IT Strategy Contracts in the South West

IT/Technology Strategy
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 102 136 150
Rank change year-on-year +34 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 9 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.54% 0.66% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.79% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 12
10th Percentile £463 £550 £489
25th Percentile £528 £644 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £713 £766 £675
90th Percentile £744 £769 £709
England median daily rate £650 £600 £645
% change year-on-year +8.33% -6.98% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.24
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £12.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £100.00 £30.12 £24.92
% change year-on-year +232.01% +20.88% +42.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT 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 IT Strategy within the South West 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
Wiltshire +27 4 £625 -10.71% 12
Bristol +18 3 £475 -5.00% 18
Gloucestershire +16 1 - - 21
Dorset +1 1 £700 -8.20% 5
IT Strategy
England

IT 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
1 2 (22.22%) Skype for Business
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Skype
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
1 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) Zachman Framework
5 1 (11.11%) Line Management
5 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) MCSA
3 2 (22.22%) MCSE
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) OPNET
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce