Technical Leadership Contracts in the City of London

Technical Leadership
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 110 125
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 +42
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 49 20 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.70% 0.94% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 1.02% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 8 29
10th Percentile £480 £522 £510
25th Percentile £614 £602 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £775 £794 £825
90th Percentile £804 £876 £885
Central London median daily rate £675 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -6.90% - +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
75th Percentile £62.33 - -
90th Percentile £84.93 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.66 - -

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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the City of London

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the City of London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the City of London

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 - 1 - -
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 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Camunda
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.04%) nginx
3 1 (2.04%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (6.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) Azure
2 18 (36.73%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) Serverless
4 6 (12.24%) Amazon Cognito
4 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (10.20%) Datadog
6 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) PaaS
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (4.08%) Network Security
1 2 (4.08%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (2.04%) HTTP
2 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
2 1 (2.04%) WAN
2 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) Big Data
3 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) Metadata
4 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) Appium
3 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 25 (51.02%) Finance
2 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Lead
3 7 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Consultant
5 5 (10.20%) Administrator
5 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Software Design Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Administrator
7 3 (6.12%) Network Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Software Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.12%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.08%) Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Database Specialist
8 2 (4.08%) DBA
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) .NET
2 6 (12.24%) AngularJS
3 5 (10.20%) GraphQL
3 5 (10.20%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (10.20%) WebSockets
4 4 (8.16%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (6.12%) RESTful
5 3 (6.12%) Web Services
6 2 (4.08%) Blazor
6 2 (4.08%) Kafka
6 2 (4.08%) OAuth
6 2 (4.08%) React
6 2 (4.08%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) SAML
7 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.04%) JWT
7 1 (2.04%) LangChain
7 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.04%) Pandas
7 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.12%) Hedge funds
2 2 (4.08%) Clustering
2 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.08%) Replication
3 1 (2.04%) CMDB
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) DevOps
1 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
2 13 (26.53%) Mentoring
2 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.45%) Event-Driven
5 9 (18.37%) Agile
6 8 (16.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 6 (12.24%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Design Patterns
8 6 (12.24%) Microservices
8 6 (12.24%) TOGAF
9 5 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.20%) Security Architecture
9 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) Java
3 4 (8.16%) C#
3 4 (8.16%) SQL
4 3 (6.12%) Bash
4 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.08%) AWK
5 2 (4.08%) Go
5 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.08%) sed
6 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.04%) C
6 1 (2.04%) C++
6 1 (2.04%) Groovy
6 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
2 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (4.08%) CCIE
4 2 (4.08%) CCNP
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) GDPR
2 3 (6.12%) COBIT
2 3 (6.12%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.08%) NIST
4 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) GPFS
1 2 (4.08%) NFS
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.04%) OpenAM
2 1 (2.04%) OpenDJ
2 1 (2.04%) OpenIDM
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
2 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.04%) Consul
4 1 (2.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Databricks
3 4 (8.16%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.16%) Workday
4 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco
5 2 (4.08%) DevExpress
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.04%) Blue Prism
6 1 (2.04%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) UiPath
6 1 (2.04%) VMware