IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IT/Technology Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 84 113
Rank change year-on-year -35 +29 +36
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 8 28 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.44% 1.49% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.80% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 7
10th Percentile £460 £585 £398
25th Percentile £463 £604 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +3.70% +20.00%
75th Percentile £631 £750 £750
90th Percentile £765 £935 £775
England median daily rate £625 £644 £650
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +4.00%

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 1,628 1,552 1,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.25% 82.51% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 976 1,187
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 39 53
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.85
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +50.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IT Strategy

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 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the West Midlands

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IT Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IT Strategy

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 29 September 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 -5 5 £488 -30.32% 8
Warwickshire -8 1 £500 -26.31% 2
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 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Director
2 1 (12.50%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Presales Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Presales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Housing Association
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (37.50%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (37.50%) Case Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Product Vision
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Customer Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) APMG
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft