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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 50 61
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +26
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 17 18
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.62% 2.28% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 2.63% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 9
10th Percentile £495 £400 £581
25th Percentile £513 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +27.66%
75th Percentile £714 £513 -
90th Percentile £743 £525 £738
South West median daily rate £663 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +26.19% -12.50% +1.05%
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 697 647 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.69% 86.61% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 358 562
10th Percentile £256 £225 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -13.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £725 £746 £706
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 89 120
10th Percentile £14.72 £45.20 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £77.19
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%

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 7 December 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP PP
2 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Software Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Next.js
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Production Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.69%) Database Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) Ruby
1 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) Foundry
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow