IT Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 301 253
Rank change year-on-year +60 -48 +10
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 156 146 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.63% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.71% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 119 194
10th Percentile £400 £406 £273
25th Percentile £558 £493 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% +7.84%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £674
90th Percentile £850 £795 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £13.22
25th Percentile - - £14.69
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - +407.46% +34.05%
75th Percentile - - £17.81
90th Percentile - - £18.38
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the UK excluding London

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the UK excluding London

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the UK excluding London

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the UK excluding London

IT Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +33 54 £655 +13.67% 48
North West +44 47 £605 +0.88% 18
South East +11 31 £550 -17.76% 50
Midlands +27 27 £700 +19.15% 35
West Midlands +33 21 £750 +66.67% 25
South West +12 21 £713 +9.62% 15
Scotland +45 17 £700 +16.67% 15
East of England +10 8 £513 -14.58% 12
East Midlands +13 6 £445 -27.35% 10
North East +15 4 £897 +117.44% 4
Yorkshire -8 3 - - 26
IT Strategy
UK

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) CMS
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Infor SunSystems
1 4 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 35 (22.44%) Azure
2 20 (12.82%) AWS
3 11 (7.05%) SaaS
4 8 (5.13%) GCP
4 8 (5.13%) PaaS
5 5 (3.21%) IaaS
5 5 (3.21%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.92%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.92%) Serverless
6 3 (1.92%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.28%) GitHub
7 2 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.64%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.64%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.90%) WAN
2 16 (10.26%) LAN
3 11 (7.05%) Network Security
4 5 (3.21%) Unified Communications
5 4 (2.56%) VPN
5 4 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.92%) Intranet
7 1 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.64%) Firewall
7 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.64%) NAS
7 1 (0.64%) SAN
7 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.56%) OLAP
2 4 (2.56%) OLTP
3 3 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.28%) Metadata
4 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.28%) QlikView
5 1 (0.64%) Big Data
5 1 (0.64%) DB2
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.21%) JIRA
2 4 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.92%) Git
3 3 (1.92%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.28%) kappa
General
1 43 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.51%) Finance
3 25 (16.03%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.97%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.33%) Banking
6 10 (6.41%) Retail
7 9 (5.77%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.85%) Legal
9 5 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.92%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.92%) Marketing
12 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.64%) Local Government
13 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 106 (67.95%) Architect
2 34 (21.79%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
4 20 (12.82%) Analyst
5 15 (9.62%) Security Architect
6 14 (8.97%) Technical Architect
7 12 (7.69%) Senior
8 11 (7.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 11 (7.05%) Senior Architect
9 10 (6.41%) Lead
10 8 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (5.13%) Domain Architect
10 8 (5.13%) Lead Architect
10 8 (5.13%) Test Analyst
11 6 (3.85%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.85%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.85%) Network Architect
12 5 (3.21%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.21%) Category Manager
12 5 (3.21%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.62%) Middleware
2 4 (2.56%) .NET
2 4 (2.56%) ModSecurity
3 3 (1.92%) RESTful
3 3 (1.92%) SOAP
4 2 (1.28%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.28%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.64%) gRPC
5 1 (0.64%) JMS
5 1 (0.64%) JSON
5 1 (0.64%) Kafka
5 1 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.64%) RAML
5 1 (0.64%) REST
5 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.90%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.05%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.49%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.28%) IoT
8 2 (1.28%) PKI
8 2 (1.28%) Robotics
8 2 (1.28%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.64%) EPoS
9 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.33%) Linux
2 12 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (58.97%) Technology Strategy
2 71 (45.51%) Business Strategy
3 64 (41.03%) Roadmaps
4 45 (28.85%) Agile
5 42 (26.92%) TOGAF
6 33 (21.15%) Enterprise Architecture
7 24 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
9 22 (14.10%) Project Management
10 20 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (12.82%) Strategic Roadmap
11 19 (12.18%) Risk Management
11 19 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (12.18%) Waterfall
12 18 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (11.54%) Project Delivery
12 18 (11.54%) Service Delivery
13 17 (10.90%) Information Security
14 16 (10.26%) Data Protection
14 16 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.49%) Python
1 7 (4.49%) SQL
2 4 (2.56%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.92%) Bash
3 3 (1.92%) Go
4 2 (1.28%) C#
4 2 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.74%) Degree
4 15 (9.62%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.56%) ACCA
5 4 (2.56%) CIMA
5 4 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.56%) HND
5 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.92%) CCNP
6 3 (1.92%) MCSE
7 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.64%) CISSP
8 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.64%) PMP
8 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.10%) NIST
2 15 (9.62%) QA
3 13 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.92%) IASME
5 3 (1.92%) NCSC
6 2 (1.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.64%) GDPR
7 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (5.13%) Docker
2 5 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.49%) Ansible
3 5 (3.21%) Terraform
4 4 (2.56%) OPNET
5 3 (1.92%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.28%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.64%) SCCM
7 1 (0.64%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.41%) Oracle
3 7 (4.49%) VMware
4 6 (3.85%) Databricks
5 4 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.56%) Google
5 4 (2.56%) Sun
6 3 (1.92%) Cisco
6 3 (1.92%) Splunk
7 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.28%) SAP
8 1 (0.64%) Aruba
8 1 (0.64%) BT
8 1 (0.64%) HP
8 1 (0.64%) Mitel
8 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud