Technical Leader Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 257 331
Rank change year-on-year +12 +74 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 96 223 313
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.89% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.93% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 135 214
10th Percentile £413 £513 £440
25th Percentile £486 £569 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £598
Median % change year-on-year - +8.79% +13.81%
75th Percentile £788 £745 £688
90th Percentile £850 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £635 £575
% change year-on-year -1.50% +10.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £63.20
UK median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -27.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leader.

Technical Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Leader over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Technical Leader daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leader.

Technical Leader hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 34 (35.42%) Agile
2 27 (28.13%) AWS
3 23 (23.96%) Java
3 23 (23.96%) JavaScript
4 22 (22.92%) Finance
4 22 (22.92%) Software Engineering
4 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
5 20 (20.83%) Banking
6 19 (19.79%) DevOps
7 18 (18.75%) Azure
8 17 (17.71%) Python
9 16 (16.67%) TypeScript
10 15 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (14.58%) Data Quality
11 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
11 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
12 13 (13.54%) Investment Banking
12 13 (13.54%) CI/CD
12 13 (13.54%) dbt
12 13 (13.54%) Snowflake
13 12 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
13 12 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
13 12 (12.50%) Dremio
13 12 (12.50%) Derivative
13 12 (12.50%) Investment Management
13 12 (12.50%) Fixed Income
13 12 (12.50%) Equities
13 12 (12.50%) Asset Management
13 12 (12.50%) SQL

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 12 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.04%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.04%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.13%) AWS
2 18 (18.75%) Azure
3 13 (13.54%) dbt
3 13 (13.54%) Snowflake
4 9 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.25%) Serverless
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (3.13%) CloudFront
9 3 (3.13%) npm
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.08%) GitHub
10 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.08%) SaaS
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Firewall
2 6 (6.25%) VPN
3 5 (5.21%) Network Security
4 4 (4.17%) DNS
4 4 (4.17%) SSL
5 1 (1.04%) FTP
5 1 (1.04%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.04%) LAN
5 1 (1.04%) NaaS
5 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
1 12 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
1 12 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 12 (12.50%) Dremio
2 5 (5.21%) MySQL
2 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.17%) Power BI
3 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.04%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.04%) Informix
5 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) webpack
3 3 (3.13%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.04%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 22 (22.92%) Finance
1 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.83%) Banking
3 13 (13.54%) Investment Banking
4 12 (12.50%) Front Office
5 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Back Office
7 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Retail
10 1 (1.04%) Automotive
10 1 (1.04%) Billing
10 1 (1.04%) German Language
10 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.50%) gRPC
1 12 (12.50%) NumPy
1 12 (12.50%) Pandas
1 12 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
1 12 (12.50%) SciPy
2 9 (9.38%) CSS
2 9 (9.38%) HTML
2 9 (9.38%) Node.js
3 8 (8.33%) .NET
4 6 (6.25%) SOAP
4 6 (6.25%) Spring
4 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.21%) REST
6 4 (4.17%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.17%) jQuery
6 4 (4.17%) React
6 4 (4.17%) RESTful
6 4 (4.17%) Struts
6 4 (4.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Derivative
1 12 (12.50%) Equities
1 12 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 12 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 12 (12.50%) Hedge funds
2 7 (7.29%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.08%) Contactless
4 2 (2.08%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) NHS
5 1 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.42%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
3 5 (5.21%) Android
3 5 (5.21%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.04%) CentOS
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) Agile
2 22 (22.92%) Software Engineering
3 19 (19.79%) DevOps
4 15 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (13.54%) CI/CD
7 12 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 12 (12.50%) Greeks
7 12 (12.50%) Investment Management
8 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.42%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (10.42%) Migration
10 9 (9.38%) ERP
11 8 (8.33%) Design Patterns
12 7 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (7.29%) Technical Architecture
13 6 (6.25%) Roadmaps
14 5 (5.21%) Batch Processing
14 5 (5.21%) Threat Intelligence
14 5 (5.21%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.96%) Java
1 23 (23.96%) JavaScript
2 17 (17.71%) Python
3 16 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.50%) SQL
5 8 (8.33%) C#
6 6 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.13%) Bicep
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
8 1 (1.04%) Scala
8 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
1 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Degree
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Firmware
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) SCCM
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
2 3 (3.13%) Grafana
3 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.04%) Kibana
4 1 (1.04%) logstash
4 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Oracle
3 6 (6.25%) SAP
4 2 (2.08%) IBM
4 2 (2.08%) Informatica
5 1 (1.04%) Databricks
5 1 (1.04%) F5
5 1 (1.04%) Genesys
5 1 (1.04%) Google
5 1 (1.04%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.04%) Murex
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Splunk