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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 182 179
Rank change year-on-year +43 -3 +53
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 13 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.27% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.32% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 22
10th Percentile £447 £556 £487
25th Percentile £562 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £651
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.95% +6.33%
75th Percentile £775 £647 £804
90th Percentile £903 £750 £838
England median daily rate £650 £639 £650
% change year-on-year +1.68% -1.65% -

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 2,676 4,673 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.27% 82.93% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,701 3,461
10th Percentile £250 £259 £249
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 449 221
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.23
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +138.96%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.89 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -24.85% +0.94% +48.60%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +28 6 £615 +0.41% 160
Berkshire +28 4 £625 +43.68% 106
Surrey +20 4 £636 -9.11% 29
Buckinghamshire +12 2 £483 -23.14% 32
Kent - 2 £775 - 39
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) BGP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
3 1 (7.69%) MPLS
3 1 (7.69%) NGFW
3 1 (7.69%) OSPF
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) VSAN
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) CDIO
4 1 (7.69%) CIO
4 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) EPoS
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) IT Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) TOGAF
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 4 (30.77%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) API Management
5 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.69%) MCSE
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) MuleSoft
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Ariba
3 1 (7.69%) Aruba
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) VMware