Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Technical Lead
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Technical Lead daily rate in South Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -46 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.37% 0.53% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £690 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -16.67% +1.69% -1.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 961 343 416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 90.98% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 234 260
10th Percentile £350 £185 £249
25th Percentile £410 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -0.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £582
90th Percentile £669 £638 £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +1.81% -1.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +34.99% -23.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.31
90th Percentile - £18.51 £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.75 £21.24 £14.50
% change year-on-year +30.65% +46.48% -34.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in South Yorkshire

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Sheffield -47 4 £500 -16.67% 4
Technical Leader
Yorkshire

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 28 April 2026, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) RHCE
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) YAML
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Sitecore