Technical Leader Contracts in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 282 345
Rank change year-on-year +46 +63 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 161 231 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.85% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.89% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 169 157
10th Percentile £485 £525 £470
25th Percentile £550 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £795 £850
England median daily rate £640 £645 £600
% change year-on-year -0.78% +7.46% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.15
Median hourly rate - - £47.30
75th Percentile - - £48.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,640 26,016 37,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.31% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,027 18,790 27,160
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 295 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.01 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 +33 16 £675 -3.57% 3
East London -10 3 £630 +40.67% 1
West London +16 1 £650 +113.11% 3
South London - 1 £550 -
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 57 (35.40%) Agile
2 37 (22.98%) Java
3 34 (21.12%) Microsoft
4 33 (20.50%) C#
5 30 (18.63%) Azure
6 29 (18.01%) Banking
7 28 (17.39%) Finance
8 26 (16.15%) Social Skills
9 25 (15.53%) Software Engineering
9 25 (15.53%) .NET
9 25 (15.53%) Python
10 24 (14.91%) JavaScript
11 23 (14.29%) DevOps
12 22 (13.66%) AWS
12 22 (13.66%) Security Cleared
13 21 (13.04%) Fixed Income
14 20 (12.42%) SC Cleared
15 19 (11.80%) Investment Banking
15 19 (11.80%) Back Office
15 19 (11.80%) Linux
16 18 (11.18%) OO
16 18 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
17 17 (10.56%) SQL Server
18 16 (9.94%) Mentoring
19 14 (8.70%) Jenkins
19 14 (8.70%) SQL
19 14 (8.70%) TDD
19 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
19 14 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
20 13 (8.07%) Front Office

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 10 (6.21%) Apache
1 10 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.97%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.62%) CICS
5 1 (0.62%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) IIS
5 1 (0.62%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.21%) ION Anvil
2 6 (3.73%) ION MarketView
3 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.62%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.63%) Azure
2 22 (13.66%) AWS
3 14 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (6.21%) dbt
5 10 (6.21%) Snowflake
6 9 (5.59%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.35%) Slack
8 5 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.11%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.11%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.86%) SaaS
9 3 (1.86%) Serverless
10 2 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) FTP
2 3 (1.86%) Firewall
2 3 (1.86%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.62%) DNS
3 1 (0.62%) LAN
3 1 (0.62%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) SSL
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.56%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.83%) Data Lake
3 10 (6.21%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (6.21%) Apache Arrow
3 10 (6.21%) Apache Ignite
3 10 (6.21%) Dremio
4 8 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.86%) MySQL
5 3 (1.86%) Power BI
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.62%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.62%) DB2
7 1 (0.62%) IDMS
7 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.21%) JIRA
3 4 (2.48%) Git
4 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.62%) GitLab
4 1 (0.62%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.62%) Selenium
4 1 (0.62%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 29 (18.01%) Banking
2 28 (17.39%) Finance
3 26 (16.15%) Social Skills
4 19 (11.80%) Back Office
4 19 (11.80%) Investment Banking
5 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.07%) Front Office
7 8 (4.97%) Retail
8 6 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Marketing
10 4 (2.48%) Legal
11 3 (1.86%) Billing
12 2 (1.24%) Law
12 2 (1.24%) Local Government
12 2 (1.24%) Police
13 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) German Language
13 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.53%) .NET
2 12 (7.45%) .NET Core
3 10 (6.21%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (6.21%) gRPC
3 10 (6.21%) NumPy
3 10 (6.21%) Pandas
3 10 (6.21%) Protocol Buffers
3 10 (6.21%) SciPy
4 9 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (4.35%) CSS
5 7 (4.35%) HTML
6 6 (3.73%) Spring
7 5 (3.11%) React
7 5 (3.11%) SOAP
7 5 (3.11%) Web Services
8 4 (2.48%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.86%) Node.js
9 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.24%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.04%) Fixed Income
2 10 (6.21%) Derivative
2 10 (6.21%) Equities
2 10 (6.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (6.21%) Hedge funds
2 10 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.86%) Contactless
3 3 (1.86%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.62%) VSAM
5 1 (0.62%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.80%) Linux
2 10 (6.21%) Unix
3 8 (4.97%) Android
3 8 (4.97%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.97%) CentOS
3 8 (4.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.35%) Windows
5 1 (0.62%) VMS
5 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (35.40%) Agile
2 25 (15.53%) Software Engineering
3 23 (14.29%) DevOps
4 18 (11.18%) OO
4 18 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (9.94%) Mentoring
6 14 (8.70%) TDD
7 12 (7.45%) CI/CD
7 12 (7.45%) OOD
8 11 (6.83%) Clean Code
9 10 (6.21%) Asset Management
9 10 (6.21%) Greeks
9 10 (6.21%) Investment Management
9 10 (6.21%) Roadmaps
10 9 (5.59%) Coaching
10 9 (5.59%) Migration
10 9 (5.59%) Scrum
10 9 (5.59%) Technical Architecture
10 9 (5.59%) Workflow
11 8 (4.97%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.98%) Java
2 33 (20.50%) C#
3 25 (15.53%) Python
4 24 (14.91%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.70%) SQL
6 12 (7.45%) Bicep
6 12 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.97%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.24%) PHP
10 2 (1.24%) R
11 1 (0.62%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.62%) COBOL
11 1 (0.62%) JCL
11 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.97%) Degree
4 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.62%) CCNA CyberOps
5 1 (0.62%) CCNP
5 1 (0.62%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.62%) CISA
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.62%) CISM
5 1 (0.62%) CISSP
5 1 (0.62%) CITP
5 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.73%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.86%) QA
4 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.62%) GRC
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.73%) Docker
3 4 (2.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.59%) Ansible
1 9 (5.59%) Grafana
1 9 (5.59%) Kibana
2 8 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.97%) logstash
2 8 (4.97%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.24%) SCCM
4 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) ION Trading
3 7 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.73%) Amdocs
4 6 (3.73%) SAP
5 5 (3.11%) Virgin Media
6 4 (2.48%) Oracle
7 3 (1.86%) Genesys
8 2 (1.24%) Cisco
8 2 (1.24%) Databricks
8 2 (1.24%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.24%) IBM
8 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.62%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.62%) Meraki
9 1 (0.62%) Murex
9 1 (0.62%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.62%) Varonis
9 1 (0.62%) Zoho