IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

IT/Technology Strategy
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 40 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 8 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.69% 3.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 3.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile £431 £408 -
25th Percentile £452 £430 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% - -
75th Percentile £529 - -
90th Percentile £544 £450 -
East Midlands median daily rate £487 £455 £613
% change year-on-year +6.95% -25.71% +67.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 254 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.62% 89.12% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 190 143
10th Percentile £270 £334 £213
25th Percentile £350 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% -9.00% +5.16%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £558
90th Percentile £525 £620 £604
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -9.89% -9.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £25.41 £12.37
25th Percentile - £28.88 £31.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £44.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 £48.17 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +11.00% -38.18% +43.17%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in Northamptonshire

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Northamptonshire

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Northampton -13 7 £492 +10.56% 3
IT Strategy
East Midlands

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 7 (87.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Architect
2 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Payments Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (87.50%) Strategic Roadmap
2 7 (87.50%) Technology Strategy
3 6 (75.00%) Business Strategy
3 6 (75.00%) Data Transformation
3 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (75.00%) ETL
3 6 (75.00%) High Availability
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Technical Debt
4 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) VMware