Hybrid/Remote Technology Strategy Contract Job Trends

Technology Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Technology Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 264 274
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +35
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 52 57 100
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.49% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.55% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 75
10th Percentile £494 £479 £436
25th Percentile £525 £515 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £750 £737 £763
90th Percentile £953 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £633 £681 £650
% change year-on-year -7.16% +4.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +48.57%

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 9,249 10,404 15,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.01% 89.01% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,116 6,535 10,443
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 214 371
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.19% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technology Strategy and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Technology Strategy job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technology Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Technology Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Technology Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technology Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.77%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) SAS
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) Azure
2 20 (38.46%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) IaaS
3 4 (7.69%) PaaS
3 4 (7.69%) SaaS
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.85%) Google Gemini
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Internet
2 2 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (1.92%) DHCP
3 1 (1.92%) DNS
3 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Power BI
1 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.85%) Big Data
2 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) Metadata
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) HP UFT
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 14 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 11 (21.15%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Automotive
6 1 (1.92%) Back Office
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Local Government
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.92%) Publishing
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (51.92%) Architect
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
3 8 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 7 (13.46%) Enterprise Architect
4 7 (13.46%) Lead
4 7 (13.46%) Senior Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (9.62%) Programme Manager
6 5 (9.62%) Technologist
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Implementation Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Lead Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Programme Delivery Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Security Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Transformation Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) NumPy
1 3 (5.77%) Pandas
1 3 (5.77%) Plotly
1 3 (5.77%) REST
1 3 (5.77%) Web Services
2 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.85%) CrewAI
2 2 (3.85%) LangGraph
2 2 (3.85%) React
2 2 (3.85%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.85%) SciPy
2 2 (3.85%) Statsmodels
2 2 (3.85%) Vue
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.92%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.85%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.92%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Linux
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (88.46%) IT Strategy
2 18 (34.62%) Roadmaps
3 12 (23.08%) AI
3 12 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
3 12 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (19.23%) Business Strategy
4 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (15.38%) Agile
5 8 (15.38%) Analytics
5 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.46%) Decision-Making
6 7 (13.46%) LLM
6 7 (13.46%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 5 (9.62%) Coaching
7 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.62%) Data Science
7 5 (9.62%) Data Strategy
7 5 (9.62%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) Python
2 5 (9.62%) SQL
3 3 (5.77%) R
4 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) MCP
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PMP
5 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.92%) GAMP
2 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
2 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
2 1 (1.92%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Hyper-V
2 4 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) SCCM
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle
2 6 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (3.85%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.85%) Databricks
3 2 (3.85%) Dataiku
3 2 (3.85%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.85%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Mitel
4 1 (1.92%) Pega
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce