Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Technical Leadership
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 2.03% - 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% - 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £850 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.18%
75th Percentile £950 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £608
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.88% +10.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 113 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 89.19% 73.38% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 78 137
10th Percentile £175 £178 £186
25th Percentile £250 £334 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £550 £509 £600
90th Percentile £678 £641 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.83 £25.29
25th Percentile £22.47 £17.63 £27.58
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -21.12% +61.60%
75th Percentile £80.25 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £80.63 £52.63
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.37
% change year-on-year -61.99% +7.37% +74.54%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Oxford - 3 £900 - 2
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Quality Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform