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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 97 107
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +36
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 43 28 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.37% 1.46% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 1.58% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 7
10th Percentile £513 £503 £583
25th Percentile £525 £581 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £691 £844 £748
90th Percentile £829 £901 £775
Central London median daily rate £624 £663 £700
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.36% +7.69%

All Process & 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 1,626 1,770 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.54% 92.04% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,078 1,563
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £764 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 10 January 2026.

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 10 January 2026. 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 (11.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.65%) CMS
3 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Exchequer
2 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) AWS
3 6 (13.95%) GCP
3 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.98%) dbt
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.98%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.65%) Apigee
6 2 (4.65%) Azure AI
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.65%) Firebase
6 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) DNS
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) DHCP
2 1 (2.33%) LAN
2 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.30%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) SQLite
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Data Hub
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
1 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) CocoaPods
3 2 (4.65%) Crashlytics
3 2 (4.65%) fastlane
3 2 (4.65%) Xcode
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 14 (32.56%) Finance
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Banking
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Billing
4 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
4 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Lead
2 16 (37.21%) Architect
3 9 (20.93%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Technical Leader
6 4 (9.30%) Senior
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) iOS Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.65%) SAP Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior iOS Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Kafka
2 5 (11.63%) LangChain
3 4 (9.30%) LangGraph
4 2 (4.65%) AVFoundation
4 2 (4.65%) Core Animation
4 2 (4.65%) Core Data
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.65%) RESTful
4 2 (4.65%) RxSwift
4 2 (4.65%) UIKit
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.33%) SAML
5 1 (2.33%) SAP Basis
5 1 (2.33%) Spring
5 1 (2.33%) XML
5 1 (2.33%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) AI Agents
2 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Animation
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.98%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.91%) AI
2 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
3 11 (25.58%) Agile
4 10 (23.26%) Generative AI
4 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (18.60%) DevOps
6 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
6 7 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
6 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Analytics
7 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
7 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
8 5 (11.63%) Data Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Data Integration
8 5 (11.63%) Data Science
8 5 (11.63%) Machine Learning
8 5 (11.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) Java
3 10 (23.26%) SQL
4 3 (6.98%) C#
4 3 (6.98%) Go
4 3 (6.98%) Objective-C
4 3 (6.98%) Swift
5 2 (4.65%) Korn
6 1 (2.33%) Bash
6 1 (2.33%) C++
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Ruby
6 1 (2.33%) Scala
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Basel III
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.33%) GAAP
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) IFRS
3 1 (2.33%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (4.65%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Istio
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Databricks
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Citrix
2 4 (9.30%) Google
3 3 (6.98%) Altiris
3 3 (6.98%) Ivanti
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
3 3 (6.98%) Symantec
3 3 (6.98%) VMware
4 2 (4.65%) Apple
4 2 (4.65%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) Blue Prism
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Foundry
5 1 (2.33%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Veeam