30 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (22.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (21.93%) Agile
5 25 (21.93%) Enterprise Architecture
6 24 (21.05%) AI
7 20 (17.54%) Migration
8 18 (15.79%) Analytics
9 16 (14.04%) Business Strategy
9 16 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (13.16%) Decision-Making
10 15 (13.16%) DevOps
11 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (11.40%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
14 11 (9.65%) Integration Patterns
14 11 (9.65%) Technology Transformation
14 11 (9.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.26%) Python
1 6 (5.26%) SQL
2 4 (3.51%) Java
3 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.88%) C
4 1 (0.88%) C++
4 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) Degree
4 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) ACCA
6 1 (0.88%) CCNA
6 1 (0.88%) CFA
6 1 (0.88%) CIMA
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) MBA
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) GDPR
2 3 (2.63%) QA
3 2 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
4 1 (0.88%) PSD2
4 1 (0.88%) SEPA
4 1 (0.88%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (2.63%) Docker
1 3 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.63%) Terraform
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) Kibana
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) Oracle
2 6 (5.26%) VMware
3 5 (4.39%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.39%) SAP
4 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.63%) Ariba
5 3 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.75%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.75%) Vermilion
6 2 (1.75%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.88%) Datto
7 1 (0.88%) Google
7 1 (0.88%) HP
7 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.88%) Reuters
7 1 (0.88%) Veeam