Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Devon

Technical Leadership
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 1.61% 0.64% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 0.75% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £710 - £521
25th Percentile £725 - £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £640 £619 £563
% change year-on-year +3.43% +10.00% -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 134 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 83.92% 85.35% 80.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 64 110
10th Percentile £275 - £143
25th Percentile £408 £145 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -18.37% -2.00%
75th Percentile £644 £538 £600
90th Percentile £800 £588 £685
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 18
10th Percentile £12.71 - £22.49
25th Percentile £14.91 - £39.69
Median hourly rate £18.50 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% -61.31% +73.33%
75th Percentile £24.28 - £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £28.92 -
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +5.23%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Devon

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Exeter -14 5 £750 - 4
Technical Leadership
South West

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared DBA
2 2 (40.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Scientific Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Database Security
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft