IT Strategy Contracts in England

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for IT Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IT Strategy over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 340 296
Rank change year-on-year +77 -44 +21
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 306 332 656
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.68% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.76% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 265 465
10th Percentile £400 £450 £384
25th Percentile £456 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.36% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £728
90th Percentile £844 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.73
25th Percentile - - £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.12 £37.34 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.34% +113.37% +16.67%
75th Percentile - - £30.94
90th Percentile - - £52.88
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £61.17 £17.50
% change year-on-year -50.76% +249.54% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

IT Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,438 43,665 64,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.37% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,640 45,549
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,536 1,740
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in England.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in England

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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
London +87 159 £555 -16.30% 137
North of England +33 54 £655 +13.67% 43
North West +42 47 £605 +0.88% 14
South East +11 30 £525 -21.50% 47
Midlands +34 29 £750 +27.66% 38
West Midlands +36 21 £750 +66.67% 28
South West +14 20 £725 +11.54% 15
East Midlands +16 8 £455 -25.71% 10
East of England +12 8 £513 -14.58% 12
North East +17 4 £897 +117.44% 5
Yorkshire -9 3 - - 24
IT Strategy
UK

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (5.88%) Apache
2 12 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.98%) Confluence
4 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.31%) Infor SunSystems
2 4 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.31%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.98%) Primavera
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (25.16%) Azure
2 56 (18.30%) AWS
3 18 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
4 17 (5.56%) IaaS
4 17 (5.56%) SaaS
5 14 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.25%) PaaS
7 12 (3.92%) GCP
8 8 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.63%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.63%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (1.31%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.31%) Serverless
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.86%) WAN
2 19 (6.21%) LAN
3 15 (4.90%) Network Security
4 11 (3.59%) Firewall
5 7 (2.29%) DNS
6 6 (1.96%) MPLS
6 6 (1.96%) Unified Communications
6 6 (1.96%) VPN
6 6 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.63%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.98%) Intranet
8 3 (0.98%) Wireless
9 2 (0.65%) BGP
9 2 (0.65%) Internet
9 2 (0.65%) OSPF
9 2 (0.65%) SAN
10 1 (0.33%) Broadband
10 1 (0.33%) DHCP
10 1 (0.33%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.88%) Flink
2 9 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.63%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.63%) OLAP
4 5 (1.63%) OLTP
5 3 (0.98%) Big Data
5 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.98%) Metadata
5 3 (0.98%) QlikView
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) DB2
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (2.61%) JIRA
2 5 (1.63%) Git
2 5 (1.63%) LoadRunner
2 5 (1.63%) NeoLoad
3 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.65%) kappa
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
General
1 81 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.24%) Finance
3 41 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.17%) Banking
6 20 (6.54%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.56%) Retail
8 15 (4.90%) Legal
9 13 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (3.59%) Law
11 10 (3.27%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.96%) Marketing
14 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.63%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.31%) French Language
15 4 (1.31%) Local Government
16 3 (0.98%) Wholesale Banking
17 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (52.29%) Architect
2 46 (15.03%) Enterprise Architect
3 42 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
4 34 (11.11%) Developer
5 30 (9.80%) Analyst
6 29 (9.48%) Lead
7 23 (7.52%) Senior
8 21 (6.86%) Security Architect
9 20 (6.54%) Technical Architect
10 17 (5.56%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.58%) Full Stack Developer
11 14 (4.58%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 13 (4.25%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 11 (3.59%) Lead Architect
13 11 (3.59%) Microsoft Developer
14 9 (2.94%) React Developer
14 9 (2.94%) Test Analyst
15 8 (2.61%) Business Architect
15 8 (2.61%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.21%) Kafka
2 11 (3.59%) Middleware
3 6 (1.96%) .NET
4 4 (1.31%) ModSecurity
5 3 (0.98%) DAO
5 3 (0.98%) React
5 3 (0.98%) RESTful
5 3 (0.98%) SOAP
6 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.65%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.65%) Flask
6 2 (0.65%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.65%) REST
7 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.33%) gRPC
7 1 (0.33%) JMS
7 1 (0.33%) JSON
7 1 (0.33%) Node.js
7 1 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 17 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 11 (3.59%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (1.96%) Operational Technology
5 6 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.98%) IoT
8 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.98%) Taxonomies
8 3 (0.98%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.65%) Blog
9 2 (0.65%) CMDB
9 2 (0.65%) FMCG
9 2 (0.65%) PKI
9 2 (0.65%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.21%) Windows
2 12 (3.92%) Linux
3 9 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.65%) Unix
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (53.27%) Technology Strategy
2 130 (42.48%) Roadmaps
3 105 (34.31%) Business Strategy
4 84 (27.45%) Agile
5 67 (21.90%) Enterprise Architecture
6 63 (20.59%) Strategic Roadmap
7 48 (15.69%) TOGAF
8 41 (13.40%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (13.40%) Project Management
9 40 (13.07%) Data Protection
10 37 (12.09%) Project Delivery
11 32 (10.46%) Risk Management
12 30 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (9.48%) Artificial Intelligence
13 29 (9.48%) Disaster Recovery
14 28 (9.15%) Business Continuity
15 27 (8.82%) Use Case
16 26 (8.50%) Information Security
16 26 (8.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.19%) Java
2 15 (4.90%) SQL
3 12 (3.92%) Python
4 6 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.31%) C#
5 4 (1.31%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.31%) PHP
6 3 (0.98%) Bash
6 3 (0.98%) Go
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby
7 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 61 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.75%) Degree
4 16 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.31%) ACCA
9 4 (1.31%) CCNP
9 4 (1.31%) CIMA
9 4 (1.31%) CISM
9 4 (1.31%) CISSP
9 4 (1.31%) HND
10 3 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.98%) CITP
10 3 (0.98%) MCSE
10 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.98%) PMP
11 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.09%) NIST
2 19 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.21%) QA
3 9 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.98%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) IASME
4 3 (0.98%) NCSC
5 2 (0.65%) COBIT
5 2 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) EMIR
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.59%) Docker
1 11 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 14 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.61%) Terraform
3 7 (2.29%) Ansible
4 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.63%) SCCM
5 4 (1.31%) OPNET
6 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.98%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.65%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.33%) Avamar
8 1 (0.33%) CASB
8 1 (0.33%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.33%) SCOM
8 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.56%) VMware
3 9 (2.94%) Oracle
4 8 (2.61%) Cisco
5 6 (1.96%) Citrix
6 5 (1.63%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (1.63%) Databricks
6 5 (1.63%) iManage
6 5 (1.63%) Intapp
6 5 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.31%) Google
7 4 (1.31%) Okta
7 4 (1.31%) Sun
8 3 (0.98%) Aruba
8 3 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.98%) SAP
8 3 (0.98%) Sparx
8 3 (0.98%) Splunk
9 2 (0.65%) Veeam