Technical Leadership Contracts in the South West

Technical Leadership
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 138 139
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -41
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 29 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.80% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.89% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 28
10th Percentile £563 £556 £438
25th Percentile £603 £590 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £650 £583
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +11.59% +10.95%
75th Percentile £714 £731 £658
90th Percentile £756 £800 £690
England median daily rate £601 £646 £600
% change year-on-year -7.04% +7.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £18.47 £62.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -70.22% -17.33% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,656 3,250 3,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.03% 89.63% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,696 2,395 2,328
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.30%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Bristol +29 9 £619 -22.29% 22
Gloucestershire +2 2 £738 +13.46% 11
Dorset +5 1 £625 -10.71% 4
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 3 (23.08%) AWS CodeCommit
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) npm
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Babel
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) ESLint
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Vite
2 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (7.69%) Jest
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Material-UI
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Parceljs
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) IoT
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows 7
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
4 4 (30.77%) Business Case
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Application Virtualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (15.38%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Debt
6 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.69%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (7.69%) NCSC
3 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (15.38%) XenApp
1 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Citrix
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Ivanti
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat