Technical Leadership Contracts

Technical Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 269 280
Rank change year-on-year +66 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 511 570 862
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 0.95% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.06% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 385 578
10th Percentile £450 £488 £450
25th Percentile £506 £544 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £688
90th Percentile £788 £823 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 11
10th Percentile £12.75 - £53.81
25th Percentile £17.72 £35.00 £61.75
Median hourly rate £28.72 £66.69 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% -11.09% +87.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £80.25 £93.57
90th Percentile £71.90 £81.00 £96.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £64.34 £72.50
% change year-on-year -72.02% -11.25% +81.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +83 458 £600 -7.69% 382
UK excluding London +74 287 £600 -4.00% 256
Work from Home +91 186 £598 -4.40% 201
London +48 167 £600 -9.09% 130
South East +66 138 £575 -8.00% 66
North of England +21 49 £620 +3.33% 52
Midlands +42 46 £620 -9.82% 33
North West +17 35 £620 +3.33% 32
East Midlands +39 24 £622 +1.55% 8
West Midlands +27 21 £475 -30.91% 25
Scotland +3 20 £505 -12.17% 13
East of England +17 15 £643 +27.23% 37
South West +8 13 £631 -2.88% 52
Yorkshire +15 12 £600 +4.35% 15
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 3
North East - 2 £850 - 7

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (2.54%) Confluence
2 9 (1.76%) IIS
3 7 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.37%) Apache
3 7 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.98%) CMS
4 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.78%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.59%) SAS
6 3 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) CATIA
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.39%) SAP MDM
1 2 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
1 2 (0.39%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (28.38%) Azure
2 110 (21.53%) AWS
3 49 (9.59%) Serverless
4 39 (7.63%) GCP
5 37 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (6.46%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 21 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (3.52%) Azure API Management
13 17 (3.33%) Azure Functions
13 17 (3.33%) PaaS
14 16 (3.13%) OpenShift
15 15 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (2.94%) GitHub
16 13 (2.54%) Entra ID
17 12 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (9.00%) VPN
1 46 (9.00%) WAN
2 42 (8.22%) Firewall
3 32 (6.26%) BGP
4 30 (5.87%) SSL
5 28 (5.48%) MPLS
6 25 (4.89%) LAN
7 23 (4.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 16 (3.13%) Network Security
9 13 (2.54%) DNS
10 11 (2.15%) TCP/IP
11 10 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (1.57%) 5G
12 8 (1.57%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (1.57%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (1.37%) DHCP
13 7 (1.37%) Junos
13 7 (1.37%) VSAN
14 6 (1.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.94%) Big Data
2 15 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.17%) Power BI
9 5 (0.98%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.78%) DB2
10 4 (0.78%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.59%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.59%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.59%) MySQL
11 3 (0.59%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (8.02%) JIRA
2 35 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.68%) Selenium
4 26 (5.09%) Cucumber
4 26 (5.09%) Git
4 26 (5.09%) SonarQube
5 24 (4.70%) REST Assured
6 19 (3.72%) GitLab
7 12 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.76%) JMeter
9 8 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.78%) ERwin
10 4 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.39%) Maven
12 1 (0.20%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.20%) ESLint
12 1 (0.20%) Gradle
12 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 175 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 119 (23.29%) Finance
3 101 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.70%) Law
6 23 (4.50%) Banking
7 17 (3.33%) Marketing
7 17 (3.33%) Police
8 16 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.94%) Legal
9 15 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.98%) Retail
15 4 (0.78%) Automotive
15 4 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 183 (35.81%) Architect
2 124 (24.27%) Lead
3 67 (13.11%) Senior
4 60 (11.74%) Technical Leader
5 50 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
6 40 (7.83%) Technical Architect
7 36 (7.05%) Network Architect
8 22 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (3.91%) Software Engineer
10 19 (3.72%) Java Engineer
11 18 (3.52%) Consultant
11 18 (3.52%) Developer
11 18 (3.52%) Lead Architect
12 17 (3.33%) Analyst
13 16 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.54%) Data Engineer
