IT Strategy Contracts in the North of England

IT/Technology Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 160 157
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 -16
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 55 51 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 0.94% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.04% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 60
10th Percentile £500 £413 £209
25th Percentile £560 £463 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.04% +4.89% -
75th Percentile £673 £675 £673
90th Percentile £738 £728 £754
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.12 £37.34 £26.25
% change year-on-year -19.34% +42.25% +89.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,060 4,911 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.80% 90.04% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 3,380 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 £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 204 251
10th Percentile £11.10 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.54 £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 £43.41 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Strategy in the North of England

IT Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Strategy in the North of England

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Strategy in the North of England

IT Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Strategy in the North of England

IT 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 IT Strategy within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +41 46 £605 +10.05% 13
Yorkshire -20 5 £636 +15.23% 14
North East +13 4 £897 +117.44% 3
IT Strategy
England

IT 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 (1.82%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (5.45%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) IaaS
2 3 (5.45%) PaaS
2 3 (5.45%) SaaS
2 3 (5.45%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.82%) GCP
3 1 (1.82%) iPaaS
3 1 (1.82%) Miro
3 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.18%) Network Security
2 3 (5.45%) Intranet
3 2 (3.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
1 3 (5.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
1 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.64%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Finance
6 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (63.64%) Architect
2 12 (21.82%) Analyst
3 11 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 10 (18.18%) Security Architect
4 10 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (14.55%) Domain Architect
5 8 (14.55%) Test Analyst
6 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Business Architect
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Security Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Middleware
2 2 (3.64%) Kafka
2 2 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (74.55%) Technology Strategy
2 32 (58.18%) Business Strategy
3 18 (32.73%) Enterprise Architecture
4 17 (30.91%) Risk Management
4 17 (30.91%) Roadmaps
5 14 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (25.45%) Information Security
6 13 (23.64%) Project Delivery
6 13 (23.64%) TOGAF
6 13 (23.64%) Zachman Framework
7 12 (21.82%) Business Continuity
8 11 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 11 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 10 (18.18%) Cryptography
9 10 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
9 10 (18.18%) Security Architecture
9 10 (18.18%) Service Delivery
9 10 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (5.45%) Bash
2 3 (5.45%) Go
2 3 (5.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (32.73%) NIST
2 13 (23.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.45%) IASME
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
1 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Ansible
1 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) HP Fortify
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) Kiali
3 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 5 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.82%) Mitel
3 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) SAP