Technical Leader Contracts in the South East

Technical Lead
England > South East

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the South East is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 183 190
Rank change year-on-year +38 +7 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 10 25 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.44% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.48% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 15
10th Percentile £261 £507 £337
25th Percentile £290 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £694
90th Percentile £684 £798 £788
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
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 - £28.25 £48.61
% change year-on-year - -41.88% +38.89%

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 2,853 5,245 5,482
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.42% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 3,086 3,784
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.30% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £604
90th Percentile £661 £691 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 538 244
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.39 £21.18
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.40% -2.60% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.24 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the South East

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader 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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the South East

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader 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 1 July 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
Thames Valley +22 6 £650 +18.18% 46
Berkshire +18 4 £650 +26.83% 34
Hampshire +26 2 £650 +8.33% 15
West Sussex - 2 £285 - 7
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £190 -65.45% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 7
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Usability Testing
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (30.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Figma
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
3 3 (30.00%) Confluence
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) User Research
3 3 (30.00%) UX Research
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (20.00%) Git
4 2 (20.00%) TDD

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Figma
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Billing
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) EPoS
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Usability Testing
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) User Research
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
3 3 (30.00%) UX Research
3 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) SAP