Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Technical Leadership
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 38 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.50% 0.97% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £459 £570 -
25th Percentile £510 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 -
75th Percentile £650 £644 -
90th Percentile - £670 -
Wales median daily rate £560 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -6.67% +23.08% -15.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 271 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.98% 87.99% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 158 217
10th Percentile £206 £175 £164
25th Percentile £290 £230 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £423
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +0.59% -13.55%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £696 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 32 22
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.69 £13.80
25th Percentile £15.11 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.00 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% -26.25% +49.50%
75th Percentile £25.77 £27.81 £53.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £41.25 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £22.25 £29.83
% change year-on-year -18.29% -25.42% +49.84%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in South Wales

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in South Wales

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Cardiff -3 5 £600 - 19
Technical Leadership
Wales

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Lead
2 3 (60.00%) SAP Financial Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) FHIR
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ERP
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Case Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ACCA
1 3 (60.00%) CIMA
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) HL7
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft