IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in Northampton

IT/Technology Strategy
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 7 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 2.55% 4.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 4.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £425 £408 -
25th Percentile £451 £430 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £545 £450 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £487 £445 -
% change year-on-year +9.35% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 205 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 97.09% 91.11% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 164 78
10th Percentile £269 £353 £198
25th Percentile £344 £380 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £534
90th Percentile £500 £621 £588
Northamptonshire median daily rate £380 £445 £489
% change year-on-year -14.61% -9.00% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.28%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
% change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Northampton

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Northampton over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Northampton

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 6 (85.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Payments Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (85.71%) Strategic Roadmap
2 6 (85.71%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (71.43%) Business Strategy
3 5 (71.43%) Data Transformation
3 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) ETL
3 5 (71.43%) High Availability
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Debt
4 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) VMware