Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Technical Lead
South East > Thames Valley

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the Thames Valley is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 114 130
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 3 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.17% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.40% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £485 £472 £363
25th Percentile £519 £492 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £413
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +42.48% -26.63%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £617
90th Percentile £665 £719 £625
South East median daily rate £425 £626 £613
% change year-on-year -32.05% +2.12% +11.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,566 1,987 2,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 91.40% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 1,131 1,701
10th Percentile £255 £261 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £608 £615
90th Percentile £651 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £510
% change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 88 96
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.91 £26.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.77 £51.48
Median % change year-on-year -56.47% +12.23% +195.42%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.13 £94.88 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £58.43 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.65% +11.30% +80.35%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Berkshire +12 3 £600 -4.08% 15
Technical Leader
South East

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) UX Research
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Culture Change
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) 2G
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) LTE
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 2G
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) LTE
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Backhaul
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Culture Change
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) UX Research
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce