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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 98 123
Rank change year-on-year +25 +25 +22
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 50 22 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.84% 1.04% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.13% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 14
10th Percentile £513 £459 £529
25th Percentile £525 £516 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £681
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% +4.81%
75th Percentile £738 £799 £765
90th Percentile £800 £874 £784
Central London median daily rate £650 £650 £681
% change year-on-year - -4.59% +4.81%

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 1,646 1,941 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.63% 91.51% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,189 1,740
10th Percentile £328 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £765 £788 £810
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +29.77% -35.78%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -41.33%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.00%) CMS
3 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.00%) Camunda
4 1 (2.00%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (6.00%) Workday HCM
2 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.00%) Exchequer
3 1 (2.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 4 (8.00%) Serverless
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (6.00%) Datadog
6 3 (6.00%) dbt
6 3 (6.00%) PaaS
6 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) LAN
1 2 (4.00%) WAN
1 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (8.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) SQLite
3 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Git
2 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) CocoaPods
4 2 (4.00%) Crashlytics
4 2 (4.00%) fastlane
4 2 (4.00%) Xcode
5 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (36.00%) Finance
2 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Billing
4 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (46.00%) Architect
2 12 (24.00%) Lead
3 11 (22.00%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Lead Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Software Design Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.00%) Administrator
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Database Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) DBA
7 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 2 (4.00%) SAP Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) .NET
2 6 (12.00%) Kafka
3 5 (10.00%) RESTful
4 4 (8.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (6.00%) Web Services
5 3 (6.00%) WebSockets
6 2 (4.00%) Blazor
6 2 (4.00%) Core Animation
6 2 (4.00%) Core Data
6 2 (4.00%) OAuth
6 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.00%) OpenID
6 2 (4.00%) REST
6 2 (4.00%) SAML
6 2 (4.00%) Spring
6 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Animation
3 2 (4.00%) Clustering
3 2 (4.00%) CMDB
3 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Mentoring
2 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.00%) Roadmaps
4 10 (20.00%) Agile
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (14.00%) AI
6 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.00%) Data Integration
6 7 (14.00%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.00%) Event-Driven
6 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
7 6 (12.00%) CRM
7 6 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (12.00%) ITIL
7 6 (12.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Java
3 7 (14.00%) SQL
4 5 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) AWK
6 2 (4.00%) Objective-C
6 2 (4.00%) sed
6 2 (4.00%) Swift
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) Scala
7 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Degree
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.00%) GDPR
2 3 (6.00%) COBIT
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) Docker
3 2 (4.00%) GPFS
3 2 (4.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Terraform
2 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.00%) Consul
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Databricks
3 5 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.00%) Citrix
4 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.00%) Altiris
5 3 (6.00%) Google
5 3 (6.00%) Ivanti
5 3 (6.00%) Symantec
5 3 (6.00%) VMware
5 3 (6.00%) Workday
6 2 (4.00%) Apple
6 2 (4.00%) DevExpress
6 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle
6 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.00%) Blue Prism
7 1 (2.00%) Foundry
7 1 (2.00%) Veeam