Technical Leadership Contracts in the South East

Technical Leadership
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 81 150
Rank change year-on-year -6 +69 +41
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 66 124 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.14% 2.18% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.63% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 60 39
10th Percentile £345 £475 £482
25th Percentile £405 £523 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £630 £678 £638
90th Percentile £721 £725 £740
England median daily rate £600 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £71.24 - £60.90
25th Percentile £72.87 - £61.00
Median hourly rate £75.58 £18.00 £66.71
Median % change year-on-year +319.89% -73.02% -13.92%
75th Percentile £78.29 £29.13 £79.15
90th Percentile £79.92 £35.80 £80.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.48 £62.00
% change year-on-year +34.09% -21.81% -17.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,810 4,708 5,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.26% 82.76% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,721 3,499
10th Percentile £250 £262 £250
25th Percentile £391 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 461 232
10th Percentile £13.33 £13.00 £15.55
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.20 £22.11
Median hourly rate £24.66 £47.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% -6.95% +126.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.02 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South East over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 June 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 +11 37 £450 -30.77% 97
Berkshire +7 30 £475 -26.92% 51
Hampshire +10 18 £575 -6.12% 50
Buckinghamshire +10 7 £190 -65.45% 26
West Sussex +9 4 £588 +23.68% 11
Kent +3 4 £530 -33.75% 16
Surrey +11 2 - - 30
Isle of Wight - 1 - - 16
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 (4.55%) Camunda
2 1 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.52%) Moodle
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.36%) Azure
2 21 (31.82%) AWS
3 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.55%) Serverless
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
5 2 (3.03%) Google Play
5 2 (3.03%) IaaS
6 1 (1.52%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) DHCP
1 6 (9.09%) DNS
2 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.55%) Firewall
3 3 (4.55%) GPON
3 3 (4.55%) MPLS
4 2 (3.03%) 4G
4 2 (3.03%) 5G
4 2 (3.03%) DOCSIS
4 2 (3.03%) LAN
4 2 (3.03%) LTE
4 2 (3.03%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (3.03%) VoIP
4 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 2 (3.03%) WAN
4 2 (3.03%) xDSL
5 1 (1.52%) BGP
5 1 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.52%) SAN
5 1 (1.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.03%) Metadata
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (1.52%) GIS
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 15 (22.73%) JIRA
3 14 (21.21%) GitLab
4 13 (19.70%) Cucumber
4 13 (19.70%) REST Assured
4 13 (19.70%) Selenium
5 9 (13.64%) SonarQube
6 4 (6.06%) Git
7 2 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 30 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Telecoms
4 8 (12.12%) Law
5 5 (7.58%) Billing
5 5 (7.58%) Finance
5 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.06%) Police
6 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Banking
7 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.03%) Electronics
8 2 (3.03%) Marketing
8 2 (3.03%) Retail
9 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Architect
2 14 (21.21%) Lead
3 10 (15.15%) Software Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Java Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Developer
6 6 (9.09%) Senior
7 5 (7.58%) Designer
7 5 (7.58%) Solutions Designer
8 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.03%) Administrator
10 2 (3.03%) Network Architect
10 2 (3.03%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.82%) REST
2 13 (19.70%) Java EE
3 9 (13.64%) ARM Templates
4 6 (9.09%) JSON
5 5 (7.58%) Web Services
6 4 (6.06%) Kafka
7 3 (4.55%) React
8 2 (3.03%) Apache Axis
8 2 (3.03%) CSS
8 2 (3.03%) CSS3
8 2 (3.03%) HTML
8 2 (3.03%) HTML5
8 2 (3.03%) Jest
8 2 (3.03%) Node.js
8 2 (3.03%) React Native
8 2 (3.03%) Redux
8 2 (3.03%) SOAP
9 1 (1.52%) NETCONF
9 1 (1.52%) RESTCONF
9 1 (1.52%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) TM Forum
2 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.58%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.58%) Frameworx
4 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (6.06%) EPoS
5 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) CUDA
7 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Linux
2 8 (12.12%) Windows
3 7 (10.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (4.55%) Unix
7 2 (3.03%) Android
7 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.03%) Solaris
7 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (30.30%) DevOps
3 15 (22.73%) Software Engineering
4 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
4 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
5 13 (19.70%) Agile
5 13 (19.70%) Configuration Management
5 13 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (19.70%) Software Architecture
5 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (18.18%) Microservices
7 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 10 (15.15%) Analytics
8 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
8 10 (15.15%) Service Delivery
9 9 (13.64%) Decision-Making
9 9 (13.64%) ITIL
10 8 (12.12%) CI/CD
10 8 (12.12%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.79%) Java
2 13 (19.70%) Python
3 8 (12.12%) SQL
4 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.55%) Bicep
5 3 (4.55%) Scala
6 2 (3.03%) Bash
6 2 (3.03%) C#
6 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.03%) Perl
6 2 (3.03%) Ruby
7 1 (1.52%) Magik
Qualifications
1 29 (43.94%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) Degree
4 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.03%) CCNA
5 2 (3.03%) CCNP
5 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.03%) CISSP
5 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) JNCIS
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.55%) JSP 440
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) OASIS TOSCA
4 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) Docker
2 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.03%) vSphere
5 1 (1.52%) Firmware
5 1 (1.52%) XenApp
5 1 (1.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (19.70%) Ansible
2 13 (19.70%) Terraform
3 9 (13.64%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (13.64%) Podman
4 4 (6.06%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.03%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.03%) SELinux
5 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) VMware
2 6 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.09%) Veritas
3 5 (7.58%) Dell
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.58%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.06%) 3PAR
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco
4 4 (6.06%) HP
5 3 (4.55%) Adobe
6 2 (3.03%) Amdocs
6 2 (3.03%) Ericsson
6 2 (3.03%) Google
6 2 (3.03%) Huawei
6 2 (3.03%) Juniper
6 2 (3.03%) NetCracker
6 2 (3.03%) Nokia
6 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (3.03%) Symantec