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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 139 135
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -6
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 26 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.79% 0.59% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.66% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 26
10th Percentile £500 £423 £449
25th Percentile £663 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £766 £738 £650
90th Percentile £769 £750 £788
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%

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 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 13 June 2024.

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 13 June 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
Wiltshire +4 15 £725 +11.54% 9
Dorset +7 5 £763 +7.02%
Bristol +2 2 £500 -13.04% 5
Gloucestershire - 2 £725 - 2
Somerset - 1 £1,100 - 1
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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 6 (23.08%) GCP
3 6 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 6 (23.08%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) LAN
1 9 (34.62%) WAN
2 6 (23.08%) VPN
3 4 (15.38%) Unified Communications
3 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) OLAP
1 1 (3.85%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (42.31%) Public Sector
2 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (88.46%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Technical Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Automation Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Network Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Office Automation Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Service Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Software Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Software Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) ModSecurity
2 5 (19.23%) Middleware
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Public Cloud
2 6 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 4 (15.38%) PKI
3 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Agile
1 17 (65.38%) Technology Strategy
1 17 (65.38%) TOGAF
2 14 (53.85%) Business Strategy
3 13 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 9 (34.62%) Computer Science
4 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (34.62%) ITIL
4 9 (34.62%) Waterfall
5 8 (30.77%) Project Management
5 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
6 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (23.08%) ArchiMate
7 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 6 (23.08%) NsoIT
7 6 (23.08%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
8 5 (19.23%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (15.38%) Network Architecture
9 4 (15.38%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (50.00%) Degree
3 10 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
5 8 (30.77%) Master's Degree
6 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (15.38%) HND
6 4 (15.38%) PMI Certification
6 4 (15.38%) PMP
6 4 (15.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) COBIT
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
1 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (23.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 6 (23.08%) OPNET
2 4 (15.38%) PowerCLI
2 4 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Atlassian
1 6 (23.08%) Google
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 6 (23.08%) VMware
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce