Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Telford

Technical Leadership
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 2.54% 3.54% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 3.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £507 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.01% - -
75th Percentile £660 - -
90th Percentile £670 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £609 £507 -
% change year-on-year +20.01% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 446 109 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 87.28% 96.46% 64.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 69 26
10th Percentile £360 £312 -
25th Percentile £413 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -25.93%
75th Percentile £525 £515 £490
90th Percentile £561 £538 £535
Shropshire median daily rate £475 £460 £400
% change year-on-year +3.26% +15.00% -25.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £45.20 - £11.85
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
% change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Telford

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Telford over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Telford

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 3 (23.08%) SAS
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Ingres
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Gatling
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Lead
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) QA Leader
4 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SAS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) Playwright
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Batch
2 2 (15.38%) WireMock
3 1 (7.69%) JPA
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
3 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Private Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Architecture Governance
2 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Coaching
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Kibana
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Denodo
2 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
2 2 (15.38%) PagerDuty
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Talend
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft