Technology Strategy Contracts

Technology Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 412 391
Rank change year-on-year +83 -21 +47
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 262 293 579
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.58% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 215 411
10th Percentile £444 £475 £413
25th Percentile £500 £554 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £775
90th Percentile £950 £900 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £670 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £30.12 £85.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.56% +30.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the UK

Technology Strategy
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +70 234 £643 -1.07% 221
UK excluding London +71 123 £670 +3.08% 101
London +59 121 £575 -17.86% 114
Work from Home +66 83 £685 +7.37% 122
North of England +49 50 £669 +9.18% 22
North West +47 36 £668 +2.69% 13
Midlands +36 20 £700 +7.69% 19
South West +14 20 £725 +9.43% 16
South East -5 16 £628 -3.60% 27
Scotland +41 15 £700 +15.70% 3
West Midlands +25 14 £825 +22.22% 11
Yorkshire +14 10 - - 8
East Midlands +14 6 £445 -24.26% 8
North East - 3 £897 - 1
East of England +1 2 £575 -11.54% 11
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 2

Technology 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 16 (6.11%) Apache
2 5 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.91%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.76%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.38%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.38%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.38%) InVision
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (6.49%) Shopify
2 5 (1.91%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.15%) Primavera
3 3 (1.15%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.38%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 60 (22.90%) Azure
2 56 (21.37%) AWS
3 20 (7.63%) GCP
4 17 (6.49%) BigCommerce
5 16 (6.11%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (2.67%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.67%) PaaS
7 6 (2.29%) SaaS
8 5 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.15%) GitHub
10 3 (1.15%) IaaS
10 3 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.11%) WAN
2 15 (5.73%) LAN
3 13 (4.96%) Network Security
4 8 (3.05%) Firewall
5 6 (2.29%) VPN
6 5 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.15%) Intranet
7 3 (1.15%) VoIP
8 2 (0.76%) DNS
8 2 (0.76%) SAN
8 2 (0.76%) Wireless
9 1 (0.38%) BGP
9 1 (0.38%) Broadband
9 1 (0.38%) FTP
9 1 (0.38%) Internet
9 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.38%) MPLS
9 1 (0.38%) NetScreen
9 1 (0.38%) OSPF
9 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.11%) Flink
2 7 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.53%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.15%) MySQL
4 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.76%) Big Data
5 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.76%) OLAP
5 2 (0.76%) OLTP
5 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.76%) Tableau
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) DB2
6 1 (0.38%) Metadata
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (3.05%) JIRA
2 6 (2.29%) Bitbucket
2 6 (2.29%) Git
3 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.15%) Maven
3 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 88 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 80 (30.53%) Finance
3 46 (17.56%) Banking
4 31 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.16%) Retail
7 22 (8.40%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (6.87%) Marketing
9 11 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.91%) Legal
11 5 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.53%) Front Office
12 4 (1.53%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.53%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Electronics
13 3 (1.15%) Local Government
13 3 (1.15%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (54.96%) Architect
2 34 (12.98%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (9.54%) Enterprise Architect
4 20 (7.63%) Analyst
4 20 (7.63%) Lead
5 19 (7.25%) Developer
5 19 (7.25%) Senior
6 18 (6.87%) Security Architect
7 17 (6.49%) Technical Architect
8 15 (5.73%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.58%) Azure Architect
9 12 (4.58%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
9 12 (4.58%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (4.58%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 9 (3.44%) Consultant
10 9 (3.44%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.05%) Domain Architect
12 7 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.49%) Kafka
2 14 (5.34%) Middleware
3 13 (4.96%) VML
4 6 (2.29%) .NET
4 6 (2.29%) ModSecurity
5 4 (1.53%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.53%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.53%) J2EE
5 4 (1.53%) REST
5 4 (1.53%) Spring
6 3 (1.15%) CSS
6 3 (1.15%) DAO
6 3 (1.15%) Flask
6 3 (1.15%) jQuery
6 3 (1.15%) Sass
6 3 (1.15%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.15%) Web Services
7 2 (0.76%) React
7 2 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.78%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.82%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.05%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.53%) PKI
9 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.15%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.15%) IoT
9 3 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.76%) Blog
10 2 (0.76%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.76%) Robotics
10 2 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.78%) Linux
2 20 (7.63%) Windows
3 4 (1.53%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (67.56%) IT Strategy
2 95 (36.26%) Agile
3 79 (30.15%) Business Strategy
4 69 (26.34%) Roadmaps
5 49 (18.70%) DevOps
6 48 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (17.18%) Enterprise Architecture
8 44 (16.79%) Microservices
9 43 (16.41%) TOGAF
10 35 (13.36%) CI/CD
11 30 (11.45%) Architectural Patterns
11 30 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (11.07%) Risk Management
13 28 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (9.92%) Project Management
14 26 (9.92%) Waterfall
15 24 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.16%) Design Patterns
15 24 (9.16%) Project Delivery
15 24 (9.16%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.40%) Java
2 17 (6.49%) Python
3 15 (5.73%) SQL
4 8 (3.05%) Go
4 8 (3.05%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.05%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.15%) Bash
5 3 (1.15%) Ruby
5 3 (1.15%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.38%) C#
6 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 72 (27.48%) SC Cleared
3 37 (14.12%) Degree
4 20 (7.63%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.20%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.53%) CISSP
7 4 (1.53%) CITP
7 4 (1.53%) HND
8 3 (1.15%) CCNP
8 3 (1.15%) MCSE
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.15%) PMP
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.76%) CISM
10 1 (0.38%) CSPO
10 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.25%) NIST
2 17 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.96%) QA
4 6 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.15%) IASME
5 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.76%) GDPR
6 2 (0.76%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) EMIR
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (5.34%) Docker
2 11 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.29%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) vCloud
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.58%) Terraform
3 11 (4.20%) Ansible
4 6 (2.29%) OPNET
5 4 (1.53%) PowerCLI
6 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.15%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.38%) SCCM
7 1 (0.38%) SCOM
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.40%) SAP
3 18 (6.87%) Salesforce
4 17 (6.49%) Adobe
4 17 (6.49%) Sitecore
4 17 (6.49%) VMware
5 14 (5.34%) Cisco
5 14 (5.34%) Google
6 12 (4.58%) Dell
6 12 (4.58%) Intel
7 8 (3.05%) Databricks
8 7 (2.67%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.67%) Oracle
9 4 (1.53%) Aruba
9 4 (1.53%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.53%) F5
9 4 (1.53%) Meraki
9 4 (1.53%) Splunk
10 3 (1.15%) Sparx
10 3 (1.15%) Veeam