Technology Strategy Contracts in England

Technology Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Technology Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 392 366
Rank change year-on-year +79 -26 +52
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 245 260 519
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.55% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.61% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 192 375
10th Percentile £437 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £546 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +10.64%
75th Percentile £756 £789 £775
90th Percentile £950 £913 £900
UK median daily rate £660 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £30.12 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
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
England

Technology Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in England

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +52 125 £588 -16.07% 103
North of England +45 52 £669 +9.18% 15
North West +40 36 £668 -1.11% 10
Midlands +34 25 £663 - 12
South West +15 25 £738 +9.26% 17
West Midlands +30 15 £800 +18.52% 7
South East -2 14 £545 -16.39% 20
Yorkshire +13 12 £636 +5.08% 4
East Midlands +12 10 £445 -28.08% 5
North East - 3 £897 - 1
East of England -4 2 £575 +35.29% 8
Technology Strategy
UK

Technology Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.53%) Apache
2 5 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.04%) Confluence
3 3 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.82%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.41%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.41%) InVision
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (6.94%) Shopify
2 7 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.22%) Primavera
3 3 (1.22%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.82%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.82%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.41%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.63%) AWS
1 53 (21.63%) Azure
2 18 (7.35%) GCP
3 17 (6.94%) Amazon Kinesis
3 17 (6.94%) BigCommerce
4 7 (2.86%) OpenShift
4 7 (2.86%) PaaS
4 7 (2.86%) SaaS
5 6 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.63%) GitHub
6 4 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.63%) Serverless
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (1.22%) Figma
7 3 (1.22%) IaaS
7 3 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.31%) WAN
2 12 (4.90%) LAN
2 12 (4.90%) Network Security
3 9 (3.67%) Firewall
4 6 (2.45%) VPN
5 5 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.22%) DNS
6 3 (1.22%) Intranet
6 3 (1.22%) VoIP
7 2 (0.82%) SAN
8 1 (0.41%) AMQP
8 1 (0.41%) Broadband
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.41%) FTP
8 1 (0.41%) Internet
8 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.41%) MPLS
8 1 (0.41%) NAS
8 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.53%) Flink
2 7 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.04%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.22%) MySQL
5 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.82%) OLAP
6 2 (0.82%) OLTP
6 2 (0.82%) Tableau
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.41%) DB2
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.86%) JIRA
2 6 (2.45%) Bitbucket
2 6 (2.45%) Git
2 6 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.63%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.22%) Maven
5 2 (0.82%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 82 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 74 (30.20%) Finance
3 48 (19.59%) Banking
4 32 (13.06%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (8.98%) Retail
7 18 (7.35%) Marketing
8 17 (6.94%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.63%) Legal
13 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.22%) Electronics
13 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.22%) Front Office
13 3 (1.22%) Local Government
13 3 (1.22%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (54.29%) Architect
2 29 (11.84%) Solutions Architect
3 26 (10.61%) Enterprise Architect
4 21 (8.57%) Developer
5 18 (7.35%) Analyst
5 18 (7.35%) Lead
6 15 (6.12%) Business Analyst
6 15 (6.12%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.12%) Security Architect
6 15 (6.12%) Technical Architect
7 12 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
7 12 (4.90%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 10 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.08%) Senior
9 9 (3.67%) Azure Architect
10 8 (3.27%) Domain Architect
11 7 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.86%) Business Architect
11 7 (2.86%) React Developer
11 7 (2.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.16%) Kafka
2 13 (5.31%) VML
3 12 (4.90%) Middleware
4 6 (2.45%) ModSecurity
5 5 (2.04%) .NET
6 4 (1.63%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.63%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.63%) REST
6 4 (1.63%) Spring
7 3 (1.22%) CSS
7 3 (1.22%) DAO
7 3 (1.22%) Flask
7 3 (1.22%) J2EE
7 3 (1.22%) jQuery
7 3 (1.22%) RESTful
7 3 (1.22%) Sass
7 3 (1.22%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (1.22%) Web Services
8 2 (0.82%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.35%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.27%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.04%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.63%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.63%) PKI
9 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.22%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.22%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.82%) Blog
10 2 (0.82%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.82%) IoT
10 2 (0.82%) Robotics
10 2 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.39%) Linux
2 18 (7.35%) Windows
3 4 (1.63%) Unix
4 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (67.76%) IT Strategy
2 77 (31.43%) Agile
2 77 (31.43%) Business Strategy
3 66 (26.94%) Roadmaps
4 48 (19.59%) Enterprise Architecture
5 45 (18.37%) DevOps
6 44 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (17.55%) Microservices
8 39 (15.92%) TOGAF
9 34 (13.88%) CI/CD
10 28 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (11.43%) Project Management
11 27 (11.02%) Risk Management
12 25 (10.20%) Architectural Patterns
13 24 (9.80%) Analytics
13 24 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.39%) Strategic Roadmap
15 22 (8.98%) Artificial Intelligence
15 22 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (8.98%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.57%) Java
2 18 (7.35%) Python
3 16 (6.53%) SQL
4 10 (4.08%) Go
5 8 (3.27%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.27%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.22%) Bash
6 3 (1.22%) Ruby
6 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.41%) C#
7 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (28.98%) Security Cleared
2 67 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 41 (16.73%) Degree
4 18 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.12%) Master's Degree
6 11 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.86%) PMP
8 4 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.63%) CITP
8 4 (1.63%) HND
8 4 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.82%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) CSPO
10 1 (0.41%) MBA
10 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.31%) NIST
3 11 (4.49%) QA
4 6 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.22%) IASME
5 3 (1.22%) SLA
6 2 (0.82%) GDPR
6 2 (0.82%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.41%) EMIR
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (6.53%) Docker
2 10 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.45%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) vCloud
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.31%) Terraform
3 12 (4.90%) Ansible
4 6 (2.45%) OPNET
5 4 (1.63%) PowerCLI
6 3 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.22%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.82%) Kiali
7 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.82%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
8 1 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.57%) SAP
3 18 (7.35%) Salesforce
4 17 (6.94%) Adobe
4 17 (6.94%) Sitecore
5 13 (5.31%) Cisco
5 13 (5.31%) Google
6 12 (4.90%) Dell
6 12 (4.90%) Intel
6 12 (4.90%) VMware
7 7 (2.86%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.45%) Databricks
8 6 (2.45%) Oracle
8 6 (2.45%) Splunk
9 4 (1.63%) Aruba
9 4 (1.63%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.63%) Cognizant
9 4 (1.63%) Meraki
10 3 (1.22%) EMC
10 3 (1.22%) F5