Digital Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Digital Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 358 423
Rank change year-on-year +30 +65 -132
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 73 72 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.36% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 62 50
10th Percentile £333 £117 £370
25th Percentile £463 £175 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £534 £669
90th Percentile £800 £684 £701
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £36.41 - -
25th Percentile £56.52 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £28.16 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +107.03% +29.29% -7.32%
75th Percentile £60.60 £30.24 -
90th Percentile £60.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.17 £30.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year +93.91% +37.74% -7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 June 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 +19 20 £550 +350.82% 16
South East +13 19 £525 +31.25% 16
South West +9 18 £638 +21.43% 9
West Midlands +31 15 £600 +247.32% 6
Scotland +44 12 £475 -5.00% 2
East Midlands -4 5 £129 +5.74% 10
North of England +18 4 £625 +28.21% 21
North West +14 2 £663 +35.90% 13
North East - 2 £400 - 3
East of England +5 1 £306 - 6
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 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) CMS
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (15.07%) AWS
3 7 (9.59%) PaaS
3 7 (9.59%) SaaS
4 5 (6.85%) Azure
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.74%) Canva
6 2 (2.74%) Slack
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.59%) PBX
1 7 (9.59%) VoIP
2 6 (8.22%) WAN
3 4 (5.48%) Junos
3 4 (5.48%) SDH
4 3 (4.11%) VLAN
5 2 (2.74%) Intranet
5 2 (2.74%) LAN
5 2 (2.74%) Wireless
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.37%) Network Security
6 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Big Data
1 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Rational DOORS
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Telecoms
3 10 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.59%) Digital Economy
5 5 (6.85%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Military
6 4 (5.48%) Aeronautics
6 4 (5.48%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Legal
7 3 (4.11%) Automotive
7 3 (4.11%) Marketing
8 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Local Government
9 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (19.18%) IT Manager
1 14 (19.18%) Senior
2 12 (16.44%) Architect
2 12 (16.44%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Consultant
4 8 (10.96%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.85%) Analyst
5 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Category Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Change Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Digital Project Manager
6 4 (5.48%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.48%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) IT Change Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Service Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.33%) NHS
3 7 (9.59%) Blackberry
3 7 (9.59%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (8.22%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.74%) Social Media
6 2 (2.74%) Video Editing
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
2 3 (4.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Roadmaps
2 28 (38.36%) Strategic Roadmap
3 23 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (31.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (24.66%) Change Management
5 17 (23.29%) Agile
6 15 (20.55%) Decision-Making
7 13 (17.81%) Enterprise Architecture
8 12 (16.44%) Analytics
8 12 (16.44%) ITIL
9 11 (15.07%) ArchiMate
9 11 (15.07%) Architecture Governance
9 11 (15.07%) BPMN
9 11 (15.07%) Customer Engagement
9 11 (15.07%) PLM
9 11 (15.07%) Project Management
9 11 (15.07%) TOGAF
10 10 (13.70%) Information Exploitation
10 10 (13.70%) Information Management
10 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.37%) Python
1 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (36.99%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.14%) DV Cleared
3 19 (26.03%) Degree
4 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
5 11 (15.07%) HND
5 11 (15.07%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (10.96%) CCNP
6 8 (10.96%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.48%) JNCIA
8 3 (4.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.37%) CCNA
9 1 (1.37%) CISSP
9 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.48%) NCSC
1 4 (5.48%) NIST
1 4 (5.48%) PMO
2 2 (2.74%) SLA
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 2 (2.74%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (36.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.44%) Cisco
3 11 (15.07%) IBM
3 11 (15.07%) Juniper
3 11 (15.07%) Nokia
4 7 (9.59%) Avaya
4 7 (9.59%) Ericsson
4 7 (9.59%) Google
4 7 (9.59%) Ribbon
5 4 (5.48%) Ciena
5 4 (5.48%) Oracle
5 4 (5.48%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.48%) Splunk
5 4 (5.48%) VMware
6 2 (2.74%) Aruba
7 1 (1.37%) Databricks
7 1 (1.37%) SAP