Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Kingston Upon Thames

Technical Leadership
South London > Kingston Upon Thames

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kingston Upon Thames 10.81% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £500 £490 £563
% change year-on-year +2.04% -12.89% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £67.70 - -
South London median hourly rate £67.70 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kingston Upon Thames

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 Kingston Upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25 11 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 67.57% 50.00% 82.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £163 £159 £110
25th Percentile £266 £163 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +83.75% -50.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile £519 - £475
90th Percentile £525 £331 £638
South London median daily rate £510 £528 £523
% change year-on-year -3.32% +0.96% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 13
10th Percentile £17.98 £70.24 £17.15
25th Percentile £54.41 £72.40 £30.00
Median hourly rate £61.22 £78.40 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -21.92% +57.18% +13.08%
75th Percentile £66.50 £82.00 £65.11
90th Percentile £66.62 £82.72 £71.50
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year +213.94% -52.43% -7.06%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Kingston Upon Thames

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 Kingston Upon Thames region over the 6 months to 19 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
New Malden - 4 £500 - 2
Technical Leadership
South London

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Workload Management
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) EMC Certification
1 3 (75.00%) HNC
1 3 (75.00%) HND
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Def Stans
1 3 (75.00%) IEC 61508
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) VMware