IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IT/Technology Strategy
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 89 99
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 +56
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 7 36 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.42% 1.66% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.94% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 35
10th Percentile £460 - £650
25th Percentile £475 £500 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £750
Median % change year-on-year -14.24% -22.27% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £1,031
90th Percentile £760 £807 £1,150
South East median daily rate £595 £583 £700
% change year-on-year +2.06% -16.71% +12.00%

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 1,533 1,852 2,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.93% 85.42% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 1,031 1,656
10th Percentile £258 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -2.49% +4.60%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 78 85
10th Percentile £14.40 £18.64 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.10 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.47 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -57.71% +14.15% +163.80%
75th Percentile £40.65 £67.38 £66.44
90th Percentile £79.00 £79.72 £75.15
South East median hourly rate £22.35 £58.49 £54.38
% change year-on-year -61.80% +7.56% +87.48%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IT Strategy

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 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the Thames Valley

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IT Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IT Strategy

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 30 September 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 -4 4 £500 -1.59% 4
Berkshire -3 1 £450 -25.56% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £800 - 3
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (14.29%) SAP MDG
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) FMCG
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
1 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) DoDAF
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) MODAF
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) UML
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) COBIT
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Workday