Technology Strategy Contracts in the North of England

Technology Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 147 132 196
Rank change year-on-year -15 +64 -39
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 19 53 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 1.11% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.30% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 22
10th Percentile £463 £379 £502
25th Percentile £588 £550 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £669 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +9.18% +24.73%
75th Percentile £750 £689 £697
90th Percentile £800 £743 £748
England median daily rate £663 £636 £650
% change year-on-year +4.25% -2.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +9 10 £650 - 38
North West -17 6 £600 -9.91% 75
North East 0 3 £750 -16.38% 11
Technology Strategy
England

Technology Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Maximo
2 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) BGP
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) MPLS
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) OSPF
1 2 (10.53%) VLAN
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
1 2 (10.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) Flink
1 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.26%) Presto
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Banking
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Aviation
5 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Front Office
5 1 (5.26%) International Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Designer
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Network Designer
2 2 (10.53%) Programme Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (5.26%) Product Architect
3 1 (5.26%) SAS Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Technology Director
3 1 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
1 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) IT Strategy
2 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
3 6 (31.58%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
4 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (21.05%) Chaos Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
5 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Observability
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) CCIE
3 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) JNCIE
3 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.53%) PMP
4 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco
1 2 (10.53%) F5
1 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
1 2 (10.53%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) SAP