Technical Leadership Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 79 122
Rank change year-on-year +15 +43 +10
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 38 67 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.51% 2.49% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.86% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 18
10th Percentile £185 £488 £428
25th Percentile £350 £525 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +8.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £716
90th Percentile £675 £700 £803
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate - £18.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year - -77.07% -
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £80.85
South East median hourly rate - £18.00 £66.69
% change year-on-year - -73.01% +5.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +6 33 £501 -23.00% 49
Buckinghamshire +12 5 £190 -65.45% 38
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.63%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
1 16 (42.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) PaaS
2 2 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.53%) DHCP
2 4 (10.53%) DNS
3 2 (5.26%) HTTP
3 2 (5.26%) MQTT
3 2 (5.26%) Network Security
3 2 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.63%) GPON
4 1 (2.63%) LAN
4 1 (2.63%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) MySQL
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) Big Data
2 1 (2.63%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) GIS
2 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Cucumber
1 13 (34.21%) GitLab
1 13 (34.21%) Jenkins
1 13 (34.21%) JIRA
1 13 (34.21%) REST Assured
1 13 (34.21%) Selenium
2 9 (23.68%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Law
4 6 (15.79%) Telecoms
5 5 (13.16%) Billing
6 4 (10.53%) Police
7 2 (5.26%) Automotive
8 1 (2.63%) Banking
8 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Java Engineer
1 9 (23.68%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (23.68%) Software Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Architect
2 8 (21.05%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Designer
3 5 (13.16%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Team Leader
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Architecture
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Security
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Strategy
6 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (52.63%) REST
2 13 (34.21%) Java EE
3 9 (23.68%) ARM Templates
4 5 (13.16%) JSON
4 5 (13.16%) Web Services
5 2 (5.26%) Apache Axis
5 2 (5.26%) PostGIS
5 2 (5.26%) XML
6 1 (2.63%) Middleware
6 1 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.16%) Frameworx
2 5 (13.16%) TM Forum
3 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (10.53%) EPoS
4 2 (5.26%) Infotainment
4 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
1 7 (18.42%) Windows Server
2 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (34.21%) Configuration Management
2 13 (34.21%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (34.21%) DevOps
2 13 (34.21%) Software Architecture
2 13 (34.21%) Software Engineering
2 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
3 10 (26.32%) ITIL
4 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
4 9 (23.68%) Decision-Making
4 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (23.68%) Service Delivery
5 7 (18.42%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Microservices
6 6 (15.79%) Business Strategy
6 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
6 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) UML
7 5 (13.16%) CRM
7 5 (13.16%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) Java
2 4 (10.53%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
4 2 (5.26%) C#
4 2 (5.26%) Ruby
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) Magik
Qualifications
1 21 (55.26%) SC Cleared
1 21 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) CISSP
2 2 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) CCDA
3 1 (2.63%) CCDP
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) CCNP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) COBIT
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
1 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.63%) XenApp
3 1 (2.63%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Terraform
2 9 (23.68%) Ansible
2 9 (23.68%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (23.68%) Podman
3 4 (10.53%) NetBackup
4 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
1 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
2 4 (10.53%) 3PAR
2 4 (10.53%) Dell
2 4 (10.53%) HP
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.53%) Veritas
2 4 (10.53%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.63%) Sparx
4 1 (2.63%) Teradata