Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Technical Lead
South East > Berkshire

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Berkshire is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 105 117
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 10 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.71% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £406 £489 £611
25th Percentile £413 £528 £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £656
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% -6.67% +19.32%
75th Percentile £633 £703 £689
90th Percentile £651 £746 £707
South East median daily rate £525 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.03% +5.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,280 1,458 1,675
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.07% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 798 1,009
10th Percentile £306 £309 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 47 76
10th Percentile £14.75 £23.90 £24.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.15 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £60.46 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% -2.05% +84.23%
75th Percentile £81.00 £66.50 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £98.50 £75.89
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £54.00 £51.24
% change year-on-year -53.70% +5.39% +36.63%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Berkshire

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 November 2025. 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
Reading +15 4 £612 -0.08%
Thatcham - 1 £648 -
Windsor - 1 £475 -
Wokingham - 1 £650 -
Technical Leader
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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 Berkshire region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) CAD
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
4 2 (20.00%) 2G
4 2 (20.00%) 5G
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Business Transformation
4 2 (20.00%) CEMLI
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Culture Change
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (20.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Figma
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) 2G
1 2 (20.00%) 5G
1 2 (20.00%) LTE
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CMDB
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) IoT
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) CAD
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Culture Change
4 2 (20.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Storytelling
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) R
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce