IT Strategy Contracts in the Thames Valley

IT/Technology Strategy
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 81 125 135
Rank change year-on-year +44 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 21 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.39% 0.74% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.85% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 15
10th Percentile £586 - £425
25th Percentile £627 £400 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -5.91%
75th Percentile £723 £643 £604
90th Percentile £743 £694 £700
South East median daily rate £650 £525 £628
% change year-on-year +23.81% -16.33% +21.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the Thames Valley

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the Thames Valley

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the Thames Valley

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the Thames Valley

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +26 15 £630 -2.03% 11
Berkshire +24 6 £650 +62.50% 13
IT Strategy
South East

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (4.76%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 7 (33.33%) PaaS
3 7 (33.33%) SaaS
4 6 (28.57%) IaaS
5 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) VSAN
2 3 (14.29%) BGP
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) MPLS
2 3 (14.29%) NGFW
2 3 (14.29%) OSPF
2 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (14.29%) VLAN
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
2 3 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Back Office
3 1 (4.76%) Billing
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Technical Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (23.81%) Principal Architect
4 5 (23.81%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) SAP Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) VMware Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (38.10%) PKI
2 8 (38.10%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.76%) EPoS
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Technology Strategy
1 16 (76.19%) TOGAF
2 12 (57.14%) ITIL
3 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (52.38%) Microservices
4 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
4 10 (47.62%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (47.62%) Matrix Organization
4 10 (47.62%) Zachman Framework
5 9 (42.86%) DevSecOps
5 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (33.33%) Requirements Management
7 6 (28.57%) Agile
7 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
8 5 (23.81%) Use Case
8 5 (23.81%) User Experience
8 5 (23.81%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (19.05%) Prototyping
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) MCSE
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (23.81%) DV Cleared
5 4 (19.05%) CCNP
5 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (57.14%) NCSC
1 12 (57.14%) NIST
2 8 (38.10%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (42.86%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) VMware
2 10 (47.62%) Cisco
3 9 (42.86%) Palo Alto
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 3 (14.29%) SAP
6 1 (4.76%) Ariba
6 1 (4.76%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.76%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce