Technology Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Technology Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 118 152
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 +31
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 6 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.75% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.93% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 5
10th Percentile £579 £445 £534
25th Percentile £584 £455 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £622 £925 £688
90th Percentile £631 £960 -
England median daily rate £630 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -0.04% -3.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Technology 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 1,798 2,269 2,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.35% 81.53% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 1,527 1,998
10th Percentile £205 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 173 99
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.40
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.51
Median hourly rate £18.63 £19.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -15.22% +27.62%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £44.25
90th Percentile £47.00 £55.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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
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 30 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 +5 4 £600 -27.27% 104
East Midlands +5 1 - - 93
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Collibra
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 2 (33.33%) GIS
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
1 2 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) GIAC
1 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle