Technical Leader Contracts in Central London

Technical Lead
London > Central London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Central London is £698, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 117 149
Rank change year-on-year +2 +32 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 14 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.65% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.69% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 17
10th Percentile £524 £524 £550
25th Percentile £575 £597 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £698 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £901 £731 £750
90th Percentile £920 £760 £780
London median daily rate £634 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +7 13 £720 +6.67% 7
Technical Leader
London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (50.00%) .NET
4 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
6 4 (28.57%) Low-Code
6 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (28.57%) CRM
6 4 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) Java
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Serverless
7 3 (21.43%) Python
7 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Programming
8 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
8 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
8 2 (14.29%) Coaching

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office
3 1 (7.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) jQuery
3 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (7.14%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Low-Code
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) CRM
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Coaching
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Programming
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) OutSystems
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce