IT Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

IT/Technology Strategy
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 147 170
Rank change year-on-year +39 +23 -38
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 29 18 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.06% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.59% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 21
10th Percentile £557 £328 £320
25th Percentile £644 £503 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £576 £575
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% +0.22% +27.78%
75th Percentile £888 £642 £738
90th Percentile £925 £700 £788
England median daily rate £589 £631 £625
% change year-on-year -6.64% +1.00% +14.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.38
25th Percentile - - £16.56
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.44
90th Percentile - - £18.63
England median hourly rate £41.31 £12.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +230.61% -28.60% +25.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

IT Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,255 3,048 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.35% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,125 3,305
10th Percentile £241 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 118 156
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.94 £10.25
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.22% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.97 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £33.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the Midlands

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the Midlands

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the Midlands

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the Midlands

IT 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 IT Strategy within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +44 23 £750 +39.34% 14
East Midlands +18 5 £750 +22.45% 8
IT Strategy
England

IT 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) LAN
1 4 (13.79%) WAN
2 2 (6.90%) SAN
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) NAS
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) Wireless
3 1 (3.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Big Data
2 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) Metadata
2 2 (6.90%) OLAP
2 2 (6.90%) OLTP
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) kappa
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Local Government
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Architect
2 13 (44.83%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analytics Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Data Migration Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Migration Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (6.90%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) EDI
2 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.45%) gRPC
2 1 (3.45%) JMS
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.45%) RAML
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.90%) IoT
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.45%) CCTV
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Technology Strategy
2 15 (51.72%) Business Strategy
3 14 (48.28%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) Roadmaps
5 8 (27.59%) Analytics
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (24.14%) Data Management
7 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
7 6 (20.69%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (20.69%) Project Management
8 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (17.24%) SDLC
8 5 (17.24%) TOGAF
9 4 (13.79%) Data Strategy
9 4 (13.79%) ITIL
9 4 (13.79%) Migration
9 4 (13.79%) Security Architecture
9 4 (13.79%) Waterfall
10 3 (10.34%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) C#
2 1 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.45%) PMP
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.45%) PaperCut
2 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Databricks
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Aruba
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco
3 1 (3.45%) HP
3 1 (3.45%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Sage
3 1 (3.45%) Veeam
3 1 (3.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) WatchGuard