Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Technical Lead
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Basingstoke is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.74% - 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £599 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -0.17% -14.29% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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 Basingstoke with a recognized job title 256 200 217
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 88.89% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 165 59
10th Percentile £463 £420 £234
25th Percentile £500 £479 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £649
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
10th Percentile £12.18 £28.15 £14.85
25th Percentile - £29.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £31.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.03% +34.04% +13.42%
75th Percentile - £34.13 £33.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £35.25 £47.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.00 £64.18 £49.50
% change year-on-year -61.04% +29.65% +10.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Basingstoke

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Basingstoke

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Basingstoke

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Basingstoke region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) Dagster
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Git

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Dagster
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Poetry
1 1 (50.00%) Pylint
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google