Technical Leadership Contracts in Birmingham

Technical Leadership
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 56 72
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 5 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.89% 1.46% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.79% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile - £409 £539
25th Percentile £513 £450 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £619
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -19.19% +11.74%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £673
90th Percentile £608 £750 £693
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £528 £613
% change year-on-year -5.21% -13.88% +11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 490 558 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.19% 81.70% 83.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 391 485
10th Percentile £164 £230 £263
25th Percentile £325 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £538 £626 £625
90th Percentile £639 £738 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 16 23
10th Percentile - £13.63 £12.74
25th Percentile £12.62 £19.25 £15.57
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.30% +53.47% +41.46%
75th Percentile £22.08 £51.25 £30.52
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +15.90% -22.22% +54.29%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Birmingham

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Birmingham

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (20.00%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Product Management Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Product Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Moodle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Juniper
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft