IT Strategy Contracts

IT/Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 359 313
Rank change year-on-year +78 -46 +33
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 349 386 766
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.67% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.74% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 303 539
10th Percentile £400 £450 £400
25th Percentile £463 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £741 £728 £725
90th Percentile £838 £850 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £608 £550
% change year-on-year +6.95% +10.50% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £17.26 £13.55
25th Percentile - £24.79 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.12 £37.34 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.34% +113.37% +40.06%
75th Percentile - £61.17 £18.75
90th Percentile - £75.47 £48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £48.75 £16.75
% change year-on-year - +191.03% +34.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the UK

IT Strategy
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England +76 312 £589 -9.36% 237
London +89 163 £565 -16.37% 102
UK excluding London +68 163 £650 +6.95% 150
Work from Home +64 108 £619 +1.02% 104
North of England +40 55 £650 +18.18% 47
North West +50 48 £575 -4.17% 24
South East +7 33 £525 -19.23% 35
Midlands +37 26 £750 +25.00% 21
Scotland +51 22 £626 +4.25% 13
West Midlands +29 21 £750 +69.20% 12
South West +15 21 £725 +16.00% 14
East of England +14 8 £513 -14.58% 16
North East +17 4 £897 +124.24% 5
East Midlands +13 4 £750 +22.45% 9
Yorkshire -11 3 - - 18

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.16%) Apache
2 16 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.29%) Confluence
4 5 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.86%) nginx
7 2 (0.57%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.29%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.15%) Infor SunSystems
2 4 (1.15%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.86%) Primavera
3 3 (0.86%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 86 (24.64%) Azure
2 56 (16.05%) AWS
3 18 (5.16%) Amazon Kinesis
3 18 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (4.87%) IaaS
4 17 (4.87%) SaaS
5 14 (4.01%) GCP
6 13 (3.72%) PaaS
7 8 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.43%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
9 4 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.15%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.15%) Serverless
9 4 (1.15%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.74%) WAN
2 24 (6.88%) LAN
3 16 (4.58%) Network Security
4 15 (4.30%) Firewall
5 7 (2.01%) DNS
5 7 (2.01%) VPN
5 7 (2.01%) Wireless
6 6 (1.72%) 5G
6 6 (1.72%) MPLS
6 6 (1.72%) Unified Communications
6 6 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.43%) SAN
7 5 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.86%) BGP
8 3 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.86%) Intranet
8 3 (0.86%) OSPF
8 3 (0.86%) WLAN
9 2 (0.57%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.16%) Flink
2 10 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.43%) OLAP
4 5 (1.43%) OLTP
5 4 (1.15%) Big Data
5 4 (1.15%) Metadata
6 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.86%) MySQL
6 3 (0.86%) QlikView
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.29%) DB2
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (3.72%) JIRA
2 10 (2.87%) Git
3 7 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.43%) LoadRunner
4 5 (1.43%) NeoLoad
4 5 (1.43%) Postman
5 4 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.86%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.86%) JUnit
6 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.57%) kappa
8 1 (0.29%) GitLab
8 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
General
1 102 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 69 (19.77%) Finance
3 45 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.30%) Banking
5 22 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (5.44%) Legal
6 19 (5.44%) Retail
7 14 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.58%) Law
11 8 (2.29%) Marketing
12 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.43%) Local Government
13 4 (1.15%) French Language
13 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (51.00%) Architect
2 52 (14.90%) Enterprise Architect
3 46 (13.18%) Solutions Architect
4 38 (10.89%) Developer
5 32 (9.17%) Analyst
5 32 (9.17%) Senior
6 31 (8.88%) Lead
7 25 (7.16%) Security Architect
8 24 (6.88%) Technical Architect
9 20 (5.73%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
10 14 (4.01%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 14 (4.01%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.44%) Senior Architect
12 11 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 11 (3.15%) Lead Architect
12 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Developer
13 10 (2.87%) Azure Architect
13 10 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (2.87%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.30%) Kafka
2 17 (4.87%) Middleware
3 7 (2.01%) .NET
4 5 (1.43%) React
4 5 (1.43%) REST
5 4 (1.15%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.15%) J2EE
5 4 (1.15%) ModSecurity
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Camel
6 3 (0.86%) DAO
6 3 (0.86%) EDI
6 3 (0.86%) Node.js
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.86%) RESTful
6 3 (0.86%) SOAP
6 3 (0.86%) Spring
6 3 (0.86%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.57%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.57%) Flask
7 2 (0.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.44%) Public Cloud
2 18 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.15%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.58%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.01%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.15%) IoT
10 3 (0.86%) Blog
10 3 (0.86%) CCTV
10 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.86%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.86%) NHS
10 3 (0.86%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.57%) EPoS
11 2 (0.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.88%) Windows
2 17 (4.87%) Linux
3 10 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.86%) Android
5 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.86%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.57%) Unix
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (53.30%) Technology Strategy
2 138 (39.54%) Roadmaps
3 111 (31.81%) Business Strategy
4 104 (29.80%) Agile
5 64 (18.34%) Enterprise Architecture
6 60 (17.19%) Strategic Roadmap
7 58 (16.62%) TOGAF
8 48 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (13.18%) Cybersecurity
10 45 (12.89%) Project Management
11 42 (12.03%) Project Delivery
12 40 (11.46%) Data Protection
13 36 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (10.32%) Risk Management
14 31 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence
15 30 (8.60%) Disaster Recovery
16 29 (8.31%) Business Continuity
16 29 (8.31%) Information Security
16 29 (8.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.45%) Java
2 23 (6.59%) SQL
3 13 (3.72%) Python
4 6 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.15%) C#
5 4 (1.15%) PHP
6 3 (0.86%) Bash
6 3 (0.86%) Go
7 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.29%) Ruby
8 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 68 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.89%) Degree
4 19 (5.44%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.01%) CISSP
8 6 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.43%) CISM
9 5 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.43%) PMP
10 4 (1.15%) ACCA
10 4 (1.15%) CCNP
10 4 (1.15%) CIMA
10 4 (1.15%) HND
10 4 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.86%) CITP
11 3 (0.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.46%) NIST
2 22 (6.30%) QA
3 20 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.15%) NCSC
6 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.86%) GDPR
6 3 (0.86%) IASME
7 2 (0.57%) COBIT
7 2 (0.57%) PMO
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.29%) EMIR
8 1 (0.29%) MiFID
8 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (4.30%) Docker
2 13 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vCloud
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.29%) Ansible
2 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.29%) SCCM
2 8 (2.29%) Terraform
3 4 (1.15%) OPNET
4 3 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.86%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.86%) Kibana
4 3 (0.86%) PaperCut
5 2 (0.57%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.29%) Avamar
6 1 (0.29%) CASB
6 1 (0.29%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.29%) SCOM
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.30%) VMware
3 20 (5.73%) Oracle
4 12 (3.44%) Cisco
5 7 (2.01%) Citrix
5 7 (2.01%) Databricks
6 6 (1.72%) Aruba
7 5 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (1.43%) Google
7 5 (1.43%) iManage
7 5 (1.43%) Intapp
7 5 (1.43%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.43%) SAP
7 5 (1.43%) Veeam
8 4 (1.15%) HP
8 4 (1.15%) Okta
8 4 (1.15%) Sage
8 4 (1.15%) Sun
9 3 (0.86%) Sparx