Technical Leadership Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 119 130
Rank change year-on-year +42 +11 -33
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 67 29 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.51% 0.99% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 1.08% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 27
10th Percentile £488 £428 £429
25th Percentile £525 £471 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £684 £716 £538
90th Percentile £700 £803 £564
South East median daily rate £575 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -8.00% +16.28% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 £78.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.07% - -
South East median hourly rate £18.00 £66.69 £63.00
% change year-on-year -73.01% +5.85% +93.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +24 58 £650 +15.56% 12
Buckinghamshire - 9 £550 - 4
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:

Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.84%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) OpenShift
4 7 (10.45%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) PaaS
6 1 (1.49%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.49%) GitHub
6 1 (1.49%) SaaS
6 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) Radio Access Network
2 7 (10.45%) 5G
2 7 (10.45%) VSAN
3 6 (8.96%) 3G
3 6 (8.96%) 4G
4 4 (5.97%) VPN
5 3 (4.48%) WAN
6 2 (2.99%) BGP
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (2.99%) MPLS
6 2 (2.99%) SSL
7 1 (1.49%) Firewall
7 1 (1.49%) Junos
7 1 (1.49%) LAN
7 1 (1.49%) SNA
7 1 (1.49%) VoLTE
7 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (40.30%) Jenkins
2 25 (37.31%) Cucumber
2 25 (37.31%) Selenium
2 25 (37.31%) SonarQube
3 24 (35.82%) REST Assured
4 14 (20.90%) JIRA
5 13 (19.40%) GitLab
6 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.49%) Maven
6 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (64.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (41.79%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (29.85%) Law
4 13 (19.40%) Police
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.48%) Finance
7 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) French Language
8 1 (1.49%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Java Engineer
2 13 (19.40%) Senior
3 10 (14.93%) Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Lead
4 7 (10.45%) Performance Specialist
4 7 (10.45%) VMware Expert
5 6 (8.96%) Consultant
5 6 (8.96%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Performance Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Performance Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.81%) REST
2 25 (37.31%) Java EE
3 13 (19.40%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.49%) .NET
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth
4 1 (1.49%) OpenID
4 1 (1.49%) SOAP
4 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.99%) Robotics
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
1 3 (4.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (61.19%) DevOps
2 37 (55.22%) Decision-Making
3 32 (47.76%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (38.81%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (38.81%) Test Automation
6 25 (37.31%) Software Architecture
7 23 (34.33%) Software Engineering
8 19 (28.36%) Containerisation
9 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
10 15 (22.39%) Translating Business Requirements
11 14 (20.90%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (20.90%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (20.90%) Time Management
12 13 (19.40%) Configuration Management
13 11 (16.42%) Roadmaps
14 9 (13.43%) Customer Experience
14 9 (13.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 8 (11.94%) Capacity Planning
16 6 (8.96%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.31%) Java
2 6 (8.96%) SQL
3 1 (1.49%) C#
3 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (47.76%) Security Cleared
2 31 (46.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) CCNA
5 1 (1.49%) CCNP
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) SLA
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
2 8 (11.94%) VMware NSX
3 7 (10.45%) vCloud
3 7 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (40.30%) Kubernetes
2 26 (38.81%) Ansible
3 21 (31.34%) Terraform
4 12 (17.91%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (17.91%) Podman
5 7 (10.45%) Istio
5 7 (10.45%) Rancher
5 7 (10.45%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.99%) Endace
7 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Puppet
7 1 (1.49%) vRealize
7 1 (1.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) VMware
2 7 (10.45%) Google
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco
4 3 (4.48%) Juniper
5 2 (2.99%) F5
6 1 (1.49%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.49%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.49%) Dell
6 1 (1.49%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds