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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 18 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.48% 1.63% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.96% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 18
10th Percentile £455 £400 -
25th Percentile £516 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +12.68%
75th Percentile £644 £525 £784
90th Percentile £778 £561 £814
South West median daily rate £600 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +17.07% -14.58% -4.00%
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 669 764 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.28% 82.95% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 410 633
10th Percentile £252 £292 £308
25th Percentile £375 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £595 £597 £650
90th Percentile £746 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 141 114
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.00 £21.98
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.38 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +12.17%

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
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 20 September 2025.

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
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 (5.56%) Moodle
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) GitHub
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) npm
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) NetScaler
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Lead
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Network Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
1 9 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Migration
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.56%) Database Migration
7 1 (5.56%) Database Tuning
7 1 (5.56%) Information Assurance
7 1 (5.56%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Ruby
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (11.11%) XenDesktop
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Citrix
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Foundry
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Ivanti
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) VMware