Technical Leadership Contracts in the East Midlands

Technical Leadership
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 74
Rank change year-on-year -11 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 12 27 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.70% 3.12% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 3.98% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 3
10th Percentile £185 £393 £585
25th Percentile £231 £525 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.17% +3.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £519 £634 £609
90th Percentile £590 £731 £615
England median daily rate £600 £620 £628
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.27% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +381.48% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.48 £62.00
% change year-on-year +34.09% -21.81% -17.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 679 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 88.10% 78.50% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 442 667
10th Percentile £224 £205 £213
25th Percentile £332 £320 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £592 £623 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 61 49
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £12.94
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -35.80% +23.16%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the East Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the East Midlands

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the East Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the East Midlands

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Northamptonshire -12 6 £279 -55.23% 26
Nottinghamshire -1 3 £550 - 36
Derbyshire +6 1 - - 40
Lincolnshire +1 1 - - 20
Leicestershire - 1 £475 - 23
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Android Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) EPoS
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Data Security
5 3 (25.00%) Inventory Management
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
1 2 (16.67%) Python
1 2 (16.67%) Scala
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce