Technology Strategy Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technology Strategy
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 85 137 135
Rank change year-on-year +52 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 17 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.34% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 15
10th Percentile £571 £571 £401
25th Percentile £625 £594 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £628 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +19.58% -7.24%
75th Percentile £743 £643 £563
90th Percentile - - £673
South East median daily rate £653 £601 £538
% change year-on-year +8.58% +11.80% -2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 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%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the Thames Valley

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the Thames Valley

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the Thames Valley

Technology 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 Technology 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 +25 14 £630 +0.35% 14
Berkshire +31 3 - - 10
Technology Strategy
South East

Technology 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) IaaS
3 5 (29.41%) PaaS
3 5 (29.41%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) VSAN
2 3 (17.65%) BGP
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) MPLS
2 3 (17.65%) NGFW
2 3 (17.65%) OSPF
2 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
2 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 3 (17.65%) VLAN
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Back Office
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Architect
2 8 (47.06%) Technical Architect
3 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Architect
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (29.41%) Principal Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.76%) VMware Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Data Scientist
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Public Cloud
2 7 (41.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (41.18%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.88%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) IT Strategy
2 14 (82.35%) TOGAF
3 12 (70.59%) ITIL
4 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
5 10 (58.82%) Containerisation
5 10 (58.82%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (58.82%) Matrix Organization
5 10 (58.82%) Microservices
5 10 (58.82%) Zachman Framework
6 9 (52.94%) DevSecOps
7 7 (41.18%) Requirements Management
8 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (29.41%) Agile
9 5 (29.41%) Use Case
9 5 (29.41%) User Experience
9 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (23.53%) DevOps
10 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) MCSE
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (35.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
5 4 (23.53%) CCNP
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (70.59%) NCSC
1 12 (70.59%) NIST
2 8 (47.06%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (52.94%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco
2 9 (52.94%) Palo Alto
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Ariba
4 1 (5.88%) Aruba
4 1 (5.88%) SAP