Technical Leadership Contracts in the East of England

Technical Leadership
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 92 95
Rank change year-on-year +25 +3 +35
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Technical Leadership 27 11 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.12% 0.70% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 0.85% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £185 £425 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £581 £694 £844
90th Percentile £700 £753 £888
England median daily rate £600 £620 £628
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.20% +3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £62.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +252.71% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £38.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year +82.23% +49.51% -66.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,136 1,300 1,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.10% 82.80% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 495 937
10th Percentile £200 £199 £225
25th Percentile £364 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £653 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 450 350
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.55 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.35 £41.25 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -24.01% +108.23% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £80.30 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the East of England

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the East of England

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +19 14 £560 +24.44% 13
Bedfordshire +3 11 £190 -74.67% 2
Cambridgeshire - 1 £675 - 27
Norfolk - 1 £600 - 1
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.70%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
1 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) SaaS
3 2 (7.41%) IaaS
3 2 (7.41%) PaaS
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) Big Data
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) PowerCenter
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 21 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Lead
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Technical Leader
4 3 (11.11%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Team Leader
6 1 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Supply Chain Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) NETCONF
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) RESTCONF
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) Visualforce
2 1 (3.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) EPoS
2 3 (11.11%) PCIe
3 1 (3.70%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (25.93%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (25.93%) Mobile Device Management
4 7 (25.93%) PRINCE2
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Inventory Management
5 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (18.52%) Workflow
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) High Availability
7 3 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) C
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.70%) Embedded C
4 1 (3.70%) R
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.11%) VCAP
4 1 (3.70%) CCIE
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Apple
2 7 (25.93%) Samsung
2 7 (25.93%) SOTI
3 3 (11.11%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) VMware
4 2 (7.41%) Computacenter
4 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) Informatica
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.70%) Spotify