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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 80 97
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 +51
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 34 38 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 2.07% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.26% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 6
10th Percentile £513 £477 £625
25th Percentile £547 £603 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £738
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -8.47% +12.17%
75th Percentile £775 £820 £775
90th Percentile £846 £901 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £668 £738
% change year-on-year -2.62% -9.49% +12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.66 -
Central London median hourly rate - £24.66 -

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 1,771 1,684 2,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.08% 91.62% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 1,040 1,502
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.97% -5.08%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.25 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £48.67 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 27 February 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
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 (14.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.88%) CMS
4 1 (2.94%) Apache
4 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) GCP
4 3 (8.82%) dbt
4 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.88%) Firebase
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.88%) OCI
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.94%) Apigee
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.88%) WAN
1 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.94%) 3G
2 1 (2.94%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.94%) 4G
2 1 (2.94%) 5G
2 1 (2.94%) DHCP
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) LAN
2 1 (2.94%) LTE
2 1 (2.94%) MPLS
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) SQLite
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) CocoaPods
2 2 (5.88%) Crashlytics
2 2 (5.88%) fastlane
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Xcode
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Lead
2 11 (32.35%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Technical Leader
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) iOS Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior iOS Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Kafka
2 5 (14.71%) LangChain
3 4 (11.76%) LangGraph
4 2 (5.88%) AVFoundation
4 2 (5.88%) Core Animation
4 2 (5.88%) Core Data
4 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.88%) RxSwift
4 2 (5.88%) UIKit
5 1 (2.94%) .NET
5 1 (2.94%) Node.js
5 1 (2.94%) OpenID
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.94%) Phoenix Framework
5 1 (2.94%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) SAML
5 1 (2.94%) SAP Basis
5 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.71%) AI Agents
2 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Animation
4 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.94%) CMDB
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) IoT
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.94%) NHS
5 1 (2.94%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Apple iOS
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
2 10 (29.41%) AI
2 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (23.53%) Generative AI
3 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.59%) Analytics
4 7 (20.59%) Migration
4 7 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (17.65%) DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
6 5 (14.71%) Data Science
6 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
6 5 (14.71%) Machine Learning
7 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
7 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 4 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) Java
4 3 (8.82%) Objective-C
4 3 (8.82%) Swift
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Korn
5 2 (5.88%) Ruby
6 1 (2.94%) C++
6 1 (2.94%) Elixir
6 1 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) Scala
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Basel III
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.94%) GAAP
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) HL7
3 1 (2.94%) IFRS
3 1 (2.94%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) Ansible
3 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Istio
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Apple
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Altiris
4 1 (2.94%) Cerner
4 1 (2.94%) Citrix
4 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.94%) Datto
4 1 (2.94%) Foundry
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) Ivanti
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.94%) Symantec
4 1 (2.94%) Veeam
4 1 (2.94%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Workday
4 1 (2.94%) Zscaler