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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 25 19 15
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.85% 2.65% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.86% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 8
10th Percentile £420 £476 £400
25th Percentile £500 £538 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +26.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £675 £647 £525
90th Percentile £712 £786 £561
South West median daily rate £625 £606 £563
% change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.38 - -
90th Percentile £77.75 - -
South West median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +191.26%

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 1,033 664 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.29% 92.61% 82.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 341 410
10th Percentile £325 £253 £292
25th Percentile £426 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £695 £702
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 126 143
10th Percentile £21.29 £12.82 £48.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.60 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.84% -55.54% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £73.75 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +3.85%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) dbt
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.00%) OCI
5 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Lead
2 9 (36.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365 Expert
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) React
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.00%) Swagger
3 2 (8.00%) Terraform
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.00%) OLE
4 1 (4.00%) OpenID
4 1 (4.00%) Playwright
4 1 (4.00%) Quarkus
4 1 (4.00%) SAML
4 1 (4.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
4 1 (4.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Learning Management System
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.00%) SCADA
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (48.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 4 (16.00%) AI
7 4 (16.00%) Architecture Governance
7 4 (16.00%) Coaching
7 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Java
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) C#
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) C
3 2 (8.00%) C++
3 2 (8.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (8.00%) PHP
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) NCSC
3 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Argo
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.00%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (8.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) webMethods