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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 52 64
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 30 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.21% 2.46% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.65% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 7
10th Percentile £450 £454 £400
25th Percentile £502 £511 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +26.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £711 £647 £513
90th Percentile £795 £786 £525
South West median daily rate £636 £625 £513
% change year-on-year +1.80% +21.95% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £92.53 - £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 1,046 679 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 77.03% 92.76% 82.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 338 386
10th Percentile £325 £250 £277
25th Percentile £450 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £589
90th Percentile £678 £740 £716
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 148 134
10th Percentile £20.73 £12.82 £48.60
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £64.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +8.00%

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 1 October 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 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) GCP
3 4 (13.33%) dbt
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (10.00%) Vertex AI
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Run
5 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.00%) Metadata
2 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.67%) Looker
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) Tableau
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Military
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Architect
2 8 (26.67%) Lead
3 6 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Technical Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) GCP Architect
5 3 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) BigQuery Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Head of Architecture
6 2 (6.67%) Head of Technical Architecture
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Expert
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) .NET
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) React
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.33%) OpenID
4 1 (3.33%) Playwright
4 1 (3.33%) Quarkus
4 1 (3.33%) SAML
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Web Services
4 1 (3.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) DevOps
2 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (36.67%) AI
3 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (26.67%) Data Architecture
5 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 7 (23.33%) Data Engineering
6 7 (23.33%) ETL
7 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 5 (16.67%) Migration
8 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (16.67%) Validation
9 4 (13.33%) Analytics
9 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
9 4 (13.33%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) PHP
3 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) NCSC
3 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) webMethods