IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in Surrey

IT/Technology Strategy
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 42 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.08% 0.34% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.38% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £565 - £283
25th Percentile £658 £650 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £828 £700 £325
Median % change year-on-year +18.21% +115.38% -55.93%
75th Percentile £1,008 £750 £338
90th Percentile £1,108 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -6.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 376 264 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 81.39% 90.41% 81.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 179 341
10th Percentile £210 £181 £208
25th Percentile £406 £266 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £655 £688
South East median daily rate £505 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -0.83% +1.85% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 47
10th Percentile £20.43 £21.54 £11.71
25th Percentile £27.50 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.25 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +147.62% +43.05% -59.22%
75th Percentile £71.99 £40.98 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.52 £62.50 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% -11.11%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IT Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in Surrey

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in Surrey over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in Surrey

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IT Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) API Management
2 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) MuleSoft