Technical Leader Contracts in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 282 348
Rank change year-on-year +37 +66 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 153 214 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 0.81% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.85% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 154 170
10th Percentile £485 £527 £474
25th Percentile £553 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £643
Median % change year-on-year - +1.17% +11.74%
75th Percentile £794 £750 £724
90th Percentile £850 £798 £851
England median daily rate £640 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -1.58% +8.33% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.15
Median hourly rate - - £47.30
75th Percentile - - £48.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +33 17 £675 -3.57% 5
East London -1 3 £630 +96.72% 1
West London +16 1 £650 +113.11% 4
North London - 1 £550 -
South London - 1 £550 -
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 55 (35.95%) Agile
2 37 (24.18%) Java
3 33 (21.57%) Microsoft
4 32 (20.92%) C#
5 29 (18.95%) Banking
5 29 (18.95%) Azure
6 28 (18.30%) Finance
7 27 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 27 (17.65%) Python
8 26 (16.99%) .NET
8 26 (16.99%) JavaScript
8 26 (16.99%) Social Skills
9 23 (15.03%) Fixed Income
9 23 (15.03%) AWS
9 23 (15.03%) DevOps
10 20 (13.07%) Security Cleared
11 19 (12.42%) Back Office
11 19 (12.42%) Investment Banking
12 18 (11.76%) OO
12 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
12 18 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (11.11%) Linux
14 16 (10.46%) SQL Server
14 16 (10.46%) Mentoring
15 14 (9.15%) TypeScript
15 14 (9.15%) SQL
15 14 (9.15%) TDD
15 14 (9.15%) Public Sector
15 14 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (8.50%) Data Lake

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.84%) Apache
1 12 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.92%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.54%) ION Anvil
2 6 (3.92%) ION MarketView
3 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.95%) Azure
2 23 (15.03%) AWS
3 14 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (8.50%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (7.84%) dbt
5 12 (7.84%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.54%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.27%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.27%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.27%) SaaS
7 5 (3.27%) Slack
8 4 (2.61%) Serverless
9 3 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) FTP
2 3 (1.96%) IP Telephony
3 2 (1.31%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.65%) SSL
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.50%) Data Lake
3 12 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (7.84%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (7.84%) Apache Ignite
3 12 (7.84%) Dremio
4 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.61%) Power BI
6 3 (1.96%) MySQL
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.65%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.54%) Jenkins
1 10 (6.54%) JIRA
2 2 (1.31%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.65%) Selenium
3 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 29 (18.95%) Banking
2 28 (18.30%) Finance
3 26 (16.99%) Social Skills
4 19 (12.42%) Back Office
4 19 (12.42%) Investment Banking
5 14 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.50%) Front Office
7 8 (5.23%) Retail
8 6 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.27%) Marketing
10 3 (1.96%) Billing
10 3 (1.96%) Legal
11 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Law
11 2 (1.31%) Local Government
11 2 (1.31%) Police
12 1 (0.65%) German Language
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.99%) .NET
2 12 (7.84%) .NET Core
2 12 (7.84%) gRPC
2 12 (7.84%) NumPy
2 12 (7.84%) Pandas
2 12 (7.84%) Protocol Buffers
2 12 (7.84%) SciPy
3 10 (6.54%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (4.58%) CSS
4 7 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (4.58%) HTML
5 5 (3.27%) React
6 4 (2.61%) Spring
7 3 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.96%) Node.js
7 3 (1.96%) SOAP
7 3 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.96%) Web Services
8 2 (1.31%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Fixed Income
2 12 (7.84%) Derivative
2 12 (7.84%) Equities
2 12 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (7.84%) Hedge funds
3 10 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.96%) Contactless
5 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (6.54%) Unix
3 8 (5.23%) Android
3 8 (5.23%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.92%) CentOS
4 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.27%) Windows
6 1 (0.65%) VMS
6 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.95%) Agile
2 27 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 23 (15.03%) DevOps
4 18 (11.76%) OO
4 18 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (10.46%) Mentoring
6 14 (9.15%) TDD
7 12 (7.84%) Asset Management
7 12 (7.84%) Greeks
7 12 (7.84%) Investment Management
7 12 (7.84%) OOD
8 11 (7.19%) Clean Code
9 10 (6.54%) CI/CD
9 10 (6.54%) Roadmaps
10 9 (5.88%) Coaching
10 9 (5.88%) Migration
10 9 (5.88%) Scrum
10 9 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (5.88%) Technical Architecture
10 9 (5.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.18%) Java
2 32 (20.92%) C#
3 27 (17.65%) Python
4 26 (16.99%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.15%) SQL
5 14 (9.15%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.84%) Bicep
7 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.31%) R
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
10 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.65%) Ruby
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) Degree
4 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) CCNA CyberOps
5 1 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.65%) CISA
5 1 (0.65%) CISM
5 1 (0.65%) CISSP
5 1 (0.65%) CITP
5 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.92%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.96%) QA
4 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.58%) Ansible
1 7 (4.58%) Grafana
1 7 (4.58%) Kibana
2 6 (3.92%) logstash
2 6 (3.92%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.96%) Terraform
5 2 (1.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.54%) ION Trading
3 6 (3.92%) SAP
4 5 (3.27%) Amdocs
4 5 (3.27%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.61%) Oracle
6 3 (1.96%) Databricks
6 3 (1.96%) Genesys
6 3 (1.96%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.31%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.65%) Murex
8 1 (0.65%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.65%) Varonis
8 1 (0.65%) Zoho