Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Technical Lead
South East > Surrey

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Surrey is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.68% - 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% - 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £493 - £542
25th Percentile £538 - £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 - £659
90th Percentile £618 - £766
South East median daily rate £625 £528 £600
% change year-on-year +18.48% -12.08% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 532 286 564
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 97.61% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 205 405
10th Percentile £205 £192 £203
25th Percentile £405 £280 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £574 £550 £611
90th Percentile £654 £624 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 22 54
10th Percentile £33.00 £13.69 £13.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.17 £15.97
Median hourly rate £66.99 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.25% -6.67% -36.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.16 £66.63
90th Percentile £76.04 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £27.88 £54.94
% change year-on-year +88.04% -49.25% +9.88%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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 Surrey.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in Surrey

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Surrey

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Surrey

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Surrey

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Staines - 2 £525 -
Leatherhead - 1 £600 -
Technical Leader
South East

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 Surrey region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (50.00%) Django
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) OpenID

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) PMI
2 1 (25.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) API Development
1 2 (50.00%) Application Security
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft