Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 92 126
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +20
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 24 28 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.41% 1.29% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.51% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 13
10th Percentile £366 £310 -
25th Percentile £400 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £564 £694 £763
90th Percentile £672 £785 £828
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £608
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.88% +10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - -32.97%

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 1,547 1,853 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.73% 85.51% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 1,046 1,642
10th Percentile £267 £294 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £680 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 79 87
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.66 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.83 £28.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.38 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +11.19% +165.82%
75th Percentile £44.68 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.54 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.37
% change year-on-year -61.99% +7.37% +74.54%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Leadership

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 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the Thames Valley

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Technical Leadership

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 4 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 +11 18 £450 -26.53% 15
Buckinghamshire 0 3 £525 -4.55% 8
Oxfordshire - 3 £900 - 12
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
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 6 (25.00%) Camunda
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Drupal
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) MPLS
2 2 (8.33%) 4G
2 2 (8.33%) 5G
2 2 (8.33%) DOCSIS
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) GPON
2 2 (8.33%) LTE
2 2 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (8.33%) SAN
2 2 (8.33%) VoIP
2 2 (8.33%) xDSL
3 1 (4.17%) BGP
3 1 (4.17%) Converged Networks
3 1 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (4.17%) NAS
3 1 (4.17%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) GitLab
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 6 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 6 (25.00%) Selenium
3 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Law
3 4 (16.67%) Retail
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Police
6 1 (4.17%) Billing
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) OSS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) REST
2 6 (25.00%) Java EE
3 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 4 (16.67%) React
4 2 (8.33%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) Django
5 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.17%) OpenID
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) Swagger
5 1 (4.17%) Vue
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) XML
5 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) TM Forum
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.17%) Frameworx
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.17%) CentOS
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) Microservices
3 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
4 6 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (20.83%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Process Management
7 3 (12.50%) Agile
7 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) OASIS TOSCA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) XenApp
2 1 (4.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (16.67%) Podman
4 2 (8.33%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (4.17%) Argo
5 1 (4.17%) Grafana
5 1 (4.17%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Cisco
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Amdocs
2 2 (8.33%) Ericsson
2 2 (8.33%) Huawei
2 2 (8.33%) NetCracker
2 2 (8.33%) Nokia
3 1 (4.17%) 3PAR
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) F5
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) Isilon
3 1 (4.17%) JDA
3 1 (4.17%) NetApp
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Veeam
3 1 (4.17%) Veritas
3 1 (4.17%) VMware