Technical Leader Contracts in the East Midlands

Technical Lead
England > East Midlands

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the East Midlands is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 63 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £242 - £324
25th Percentile £328 £475 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +42.86% -25.53%
75th Percentile £613 £525 £381
90th Percentile £725 - £438
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 472 725 980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 93.79% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 483 754
10th Percentile £200 £163 £213
25th Percentile £350 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £565
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 62
10th Percentile £11.44 £11.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £51.91 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the East Midlands

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the East Midlands

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the East Midlands

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the East Midlands

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Derbyshire - 2 £650 - 12
Northamptonshire -1 1 £190 -62.00% 4
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Midlands region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) EPoS
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) PLM
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Siemens