15 12 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
16 11 (2.15%) ForgeRock Architect
16 11 (2.15%) Senior Architect
16 11 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.05%) REST
2 28 (5.48%) XML
3 25 (4.89%) Java EE
3 25 (4.89%) Node.js
4 22 (4.31%) React
5 20 (3.91%) LDAP
6 18 (3.52%) .NET
6 18 (3.52%) ARM Templates
7 17 (3.33%) Kafka
8 13 (2.54%) OpenID
8 13 (2.54%) SAML
9 12 (2.35%) OAuth
9 12 (2.35%) Web Services
10 11 (2.15%) HTML
11 9 (1.76%) RESTful
12 8 (1.57%) J2EE
13 7 (1.37%) JSON
14 6 (1.17%) CSS
14 6 (1.17%) Middleware
14 6 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.70%) Product Ownership
1 24 (4.70%) Public Cloud
2 15 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 13 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.17%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.17%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.17%) NHS
9 5 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.98%) Machine to Machine
9 5 (0.98%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.78%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.94%) Windows
2 41 (8.02%) Linux
3 23 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.11%) Unix
5 17 (3.33%) Android
6 16 (3.13%) Apple iOS
7 11 (2.15%) Windows 7
8 10 (1.96%) VMS
9 5 (0.98%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.98%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.78%) CentOS
10 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.39%) Solaris
12 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.39%) zOS
13 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (27.01%) Agile
2 136 (26.61%) DevOps
3 121 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (19.77%) Mentoring
5 95 (18.59%) Roadmaps
6 70 (13.70%) CI/CD
7 62 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (11.35%) Decision-Making
9 56 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (10.96%) Software Engineering
10 51 (9.98%) Migration
11 47 (9.20%) Customer Requirements
12 45 (8.81%) Computer Science
13 43 (8.41%) Microservices
14 42 (8.22%) Project Management
15 39 (7.63%) Containerisation
16 38 (7.44%) Continuous Integration
16 38 (7.44%) Customer Service
16 38 (7.44%) Data Modelling
17 37 (7.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 74 (14.48%) Java
2 68 (13.31%) Python
3 64 (12.52%) SQL
4 26 (5.09%) C#
5 18 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.54%) Scala
8 10 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.57%) Bash
10 6 (1.17%) C
10 6 (1.17%) C++
10 6 (1.17%) PHP
11 5 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.78%) Perl
13 3 (0.59%) R
13 3 (0.59%) Ruby
13 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.39%) VBScript
15 1 (0.20%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 160 (31.31%) Security Cleared
2 121 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 75 (14.68%) Degree
4 37 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (5.28%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.35%) CCNA
9 10 (1.96%) CCNP
9 10 (1.96%) PMP
10 8 (1.57%) CISSP
10 8 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.98%) JNCIA
12 5 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.78%) APMP
13 4 (0.78%) CEH
13 4 (0.78%) CISM
13 4 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.41%) QA
2 18 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.74%) SLA
4 9 (1.76%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.17%) GRC
6 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.59%) NCSC
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.39%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.39%) GDPR
9 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.20%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (9.20%) Docker
2 27 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.37%) vCloud
6 5 (0.98%) XenApp
7 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.59%) vSphere
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.39%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (11.55%) Kubernetes
2 55 (10.76%) Terraform
3 44 (8.61%) Ansible
4 22 (4.31%) Endace
5 16 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
6 15 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (2.35%) Podman
8 11 (2.15%) SCCM
9 7 (1.37%) Argo
9 7 (1.37%) Istio
9 7 (1.37%) Rancher
9 7 (1.37%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.98%) Puppet
11 3 (0.59%) Grafana
12 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.20%) Netcool
Vendors
1 68 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.20%) Cisco
3 30 (5.87%) Juniper
4 29 (5.68%) Google
5 26 (5.09%) F5
5 26 (5.09%) VMware
6 22 (4.31%) SAP
7 21 (4.11%) Oracle
8 14 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.35%) Databricks
9 12 (2.35%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.57%) Adobe
10 8 (1.57%) Informatica
11 6 (1.17%) Apple
11 6 (1.17%) Citrix
11 6 (1.17%) Computacenter
11 6 (1.17%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.17%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.98%) CyberArk