Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Technical Lead
South East > Hampshire

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Hampshire is £599, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 67 84
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 6 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.48% 1.11% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.18% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £366 £438 £584
25th Percentile £413 £590 £691
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £702 £750 £778
90th Percentile £773 £808 £788
South East median daily rate £475 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -20.83% -1.03% +5.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,117 932 1,216
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.01% 93.86% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 636 681
10th Percentile £298 £346 £300
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 66 82
10th Percentile £16.17 £22.07 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £25.00 £64.18 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.04% +29.65% +10.00%
75th Percentile £34.83 £73.13 £63.44
90th Percentile £53.75 £75.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.24
% change year-on-year -52.38% +2.46% +36.63%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Hampshire

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Hampshire

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Hampshire

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Basingstoke - 2 £588 - 6
Havant - 2 £684 -
Technical Leader
South East

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) AirWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) CEMLI
2 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Dagster
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Dagster
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Poetry
1 1 (16.67%) Pylint
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Signage
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) AirWatch
1 1 (16.67%) CEMLI
1 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Meraki
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle