Technology Strategy Contracts in the West Midlands

Technology Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 96 126 166
Rank change year-on-year +30 +40 -33
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 15 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.15% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 10
10th Percentile £593 - £584
25th Percentile £650 £663 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £925 £688 £750
90th Percentile £970 - £753
England median daily rate £650 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in the West Midlands

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in the West Midlands

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in the West Midlands

Technology Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham - 9 £825 - 1
Warwickshire -3 3 £750 +11.11% 1
Technology Strategy
England

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

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) OLAP
1 1 (6.67%) OLTP
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IT Director
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) IT Strategy
2 11 (73.33%) Business Strategy
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Project Management
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
7 2 (13.33%) Business Transformation
7 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) C#
1 1 (6.67%) PHP
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) VMware