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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 144 157
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +65
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 21 43 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.87% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.06% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 43
10th Percentile £448 £500 £513
25th Percentile £497 £503 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £605 £668
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -9.44% +11.25%
75th Percentile £694 £738 £742
90th Percentile £770 £807 £825
England median daily rate £600 £660 £638
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% +2.00%

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 3,163 4,068 4,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.86% 82.68% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,484 3,367
10th Percentile £250 £255 £256
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £671 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 322 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.14 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.92 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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
Hampshire +22 9 £540 -8.37% 11
Thames Valley -20 6 £625 +3.39% 19
Surrey +13 4 £628 -10.36% 4
Buckinghamshire -3 2 - - 7
Berkshire -14 2 £450 -25.56% 7
West Sussex +2 1 £750 +36.36% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £800 - 5
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (4.76%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Entra ID
3 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
1 6 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Technical Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (4.76%) IT Architect
4 1 (4.76%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Migration Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Project Leader
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Service Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) FMCG
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
3 5 (23.81%) Mac OS
3 5 (23.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (38.10%) Application Packaging
4 8 (38.10%) ITIL
4 8 (38.10%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (33.33%) API Management
5 7 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 7 (33.33%) Migration
5 7 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
5 7 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (23.81%) Analytics
7 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
7 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (19.05%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (19.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Bash
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) GDPR
1 6 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) COBIT
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GAMP
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) SCCM
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 5 (23.81%) Citrix
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Workday