Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Technical Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the City of London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 114 132
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 9 17 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 0.80% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.86% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 12
10th Percentile £331 £413 £520
25th Percentile £603 £507 £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £710
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -11.97% +14.06%
75th Percentile £712 £672 £797
90th Percentile £735 £700 £825
Central London median daily rate £650 £625 £700
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,620 1,984 2,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 93.67% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 1,225 1,863
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.95% +3.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £782 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 13
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £26.03 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.04 £48.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.68% +26.32% -7.88%
75th Percentile £35.88 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% -5.41% -9.76%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in the City of London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the City of London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the City of London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
5 2 (22.22%) HTML
5 2 (22.22%) Java
5 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) CSS
5 2 (22.22%) Finance
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) JIRA
5 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
5 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Boomi
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
4 1 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Apex Code
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Consul
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) OutSystems
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud