Technology Strategy Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technology Strategy
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 127 147
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -20
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 8 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.64% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 13
10th Percentile £571 £401 -
25th Percentile £594 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £525 £566
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -7.24% +16.10%
75th Percentile £643 £563 £619
90th Percentile - £673 £654
South East median daily rate £613 £605 £550
% change year-on-year +1.24% +10.00% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Technology Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,650 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.60% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,849 2,109
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.18
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

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
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 3 May 2024. 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 +21 5 £628 +25.56% 6
Berkshire -3 3 - - 5
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (25.00%) VMware Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (25.00%) Robotics
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Data Management
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Information Management
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) CCNP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (37.50%) MCSE
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NCSC
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) vCloud
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle