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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 103 117
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 47 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.62% 1.17% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.27% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 10
10th Percentile £513 £460 £536
25th Percentile £528 £519 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £710
Median % change year-on-year - -8.45% +9.23%
75th Percentile £734 £828 £775
90th Percentile £791 £901 £804
Central London median daily rate £650 £650 £710
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +10.08%

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend 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 9 December 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
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 9 December 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 £525 -
Technical Leadership
Central London

Technical Leadership
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 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.51%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (4.26%) CMS
4 2 (4.26%) Confluence
5 1 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (6.38%) Workday HCM
2 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.13%) Exchequer
3 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 17 (36.17%) AWS
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.64%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.38%) dbt
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.38%) PaaS
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.26%) Azure AI
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) DHCP
2 1 (2.13%) LAN
2 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
2 1 (2.13%) WAN
2 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (8.51%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) SQLite
3 1 (2.13%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.13%) Metadata
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
2 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) CocoaPods
4 2 (4.26%) Crashlytics
4 2 (4.26%) fastlane
4 2 (4.26%) Xcode
5 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 19 (40.43%) Finance
2 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Billing
5 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Architect
2 13 (27.66%) Lead
3 10 (21.28%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (17.02%) Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Lead Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.26%) Administrator
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Database Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) DBA
7 2 (4.26%) iOS Developer
7 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 2 (4.26%) SAP Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) .NET
2 6 (12.77%) Kafka
3 5 (10.64%) RESTful
4 3 (6.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (6.38%) Web Services
5 2 (4.26%) AVFoundation
5 2 (4.26%) Blazor
5 2 (4.26%) Core Animation
5 2 (4.26%) Core Data
5 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.26%) RxSwift
5 2 (4.26%) UIKit
6 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.13%) Node.js
6 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.13%) REST
6 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.13%) Swagger
6 1 (2.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Animation
3 2 (4.26%) Clustering
3 2 (4.26%) CMDB
3 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.26%) Replication
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.13%) IoT
4 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Android
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) CI/CD
2 10 (21.28%) Agile
2 10 (21.28%) Mentoring
2 10 (21.28%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (21.28%) Roadmaps
3 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.02%) DevOps
5 7 (14.89%) AI
5 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
5 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
6 6 (12.77%) Code Quality
6 6 (12.77%) CRM
6 6 (12.77%) Data Integration
6 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
7 5 (10.64%) Design Patterns
7 5 (10.64%) Generative AI
7 5 (10.64%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) Java
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) Go
5 3 (6.38%) Objective-C
5 3 (6.38%) Swift
6 2 (4.26%) AWK
6 2 (4.26%) sed
7 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.13%) Scala
7 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
3 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.51%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) COBIT
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) NIST
3 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) Docker
3 2 (4.26%) GPFS
3 2 (4.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Terraform
2 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.38%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.13%) Consul
5 1 (2.13%) Grafana
5 1 (2.13%) Istio
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) Databricks
3 5 (10.64%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.51%) Citrix
4 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.38%) Altiris
5 3 (6.38%) Google
5 3 (6.38%) Ivanti
5 3 (6.38%) Symantec
5 3 (6.38%) VMware
5 3 (6.38%) Workday
6 2 (4.26%) Apple
6 2 (4.26%) DevExpress
6 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle
6 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.26%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) Blue Prism
7 1 (2.13%) Foundry
7 1 (2.13%) Veeam