Technical Leadership Contracts in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 114 144
Rank change year-on-year +26 +30 -20
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 21 25 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.09% 1.05% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.19% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 18
10th Percentile - £519 £436
25th Percentile £463 £625 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £688 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +25.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £641 £694 £622
90th Percentile £808 £813 £703
England median daily rate £600 £646 £600
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Warwickshire +8 6 £800 - 4
Birmingham +8 5 £500 -15.79% 8
Solihull - 5 £463 -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 3
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) LAN
1 10 (47.62%) WAN
2 4 (19.05%) Junos
3 3 (14.29%) ADSL
3 3 (14.29%) BGP
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (14.29%) IPsec
3 3 (14.29%) MPLS
3 3 (14.29%) VDSL
3 3 (14.29%) VPN
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security
4 2 (9.52%) SAN
4 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.76%) Firewall
5 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Network Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Project Manager
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco Architect
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Juniper Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Network Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Manager
6 1 (4.76%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Project Management
2 6 (28.57%) Project Planning
2 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Budget Management
4 4 (19.05%) Cost Control
4 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Resource Management
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (14.29%) Scrum
5 3 (14.29%) Use Case
5 3 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.52%) Network Design
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) PMI Certification
2 5 (23.81%) PMP
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) CCNA
3 4 (19.05%) CCNP
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.52%) JNCIS
4 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.76%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) HAZOP
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.52%) vSphere
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco
2 5 (23.81%) Juniper
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle