Digital Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 396 427
Rank change year-on-year +61 +31 -132
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 63 59 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 51 64
10th Percentile £200 £115 £370
25th Percentile £463 £187 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £633
90th Percentile £788 £650 £696
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 £28.16 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.32% - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Digital Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London

Digital Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London

Digital Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +34 21 £550 +371.09% 15
South West +34 16 £638 +50.00% 11
West Midlands +33 15 £600 +247.32% 12
Scotland +39 13 £475 -5.00% 6
South East +14 8 £525 +40.00% 6
East Midlands +11 6 £129 +12.17% 3
North of England +34 4 £625 +28.21% 12
North West +19 2 £663 +35.90% 9
East of England +15 2 £478 +0.68% 7
North East - 2 £400 -
Digital Strategy
UK

Digital Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) CMS
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) AWS
2 7 (11.11%) PaaS
2 7 (11.11%) SaaS
3 5 (7.94%) Azure
4 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.17%) Canva
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.17%) Slack
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) PBX
1 7 (11.11%) VoIP
2 6 (9.52%) WAN
3 4 (6.35%) Junos
3 4 (6.35%) SDH
4 2 (3.17%) Intranet
4 2 (3.17%) LAN
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.59%) Network Security
5 1 (1.59%) VLAN
5 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Big Data
1 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (17.46%) Rational DOORS
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Telecoms
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.11%) Digital Economy
5 5 (7.94%) Finance
6 4 (6.35%) Aeronautics
6 4 (6.35%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Legal
6 4 (6.35%) Marketing
7 3 (4.76%) Automotive
8 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Local Government
9 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 13 (20.63%) Architect
3 12 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (14.29%) Consultant
5 6 (9.52%) Analyst
5 6 (9.52%) Project Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior
7 4 (6.35%) Category Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Change Manager
7 4 (6.35%) IT Project Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Product Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Security Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) IT Change Manager
9 2 (3.17%) Digital Project Manager
9 2 (3.17%) E-Commerce Consultant
9 2 (3.17%) Web Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 7 (11.11%) NHS
1 7 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.35%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Social Media
4 2 (3.17%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.75%) Roadmaps
3 17 (26.98%) Agile
4 16 (25.40%) Strategic Roadmap
5 15 (23.81%) Decision-Making
6 13 (20.63%) Enterprise Architecture
7 12 (19.05%) Analytics
7 12 (19.05%) ITIL
7 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.46%) ArchiMate
8 11 (17.46%) Architecture Governance
8 11 (17.46%) BPMN
8 11 (17.46%) Customer Engagement
8 11 (17.46%) Project Management
8 11 (17.46%) TOGAF
9 10 (15.87%) Customer Service
10 8 (12.70%) Business Analysis
10 8 (12.70%) Computer Science
10 8 (12.70%) Waterfall
11 7 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.59%) Python
1 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Degree
2 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) DV Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 11 (17.46%) HND
4 11 (17.46%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (12.70%) CCNP
5 8 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.35%) JNCIA
7 3 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.59%) CCNA
8 1 (1.59%) CISSP
8 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.35%) NCSC
1 4 (6.35%) NIST
1 4 (6.35%) PMO
2 2 (3.17%) SLA
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.05%) Cisco
3 11 (17.46%) IBM
3 11 (17.46%) Juniper
3 11 (17.46%) Nokia
4 7 (11.11%) Avaya
4 7 (11.11%) Ericsson
4 7 (11.11%) Google
4 7 (11.11%) Ribbon
5 4 (6.35%) Ciena
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle
5 4 (6.35%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.35%) Splunk
5 4 (6.35%) VMware
6 2 (3.17%) Cerner
7 1 (1.59%) Databricks
7 1 (1.59%) SAP