Technical Leader Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Lead
South East > Thames Valley

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the Thames Valley is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 134 147
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 10 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.44% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £486 £329 £329
25th Percentile £506 £424 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £547
90th Percentile £615 £673 £573
South East median daily rate £550 £604 £556
% change year-on-year -8.90% +8.62% +11.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,507 2,756 3,352
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 94.32% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,908 2,284
10th Percentile £212 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.28% +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 75 103
10th Percentile £15.78 £17.27 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.29 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.33 £79.19 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Buckinghamshire +29 6 £550 -10.20% 6
Berkshire -17 4 £500 - 4
Technical Leader
South East

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 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 Thames Valley region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 5 (50.00%) Journey Map
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Journey Map
1 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Debt
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Business Case
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) NuGet
4 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) SMS
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Service Design

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) 5G
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
1 1 (10.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Journey Map
1 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (50.00%) Journey Map
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (30.00%) Business Case
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Service Design
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java