IT Strategy Contracts in the South West

IT/Technology Strategy
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 143 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 21 18 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.52% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.58% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 28
10th Percentile £538 £453 £428
25th Percentile £631 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 £623
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +4.42% +3.75%
75th Percentile £767 £738 £650
90th Percentile £769 £748 £788
England median daily rate £589 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -9.33% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,620 3,085 3,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.65% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,255 2,319
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.49%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 316 208
10th Percentile £13.87 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.36 £20.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.43% +10.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.26
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the South West over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the South West

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Wiltshire +8 10 £700 +7.69% 1
Dorset +10 5 £763 +8.93%
Bristol +4 3 £500 -13.04% 8
Gloucestershire +4 2 £725 +61.11% 1
IT Strategy
England

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) PaaS
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) LAN
1 9 (42.86%) WAN
2 4 (19.05%) Unified Communications
2 4 (19.05%) VPN
2 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) OLAP
1 1 (4.76%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Technical Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Lead
3 4 (19.05%) Lead Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Network Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Office Automation Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) IT Security Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Operational Security Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Operations Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Middleware
2 4 (19.05%) ModSecurity
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Security Posture
3 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) PKI
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
1 12 (57.14%) Business Strategy
2 11 (52.38%) Architectural Patterns
2 11 (52.38%) Technology Strategy
2 11 (52.38%) TOGAF
3 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 5 (23.81%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (19.05%) ArchiMate
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Network Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Network Management
5 4 (19.05%) NsoIT
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
6 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) Degree
3 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) HND
4 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) COBIT
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (19.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (19.05%) OPNET
2 2 (9.52%) PowerCLI
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Atlassian
1 4 (19.05%) Google
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) VMware
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce