Technical Leader Contracts in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in London is £634, 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 267 238 289
Rank change year-on-year -29 +51 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 86 156 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.87% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.94% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 112 155
10th Percentile £513 £485 £525
25th Percentile £530 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £750
90th Percentile £893 £850 £798
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +2 14 £698 +3.33% 7
East London +14 2 £584 -7.27%
South London +7 1 £650 +18.18% 3
Technical Leader
England

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

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 London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 37 (43.02%) Social Skills
2 36 (41.86%) Azure
3 32 (37.21%) Microsoft
4 28 (32.56%) DevOps
5 25 (29.07%) Java
5 25 (29.07%) .NET
5 25 (29.07%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (27.91%) Agile
7 21 (24.42%) AWS
8 18 (20.93%) JavaScript
8 18 (20.93%) C#
9 17 (19.77%) SQL
10 16 (18.60%) Python
10 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
10 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (16.28%) TDD
12 13 (15.12%) OO
12 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
13 12 (13.95%) PowerShell
13 12 (13.95%) OOD
13 12 (13.95%) Finance
13 12 (13.95%) Back Office
13 12 (13.95%) Clean Code
14 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
14 11 (12.79%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (12.79%) Database Optimisation
15 10 (11.63%) Kubernetes
15 10 (11.63%) Test Automation
15 10 (11.63%) Content Management
15 10 (11.63%) Software Engineering

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.33%) Apache
1 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) CMS
2 1 (1.16%) Magnolia
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) Azure
2 21 (24.42%) AWS
3 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.79%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (10.47%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (8.14%) GCP
8 6 (6.98%) GitHub
8 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.81%) Serverless
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.49%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.33%) OCI
12 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) BGP
2 1 (1.16%) Multicast
2 1 (1.16%) OSPF
2 1 (1.16%) VLAN
2 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.65%) Power BI
3 2 (2.33%) Big Data
3 2 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.81%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (1.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 37 (43.02%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.95%) Back Office
2 12 (13.95%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Billing
6 2 (2.33%) Law
6 2 (2.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Front Office
7 1 (1.16%) Games
7 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Local Government
7 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Police
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) .NET
2 5 (5.81%) Kafka
2 5 (5.81%) REST
2 5 (5.81%) SOAP
3 4 (4.65%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (4.65%) React
3 4 (4.65%) Visualforce
4 3 (3.49%) Material-UI
5 2 (2.33%) HTML
5 2 (2.33%) jQuery
5 2 (2.33%) JSON
5 2 (2.33%) Node.js
5 2 (2.33%) PySpark
5 2 (2.33%) XML
6 1 (1.16%) CSS
6 1 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.16%) Spring
6 1 (1.16%) Struts
6 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.14%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.81%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.65%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.49%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.49%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.33%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.33%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.16%) Equities
7 1 (1.16%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Android
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.56%) DevOps
2 25 (29.07%) Technical Leadership
3 24 (27.91%) Agile
4 14 (16.28%) TDD
5 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
5 13 (15.12%) OO
6 12 (13.95%) Clean Code
6 12 (13.95%) OOD
7 11 (12.79%) Database Optimisation
8 10 (11.63%) Content Management
8 10 (11.63%) Design Patterns
8 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.63%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.63%) Test Automation
9 9 (10.47%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (10.47%) Roadmaps
10 8 (9.30%) CRM
11 7 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (6.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) Java
2 18 (20.93%) C#
2 18 (20.93%) JavaScript
3 17 (19.77%) SQL
4 16 (18.60%) Python
5 12 (13.95%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.14%) Go
7 4 (4.65%) Apex Code
7 4 (4.65%) C
7 4 (4.65%) C++
7 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.33%) Groovy
9 1 (1.16%) Bash
9 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) Degree
5 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.49%) PMP
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.98%) Ansible
3 3 (3.49%) Terraform
4 1 (1.16%) Grafana
4 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
4 3 (3.49%) Databricks
4 3 (3.49%) SAP
4 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.33%) Google
5 2 (2.33%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.16%) Adobe
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco
6 1 (1.16%) Foundry
6 1 (1.16%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.16%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.16%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.16%) Palantir
6 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.16%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.16%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.16%) Workday