Technology Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 116 150 183
Rank change year-on-year +34 +33 -25
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 25 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 0.25% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.28% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 19
10th Percentile £445 £542 £320
25th Percentile £489 £598 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £925 £688 £738
90th Percentile £953 £831 £750
England median daily rate £650 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the Midlands

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +30 15 £800 +18.52% 7
East Midlands +12 10 £445 -28.08% 5
Technology Strategy
England

Technology Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) SaaS
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
1 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) DB2
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.00%) OLAP
1 1 (4.00%) OLTP
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 10 (40.00%) Banking
3 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Local Government
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Architect
2 8 (32.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Customer Experience Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Digital Director
6 1 (4.00%) IT Director
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Payments Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Presales Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Middleware
1 2 (8.00%) RESTful
1 2 (8.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.00%) gRPC
2 1 (4.00%) JMS
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.00%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) IT Strategy
2 18 (72.00%) Business Strategy
3 14 (56.00%) Roadmaps
4 10 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (36.00%) Agile
6 8 (32.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (28.00%) Data Transformation
8 6 (24.00%) Analytics
8 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (24.00%) ETL
8 6 (24.00%) High Availability
8 6 (24.00%) Microservices
8 6 (24.00%) Technical Debt
9 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (20.00%) Project Management
10 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (12.00%) Architecture Roadmap
11 3 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
11 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) C#
1 1 (4.00%) PHP
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PMP
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Cognizant
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) VMware