Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Kent

Technical Leadership
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 1.65% - 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% - 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £625 £501
% change year-on-year -16.00% +24.88% -14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 141 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.64% 79.21% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 60 130
10th Percentile £178 £155 £205
25th Percentile £329 £237 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% +3.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £579 £623 £565
90th Percentile £632 £688 £644
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 12
10th Percentile £16.36 - £20.08
25th Percentile £19.75 £15.00 £33.50
Median hourly rate £20.40 £31.39 £54.69
Median % change year-on-year -35.01% -42.60% +47.28%
75th Percentile £32.08 £54.09 £58.44
90th Percentile £39.00 £57.22 £77.23
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.18% +10.56% +19.37%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Kent

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Chatham - 2 £630 -
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (100.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) React Native
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Web Design
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google