Technology Strategy Contracts in the South West

Technology Strategy
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 99 139 153
Rank change year-on-year +40 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 12 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.72% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.68% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 11
10th Percentile £548 £633 £603
25th Percentile £609 £675 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £769 £719
90th Percentile £741 - £728
England median daily rate £663 £636 £650
% change year-on-year +4.25% -2.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.25 £30.12 £31.00
% change year-on-year +109.99% -2.84% -52.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 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%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the South West

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the South West

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the South West

Technology 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 Technology 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 +28 4 £625 -10.71% 6
Bristol +21 3 £450 -37.93% 18
Somerset +2 3 £620 - 6
Dorset +1 1 £700 -8.20% 5
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 16
Technology Strategy
England

Technology 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (16.67%) Skype for Business
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Skype
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Metadata
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Service Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 4 (33.33%) Project Management
4 4 (33.33%) Supplier Management
5 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Budget Management
5 3 (25.00%) Business Case
5 3 (25.00%) Culture Change
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Data Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) MCSA
2 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) OPNET
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce