Technical Leader Contracts in the South West

Technical Lead
England > South West

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the South West is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 141 157
Rank change year-on-year +34 +16 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 4 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.50% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.54% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile £570 £473 £486
25th Percentile £581 £484 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -3.44%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £697
90th Percentile £655 £698 £751
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +32 3 £588 -28.79% 4
Bristol +10 1 £663 +16.48% 8
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 West region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) SAML
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) OpenID

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Akamai
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft