Technical Leader Contracts in England

Technical Lead
UK > England

The median Technical Lead daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 324 390
Rank change year-on-year +18 +66 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 263 361 454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.74% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.78% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 246 290
10th Percentile £479 £475 £443
25th Percentile £525 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £813 £738 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £791
UK median daily rate £625 £635 £575
% change year-on-year -1.50% +10.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £24.73 - -
25th Percentile £25.81 - -
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
75th Percentile £28.88 - £61.73
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -27.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +43 153 £650 - 56
North of England +38 43 £850 +41.67% 21
North West +50 40 £850 +40.21% 11
South West +26 16 £600 +4.35% 8
South East +12 13 £550 -2.87% 21
Midlands +1 12 £619 -10.00% 16
West Midlands -5 10 £725 +5.45% 10
East of England +4 9 £600 - 12
Yorkshire -3 3 £590 -1.67% 7
East Midlands +20 2 £500 +42.86% 6
Technical Leader
UK

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 89 (33.84%) Agile
2 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
3 55 (20.91%) DevOps
4 49 (18.63%) Finance
5 48 (18.25%) Technical Leadership
5 48 (18.25%) CI/CD
6 47 (17.87%) SC Cleared
7 46 (17.49%) Social Skills
8 44 (16.73%) Java
9 41 (15.59%) Windows
9 41 (15.59%) Android
9 41 (15.59%) Apple iOS
10 40 (15.21%) Node.js
11 38 (14.45%) AWS
12 35 (13.31%) Firewall
13 34 (12.93%) C#
13 34 (12.93%) VPN
13 34 (12.93%) Azure
13 34 (12.93%) Mobile Device Management
13 34 (12.93%) Windows Server
14 33 (12.55%) Microsoft
14 33 (12.55%) Design Patterns
15 32 (12.17%) Risk Management
16 31 (11.79%) Banking
16 31 (11.79%) Zero Trust
17 30 (11.41%) Public Cloud
17 30 (11.41%) Security Architecture
17 30 (11.41%) .NET
18 29 (11.03%) Python
18 29 (11.03%) Public Sector

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (4.56%) Apache
1 12 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.76%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.80%) ION Anvil
2 6 (2.28%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.45%) AWS
2 34 (12.93%) Azure
3 17 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (4.94%) dbt
5 13 (4.94%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.94%) Snowflake
6 6 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.28%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (1.90%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.90%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.90%) Route 53
7 5 (1.90%) SaaS
7 5 (1.90%) Serverless
8 4 (1.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.31%) Firewall
2 34 (12.93%) VPN
3 7 (2.66%) FTP
4 4 (1.52%) WAN
5 3 (1.14%) IP Telephony
5 3 (1.14%) LAN
5 3 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.14%) Wireless
5 3 (1.14%) WLAN
6 2 (0.76%) DNS
7 1 (0.38%) 5G
7 1 (0.38%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.38%) NAS
7 1 (0.38%) Network Security
7 1 (0.38%) SMS
7 1 (0.38%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.94%) Data Lake
3 12 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.56%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (4.56%) Apache Ignite
3 12 (4.56%) Dremio
4 10 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.66%) Power BI
6 5 (1.90%) MySQL
7 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.38%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.38%) DB2
9 1 (0.38%) DTS
Development Applications
1 11 (4.18%) JIRA
2 10 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.90%) GitLab
3 5 (1.90%) webpack
4 2 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.38%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (18.63%) Finance
2 46 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.79%) Banking
4 29 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.22%) Back Office
5 19 (7.22%) Investment Banking
6 13 (4.94%) Front Office
7 12 (4.56%) Legal
8 11 (4.18%) Retail
9 8 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.66%) Marketing
11 5 (1.90%) Automotive
12 3 (1.14%) Billing
12 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Local Government
12 3 (1.14%) Police
12 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) French Language
13 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.21%) Node.js
2 30 (11.41%) .NET
3 12 (4.56%) .NET Core
3 12 (4.56%) gRPC
3 12 (4.56%) NumPy
3 12 (4.56%) Pandas
3 12 (4.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 12 (4.56%) SciPy
4 11 (4.18%) React
5 10 (3.80%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.66%) HTML
6 7 (2.66%) Spring
6 7 (2.66%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.28%) CSS
7 6 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.90%) Express.js
8 5 (1.90%) Redux
9 4 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.52%) SOAP
9 4 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.41%) Public Cloud
2 28 (10.65%) Product Ownership
3 23 (8.75%) Fixed Income
4 12 (4.56%) Derivative
4 12 (4.56%) Equities
4 12 (4.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.56%) Hedge funds
5 9 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.04%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.14%) Contactless
8 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.14%) Solar Power
9 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.76%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.59%) Android
1 41 (15.59%) Apple iOS
1 41 (15.59%) Windows
2 34 (12.93%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.60%) Linux
4 10 (3.80%) Unix
5 5 (1.90%) CentOS
5 5 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.76%) zOS
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.84%) Agile
2 55 (20.91%) DevOps
3 48 (18.25%) CI/CD
3 48 (18.25%) Technical Leadership
4 34 (12.93%) Mobile Device Management
5 33 (12.55%) Design Patterns
6 32 (12.17%) Risk Management
7 31 (11.79%) Zero Trust
8 30 (11.41%) Security Architecture
9 29 (11.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 29 (11.03%) Roadmaps
9 29 (11.03%) Threat Intelligence
10 26 (9.89%) Software Engineering
11 20 (7.60%) Mentoring
11 20 (7.60%) Microservices
12 18 (6.84%) OO
13 17 (6.46%) Strategic Roadmap
14 16 (6.08%) Migration
14 16 (6.08%) Product Strategy
15 15 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.73%) Java
2 34 (12.93%) C#
3 29 (11.03%) Python
4 28 (10.65%) JavaScript
5 25 (9.51%) SQL
6 16 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.56%) Bicep
8 6 (2.28%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.76%) R
12 1 (0.38%) C
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.42%) Degree
4 6 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.76%) CITP
7 1 (0.38%) CCNA CyberOps
7 1 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.38%) CISA
7 1 (0.38%) CISM
7 1 (0.38%) CISSP
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.42%) QA
3 6 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.90%) Docker
1 5 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.38%) Lustre
2 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.28%) Ansible
2 6 (2.28%) Grafana
2 6 (2.28%) Kibana
3 5 (1.90%) logstash
3 5 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.52%) Terraform
5 2 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.18%) SAP
3 10 (3.80%) ION Trading
4 8 (3.04%) Oracle
5 6 (2.28%) Google
6 5 (1.90%) Apple
7 4 (1.52%) Amdocs
7 4 (1.52%) Databricks
7 4 (1.52%) IFS
7 4 (1.52%) Informatica
7 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.14%) Genesys
8 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.14%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.76%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.76%) F5
9 2 (0.76%) IBM
9 2 (0.76%) SYSPRO
10 1 (0.38%) Confluent
10 1 (0.38%) Guidewire