Technical Leader Contracts in East London

Technical Lead
London > East London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in East London is £584, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 33 30
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 1.92% 1.29% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 1.44% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £530 £553 -
25th Percentile £547 £576 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £630 £320
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +96.72% -
75th Percentile £612 £647 -
90th Percentile £623 £649 -
London median daily rate £630 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.08% - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in East London with a recognized job title 97 208 171
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 89.66% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 179 141
10th Percentile £278 £320 £188
25th Percentile £400 £425 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 2
10th Percentile £14.66 £11.95 £20.64
25th Percentile £24.66 £12.84 £23.20
Median hourly rate £28.60 £22.91 £27.47
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% -16.58% +39.84%
75th Percentile £37.00 £28.37 £31.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 £34.29
London median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in East London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in East London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in East London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the East London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Greenwich +10 1 £538 -10.75%
Tower Hamlets - 1 £630 -
Technical Leader
London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft