IT Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 292 311
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 +40
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 105 166 340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.67% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.75% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 133 242
10th Percentile £410 £452 £398
25th Percentile £463 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £808 £850 £900
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £61.17 £17.50
% change year-on-year -50.76% +249.54% +37.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

IT Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Strategy.

IT Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Strategy over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

IT Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Strategy.

IT Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.76%) Apache
1 5 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.95%) CMS
2 1 (0.95%) SAS
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.95%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.71%) Azure
2 17 (16.19%) AWS
3 10 (9.52%) SaaS
4 7 (6.67%) PaaS
5 6 (5.71%) IaaS
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.95%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.95%) Miro
8 1 (0.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.48%) LAN
2 10 (9.52%) WAN
3 6 (5.71%) Network Security
4 2 (1.90%) Firewall
4 2 (1.90%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.90%) Wireless
4 2 (1.90%) WLAN
5 1 (0.95%) BGP
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.95%) Intranet
5 1 (0.95%) MPLS
5 1 (0.95%) NetScreen
5 1 (0.95%) OSPF
5 1 (0.95%) SAN
5 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (4.76%) Flink
2 3 (2.86%) Metadata
2 3 (2.86%) OLAP
2 3 (2.86%) OLTP
2 3 (2.86%) QlikView
3 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.95%) Big Data
4 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) JIRA
2 1 (0.95%) kappa
General
1 30 (28.57%) Finance
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.24%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.48%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (8.57%) Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Legal
5 7 (6.67%) Retail
6 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing
7 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) Front Office
8 1 (0.95%) Local Government
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (54.29%) Architect
2 18 (17.14%) Enterprise Architect
3 17 (16.19%) Developer
4 13 (12.38%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (10.48%) Senior
6 10 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 10 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 9 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Analyst
9 7 (6.67%) IT Manager
10 6 (5.71%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (5.71%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.76%) Category Manager
11 5 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (4.76%) Lead
11 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Business Analyst
12 4 (3.81%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) Middleware
2 5 (4.76%) Kafka
3 3 (2.86%) .NET
3 3 (2.86%) DAO
4 2 (1.90%) React
4 2 (1.90%) REST
5 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.95%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.95%) JSON
5 1 (0.95%) Node.js
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.86%) IoT
4 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.90%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.95%) EPoS
6 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.95%) SCADA
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.29%) Technology Strategy
2 44 (41.90%) Agile
3 42 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 28 (26.67%) Business Strategy
5 25 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 18 (17.14%) Strategic Roadmap
6 18 (17.14%) TOGAF
7 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.38%) Project Delivery
9 12 (11.43%) Architectural Patterns
9 12 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (11.43%) Waterfall
10 11 (10.48%) Microservices
10 11 (10.48%) Risk Management
11 10 (9.52%) Data Protection
12 9 (8.57%) Analytics
12 9 (8.57%) Data Strategy
12 9 (8.57%) DevOps
12 9 (8.57%) Security Architecture
12 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.43%) Java
2 6 (5.71%) SQL
3 3 (2.86%) C#
3 3 (2.86%) PHP
4 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.95%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (15.24%) SC Cleared
1 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) Degree
3 4 (3.81%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.81%) PMP
4 3 (2.86%) CISSP
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.90%) CISM
5 2 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CCNP
6 1 (0.95%) CEH
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.95%) MCSE
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) NIST
2 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.71%) QA
4 5 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.95%) IASME
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.95%) Ansible
2 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) Databricks
4 3 (2.86%) VMware
5 2 (1.90%) Aruba
5 2 (1.90%) Cisco
5 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.95%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.95%) BT
6 1 (0.95%) Citrix
6 1 (0.95%) F5
6 1 (0.95%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.95%) HP
6 1 (0.95%) Juniper
6 1 (0.95%) Mitel
6 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.95%) Riverbed
6 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud