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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 408 393
Rank change year-on-year +80 -15 +18
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 259 305 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.53% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.59% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 225 415
10th Percentile £443 £463 £413
25th Percentile £500 £550 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £769
90th Percentile £950 £888 £895
UK excluding London median daily rate £670 £650 £591
% change year-on-year +3.08% +10.03% +18.15%
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +83 231 £625 -3.85% 203
London +62 123 £550 -21.43% 115
UK excluding London +72 117 £670 +3.08% 96
Work from Home +48 80 £669 +4.94% 85
North of England +53 49 £669 +8.60% 22
North West +43 37 £668 -1.11% 15
Midlands +31 21 £700 +5.66% 16
South West +14 18 £725 +9.43% 11
West Midlands +33 16 £800 +18.52% 10
Scotland +42 14 £700 +15.70% 5
South East 0 14 £628 +2.50% 36
Yorkshire +11 8 - - 6
East Midlands +17 5 £445 -28.08% 6
North East - 3 £897 - 1
East of England +7 1 £575 -14.81% 3
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 1

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 18 (6.95%) Apache
2 5 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.16%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.39%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.39%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.39%) InVision
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (6.95%) Shopify
2 4 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.16%) Primavera
3 3 (1.16%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.77%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.77%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (22.01%) AWS
1 57 (22.01%) Azure
2 18 (6.95%) Amazon Kinesis
2 18 (6.95%) BigCommerce
3 17 (6.56%) GCP
4 8 (3.09%) SaaS
5 7 (2.70%) PaaS
6 5 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.93%) IaaS
6 5 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.93%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.54%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.16%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (1.16%) GitHub
8 3 (1.16%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.16%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.79%) WAN
2 14 (5.41%) LAN
3 13 (5.02%) Network Security
4 8 (3.09%) Firewall
5 5 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.54%) VPN
7 3 (1.16%) Intranet
7 3 (1.16%) VoIP
8 2 (0.77%) DNS
8 2 (0.77%) SAN
8 2 (0.77%) Wireless
9 1 (0.39%) BGP
9 1 (0.39%) Broadband
9 1 (0.39%) FTP
9 1 (0.39%) Internet
9 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.39%) MPLS
9 1 (0.39%) NetScreen
9 1 (0.39%) OSPF
9 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.95%) Flink
2 7 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.54%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.16%) MySQL
4 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.77%) Big Data
5 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.77%) OLAP
5 2 (0.77%) OLTP
5 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) DB2
6 1 (0.39%) Metadata
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.39%) Power BI
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (2.32%) Git
1 6 (2.32%) JIRA
2 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.16%) Maven
3 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.39%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 84 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 79 (30.50%) Finance
3 37 (14.29%) Banking
4 30 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 29 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (10.04%) Retail
7 22 (8.49%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (7.34%) Marketing
9 11 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.54%) Front Office
13 4 (1.54%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.54%) Legal
14 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.16%) Electronics
14 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.16%) Local Government
14 3 (1.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 141 (54.44%) Architect
2 33 (12.74%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (11.58%) Enterprise Architect
4 21 (8.11%) Lead
5 20 (7.72%) Developer
6 19 (7.34%) Analyst
6 19 (7.34%) Senior
7 18 (6.95%) Security Architect
8 16 (6.18%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.18%) Technical Architect
9 13 (5.02%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (5.02%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 12 (4.63%) Business Analyst
11 11 (4.25%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.86%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.47%) Senior Architect
14 8 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.09%) Consultant
14 8 (3.09%) Domain Architect
14 8 (3.09%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.34%) Kafka
2 13 (5.02%) Middleware
2 13 (5.02%) VML
3 4 (1.54%) .NET
3 4 (1.54%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.54%) J2EE
3 4 (1.54%) ModSecurity
3 4 (1.54%) REST
3 4 (1.54%) Spring
4 3 (1.16%) CSS
4 3 (1.16%) DAO
4 3 (1.16%) jQuery
4 3 (1.16%) React
4 3 (1.16%) Sass
4 3 (1.16%) Spring MVC
4 3 (1.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.16%) Web Services
5 2 (0.77%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.77%) Flask
5 2 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.72%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.47%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.09%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.32%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.16%) Blog
8 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.16%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.77%) Clustering
9 2 (0.77%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) PKI
9 2 (0.77%) Robotics
9 2 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.72%) Linux
2 19 (7.34%) Windows
3 4 (1.54%) Unix
4 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (69.88%) IT Strategy
2 91 (35.14%) Agile
3 76 (29.34%) Business Strategy
4 75 (28.96%) Roadmaps
5 48 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (17.76%) Enterprise Architecture
7 44 (16.99%) TOGAF
8 42 (16.22%) DevOps
9 35 (13.51%) Microservices
10 30 (11.58%) Risk Management
11 27 (10.42%) CI/CD
11 27 (10.42%) Project Delivery
12 26 (10.04%) Architectural Patterns
12 26 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (9.65%) Project Management
13 25 (9.65%) Strategic Roadmap
14 23 (8.88%) Analytics
14 23 (8.88%) Strategic Thinking
14 23 (8.88%) Waterfall
15 21 (8.11%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.88%) Java
2 14 (5.41%) Python
3 13 (5.02%) SQL
4 8 (3.09%) Go
4 8 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.32%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.16%) Bash
6 3 (1.16%) Ruby
6 3 (1.16%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.39%) C#
7 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (29.34%) Security Cleared
2 73 (28.19%) SC Cleared
3 35 (13.51%) Degree
4 19 (7.34%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.47%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.54%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.54%) CISSP
7 4 (1.54%) CITP
7 4 (1.54%) HND
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.16%) CCNP
8 3 (1.16%) MCSE
8 3 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.16%) PMP
9 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.77%) CISM
10 1 (0.39%) CSPO
10 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.34%) NIST
2 17 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.63%) QA
4 6 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.16%) IASME
5 3 (1.16%) NCSC
5 3 (1.16%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.39%) EMIR
7 1 (0.39%) GDPR
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
7 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (4.25%) Docker
2 9 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) vCloud
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.47%) Terraform
3 8 (3.09%) Ansible
4 4 (1.54%) OPNET
5 3 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.16%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.77%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.39%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.04%) SAP
3 19 (7.34%) Salesforce
4 18 (6.95%) Adobe
4 18 (6.95%) Sitecore
5 15 (5.79%) VMware
6 12 (4.63%) Cisco
6 12 (4.63%) Dell
6 12 (4.63%) Google
6 12 (4.63%) Intel
7 7 (2.70%) Databricks
7 7 (2.70%) Oracle
8 5 (1.93%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.54%) Aruba
9 4 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.54%) F5
9 4 (1.54%) Meraki
9 4 (1.54%) Splunk
10 3 (1.16%) Optimizely
10 3 (1.16%) Sparx