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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 48 68
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 +34
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 17 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.55% 2.29% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.50% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £413 £516 -
25th Percentile £497 £532 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% -2.54% +28.77%
75th Percentile £638 £624 -
90th Percentile £714 £632 -
South West median daily rate £600 £607 £685
% change year-on-year -1.10% -11.41% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £70.55 - -
25th Percentile £77.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £103.10 - -
South West median hourly rate £67.42 - -

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 898 480 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 81.64% 91.43% 82.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 285 491
10th Percentile £325 £213 £260
25th Percentile £403 £341 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 64 158
10th Percentile £17.90 £35.00 £38.88
25th Percentile £60.00 £60.94 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.50 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 (5.88%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) SAP PP
2 2 (11.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) OCI
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) 3GPP
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (11.76%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) Power Query
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) ERP Manager
5 2 (11.76%) ERP Project Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 2 (11.76%) SAP Manager
5 2 (11.76%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Software Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) Next.js
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) XSD
3 1 (5.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
4 3 (17.65%) ERP
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Production Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 2 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Ruby
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) C
3 1 (5.88%) C++
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.88%) PHP
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
4 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Degree
5 2 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
1 2 (11.76%) NIST 800
1 2 (11.76%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat