Technical Leadership Contracts in London

Technical Leadership
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 227 271
Rank change year-on-year +99 +44 +26
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 279 167 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.22% 0.94% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.06% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 93 159
10th Percentile £463 £475 £473
25th Percentile £513 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £601 £660
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -9.02% +5.60%
75th Percentile £739 £700 £800
90th Percentile £838 £798 £825
England median daily rate £600 £601 £646
% change year-on-year -0.08% -7.04% +7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile - - £31.60
25th Percentile - - £32.88
Median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.27% -45.91% -61.50%
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
England median hourly rate £32.70 £18.47 £62.00
% change year-on-year +77.09% -70.22% -17.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership 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 +15 43 £675 - 24
East London +18 6 £585 -1.52% 6
West London +13 3 £665 +26.67% 43
North London - 1 - - 1
South London - 1 - - 2
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 15 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.51%) Apache
4 5 (1.79%) Confluence
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.08%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.36%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) IIS
8 1 (0.36%) JBoss
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Endur
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.36%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.36%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.36%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 100 (35.84%) Azure
2 61 (21.86%) AWS
3 29 (10.39%) GCP
4 24 (8.60%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.38%) SaaS
7 14 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (5.02%) PowerApps
7 14 (5.02%) Serverless
8 12 (4.30%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (3.94%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.94%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.58%) PaaS
11 9 (3.23%) GitHub
12 7 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.51%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.51%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.66%) Network Security
2 6 (2.15%) DNS
2 6 (2.15%) Firewall
2 6 (2.15%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.79%) LAN
3 5 (1.79%) VPN
4 4 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (1.43%) SSH
4 4 (1.43%) SSL
4 4 (1.43%) WAN
5 3 (1.08%) HTTP
5 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.72%) BGP
6 2 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.72%) DHCP
6 2 (0.72%) DWDM
6 2 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.72%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) VSAN
7 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.17%) Big Data
2 14 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.94%) Power BI
4 11 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.87%) MySQL
7 7 (2.51%) Data Mining
7 7 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.43%) Redis
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.53%) Git
2 12 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.23%) JIRA
4 6 (2.15%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.15%) JUnit
5 5 (1.79%) JMeter
5 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.43%) GitLab
7 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.08%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.08%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.08%) Gradle
7 3 (1.08%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.08%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.08%) Maven
7 3 (1.08%) Mockito
7 3 (1.08%) TestNG
8 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.36%) Appium
General
1 145 (51.97%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.79%) Finance
3 50 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.45%) Banking
6 10 (3.58%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.15%) Law
8 6 (2.15%) Legal
9 5 (1.79%) Back Office
9 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.79%) Retail
10 4 (1.43%) Front Office
10 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (36.20%) Architect
2 73 (26.16%) Lead
3 34 (12.19%) Senior
4 27 (9.68%) Developer
5 26 (9.32%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (8.96%) Technical Leader
7 15 (5.38%) Technical Architect
8 14 (5.02%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.94%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (3.94%) Lead Architect
10 10 (3.58%) Consultant
11 9 (3.23%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.23%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.23%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.23%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.23%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.87%) Enterprise Architect
12 8 (2.87%) Salesforce Architect
12 8 (2.87%) Technology Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.60%) .NET
2 13 (4.66%) AngularJS
3 12 (4.30%) Kafka
4 10 (3.58%) REST
4 10 (3.58%) RESTful
5 8 (2.87%) Spring
5 8 (2.87%) Spring Boot
5 8 (2.87%) Web Services
6 7 (2.51%) HTML
6 7 (2.51%) LangChain
6 7 (2.51%) Ray
7 6 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.15%) Middleware
7 6 (2.15%) OpenAPI
7 6 (2.15%) SOAP
7 6 (2.15%) Swagger
8 5 (1.79%) ASP.NET
8 5 (1.79%) Dask
8 5 (1.79%) JWT
8 5 (1.79%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.38%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.02%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.30%) Low-Code
4 9 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.87%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.87%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.87%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.15%) CMDB
7 6 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.43%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.43%) Tandem
10 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.53%) Linux
2 15 (5.38%) Windows
3 5 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.79%) Unix
3 5 (1.79%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.72%) Android
5 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.39%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (26.88%) Mentoring
3 66 (23.66%) DevOps
4 61 (21.86%) CI/CD
5 57 (20.43%) Agile
6 43 (15.41%) Software Engineering
7 33 (11.83%) Roadmaps
8 30 (10.75%) Analytics
8 30 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (10.75%) Test Automation
9 29 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (9.32%) Microservices
10 26 (9.32%) Migration
11 25 (8.96%) Translating Business Requirements
12 22 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
13 21 (7.53%) Computer Science
13 21 (7.53%) Containerisation
13 21 (7.53%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (7.17%) Design Patterns
14 20 (7.17%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 77 (27.60%) Python
2 62 (22.22%) Java
3 33 (11.83%) SQL
4 24 (8.60%) PowerShell
5 21 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.17%) C#
7 19 (6.81%) C++
8 15 (5.38%) C
9 10 (3.58%) Go
10 9 (3.23%) Bash
11 8 (2.87%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.51%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.79%) ActionScript
13 5 (1.79%) ActionScript 2.0
13 5 (1.79%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.72%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.72%) R
14 2 (0.72%) Ruby
14 2 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (27.24%) Security Cleared
2 63 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.26%) Degree
4 20 (7.17%) Master's Degree
5 18 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.66%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.30%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.23%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.87%) CCNP
11 6 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.43%) CCNA
13 4 (1.43%) CISSP
13 4 (1.43%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.43%) PMP
14 3 (1.08%) CCIE
14 3 (1.08%) CISM
14 3 (1.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.30%) QA
2 11 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.15%) NIST
4 5 (1.79%) GDPR
5 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (8.96%) Docker
2 9 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.36%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.36%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.36%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.68%) Terraform
3 19 (6.81%) Ansible
4 10 (3.58%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.51%) Grafana
6 6 (2.15%) SCCM
7 3 (1.08%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.36%) Packer
9 1 (0.36%) Plesk
9 1 (0.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.36%) QRadar
9 1 (0.36%) Rancher
9 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) vRealize
9 1 (0.36%) VxRail
9 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.45%) Oracle
3 12 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.94%) Google
5 10 (3.58%) Cisco
6 9 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.87%) VMware
8 7 (2.51%) IBM
8 7 (2.51%) SAP
9 5 (1.79%) Databricks
9 5 (1.79%) IBM Sterling
10 4 (1.43%) DocuSign
10 4 (1.43%) iManage
10 4 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.43%) Palantir
11 3 (1.08%) Adobe
11 3 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.08%) Splunk
11 3 (1.08%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.08%) Workday