Technical Leadership Contracts in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 72 87 133
Rank change year-on-year +15 +46 +39
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 39 46 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.04% 1.67% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.03% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 25
10th Percentile £185 - £531
25th Percentile £400 £463 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £620 £688
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -9.82% +30.95%
75th Percentile £535 £645 £694
90th Percentile £588 £788 £770
England median daily rate £600 £601 £646
% change year-on-year -0.08% -7.04% +7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +381.48% - -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 25 £500 +5.26% 68
East Midlands -1 13 £447 -28.14% 49
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (10.26%) Confluence
1 4 (10.26%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
3 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) LAN
2 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.13%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.56%) DHCP
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.13%) IDMS
3 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.13%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) PHPUnit
3 3 (7.69%) Postman
4 2 (5.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.13%) CA Gen
4 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Law
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Architect
2 10 (25.64%) Lead
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Applications Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Moodle Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Network Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (5.13%) IT Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
8 2 (5.13%) Programme Manager
8 2 (5.13%) QA Leader
8 2 (5.13%) Security Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Team Leader
8 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
8 2 (5.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) .NET
1 4 (10.26%) RESTful
2 3 (7.69%) Behat
2 3 (7.69%) JSON
2 3 (7.69%) XML
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Axis
3 2 (5.13%) Kafka
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.56%) Django
4 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.56%) Flask
4 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.56%) Middleware
4 1 (2.56%) PySpark
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) SOAP
4 1 (2.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.26%) Blockchain
2 4 (10.26%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.26%) IoT
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 3 (7.69%) EPoS
3 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 3 (7.69%) VLE
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Agile
1 17 (43.59%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
2 10 (25.64%) Microservices
3 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
5 6 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 6 (15.38%) Migration
5 6 (15.38%) Scrum
5 6 (15.38%) SOA
6 5 (12.82%) Architectural Design
6 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
6 5 (12.82%) Workflow
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.26%) Data Governance
7 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.26%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) C#
3 4 (10.26%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) PHP
5 2 (5.13%) COBOL
5 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.13%) Ruby
5 2 (5.13%) Scala
6 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) Degree
3 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) CISSP
5 2 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.13%) ISEB
5 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
5 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) F5
1 3 (7.69%) Fortinet
1 3 (7.69%) SolarWinds
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco
2 2 (5.13%) Infoblox
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Juniper
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Siemens