IT Strategy Contracts in Milton Keynes

IT/Technology Strategy
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 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 18 40 64
Rank change year-on-year +22 +24 0
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 13 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.51% 1.03% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 1.21% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 10
10th Percentile £566 - £401
25th Percentile £629 £600 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £647 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +30.61% -1.98%
75th Percentile £743 £700 £567
90th Percentile - - £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £630 £643 £500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +28.61% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Milton Keynes

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in Milton Keynes

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Milton Keynes

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) IaaS
2 4 (30.77%) PaaS
2 4 (30.77%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) VSAN
2 2 (15.38%) BGP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) MPLS
2 2 (15.38%) NGFW
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) VLAN
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
2 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Technical Architect
3 5 (38.46%) Principal Architect
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Architect
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior VMware Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Enterprise Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Public Cloud
2 5 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (38.46%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Technology Strategy
1 12 (92.31%) TOGAF
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) ITIL
2 9 (69.23%) Microservices
3 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
3 8 (61.54%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (61.54%) Matrix Organization
3 8 (61.54%) Zachman Framework
4 7 (53.85%) DevSecOps
5 5 (38.46%) Agile
5 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (38.46%) Requirements Management
5 5 (38.46%) User Experience
6 4 (30.77%) DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) Prototyping
6 4 (30.77%) Use Case
6 4 (30.77%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) MCSE
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) CCNP
4 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) NCSC
1 10 (76.92%) NIST
2 6 (46.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (53.85%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Ariba
4 1 (7.69%) Aruba
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.69%) SAP