IT Strategy Contracts in London

IT/Technology Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 247 326
Rank change year-on-year +4 +79 -36
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 98 156 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.81% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.01% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 107 126
10th Percentile £413 £406 £463
25th Percentile £484 £441 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £559 £663
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -15.62% -1.85%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £794
90th Percentile £790 £882 £913
England median daily rate £625 £595 £650
% change year-on-year +5.10% -8.51% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 £30.12 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +232.01% -19.34% -42.55%
England median hourly rate £100.00 £30.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year +232.01% -19.34% +113.37%

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 11,187 15,413 23,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.53% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,539 11,060 16,862
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 306 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £27.83 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -28.65% +7.11%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £66.88 £82.60
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in London

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in London.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in London

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in London

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 23 May 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 -10 15 £650 +14.04% 20
East London +17 2 £675 +7.14% 5
West London +14 2 £725 +35.64% 18
South London - 2 £375 - 2
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) Confluence
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.02%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.02%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.59%) Azure
2 17 (17.35%) AWS
3 14 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.20%) PaaS
5 9 (9.18%) SaaS
6 8 (8.16%) Entra ID
6 8 (8.16%) IaaS
7 7 (7.14%) GCP
7 7 (7.14%) GitHub
8 6 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.12%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.12%) Serverless
9 5 (5.10%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (4.08%) Asana
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
11 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) SSL
2 3 (3.06%) VPN
2 3 (3.06%) WAN
3 2 (2.04%) DNS
3 2 (2.04%) Firewall
3 2 (2.04%) LAN
3 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.02%) Internet
4 1 (1.02%) NAS
4 1 (1.02%) SAN
4 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.06%) Power BI
3 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) Big Data
4 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) CircleCI
2 4 (4.08%) JIRA
3 3 (3.06%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.02%) JUnit
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
General
1 34 (34.69%) Finance
1 34 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Banking
3 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (8.16%) Retail
5 7 (7.14%) Back Office
5 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Front Office
7 3 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Marketing
9 1 (1.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (51.02%) Architect
2 16 (16.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 11 (11.22%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (9.18%) Technical Architect
5 8 (8.16%) Lead
6 7 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (7.14%) Senior
7 6 (6.12%) Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) Coordinator
9 4 (4.08%) IT Assistant
9 4 (4.08%) IT Support
9 4 (4.08%) IT Support Assistant
9 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Technical Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Support Assistant
10 3 (3.06%) Designer
10 3 (3.06%) IT Director
10 3 (3.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) XML
2 4 (4.08%) JDBC
2 4 (4.08%) JSON
2 4 (4.08%) LDAP
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (4.08%) ODBC
2 4 (4.08%) REST
2 4 (4.08%) SAML
2 4 (4.08%) SOAP
2 4 (4.08%) Web Services
3 3 (3.06%) .NET
3 3 (3.06%) CSS
3 3 (3.06%) HTML
3 3 (3.06%) Node.js
4 2 (2.04%) Middleware
5 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.02%) RESTful
5 1 (1.02%) Spring
5 1 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 7 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.06%) Blog
4 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.06%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) EPoS
5 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) NHS
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Linux
3 1 (1.02%) SUSE
3 1 (1.02%) Unix
3 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.12%) Technology Strategy
2 46 (46.94%) Roadmaps
3 29 (29.59%) Agile
4 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (18.37%) DevOps
6 17 (17.35%) Enterprise Architecture
6 17 (17.35%) TOGAF
7 16 (16.33%) Business Strategy
8 15 (15.31%) Analytics
8 15 (15.31%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (14.29%) ITIL
9 14 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
10 12 (12.24%) Decision-Making
10 12 (12.24%) Microservices
11 11 (11.22%) CI/CD
11 11 (11.22%) Migration
11 11 (11.22%) Project Management
11 11 (11.22%) Strategic Roadmap
12 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.27%) Java
2 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
3 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.08%) Kotlin
4 4 (4.08%) SQL
5 3 (3.06%) Python
6 2 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (1.02%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) Ruby
7 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.22%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
4 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.06%) PMP
7 3 (3.06%) SAP Certification
8 2 (2.04%) CISM
8 2 (2.04%) CISSP
8 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.02%) CCIE
9 1 (1.02%) CCNP
9 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.02%) CITP
9 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) GDPR
2 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.08%) NIST
3 4 (4.08%) SLA
4 3 (3.06%) PMO
4 3 (3.06%) QA
5 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.02%) COBIT
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 9 (9.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.08%) Docker
3 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.14%) Terraform
3 5 (5.10%) Grafana
3 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) Ansible
6 1 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.22%) SAP
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle
4 5 (5.10%) Databricks
4 5 (5.10%) OpenText
4 5 (5.10%) Qualtrics
4 5 (5.10%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco
5 2 (2.04%) eFront
5 2 (2.04%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) UiPath
5 2 (2.04%) VMware
6 1 (1.02%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.02%) Dell
6 1 (1.02%) EMC
6 1 (1.02%) Kronos
6 1 (1.02%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.02%) SonicWALL