Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Technical Leadership
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 56 72
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.11% 0.43% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.49% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £506 £440
25th Percentile £475 £534 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £525 £684 £638
90th Percentile - £709 -
South East median daily rate £475 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 - -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 - £82.18
% change year-on-year - - -11.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 340 407 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.18% 86.60% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 282 548
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £226 £271 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -15.48% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £618
90th Percentile £636 £600 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 35
10th Percentile £22.35 £19.59 £24.44
25th Percentile £25.74 £30.00 £44.80
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.70% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.47 £76.53
90th Percentile £61.30 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £51.76
% change year-on-year -64.40% +12.39% +39.40%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Surrey

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Reigate - 1 £500 -
Horley - 1 - -
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Digital
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Networks
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft