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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 48 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 10 16 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.17% 2.44% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.72% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £478 £400 -
25th Percentile £508 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +28.16% -7.32% +9.04%
75th Percentile £714 £513 £519
90th Percentile £719 £525 -
South West median daily rate £663 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +26.19% -7.49% -3.40%

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 732 589 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 85.71% 89.92% 84.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 327 506
10th Percentile £263 £213 £288
25th Percentile £400 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.80% +6.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £740 £717 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 73 114
10th Percentile £15.62 £35.00 £41.50
25th Percentile £22.48 £58.00 £59.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £66.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.62% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £79.06
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -2.44%

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 8 January 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
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 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP PP
2 1 (10.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) npm
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Database Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) XSD
2 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) IoT
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Production Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow