IT Strategy Contracts in the South East

IT/Technology Strategy
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 175 196
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -28
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 31 40 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.71% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 46
10th Percentile £313 £500 £397
25th Percentile £400 £554 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £688 £534
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +28.87% +9.44%
75th Percentile £643 £784 £658
90th Percentile £700 £838 £705
England median daily rate £600 £650 £628
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.59% +14.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,621 5,004 6,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.96% 89.12% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,457 4,696
10th Percentile £255 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +0.10% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 216 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.21
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the South East

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Thames Valley +11 18 £506 -7.95% 11
Berkshire +3 13 £400 -38.46% 6
Surrey +12 6 £325 -59.38% 7
Buckinghamshire +20 5 £643 +19.64% 2
Hampshire 0 4 £589 -3.81% 5
East Sussex +3 1 £775 - 1
West Sussex - 1 £550 - 2
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) PaaS
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 11 (35.48%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Retail
2 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
3 4 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (61.29%) Architect
2 12 (38.71%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (22.58%) Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Chief Technology Officer
6 2 (6.45%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Head of Development
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Service Desk Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
1 1 (3.23%) Middleware
1 1 (3.23%) RESTful
1 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
1 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.45%) Robotics
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) EPoS
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Roadmaps
2 12 (38.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (38.71%) Technology Strategy
3 7 (22.58%) Service Delivery
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Coaching
4 6 (19.35%) Data Management
4 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
4 6 (19.35%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (16.13%) TOGAF
6 4 (12.90%) Business Strategy
6 4 (12.90%) Data Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 4 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.68%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
7 3 (9.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) C#
1 1 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) ACCA
3 4 (12.90%) CIMA
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.68%) CCNP
4 3 (9.68%) MCSE
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) CISM
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 4 (12.90%) NIST
3 3 (9.68%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Sun
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) BT
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle