Technology Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technology 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 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 364 322
Rank change year-on-year +108 -42 -1
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 135 93 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.43% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 74 140
10th Percentile £500 £453 £300
25th Percentile £590 £514 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £565
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +10.64% +12.98%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £701
90th Percentile £905 £759 £803
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £58.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.07% -10.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology 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 Technology Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
North of England +61 53 £669 +9.18% 33
North West +55 40 £666 +2.46% 25
Scotland +48 28 £675 +12.03% 9
Midlands +38 20 £750 +11.11% 11
South West +19 18 £725 +11.54% 14
West Midlands +43 17 £800 +16.36% 7
South East +1 12 £601 +11.80% 27
Yorkshire +16 9 - - 7
Wales - 4 £650 -
East Midlands +17 3 £750 +21.21% 4
North East - 3 £897 - 1
East of England +4 1 £575 -20.69% 8
Technology Strategy
UK

Technology 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 6 (4.44%) Confluence
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.19%) Azure
2 15 (11.11%) AWS
3 8 (5.93%) SaaS
4 6 (4.44%) GCP
5 5 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.96%) BigCommerce
6 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.96%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.96%) PaaS
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.22%) IaaS
7 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.48%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.41%) Network Security
1 10 (7.41%) WAN
2 9 (6.67%) LAN
3 7 (5.19%) Firewall
4 5 (3.70%) 5G
4 5 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.96%) VoIP
6 3 (2.22%) Intranet
6 3 (2.22%) VPN
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.74%) DNS
7 1 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.74%) NAS
7 1 (0.74%) SAN
7 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.22%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.48%) Big Data
2 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.74%) OLAP
3 1 (0.74%) OLTP
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Git
1 8 (5.93%) JIRA
2 7 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.70%) Postman
4 3 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.22%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.22%) JUnit
4 3 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 34 (25.19%) Finance
3 17 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.63%) Banking
5 8 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.19%) Marketing
6 7 (5.19%) Retail
7 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Electronics
9 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (65.93%) Architect
2 27 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 16 (11.85%) Security Architect
4 14 (10.37%) Enterprise Architect
5 13 (9.63%) Senior
6 12 (8.89%) Technical Architect
7 11 (8.15%) Analyst
8 8 (5.93%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (5.93%) Domain Architect
8 8 (5.93%) Senior Architect
9 6 (4.44%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.44%) Lead
10 5 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) Developer
11 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) Functional Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) Network Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Senior Enterprise Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.15%) Middleware
2 4 (2.96%) Kafka
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Camel
3 3 (2.22%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.22%) J2EE
3 3 (2.22%) ModSecurity
3 3 (2.22%) REST
3 3 (2.22%) Spring
3 3 (2.22%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.22%) VML
4 2 (1.48%) .NET
4 2 (1.48%) CSS
4 2 (1.48%) HTML
4 2 (1.48%) Jest
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.48%) Node.js
4 2 (1.48%) Playwright
4 2 (1.48%) React
5 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.93%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.48%) Clustering
6 2 (1.48%) CMDB
6 2 (1.48%) Robotics
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.74%) NHS
7 1 (0.74%) PKI
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
1 11 (8.15%) Windows
2 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (80.00%) IT Strategy
2 53 (39.26%) Agile
3 50 (37.04%) Business Strategy
4 41 (30.37%) Roadmaps
5 39 (28.89%) TOGAF
6 25 (18.52%) Project Delivery
7 22 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (16.30%) Waterfall
8 20 (14.81%) DevOps
8 20 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
8 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (14.07%) Risk Management
10 18 (13.33%) CI/CD
11 17 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (11.85%) Information Security
12 16 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (11.85%) Project Management
13 15 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
13 15 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (9.63%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.67%) SQL
2 6 (4.44%) Python
3 4 (2.96%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.22%) Bash
4 3 (2.22%) Go
4 3 (2.22%) Java
5 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.74%) C#
6 1 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) Degree
4 13 (9.63%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) HND
5 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.22%) CCNP
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.22%) MCSE
7 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.48%) PMP
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) CISM
8 1 (0.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (9.63%) NIST
3 9 (6.67%) QA
4 4 (2.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.22%) IASME
5 3 (2.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (8.15%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.74%) vCloud
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.93%) Terraform
3 6 (4.44%) Ansible
4 3 (2.22%) HP Fortify
4 3 (2.22%) Kibana
4 3 (2.22%) OPNET
5 1 (0.74%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.74%) SCCM
5 1 (0.74%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.41%) VMware
3 9 (6.67%) SAP
4 7 (5.19%) Cisco
5 6 (4.44%) Databricks
6 5 (3.70%) Google
6 5 (3.70%) Meraki
6 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.96%) Adobe
7 4 (2.96%) Aruba
7 4 (2.96%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.96%) F5
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle
7 4 (2.96%) Sitecore
8 3 (2.22%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.22%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (2.22%) Dell
8 3 (2.22%) Intel
8 3 (2.22%) Splunk
8 3 (2.22%) Veeam