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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 95 139
Rank change year-on-year +17 +44 +21
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 41 31 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.35% 1.42% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.56% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 22
10th Percentile £480 £578 £523
25th Percentile £577 £628 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £819 £766 £875
90th Percentile £901 £856 £920
Central London median daily rate £675 £675 £750
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £24.66 - £35.00
75th Percentile £62.33 - -
90th Percentile £84.93 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.66 - £35.00

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 1,628 1,982 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.30% 90.59% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,403 2,228
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 2 (4.88%) Apache
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Serverless
4 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Functions
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (7.32%) GCP
5 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.88%) Datadog
6 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Network Security
2 2 (4.88%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.44%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.44%) DHCP
3 1 (2.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (2.44%) Firewall
3 1 (2.44%) HTTP
3 1 (2.44%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.44%) Wireless
3 1 (2.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Big Data
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Appium
2 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Advertising
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Architect
1 12 (29.27%) Lead
2 7 (17.07%) Technical Leader
3 6 (14.63%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Software Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Cisco Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Cisco Network Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) .NET
2 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.88%) Dask
3 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.88%) HTML
3 2 (4.88%) Kafka
3 2 (4.88%) LangChain
3 2 (4.88%) NumPy
3 2 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.88%) Pandas
3 2 (4.88%) Web Services
3 2 (4.88%) WebSockets
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.44%) JWT
4 1 (2.44%) LDAP
4 1 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth
4 1 (2.44%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.88%) CMDB
2 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Software Engineering
2 11 (26.83%) DevOps
2 11 (26.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
4 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
4 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.51%) Analytics
6 7 (17.07%) Agile
6 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.20%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (12.20%) Event-Driven
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
8 4 (9.76%) Business Strategy
8 4 (9.76%) Design Patterns
8 4 (9.76%) Microservices
8 4 (9.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (9.76%) TOGAF
8 4 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) Python
2 8 (19.51%) Java
3 5 (12.20%) SQL
4 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) Go
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) C
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Degree
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
3 4 (9.76%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.88%) CCIE
5 2 (4.88%) CCNP
5 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.44%) CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) CISA
6 1 (2.44%) CISM
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.88%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
1 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.44%) OpenAM
1 1 (2.44%) OpenDJ
1 1 (2.44%) OpenIDM
1 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) OPNET
5 1 (2.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Cisco
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Databricks
3 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.88%) Workday
4 1 (2.44%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.44%) F5
4 1 (2.44%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.44%) Meraki
4 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) UiPath
4 1 (2.44%) VMware