Technology Strategy Contracts

Technology Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 314 424
Rank change year-on-year -54 +110 -35
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 155 288 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.77% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 188 227
10th Percentile £461 £450 £470
25th Percentile £563 £525 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
75th Percentile £750 £750 £759
90th Percentile £800 £925 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £629 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -6.81% +8.00% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £33.18 - £35.95
25th Percentile £44.31 - £44.13
Median hourly rate £63.25 £30.12 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.99% -48.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £81.81 - £71.63
90th Percentile £92.73 - £79.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 - £85.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technology Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy.

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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 -34 138 £663 +4.25% 491
London -14 77 £700 +22.27% 306
UK excluding London -3 68 £629 -6.81% 261
Work from Home +4 51 £630 -5.83% 230
South East +54 20 £653 +8.58% 103
North of England -15 19 £700 +4.63% 64
South West +40 12 £623 -14.14% 30
Yorkshire +9 10 £650 - 14
Scotland -8 8 £481 -28.81% 18
North West -17 6 £600 -9.91% 48
East of England +32 3 £675 +17.39% 23
Midlands +6 3 £600 -20.00% 27
North East 0 3 £750 -16.38% 3
Wales 0 3 £625 -3.85% 6
West Midlands 0 2 £600 -25.00% 12
East Midlands +8 1 - - 12

Technology Strategy
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 4 (2.58%) Confluence
2 3 (1.94%) CMS
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.94%) WordPress
3 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.29%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) SAS
4 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.58%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.94%) Trello
5 1 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.65%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Maximo
1 3 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.87%) Azure
2 35 (22.58%) AWS
3 13 (8.39%) GCP
4 12 (7.74%) SaaS
5 11 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.45%) IaaS
6 10 (6.45%) PaaS
7 9 (5.81%) GitHub
8 7 (4.52%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.87%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.94%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (1.94%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.94%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.94%) Heroku
12 3 (1.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.45%) DNS
2 9 (5.81%) VSAN
3 8 (5.16%) VPN
3 8 (5.16%) WAN
4 6 (3.87%) BGP
4 6 (3.87%) Firewall
4 6 (3.87%) MPLS
4 6 (3.87%) OSPF
4 6 (3.87%) VLAN
5 5 (3.23%) LAN
5 5 (3.23%) SSL
6 4 (2.58%) Network Security
6 4 (2.58%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.94%) DHCP
7 3 (1.94%) NGFW
8 2 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.29%) Internet
8 2 (1.29%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.58%) Power BI
1 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.94%) Metadata
3 2 (1.29%) Big Data
3 2 (1.29%) Flink
3 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.65%) IDMS
4 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.65%) Presto
4 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.23%) CircleCI
1 5 (3.23%) JIRA
2 3 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.29%) Git
3 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.65%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.65%) JUnit
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
General
1 63 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 49 (31.61%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Banking
4 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.03%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.74%) Retail
7 10 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.52%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.58%) Back Office
11 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.94%) Front Office
11 3 (1.94%) Local Government
11 3 (1.94%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.29%) Aviation
12 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.29%) Law
12 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.29%) Marketing
12 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (52.90%) Architect
2 19 (12.26%) Technical Architect
3 16 (10.32%) Enterprise Architect
3 16 (10.32%) Lead
3 16 (10.32%) Senior
3 16 (10.32%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (7.74%) Senior Architect
5 10 (6.45%) Senior Technical Architect
6 9 (5.81%) Developer
7 7 (4.52%) Analyst
7 7 (4.52%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (3.23%) Principal Architect
9 4 (2.58%) Azure Architect
9 4 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.58%) Designer
9 4 (2.58%) ServiceNow Architect
10 3 (1.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (1.94%) Security Architect
10 3 (1.94%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.52%) Middleware
2 6 (3.87%) CSS
2 6 (3.87%) XML
3 5 (3.23%) HTML
3 5 (3.23%) JSON
4 4 (2.58%) JDBC
4 4 (2.58%) LDAP
4 4 (2.58%) ODBC
4 4 (2.58%) REST
4 4 (2.58%) SAML
4 4 (2.58%) SOAP
4 4 (2.58%) Web Services
5 3 (1.94%) Alpine.js
5 3 (1.94%) Bootstrap
5 3 (1.94%) Laravel
5 3 (1.94%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (1.29%) .NET
6 2 (1.29%) EDI
6 2 (1.29%) Kafka
7 1 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.26%) Public Cloud
2 13 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.45%) PKI
4 9 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.58%) CMDB
7 4 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.94%) Blog
8 3 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.81%) Windows
2 5 (3.23%) Linux
3 4 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (74.84%) IT Strategy
2 58 (37.42%) Roadmaps
3 53 (34.19%) Agile
4 34 (21.94%) TOGAF
5 33 (21.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 31 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (19.35%) ITIL
8 29 (18.71%) Business Strategy
8 29 (18.71%) Microservices
9 27 (17.42%) CI/CD
10 24 (15.48%) DevOps
11 22 (14.19%) Project Management
11 22 (14.19%) Strategic Roadmap
12 21 (13.55%) Analytics
12 21 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (12.26%) Artificial Intelligence
14 18 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (10.32%) Decision-Making
15 16 (10.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.74%) Java
2 7 (4.52%) SQL
3 6 (3.87%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.23%) Python
5 4 (2.58%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.94%) PHP
7 2 (1.29%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) ABAP
8 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (7.74%) Degree
4 12 (7.74%) MCSE
5 8 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.52%) CCNP
6 7 (4.52%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.94%) CISSP
9 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.29%) CCIE
10 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.29%) MCSA
10 2 (1.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.26%) NIST
2 12 (7.74%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.74%) NCSC
3 11 (7.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (5.16%) QA
5 5 (3.23%) GDPR
6 4 (2.58%) PMO
7 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.94%) SLA
8 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.65%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (7.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (5.81%) VMware NSX
3 6 (3.87%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.94%) Docker
5 1 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.23%) Grafana
2 5 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.58%) Terraform
4 2 (1.29%) OPNET
4 2 (1.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.68%) VMware
3 13 (8.39%) SAP
3 13 (8.39%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.74%) Cisco
5 11 (7.10%) Google
6 9 (5.81%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.87%) Oracle
8 5 (3.23%) OpenText
8 5 (3.23%) Qualtrics
9 4 (2.58%) Databricks
9 4 (2.58%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.94%) F5
10 3 (1.94%) Sage
11 2 (1.29%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.65%) Ariba
12 1 (0.65%) Blue Coat
12 1 (0.65%) Citrix
12 1 (0.65%) Juniper
12 1 (0.65%) Kronos