Strategy Architect Contracts

Strategy Architect
UK

The median Strategy Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 579 708
Rank change year-on-year +71 +129 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Strategy Architect 12 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.007% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.007% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £600 - £606
25th Percentile £621 - £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £688
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £788 - £866
90th Percentile £955 - £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Strategy Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Strategy Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategy Architect in the UK

Strategy Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategy Architect.

Daily rate trend for Strategy Architect in the UK

Strategy Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategy Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategy Architect in the UK

Strategy Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategy Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
England +65 11 £650 -13.33% 1
London +41 6 £750 -
UK excluding London - 4 £650 - 3
North of England - 3 £650 -
Work from Home - 3 £650 - 4
North West - 2 £650 -
South East - 1 £600 -
Yorkshire - 1 £700 -

Strategy Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Strategy Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Strategy Architect in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
4 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (25.00%) GCP
5 3 (25.00%) Degree
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) Data Management
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (16.67%) ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) Google
6 2 (16.67%) Marketing
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration

Strategy Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Public Speaking
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Blog
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 4 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Data Management
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) PSD2
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Virgin Media
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler