Technical Leadership Contracts in the South West

Technical Leadership
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 144 138
Rank change year-on-year +68 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 35 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.09% 0.41% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 0.49% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 23
10th Percentile £466 £563 £556
25th Percentile £501 £603 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £631 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -2.88% +11.59%
75th Percentile £638 £714 £731
90th Percentile £700 £756 £800
England median daily rate £600 £601 £646
% change year-on-year -0.08% -7.04% +7.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership 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
Bristol +28 18 £572 -7.52% 52
Gloucestershire +24 9 £615 -16.61% 56
Wiltshire - 4 £675 - 28
Devon - 2 £500 - 34
Cornwall - 1 £500 -
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Moodle
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.86%) SAP BPC
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.71%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Akamai
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
1 9 (25.71%) LAN
1 9 (25.71%) Network Security
1 9 (25.71%) WAN
2 6 (17.14%) DNS
3 5 (14.29%) DHCP
3 5 (14.29%) HTTP
3 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.71%) 4G
4 2 (5.71%) 5G
4 2 (5.71%) PBX
4 2 (5.71%) Unified Communications
4 2 (5.71%) VoIP
5 1 (2.86%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Local Government
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Architect
2 9 (25.71%) Network Architect
2 9 (25.71%) Network Technical Architect
2 9 (25.71%) Technical Architect
3 6 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) ERP Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Oracle Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Chief Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Scientific Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) OAuth
3 1 (2.86%) OpenID
3 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.86%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) DevOps
1 9 (25.71%) Network Architecture
2 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (14.29%) Agile
3 5 (14.29%) Migration
3 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
4 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
4 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (11.43%) Service Management
5 3 (8.57%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (8.57%) Data Migration
5 3 (8.57%) ERP
5 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.57%) Project Management
5 3 (8.57%) Scrum
5 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (5.71%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Bash
2 5 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CCNP
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Def Stans
1 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
1 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Ansible
2 6 (17.14%) Puppet
2 6 (17.14%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) VMware
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle
4 3 (8.57%) Cisco
4 3 (8.57%) F5
4 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.71%) Ericsson
5 2 (5.71%) Juniper
5 2 (5.71%) Nokia
6 1 (2.86%) Avaya
6 1 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (2.86%) Ribbon
6 1 (2.86%) SAP