Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Essex

Technical Leadership
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 18 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.89% 1.02% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.33% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £503 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% - -
75th Percentile £508 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £671 £588 £545
% change year-on-year +14.26% +7.80% -13.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87 75 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 77.68% 76.53% 83.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 105
10th Percentile £185 £173 £170
25th Percentile £225 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £315 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £520 £538 £571
90th Percentile £588 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 19
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.78 £16.75
25th Percentile - £17.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.75 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -41.08% +61.24%
75th Percentile £23.56 £31.56 £55.53
90th Percentile £62.23 £36.63 £78.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
% change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Essex

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
Witham - 1 £505 -
Technical Leadership
East of England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft