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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +21
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 15 18
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.66% 1.88% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.28% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 12
10th Percentile £506 £400 -
25th Percentile £550 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +27.66%
75th Percentile £688 £513 -
90th Percentile £813 £525 £724
South West median daily rate £650 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -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% -61.28%

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 711 659 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 90.92% 82.38% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 363 584
10th Percentile £235 £231 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £645
90th Percentile £745 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 91 126
10th Percentile £13.04 £35.00 £30.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

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 2 November 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 & 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.69%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Financial Institution
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Software Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Database Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Software Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Next.js
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Mentoring
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Migration
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
8 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
8 1 (7.69%) Database Migration
8 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 1 (7.69%) Due Diligence
8 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Puppet
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (15.38%) SCCM
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) Foundry
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Ivanti
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) VMware