Technical Leadership Contracts in Bristol

Technical Leadership
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 73 67
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 +27
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 23 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.56% 0.72% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 0.89% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 17
10th Percentile £475 £603 -
25th Percentile £538 £608 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.43%
75th Percentile £638 £633 £800
90th Percentile £764 £639 £814
South West median daily rate £613 £613 £650
% change year-on-year - -5.77% +12.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £75.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year - +191.26% -63.21%

All Process and 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 590 900 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.33% 80.72% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 496 697
10th Percentile £235 £260 £313
25th Percentile £361 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £638
90th Percentile £644 £688 £715
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 211 170
10th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £50.00 £14.68
Median hourly rate £40.84 £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.66% +13.82% +36.36%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.23
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £81.69
South West median hourly rate £28.10 £55.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year -49.15% -10.16% +24.55%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Bristol

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Bristol

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Bristol

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Bristol

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (4.35%) Moodle
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.35%) SAP BPC
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
1 5 (21.74%) LAN
1 5 (21.74%) Network Security
1 5 (21.74%) WAN
2 2 (8.70%) 4G
2 2 (8.70%) 5G
2 2 (8.70%) NetScaler
2 2 (8.70%) PBX
2 2 (8.70%) Unified Communications
2 2 (8.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 5 (21.74%) Network Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Network Technical Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Chief Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Moodle Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) Next.js
1 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) CentOS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
1 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
1 8 (34.78%) Migration
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (21.74%) Network Architecture
3 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.70%) Commercial Awareness
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
6 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Scrum
7 1 (4.35%) Business Case
7 1 (4.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Ruby
2 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) CCNP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.70%) XenDesktop
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Puppet
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco
2 2 (8.70%) Citrix
2 2 (8.70%) Ericsson
2 2 (8.70%) F5
2 2 (8.70%) Juniper
2 2 (8.70%) Nokia
2 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Avaya
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Ivanti
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Ribbon
3 1 (4.35%) SAP