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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 65 94
Rank change year-on-year +28 +29 +2
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 18 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.35% 0.85% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 1.02% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £438 £603 £660
25th Percentile £473 £608 £732
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £619 £796
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% -22.29% +29.74%
75th Percentile £634 £633 £803
90th Percentile £638 £639 £810
South West median daily rate £606 £631 £650
% change year-on-year -3.96% -2.88% +11.59%

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 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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 1 May 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 (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
1 1 (5.56%) SAP BPC
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
1 9 (50.00%) LAN
1 9 (50.00%) Network Security
1 9 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) 4G
2 2 (11.11%) 5G
2 2 (11.11%) PBX
2 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications
2 2 (11.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Architect
2 9 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 9 (50.00%) Network Technical Architect
2 9 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Chief Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Moodle Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.56%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) CentOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.56%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (5.56%) Process Improvement
4 1 (5.56%) Project Management
4 1 (5.56%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.56%) Validation
4 1 (5.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
1 2 (11.11%) Ericsson
1 2 (11.11%) F5
1 2 (11.11%) Juniper
1 2 (11.11%) Nokia
1 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Avaya
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Ribbon
2 1 (5.56%) SAP