Technology Strategy Contracts in the South East

Technology Strategy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 139 193 191
Rank change year-on-year +54 -2 +38
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 20 12 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.22% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.25% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 22
10th Percentile £581 £566 £400
25th Percentile £629 £570 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £601 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +11.80% -2.27%
75th Percentile £743 £643 £694
90th Percentile £748 £694 £723
England median daily rate £663 £636 £650
% change year-on-year +4.25% -2.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £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 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the South East

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the South East

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the South East

Technology 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 Technology Strategy within the South East 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
Thames Valley +52 17 £630 +0.35% 53
Buckinghamshire +25 14 £630 +0.35% 25
Berkshire +31 3 - - 17
Surrey - 2 £700 - 12
Kent - 1 £775 - 10
Technology Strategy
England

Technology 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) IaaS
3 5 (25.00%) PaaS
3 5 (25.00%) SaaS
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) VSAN
2 5 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (15.00%) BGP
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (15.00%) DNS
3 3 (15.00%) MPLS
3 3 (15.00%) NGFW
3 3 (15.00%) OSPF
3 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.00%) VLAN
3 3 (15.00%) VPN
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (10.00%) Firewall
4 2 (10.00%) LAN
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Back Office
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Architect
2 10 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Architect
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (25.00%) Principal Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) VMware Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (35.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (35.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) IT Strategy
2 15 (75.00%) TOGAF
3 14 (70.00%) ITIL
4 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (55.00%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (55.00%) Microservices
5 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
5 10 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
6 9 (45.00%) DevSecOps
7 7 (35.00%) Agile
7 7 (35.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (35.00%) Requirements Management
8 5 (25.00%) Use Case
8 5 (25.00%) User Experience
8 5 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (20.00%) DevOps
9 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) MCSE
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (30.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (20.00%) CCNP
5 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (60.00%) NCSC
1 12 (60.00%) NIST
2 8 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (45.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) VMware
2 9 (45.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba
4 1 (5.00%) Aruba
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) SAP