Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in the South East

Technical Lead
England > South East

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the South East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 138 180
Rank change year-on-year -29 +42 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 50 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.83% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 9 18
10th Percentile £487 £261 £501
25th Percentile £594 £290 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £799 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £684 £696
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,513 2,720 5,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 91.03% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 1,811 3,116
10th Percentile £303 £225 £243
25th Percentile £416 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £655 £688
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 179 552
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £24.25 £16.95 £18.82
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.05 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.01% -35.90% -
75th Percentile £80.41 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in the South East

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the South East

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the South East over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the South East

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the South East

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Hampshire -7 21 £800 +23.08% 6
Thames Valley -34 20 £625 -3.85% 14
Berkshire -23 10 £625 -3.85% 7
Oxfordshire -19 8 - -
West Sussex -15 7 £600 +110.53% 2
Buckinghamshire -37 2 £790 +315.79% 7
Surrey - 2 £588 - 2
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 10 June 2026, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.00%) Agile
3 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 12 (24.00%) Azure
5 9 (18.00%) IaaS
5 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (18.00%) PaaS
5 9 (18.00%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 8 (16.00%) Scrum
7 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
7 7 (14.00%) AWS
7 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (12.00%) Data Validation
8 6 (12.00%) Validation
9 5 (10.00%) Cisco
9 5 (10.00%) DevOps
9 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 5 (10.00%) Firmware
9 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
9 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 5 (10.00%) Unified Communications
10 4 (8.00%) Architecture Governance
10 4 (8.00%) Code Quality
10 4 (8.00%) Data Migration

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (4.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) IaaS
2 9 (18.00%) PaaS
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.00%) OCI
6 2 (4.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) LAN
2 2 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Local Government
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Aviation
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) React
2 3 (6.00%) .NET
3 2 (4.00%) CSS
3 2 (4.00%) HTML
3 2 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.00%) Django
4 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) Next.js
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.00%) OpenID
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.00%) FMCG
2 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
1 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Agile
2 9 (18.00%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
3 8 (16.00%) Scrum
4 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.00%) Data Validation
5 6 (12.00%) Validation
6 5 (10.00%) DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (8.00%) Architecture Governance
7 4 (8.00%) Code Quality
7 4 (8.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (8.00%) ERP
7 4 (8.00%) High Availability
7 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.00%) Migration
7 4 (8.00%) Secure Coding
8 3 (6.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.00%) C#
2 3 (6.00%) Java
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
2 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.00%) C++
4 1 (2.00%) Objective-C
4 1 (2.00%) Python
4 1 (2.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) CCNP
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Firmware
3 2 (4.00%) Docker
3 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Cisco
3 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.00%) VMware
4 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks