Technology Strategy Contracts in the North of England

Technology Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 133 178 185
Rank change year-on-year +45 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 52 24 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.07% 0.44% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.49% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 51
10th Percentile £430 £502 £174
25th Percentile £550 £549 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% +16.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £687
90th Percentile £743 £750 £875
England median daily rate £650 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Strategy in the North of England

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +40 36 £668 -1.11% 10
Yorkshire +13 12 £636 +5.08% 4
North East - 3 £897 - 1
Technology Strategy
England

Technology Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (5.77%) Amazon ELB
1 3 (5.77%) AWS
1 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
2 1 (1.92%) Azure
2 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) Network Security
2 3 (5.77%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) Intranet
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.92%) NAS
3 1 (1.92%) SAN
3 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
1 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
1 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.85%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Banking
3 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (75.00%) Architect
2 10 (19.23%) Security Architect
3 9 (17.31%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (15.38%) Domain Architect
5 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Business Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Kafka
1 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.92%) Clustering
2 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (78.85%) IT Strategy
2 24 (46.15%) Business Strategy
3 17 (32.69%) Risk Management
4 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 14 (26.92%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Information Security
5 13 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (21.15%) Change Management
7 11 (21.15%) Observability
7 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (21.15%) Project Delivery
7 11 (21.15%) Strategic Thinking
7 11 (21.15%) TOGAF
7 11 (21.15%) Zachman Framework
8 10 (19.23%) Cryptography
8 10 (19.23%) Microservices
8 10 (19.23%) Penetration Testing
8 10 (19.23%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.54%) SQL
2 3 (5.77%) Bash
2 3 (5.77%) Go
2 3 (5.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (19.23%) NIST
3 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.77%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
1 5 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Ansible
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) HP Fortify
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Kiali
3 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Splunk
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco
4 1 (1.92%) Citrix
4 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.92%) HP
4 1 (1.92%) Meraki
4 1 (1.92%) Mitel
4 1 (1.92%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (1.92%) Veeam