Technology Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 332 324
Rank change year-on-year +59 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 131 98 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.43% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.48% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 77 138
10th Percentile £455 £429 £300
25th Percentile £550 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £597
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.85% +13.74%
75th Percentile £756 £725 £734
90th Percentile £925 £810 £875
UK median daily rate £660 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £85.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.56% +30.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

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 14 June 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 14 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
North of England +45 52 £669 +9.18% 15
North West +40 36 £668 -1.11% 10
Midlands +34 25 £663 - 14
South West +15 25 £738 +9.26% 17
Scotland +50 15 £700 +5.66% 3
West Midlands +30 15 £800 +18.52% 8
South East -2 14 £545 -16.39% 22
Yorkshire +13 12 £636 +5.08% 4
East Midlands +12 10 £445 -28.08% 6
North East - 3 £897 - 1
East of England -4 2 £575 +35.29% 8
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 1
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 4 (3.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.14%) Azure
2 18 (13.74%) AWS
3 8 (6.11%) GCP
4 7 (5.34%) OpenShift
5 6 (4.58%) PaaS
6 4 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.05%) SaaS
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.29%) BigCommerce
7 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.53%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.53%) GitHub
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) WAN
2 11 (8.40%) LAN
3 10 (7.63%) Network Security
4 8 (6.11%) Firewall
5 6 (4.58%) VPN
6 4 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.29%) Intranet
7 3 (2.29%) VoIP
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.76%) DNS
8 1 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.76%) NAS
8 1 (0.76%) SAN
8 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.29%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.53%) OLAP
3 2 (1.53%) OLTP
3 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.76%) Big Data
4 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.76%) DB2
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Bitbucket
2 5 (3.82%) JIRA
3 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.29%) Git
4 3 (2.29%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.53%) Jaeger
General
1 45 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.24%) Finance
3 28 (21.37%) Banking
4 22 (16.79%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.63%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.34%) Marketing
8 6 (4.58%) Retail
9 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.29%) Electronics
11 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.76%) Law
13 1 (0.76%) Local Government
13 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (71.76%) Architect
2 22 (16.79%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (12.98%) Enterprise Architect
4 14 (10.69%) Technical Architect
5 13 (9.92%) Analyst
5 13 (9.92%) Security Architect
6 9 (6.87%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (6.11%) Domain Architect
8 7 (5.34%) Azure Architect
8 7 (5.34%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Lead
9 5 (3.82%) Senior
10 4 (3.05%) Automation Architect
10 4 (3.05%) Business Architect
10 4 (3.05%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
10 4 (3.05%) Functional Analyst
10 4 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.16%) Middleware
2 6 (4.58%) ModSecurity
3 5 (3.82%) .NET
4 4 (3.05%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.29%) Kafka
5 3 (2.29%) VML
6 2 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.53%) RESTful
6 2 (1.53%) SOAP
7 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.76%) gRPC
7 1 (0.76%) JMS
7 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.76%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.87%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.58%) Operational Technology
4 6 (4.58%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) PKI
7 2 (1.53%) Robotics
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.76%) Clustering
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) FMCG
8 1 (0.76%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.76%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.74%) Linux
2 13 (9.92%) Windows
3 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (78.63%) IT Strategy
2 62 (47.33%) Business Strategy
3 41 (31.30%) Roadmaps
4 37 (28.24%) Agile
5 34 (25.95%) TOGAF
6 27 (20.61%) Enterprise Architecture
7 22 (16.79%) Architectural Patterns
8 20 (15.27%) CI/CD
8 20 (15.27%) Project Management
9 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (13.74%) DevOps
9 18 (13.74%) Risk Management
9 18 (13.74%) Waterfall
10 17 (12.98%) Microservices
10 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (11.45%) Analytics
12 15 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (10.69%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.87%) Python
2 8 (6.11%) SQL
3 7 (5.34%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.29%) Bash
4 3 (2.29%) Go
5 1 (0.76%) C#
5 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.32%) Degree
4 17 (12.98%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.11%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.58%) PMI Certification
6 6 (4.58%) PMP
7 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.05%) HND
8 4 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.76%) CISM
9 1 (0.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (8.40%) NIST
2 11 (8.40%) QA
3 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.29%) IASME
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.58%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) vCloud
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.40%) Ansible
3 7 (5.34%) Terraform
4 6 (4.58%) OPNET
5 4 (3.05%) PowerCLI
6 3 (2.29%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.53%) Kiali
7 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.53%) Puppet
8 1 (0.76%) SCCM
8 1 (0.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.87%) Cisco
3 8 (6.11%) VMware
4 7 (5.34%) Databricks
5 6 (4.58%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.58%) Google
5 6 (4.58%) SAP
6 5 (3.82%) Splunk
7 4 (3.05%) Cognizant
7 4 (3.05%) Meraki
7 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.29%) Adobe
8 3 (2.29%) Aruba
8 3 (2.29%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (2.29%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.29%) Dell
8 3 (2.29%) F5
8 3 (2.29%) Intel
8 3 (2.29%) Oracle
8 3 (2.29%) Sitecore