IT Strategy Contracts in the South East

IT/Technology Strategy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 166 177
Rank change year-on-year +37 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 23 32 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.58% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.68% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 30
10th Percentile £591 £313 £454
25th Percentile £629 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £525 £626
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% -16.17% +21.13%
75th Percentile £743 £611 £719
90th Percentile £747 £683 £814
England median daily rate £650 £600 £645
% change year-on-year +8.33% -6.98% +3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +35 18 £650 +23.81% 49
Buckinghamshire +25 12 £675 +4.97% 20
Berkshire +20 6 £650 +62.50% 19
Hampshire +25 2 £688 +16.72% 28
Surrey +12 2 £700 +115.38% 10
Kent - 1 £775 - 4
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (4.35%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 4 (17.39%) PaaS
4 4 (17.39%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) WAN
2 4 (17.39%) LAN
2 4 (17.39%) VSAN
3 3 (13.04%) BGP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) MPLS
3 3 (13.04%) NGFW
3 3 (13.04%) OSPF
3 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
3 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.04%) VLAN
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Back Office
4 1 (4.35%) Billing
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (95.65%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Technical Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Principal Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Lead Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Public Cloud
2 6 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (21.74%) PKI
4 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (4.35%) EPoS
5 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Technology Strategy
2 14 (60.87%) TOGAF
3 11 (47.83%) ITIL
4 10 (43.48%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (39.13%) Microservices
6 8 (34.78%) Agile
6 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
6 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
7 7 (30.43%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (30.43%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
7 7 (30.43%) Zachman Framework
8 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps
8 6 (26.09%) Migration
9 5 (21.74%) User Experience
10 4 (17.39%) DevOps
10 4 (17.39%) Prototyping
10 4 (17.39%) Requirements Management
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) MCSE
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (17.39%) CCNP
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) NCSC
1 9 (39.13%) NIST
2 5 (21.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) VMware NSX
3 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) VMware
2 7 (30.43%) Cisco
3 6 (26.09%) Palo Alto
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
5 3 (13.04%) MuleSoft
5 3 (13.04%) SAP
6 1 (4.35%) Ariba
6 1 (4.35%) Aruba
6 1 (4.35%) Databricks
6 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce