Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Technical Leadership
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 67
Rank change year-on-year -16 +28 +31
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 21 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.77% 3.02% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 3.27% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £322 £449 £603
25th Percentile £514 £505 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £619
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +13.86%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £633
90th Percentile £714 - £639
South West median daily rate £600 £613 £631
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.97% -2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £73.75 - -
75th Percentile £96.88 - -
90th Percentile £102.88 - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 946 489 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 79.90% 92.44% 82.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 298 504
10th Percentile £325 £213 £252
25th Percentile £401 £362 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -9.60% -
75th Percentile £570 £588 £624
90th Percentile £650 £675 £686
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 67 155
10th Percentile £18.11 £25.55 £36.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% -22.76%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Bristol

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Bristol

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Bristol

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (4.76%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SAP PP
2 2 (9.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) OCI
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) 3GPP
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (9.52%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Metadata
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Power Query
1 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Lead
2 8 (38.10%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Test Leader
5 2 (9.52%) ERP Manager
5 2 (9.52%) ERP Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) SAP Manager
5 2 (9.52%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Platform Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) Next.js
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.76%) OLE
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) XML
3 1 (4.76%) XSD
3 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) IoT
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
5 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
6 3 (14.29%) ERP
6 3 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) C
2 3 (14.29%) C++
2 3 (14.29%) MATLAB
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Ruby
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.76%) PHP
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 17 (80.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (4.76%) Degree
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) NCSC
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) NIST 800
2 2 (9.52%) PMO
3 1 (4.76%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle