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 £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 155 183
Rank change year-on-year -13 +28 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 8 23 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.55% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.59% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 21
10th Percentile £287 £455 £363
25th Percentile £341 £588 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £626 £613
Median % change year-on-year -32.05% +2.12% +8.94%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £700
90th Percentile £689 £783 £788
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.44
Median hourly rate - - £48.61
75th Percentile - - £51.78
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £57.50 £48.61
% change year-on-year - +18.29% -35.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 3,318 3,868 5,178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.63% 92.16% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,154 2,317 3,466
10th Percentile £204 £250 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -0.29% +2.00%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £613
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 223 255
10th Percentile £13.11 £16.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £57.54 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.01% +15.08% +53.85%
75th Percentile £42.63 £72.82 £66.25
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.16% -8.39% +58.21%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 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
Berkshire +5 3 £600 -4.08% 19
Thames Valley +1 3 £600 -4.08% 20
Hampshire -4 3 £375 -37.50% 6
West Sussex - 2 £285 -
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, 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 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) JBoss
4 2 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) RAD
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 2 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Dagster
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 2G
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
1 1 (12.50%) LTE
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile Backhaul
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Poetry
3 1 (12.50%) Pylint
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Signage
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) RAD
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Design Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Server Management
5 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) R
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) AirWatch
1 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce