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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 262 244
Rank change year-on-year -25 -18 +77
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 120 93 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.73% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.80% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 51 106
10th Percentile £409 £413 £410
25th Percentile £463 £496 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £573
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.27% -14.23%
75th Percentile £832 £770 £725
90th Percentile £989 £800 £888
England median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
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% +77.86%
75th Percentile £53.67 - -
90th Percentile £67.52 - -
England median hourly rate £74.75 £100.00 £41.31
% change year-on-year -25.25% +142.07% +143.93%

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 15,428 11,636 15,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 91.87% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,331 7,886 11,336
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 168 334
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.48 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.75 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.00 £50.56 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £63.40 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -5 21 £491 -29.82% 23
West London -23 3 £700 -3.45% 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 5 (4.17%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.67%) Camunda
3 2 (1.67%) CMS
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.67%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.67%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.67%) SAP MM
1 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.83%) Azure
2 25 (20.83%) AWS
3 21 (17.50%) SaaS
4 9 (7.50%) IaaS
5 8 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.67%) PaaS
5 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.83%) GCP
7 4 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (2.50%) Google Gemini
8 3 (2.50%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.67%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Serverless
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.83%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.83%) IBM Blueworks
10 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) Network Security
1 5 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) DHCP
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.83%) Power BI
2 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.83%) Metadata
4 1 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) JIRA
2 4 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Postman
General
1 45 (37.50%) Finance
2 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.17%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (8.33%) Banking
6 10 (8.33%) Legal
7 6 (5.00%) Retail
8 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.67%) Back Office
10 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Local Government
10 2 (1.67%) Marketing
10 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (25.00%) Architect
2 17 (14.17%) Analyst
3 16 (13.33%) Senior
4 14 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.00%) Lead
6 7 (5.83%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.83%) Developer
6 7 (5.83%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 5 (4.17%) Head of IT
7 5 (4.17%) Network Analyst
7 5 (4.17%) Network Security Analyst
7 5 (4.17%) Network Support
7 5 (4.17%) Network Support Analyst
7 5 (4.17%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.17%) Security Analyst
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) REST
2 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.33%) NumPy
3 4 (3.33%) Pandas
3 4 (3.33%) Plotly
3 4 (3.33%) React
3 4 (3.33%) Web Services
4 3 (2.50%) LangGraph
4 3 (2.50%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.50%) SciPy
4 3 (2.50%) Statsmodels
4 3 (2.50%) Vue
5 2 (1.67%) .NET
5 2 (1.67%) CrewAI
5 2 (1.67%) Middleware
5 2 (1.67%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (1.67%) OAuth
5 2 (1.67%) SAML
5 2 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.67%) Equities
7 2 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) Solaris
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (69.17%) Technology Strategy
2 39 (32.50%) Roadmaps
3 29 (24.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (23.33%) Agile
4 28 (23.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 22 (18.33%) AI
7 21 (17.50%) Analytics
8 20 (16.67%) Migration
9 17 (14.17%) Decision-Making
9 17 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (13.33%) Business Strategy
10 16 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.67%) DevOps
13 13 (10.83%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
14 12 (10.00%) User Stories
15 11 (9.17%) Data Modelling
15 11 (9.17%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.33%) SQL
2 9 (7.50%) Python
3 3 (2.50%) Java
3 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.83%) C
5 1 (0.83%) C#
5 1 (0.83%) C++
5 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) Degree
4 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) ACCA
6 1 (0.83%) CCNA
6 1 (0.83%) CFA
6 1 (0.83%) CIMA
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) MBA
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.83%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (1.67%) QA
2 2 (1.67%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) PMO
3 1 (0.83%) PSD2
3 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.83%) SEPA
3 1 (0.83%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
1 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Ansible
2 1 (0.83%) Grafana
2 1 (0.83%) Kibana
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.83%) SAP
3 6 (5.00%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) VMware
4 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.33%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.67%) Ariba
7 2 (1.67%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.67%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.83%) Datto
8 1 (0.83%) Google
8 1 (0.83%) HP
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) Reuters
8 1 (0.83%) Veeam