Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Technical Leadership
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 6 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 3.23% - 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% - 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £556 - £525
25th Percentile £575 - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.88%
75th Percentile £625 - £759
90th Percentile - - £800
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £625 £638
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -17.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 94 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 73.12% 85.45% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 50 110
10th Percentile £288 £396 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +2.95% +8.64%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £625 £660 £825
Hampshire median daily rate £543 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -1.36% -5.38% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 72
10th Percentile £15.67 £31.25 £35.48
25th Percentile £21.63 £34.06 £53.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +0.82% +2.60%
75th Percentile £54.69 £62.81 £67.77
90th Percentile £60.90 £71.63 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £57.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year -61.90% +5.24% +14.32%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Web Filtering
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 3 (50.00%) VMware