IT Strategy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 227 229 317
Rank change year-on-year +2 +88 0
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 77 116 163
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 0.76% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.86% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 96 131
10th Percentile £425 £411 £460
25th Percentile £489 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £626 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% +2.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £735 £750 £725
90th Percentile £762 £794 £875
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £615
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.12 -
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £30.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year +232.01% -19.34% +113.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

IT Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Strategy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Strategy.

IT Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IT Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Strategy.

IT Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.30%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.30%) Eloqua
1 1 (1.30%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) Azure
2 18 (23.38%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (20.78%) AWS
4 10 (12.99%) SaaS
5 9 (11.69%) GCP
5 9 (11.69%) PaaS
6 8 (10.39%) Entra ID
7 7 (9.09%) IaaS
8 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.30%) GitHub
9 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) VSAN
2 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) VPN
2 4 (5.19%) WAN
3 2 (2.60%) BGP
3 2 (2.60%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (2.60%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.60%) DHCP
3 2 (2.60%) LAN
3 2 (2.60%) MPLS
3 2 (2.60%) NGFW
3 2 (2.60%) OSPF
3 2 (2.60%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.60%) Skype
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.60%) VLAN
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.30%) Big Data
3 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.30%) IDMS
3 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Finance
2 16 (20.78%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.49%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Retail
4 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Local Government
6 2 (2.60%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
6 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Back Office
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (44.16%) Architect
2 10 (12.99%) Solutions Architect
2 10 (12.99%) Technical Architect
3 9 (11.69%) IT Manager
4 8 (10.39%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (6.49%) IT Support
6 5 (6.49%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Technical Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Support Officer
7 3 (3.90%) Category Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Head of IT
7 3 (3.90%) Lead Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Migration Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Principal Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) Middleware
2 1 (1.30%) SAML
2 1 (1.30%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.30%) Spring
2 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) PKI
2 6 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.79%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.49%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.19%) Life Science
5 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.60%) NHS
6 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.60%) PMI
6 2 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.30%) CMDB
7 1 (1.30%) EPoS
7 1 (1.30%) FMCG
7 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.90%) Linux
4 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (54.55%) Technology Strategy
2 31 (40.26%) Roadmaps
3 21 (27.27%) Agile
4 19 (24.68%) TOGAF
5 15 (19.48%) Enterprise Architecture
5 15 (19.48%) ITIL
5 15 (19.48%) Risk Management
5 15 (19.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (16.88%) Business Strategy
6 13 (16.88%) Strategic Roadmap
7 12 (15.58%) Migration
8 11 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 11 (14.29%) Microservices
8 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.99%) Project Management
10 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
10 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.39%) Decision-Making
10 8 (10.39%) Technology Roadmap
11 7 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.60%) Java
2 1 (1.30%) ABAP
2 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
2 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) Degree
4 7 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Azure Certification
5 6 (7.79%) Master's Degree
5 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.49%) MCSE
7 4 (5.19%) CITP
7 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (3.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.60%) MCSA
9 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.60%) PMP
10 1 (1.30%) CISSP
10 1 (1.30%) GIAC
10 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) NIST
2 8 (10.39%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (6.49%) NCSC
4 4 (5.19%) QA
5 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.90%) PMO
6 2 (2.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (2.60%) GDPR
6 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.30%) COBIT
7 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.79%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.60%) OPNET
1 2 (2.60%) SCCM
2 1 (1.30%) Grafana
2 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) VMware
3 9 (11.69%) Cisco
4 6 (7.79%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.49%) Google
5 5 (6.49%) SAP
6 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.90%) Databricks
8 2 (2.60%) Ariba
8 2 (2.60%) Aruba
8 2 (2.60%) F5
8 2 (2.60%) Imperva
8 2 (2.60%) Oracle
8 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.30%) Autodesk
9 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.30%) IBM
9 1 (1.30%) Kronos