Digital Strategy Contracts in the South West

Digital Strategy
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Digital Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 160 166
Rank change year-on-year +23 +6 -29
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 16 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.50% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.31% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile - £348 £389
25th Percentile £600 £391 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £688 £534 £603
90th Percentile - £650 £643
England median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Digital Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,648 3,251 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.98% 89.66% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,398 2,327
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.30%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in the South West

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in the South West

Digital Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Strategy within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Bristol +21 11 £675 +58.82% 6
Wiltshire +8 5 £600 +50.00%
Digital Strategy
England

Digital Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) PaaS
2 7 (43.75%) SaaS
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) PBX
1 7 (43.75%) VoIP
2 4 (25.00%) Junos
2 4 (25.00%) SDH
2 4 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (68.75%) Telecoms
2 7 (43.75%) Digital Economy
3 4 (25.00%) Aeronautics
3 4 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Architect
1 11 (68.75%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Blackberry
1 7 (43.75%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 11 (68.75%) ArchiMate
2 11 (68.75%) Architecture Governance
2 11 (68.75%) BPMN
2 11 (68.75%) Customer Engagement
2 11 (68.75%) Enterprise Architecture
2 11 (68.75%) ITIL
2 11 (68.75%) Roadmaps
2 11 (68.75%) Strategic Roadmap
2 11 (68.75%) TOGAF
3 7 (43.75%) Business Analysis
3 7 (43.75%) Commercial Awareness
3 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
3 7 (43.75%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (43.75%) PQQ
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (43.75%) Zero Trust
4 4 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) SOAR
4 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (68.75%) Degree
3 11 (68.75%) HND
3 11 (68.75%) TOGAF Certification
4 7 (43.75%) CCNP
4 7 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (25.00%) JNCIA
6 3 (18.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) NCSC
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Cisco
1 11 (68.75%) IBM
1 11 (68.75%) Juniper
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
1 11 (68.75%) Nokia
2 7 (43.75%) Avaya
2 7 (43.75%) Ericsson
2 7 (43.75%) Google
2 7 (43.75%) Ribbon
3 4 (25.00%) Ciena
3 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (25.00%) Splunk
3 4 (25.00%) VMware