IT Strategy Contracts in the West Midlands

IT/Technology Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT 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 92 89 129
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 +26
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 5 22 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 1.13% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.34% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 8
10th Percentile £419 £561 £313
25th Percentile £503 £638 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £750 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +39.34% -20.26%
75th Percentile £675 £906 £700
90th Percentile £720 £930 £768
England median daily rate £650 £600 £645
% change year-on-year +8.33% -6.98% +3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

IT 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the West Midlands

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the West Midlands

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the West Midlands

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the West Midlands

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Strategy within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +9 3 £625 -19.35% 8
Coventry +4 1 £375 -34.50%
Warwickshire 0 1 - - 3
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Information Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft