Technical Leadership Contracts in the City of London

Technical Leadership
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 140 161
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 -34
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 31 32 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.42% 0.90% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.99% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 26
10th Percentile £588 £523 £522
25th Percentile £631 £615 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +30.23%
75th Percentile £756 £875 £733
90th Percentile £840 £920 £815
Central London median daily rate £700 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,972 3,247 3,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 91.57% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 2,187 2,938
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £684
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 11 May 2024.

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
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 1 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) CMS
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (22.58%) Power Platform
2 7 (22.58%) Serverless
3 6 (19.35%) Azure Functions
3 6 (19.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (16.13%) AWS
4 5 (16.13%) Azure AKS
4 5 (16.13%) GitHub
4 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (16.13%) PowerApps
5 4 (12.90%) Azure API Management
5 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) Intranet
1 1 (3.23%) VPN
1 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.23%) Data Vault
2 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) DataStage
2 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.23%) Parquet
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Cypress.io
1 5 (16.13%) JMeter
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Android Studio
3 1 (3.23%) ERwin
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Marketing
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Lead
2 7 (22.58%) Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Technical Leader
3 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Android Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) IAM Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Power Apps Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform Architect
6 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Software Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Kafka
1 5 (16.13%) Node.js
1 5 (16.13%) React
2 4 (12.90%) XML
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (3.23%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) OpenID
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.23%) SAML
3 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Machine to Machine
1 3 (9.68%) Mainframe
1 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
2 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
2 9 (29.03%) Architectural Design
3 8 (25.81%) DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.13%) Coaching
5 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
5 5 (16.13%) Data Transformation
5 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) Agile
6 4 (12.90%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Data Governance
7 3 (9.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (9.68%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.68%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (9.68%) Test Strategy
7 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) C#
2 3 (9.68%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) C
3 1 (3.23%) C++
3 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Argo
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe
3 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.23%) Embarcadero
3 1 (3.23%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.23%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) Marketo
3 1 (3.23%) Ping Identity
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow