Technical Leader Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 289 294
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 44 111 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.53% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.58% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 83 105
10th Percentile £192 £465 £455
25th Percentile £408 £503 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £670 £813 £694
90th Percentile £787 £850 £735
UK median daily rate £620 £611 £625
% change year-on-year +1.43% -2.20% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +19 13 £524 -15.31% 78
West Midlands +14 9 £524 -27.72% 39
North of England -11 9 £700 -17.65% 102
South East +40 7 £615 +11.82% 113
Scotland +3 6 £625 +21.95% 18
North West -21 5 £775 -8.82% 56
South West +31 4 £600 - 50
East Midlands +15 4 £450 -10.00% 34
Yorkshire +8 4 £600 +1.69% 36
East of England +24 3 £190 -68.33% 58
Wales - 2 £250 - 10
Technical Leader
UK

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 20 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (40.91%) Agile
3 15 (34.09%) Azure
4 11 (25.00%) SQL
4 11 (25.00%) DevOps
5 10 (22.73%) AWS
6 9 (20.45%) Process Improvement
6 9 (20.45%) Configuration Management
6 9 (20.45%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (20.45%) Power Platform
6 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
7 8 (18.18%) OO
7 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 8 (18.18%) Test Strategy
7 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
8 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
8 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
9 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 6 (13.64%) Linux
10 5 (11.36%) EPoS
10 5 (11.36%) Java
10 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
10 5 (11.36%) User Experience
11 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (9.09%) Inventory Management
11 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
11 4 (9.09%) Degree
11 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
11 4 (9.09%) Cybersecurity

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (6.82%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) IIS
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) nginx
3 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Maximo
1 1 (2.27%) SAP EWM
1 1 (2.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) AWS
3 9 (20.45%) Power Platform
3 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) Figma
5 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Akamai
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Billing
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) .NET
1 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
2 3 (6.82%) Entity Framework
3 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (4.55%) CSS
3 2 (4.55%) Flask
3 2 (4.55%) HTML
3 2 (4.55%) Node.js
3 2 (4.55%) React
3 2 (4.55%) RESTful
3 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.27%) Ajax
4 1 (2.27%) JMS
4 1 (2.27%) Middleware
4 1 (2.27%) SAML
4 1 (2.27%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) EPoS
2 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.55%) NHS
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) BYOD
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.27%) AIX
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (40.91%) Agile
3 11 (25.00%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Configuration Management
4 9 (20.45%) Process Improvement
4 9 (20.45%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 8 (18.18%) OO
5 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 8 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.36%) User Experience
8 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (9.09%) Inventory Management
8 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
8 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.09%) Workflow
9 3 (6.82%) Microservices
9 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Java
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (2.27%) ABAP
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.27%) VB
4 1 (2.27%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) vSphere
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Ansible
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.27%) Puppet
2 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) VMware
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.55%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) Siemens
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle