Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Technical Leadership
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 108 116
Rank change year-on-year +34 +8 +41
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 48 19 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.73% 0.92% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.00% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 14 30
10th Percentile £480 £465 £514
25th Percentile £553 £516 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £650 £721
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -9.88% +14.48%
75th Percentile £778 £738 £825
90th Percentile £800 £798 £928
Central London median daily rate £662 £650 £721
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.88% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.19 - -
25th Percentile £43.50 - -
Median hourly rate £62.33 - -
75th Percentile £81.17 - -
90th Percentile £92.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.33 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,657 1,905 2,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 92.07% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,207 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the City of London

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the City of London

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the City of London

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the City of London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
London Bridge - 2 £525 -
Technical Leadership
Central London

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) Camunda
3 1 (2.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (6.25%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.08%) Exchequer
2 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) AWS
1 19 (39.58%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (14.58%) Serverless
3 6 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
3 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (10.42%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (10.42%) Datadog
5 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.33%) GCP
5 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.25%) PaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) LAN
1 2 (4.17%) WAN
1 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Big Data
4 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (37.50%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Banking
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Billing
5 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Architect
2 9 (18.75%) Lead
2 9 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Administrator
3 5 (10.42%) Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Software Design Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
5 3 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Security Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Database Specialist
6 2 (4.17%) DBA
6 2 (4.17%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 6 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 5 (10.42%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (10.42%) RESTful
3 5 (10.42%) WebSockets
4 3 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (6.25%) Web Services
5 2 (4.17%) Blazor
5 2 (4.17%) Kafka
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.17%) React
5 2 (4.17%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) Spring
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.08%) JPA
6 1 (2.08%) JSON
6 1 (2.08%) Swagger
6 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Clustering
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.17%) Hedge funds
2 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (2.08%) CMDB
3 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) Mentoring
2 14 (29.17%) DevOps
3 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
4 10 (20.83%) Agile
4 10 (20.83%) Event-Driven
4 10 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (14.58%) Microservices
6 7 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (14.58%) User Experience
7 6 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (10.42%) ITIL
8 5 (10.42%) SDLC
8 5 (10.42%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) Java
3 5 (10.42%) C#
4 3 (6.25%) Bash
4 3 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (4.17%) AWK
5 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.17%) sed
5 2 (4.17%) SQL
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CCIE
5 1 (2.08%) CCNP
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) COBIT
1 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
2 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) Docker
3 2 (4.17%) GPFS
3 2 (4.17%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Terraform
2 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.25%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Ansible
6 1 (2.08%) Consul
6 1 (2.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.33%) Citrix
4 3 (6.25%) Altiris
4 3 (6.25%) Databricks
4 3 (6.25%) Ivanti
4 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.25%) Symantec
4 3 (6.25%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) Workday
5 2 (4.17%) Blue Prism
5 2 (4.17%) DevExpress
5 2 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.17%) UiPath
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.08%) SAP