Technical Leader Contracts in England

Technical Lead
UK > England

The median Technical Lead daily rate in England is £625, 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 363 296 332
Rank change year-on-year -67 +36 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 122 265 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.71% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.77% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 187 253
10th Percentile £478 £482 £475
25th Percentile £524 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £720 £800 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £793
UK median daily rate £620 £620 £625
% change year-on-year - -0.80% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London -29 86 £634 -2.50% 92
Midlands +22 13 £524 -15.31% 26
West Midlands +13 9 £524 -27.72% 14
North of England -15 9 £700 -17.65% 41
South East +40 7 £615 +11.82% 56
North West -18 5 £775 -8.82% 26
South West +34 4 £600 - 22
East Midlands +11 4 £450 -10.00% 11
Yorkshire +9 4 £600 +1.69% 11
East of England +25 3 £190 -68.33% 19
Technical Leader
UK

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

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 England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 55 (45.08%) Social Skills
2 46 (37.70%) Azure
3 39 (31.97%) DevOps
3 39 (31.97%) Agile
4 34 (27.87%) Technical Leadership
5 33 (27.05%) Microsoft
6 30 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (22.95%) Java
7 28 (22.95%) .NET
7 28 (22.95%) AWS
8 27 (22.13%) SQL
9 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
10 21 (17.21%) OO
11 19 (15.57%) Python
11 19 (15.57%) C#
11 19 (15.57%) Mentoring
12 18 (14.75%) JavaScript
12 18 (14.75%) Power Platform
13 16 (13.11%) Finance
13 16 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (12.30%) TDD
14 15 (12.30%) Configuration Management
14 15 (12.30%) SC Cleared
15 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
16 13 (10.66%) Design Patterns
16 13 (10.66%) Data Modelling
17 12 (9.84%) OOD
17 12 (9.84%) Software Engineering
17 12 (9.84%) Back Office
17 12 (9.84%) PowerShell

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (2.46%) Apache
1 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Magnolia
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) Maximo
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.82%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.70%) Azure
2 28 (22.95%) AWS
3 18 (14.75%) Power Platform
4 16 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (9.84%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (9.02%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (5.74%) GCP
8 7 (5.74%) Serverless
9 6 (4.92%) GitHub
9 6 (4.92%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.46%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.46%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) Firewall
2 1 (0.82%) BGP
2 1 (0.82%) Multicast
2 1 (0.82%) OSPF
2 1 (0.82%) VLAN
2 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
1 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.28%) Power BI
3 2 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.64%) Big Data
3 2 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.64%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Git
2 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.10%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.46%) JIRA
5 2 (1.64%) JMeter
6 1 (0.82%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 55 (45.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.11%) Finance
3 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.84%) Back Office
5 6 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Billing
7 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.46%) Law
7 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.64%) Retail
9 1 (0.82%) Front Office
9 1 (0.82%) Games
9 1 (0.82%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Local Government
9 1 (0.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.95%) .NET
2 5 (4.10%) Kafka
2 5 (4.10%) React
2 5 (4.10%) REST
2 5 (4.10%) SOAP
3 4 (3.28%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (3.28%) Node.js
3 4 (3.28%) Visualforce
4 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.46%) Material-UI
4 3 (2.46%) PySpark
5 2 (1.64%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.64%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.64%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.64%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.64%) HTML
5 2 (1.64%) jQuery
5 2 (1.64%) JSON
5 2 (1.64%) OAuth
5 2 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.10%) EPoS
3 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.10%) Low-Code
3 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.28%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.46%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.64%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.64%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.74%) Linux
2 2 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) Android
3 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.97%) Agile
1 39 (31.97%) DevOps
2 34 (27.87%) Technical Leadership
3 30 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (17.21%) OO
5 19 (15.57%) Mentoring
6 15 (12.30%) Configuration Management
6 15 (12.30%) TDD
7 13 (10.66%) Data Modelling
7 13 (10.66%) Design Patterns
8 12 (9.84%) Clean Code
8 12 (9.84%) OOD
8 12 (9.84%) Software Engineering
9 11 (9.02%) CI/CD
9 11 (9.02%) Database Optimisation
9 11 (9.02%) Process Improvement
9 11 (9.02%) Roadmaps
9 11 (9.02%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.20%) Content Management
10 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.95%) Java
2 27 (22.13%) SQL
3 19 (15.57%) C#
3 19 (15.57%) Python
4 18 (14.75%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.84%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.74%) Go
7 4 (3.28%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.28%) C
7 4 (3.28%) C++
7 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.64%) Groovy
9 1 (0.82%) ABAP
9 1 (0.82%) Bash
9 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) Degree
5 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.46%) PMP
7 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.64%) QA
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.74%) Ansible
3 4 (3.28%) Terraform
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.82%) Puppet
4 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (27.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.10%) Oracle
3 5 (4.10%) SAP
4 3 (2.46%) Databricks
4 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.64%) Google
5 2 (1.64%) Siemens
5 2 (1.64%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.82%) Adobe
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco
6 1 (0.82%) Foundry
6 1 (0.82%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.82%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.82%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.82%) Palantir
6 1 (0.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.82%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.82%) Workday