Digital Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Digital Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Digital Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 112 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +41 +38
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 5 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.76% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.93% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 14
10th Percentile - £128 £107
25th Percentile £513 £519 £109
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £117
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +371.09% -72.53%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £125
90th Percentile £618 £870 £390
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Digital 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Digital Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in the Midlands

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in the Midlands

Digital Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Strategy within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +4 5 £525 -12.50% 17
Digital Strategy
England

Digital Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Digital
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Digital Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (20.00%) Head of IT Security
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Case
1 2 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) User Research
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP