Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Technical Leadership
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.37% 0.89% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 0.96% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% -18.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile £763 - -
South London median daily rate £650 £490 £600
% change year-on-year +32.65% -18.33% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 149 104 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.17% 92.86% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 81 98
10th Percentile £456 £380 £231
25th Percentile £499 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.91%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £611 £638 £665
South London median daily rate £513 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £34.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +80.05% +44.68% -46.72%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Croydon

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Croydon over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Croydon

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Boomi
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) SFIA
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft