IT Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT/Technology Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IT Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT 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 234 292 321
Rank change year-on-year +58 +29 +23
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 108 168 335
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.70% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.79% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 134 248
10th Percentile £413 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £550 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -2.00% +6.34%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £756
90th Percentile £783 £850 £900
UK median daily rate £620 £638 £637
% change year-on-year -2.75% +0.08% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate £30.12 - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £61.17 £17.50
% change year-on-year -50.76% +249.54% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

IT 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 (4.63%) Apache
1 5 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.00%) Azure
2 16 (14.81%) AWS
3 11 (10.19%) SaaS
4 7 (6.48%) PaaS
5 6 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (5.56%) IaaS
6 5 (4.63%) GCP
7 2 (1.85%) Serverless
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.93%) GitHub
8 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.93%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.93%) Miro
8 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.96%) LAN
2 13 (12.04%) WAN
3 7 (6.48%) Network Security
4 3 (2.78%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.93%) Firewall
6 1 (0.93%) Intranet
6 1 (0.93%) MPLS
6 1 (0.93%) SAN
6 1 (0.93%) Wireless
6 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Flink
2 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.78%) QlikView
3 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.93%) Big Data
4 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.93%) Metadata
4 1 (0.93%) OLAP
4 1 (0.93%) OLTP
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (31.48%) Finance
2 30 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Banking
4 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 13 (12.04%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Retail
8 4 (3.70%) Legal
9 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.85%) Marketing
10 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) Front Office
11 1 (0.93%) Local Government
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (52.78%) Architect
2 16 (14.81%) Developer
3 14 (12.96%) Enterprise Architect
4 13 (12.04%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (12.04%) Technical Architect
5 11 (10.19%) Analyst
6 8 (7.41%) Azure Architect
6 8 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.41%) Senior
7 7 (6.48%) IT Manager
7 7 (6.48%) Security Architect
8 6 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Category Manager
9 5 (4.63%) Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Lead
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Principal Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.19%) Middleware
2 5 (4.63%) Kafka
3 3 (2.78%) .NET
3 3 (2.78%) DAO
4 2 (1.85%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) AWS SAM
5 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) Node.js
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.93%) React
5 1 (0.93%) RESTful
5 1 (0.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.93%) FMCG
5 1 (0.93%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) PropTech
5 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Linux
1 8 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (58.33%) Technology Strategy
2 43 (39.81%) Agile
3 40 (37.04%) Roadmaps
4 31 (28.70%) Business Strategy
5 22 (20.37%) Enterprise Architecture
6 18 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 14 (12.96%) Architectural Patterns
7 14 (12.96%) TOGAF
8 13 (12.04%) Analytics
9 12 (11.11%) Microservices
9 12 (11.11%) Project Delivery
9 12 (11.11%) Risk Management
9 12 (11.11%) Waterfall
10 10 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (9.26%) Data Strategy
10 10 (9.26%) Machine Learning
11 9 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (8.33%) Data Science
11 9 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.19%) Java
2 8 (7.41%) SQL
3 3 (2.78%) C#
3 3 (2.78%) PHP
4 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 15 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.19%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.70%) PMP
4 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CISM
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) QA
2 7 (6.48%) NIST
3 5 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.93%) IASME
5 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.78%) Docker
2 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (9.26%) Microsoft
1 10 (9.26%) Oracle
2 8 (7.41%) Databricks
3 3 (2.78%) Cognizant
4 2 (1.85%) Aruba
4 2 (1.85%) Cisco
4 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.85%) VMware
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.93%) Citrix
5 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.93%) HP
5 1 (0.93%) Meraki
5 1 (0.93%) Mitel
5 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.93%) Riverbed
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud