Technical Leader Contracts in South Wales

Technical Lead
Wales > South Wales

The median Technical Lead daily rate in South Wales is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 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
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 37 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.40% 0.91% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 1.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £598 -
25th Percentile £509 £622 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
75th Percentile £526 £709 -
90th Percentile - £722 -
Wales median daily rate £518 £675 -
% change year-on-year -23.33% - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 232 299 387
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.61% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 181 292
10th Percentile £190 £136 £183
25th Percentile £266 £199 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £483 £550 £600
90th Percentile £613 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £396 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -6.76% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 41 26
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.48 -
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £17.26 £25.60 £23.21
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +10.31% +28.93%
75th Percentile £20.75 £50.00 £35.87
90th Percentile £24.45 £53.75 £50.72
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.45% +22.22% +38.23%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in South Wales

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Cardiff +3 1 £518 -23.33% 3
Technical Leader
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 Wales region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG