Technology Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 157 188
Rank change year-on-year +39 +31 -42
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 20 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.30% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 17
10th Percentile £598 £550 £320
25th Percentile £650 £616 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% +58.23%
75th Percentile £925 £694 £750
90th Percentile £965 £790 £760
England median daily rate £630 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.04% - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Technology 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 2,263 3,046 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.26% 88.47% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 2,126 3,289
10th Percentile £235 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 151
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.05
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the Midlands

Technology 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 Technology Strategy within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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 +40 17 £800 +16.36% 9
East Midlands +20 3 £750 +21.21% 4
Technology Strategy
England

Technology 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 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Integration Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Migration Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Director
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) gRPC
2 1 (5.00%) JMS
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) RAML
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) IT Strategy
2 12 (60.00%) Business Strategy
3 11 (55.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (25.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (15.00%) Data Management
6 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.00%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
7 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) C#
1 1 (5.00%) PHP
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) VMware