Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Technical Leadership
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 36
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -11
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.79% 5.26% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 5.88% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £607 £714
25th Percentile £513 £607 £716
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £738
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% -16.61% +13.46%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £766
90th Percentile - - £771
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £615 £738
% change year-on-year -14.63% -16.61% +13.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 51 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 87.12% 89.47% 84.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 93
10th Percentile £380 £514 £380
25th Percentile £452 £568 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +9.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £675
90th Percentile £700 £747 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile - - £64.55
25th Percentile £12.43 £55.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £12.56 £60.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year -79.07% -15.49% -12.35%
75th Percentile £24.74 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £52.75 - £73.88
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 £67.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.15% +68.75% -47.02%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 4 (80.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Open Source Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Debian
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Rocky
1 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Go
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft