Technology Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

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 Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology 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 260 345 323
Rank change year-on-year +85 -22 +9
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 119 90 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.44% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 71 138
10th Percentile £445 £485 £300
25th Percentile £563 £554 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £650 £593
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +9.70% +18.50%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £720
90th Percentile £925 £800 £811
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £85.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.56% +30.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technology 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 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK excluding London

Technology 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 Technology Strategy within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +53 48 £669 +8.78% 17
North West +50 36 £668 -1.11% 13
Midlands +49 22 £700 +7.69% 13
South West +19 18 £725 +9.43% 10
West Midlands +30 16 £800 +18.52% 7
South East -2 15 £613 -0.20% 19
Scotland +45 14 £700 +16.18% 7
Yorkshire +12 8 - - 3
East Midlands +18 6 £445 -24.26% 6
North East - 3 £897 - 1
East of England +10 2 £575 -11.54% 2
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 1
Technology Strategy
UK

Technology 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 (1.68%) Confluence
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.52%) Shopify
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.53%) Azure
2 17 (14.29%) AWS
3 6 (5.04%) GCP
4 5 (4.20%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.36%) PaaS
5 4 (3.36%) SaaS
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.52%) BigCommerce
6 3 (2.52%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.68%) GitHub
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.24%) WAN
2 10 (8.40%) LAN
2 10 (8.40%) Network Security
3 6 (5.04%) Firewall
4 4 (3.36%) VPN
4 4 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.52%) Intranet
5 3 (2.52%) VoIP
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.84%) DNS
6 1 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.84%) NAS
6 1 (0.84%) SAN
6 1 (0.84%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.52%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.68%) OLAP
3 2 (1.68%) OLTP
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.84%) Big Data
4 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) DB2
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
1 4 (3.36%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) Git
2 3 (2.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 35 (29.41%) Finance
3 19 (15.97%) Banking
4 18 (15.13%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (8.40%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.88%) Marketing
7 7 (5.88%) Retail
8 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.36%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Electronics
10 3 (2.52%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.84%) Law
12 1 (0.84%) Local Government
12 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (73.11%) Architect
2 23 (19.33%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 13 (10.92%) Security Architect
4 13 (10.92%) Technical Architect
5 11 (9.24%) Analyst
6 9 (7.56%) Senior
7 8 (6.72%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Domain Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Senior Architect
8 6 (5.04%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.20%) Lead
10 4 (3.36%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) Functional Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.52%) Business Architect
11 3 (2.52%) Network Engineer
11 3 (2.52%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.24%) Middleware
2 4 (3.36%) ModSecurity
3 3 (2.52%) .NET
3 3 (2.52%) VML
4 2 (1.68%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.68%) RESTful
4 2 (1.68%) SOAP
5 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.84%) gRPC
5 1 (0.84%) JMS
5 1 (0.84%) Kafka
5 1 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.84%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 7 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.04%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.36%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.68%) Clustering
6 2 (1.68%) PKI
6 2 (1.68%) Robotics
7 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.84%) FMCG
7 1 (0.84%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.84%) IoT
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.92%) Linux
2 12 (10.08%) Windows
3 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (78.15%) IT Strategy
2 57 (47.90%) Business Strategy
3 37 (31.09%) Agile
4 35 (29.41%) Roadmaps
5 32 (26.89%) TOGAF
6 25 (21.01%) Enterprise Architecture
7 19 (15.97%) Architectural Patterns
8 18 (15.13%) Risk Management
9 17 (14.29%) DevOps
10 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (13.45%) Waterfall
11 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
11 15 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.76%) Information Security
12 14 (11.76%) Project Delivery
12 14 (11.76%) Project Management
13 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (10.92%) Microservices
14 12 (10.08%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.88%) Python
2 6 (5.04%) SQL
3 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.52%) Bash
4 3 (2.52%) Go
5 1 (0.84%) C#
5 1 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 32 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.13%) Degree
4 16 (13.45%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.36%) HND
6 3 (2.52%) CCNP
6 3 (2.52%) MCSE
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.84%) CISM
8 1 (0.84%) CISSP
8 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.76%) NIST
2 13 (10.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.40%) QA
4 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.52%) IASME
4 3 (2.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (6.72%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.36%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.84%) vCloud
5 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.88%) Ansible
3 5 (4.20%) Terraform
4 4 (3.36%) OPNET
5 3 (2.52%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.68%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.84%) SCCM
7 1 (0.84%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) VMware
3 8 (6.72%) SAP
4 7 (5.88%) Cisco
5 6 (5.04%) Databricks
6 4 (3.36%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.36%) Google
6 4 (3.36%) Meraki
6 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.52%) Adobe
7 3 (2.52%) Aruba
7 3 (2.52%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (2.52%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.52%) Dell
7 3 (2.52%) F5
7 3 (2.52%) Intel
7 3 (2.52%) Oracle
7 3 (2.52%) Sitecore
7 3 (2.52%) Splunk
7 3 (2.52%) Veeam