Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Technical Leadership
South West > Somerset

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £496 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 - -
75th Percentile £698 - -
90th Percentile £765 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £615 £625
% change year-on-year -10.57% -1.60% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 262 151 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 72.78% 93.21% 74.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 93 90
10th Percentile £356 £230 £200
25th Percentile £413 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £675 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £614
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 19 31
10th Percentile £23.30 £14.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - £28.81 £61.25
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +74.24% -40.00% -8.03%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Somerset

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Somerset over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Somerset

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. 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
Bath - 8 £546 - 5
Taunton - 3 £450 - 2
Technical Leadership
South West

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
2 3 (23.08%) Automotive
3 2 (15.38%) Military
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Ada Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Migration Architect
2 2 (15.38%) DBA
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Migration Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) SPARK Ada Developer
2 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell Developer
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
2 2 (15.38%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) NHS
1 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Wiki
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.69%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
2 3 (23.08%) QMS
2 3 (23.08%) Quality Management
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Time Management
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Practice Management
3 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Ada
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Chartered Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) DICOM
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) HL7
1 2 (15.38%) ISO 9000
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) InterSystems
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Intel
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk