Technology Strategy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technology Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 253 257 329
Rank change year-on-year +4 +72 +36
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 51 88 149
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.65% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 111
10th Percentile £496 £463 £481
25th Percentile £592 £561 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £669 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +7.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £743 £750 £728
90th Percentile £786 £848 £919
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.50
Median hourly rate - £30.12 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.84% -
75th Percentile - - £31.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.25 £30.12 £58.00
% change year-on-year +109.99% -48.07% -10.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Technology Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Technology 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 Technology Strategy.

Technology Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Technology Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technology 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 Technology Strategy.

Technology Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technology 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 3 (5.88%) CMS
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.88%) WordPress
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Trello
2 1 (1.96%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.96%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.96%) Eloqua
1 1 (1.96%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (13.73%) SaaS
4 6 (11.76%) IaaS
4 6 (11.76%) PaaS
5 4 (7.84%) GCP
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub
6 3 (5.88%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (5.88%) Figma
6 3 (5.88%) Google Workspace
6 3 (5.88%) Heroku
6 3 (5.88%) Slack
7 1 (1.96%) Akamai
7 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) DNS
2 6 (11.76%) VSAN
3 5 (9.80%) VPN
3 5 (9.80%) WAN
4 3 (5.88%) BGP
4 3 (5.88%) DHCP
4 3 (5.88%) LAN
4 3 (5.88%) MPLS
4 3 (5.88%) OSPF
4 3 (5.88%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (3.92%) Firewall
5 2 (3.92%) NGFW
5 2 (3.92%) Skype
5 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.92%) VLAN
6 1 (1.96%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.96%) GLBP
6 1 (1.96%) Multicast
6 1 (1.96%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (1.96%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 17 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Retail
4 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.96%) Back Office
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.96%) Law
7 1 (1.96%) Local Government
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Police
7 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (54.90%) Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Technical Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (11.76%) Senior
5 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Technical Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Product Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Technical Product Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Technology Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Alpine.js
1 3 (5.88%) Bootstrap
1 3 (5.88%) CSS
1 3 (5.88%) Laravel
1 3 (5.88%) Middleware
1 3 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (1.96%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.96%) EDI
2 1 (1.96%) HTML
2 1 (1.96%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.96%) Spring
2 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) PKI
1 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) FMCG
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) EPoS
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.92%) Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (82.35%) IT Strategy
2 21 (41.18%) Roadmaps
3 15 (29.41%) Agile
4 14 (27.45%) TOGAF
5 11 (21.57%) Business Strategy
5 11 (21.57%) ITIL
6 10 (19.61%) Microservices
7 9 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (15.69%) Analytics
8 8 (15.69%) DevSecOps
8 8 (15.69%) Project Management
8 8 (15.69%) Strategic Roadmap
9 7 (13.73%) DevOps
10 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 6 (11.76%) CRM
10 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (11.76%) Migration
10 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
10 6 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.88%) PHP
2 2 (3.92%) Java
3 1 (1.96%) ABAP
3 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (9.80%) MCSE
5 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.92%) MCSA
7 2 (3.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.96%) Degree
8 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) NIST
2 6 (11.76%) QA
3 5 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (9.80%) NCSC
4 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.88%) PMO
5 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.96%) GDPR
6 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.92%) OPNET
1 2 (3.92%) SCCM
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) VMware
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco
4 6 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 5 (9.80%) Google
6 3 (5.88%) Databricks
6 3 (5.88%) Sage
6 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.88%) SAP
7 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.96%) Arista
8 1 (1.96%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.96%) Blue Coat
8 1 (1.96%) Citrix
8 1 (1.96%) F5
8 1 (1.96%) Juniper
8 1 (1.96%) Kronos
8 1 (1.96%) Oracle
8 1 (1.96%) Riverbed