Technical Leadership Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 202 248
Rank change year-on-year +50 +46 -24
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 282 266 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 1.16% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.30% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 190 201
10th Percentile £463 £486 £438
25th Percentile £488 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +9.09% +10.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £613
90th Percentile £773 £726 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £596
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.82% +13.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile - £60.00 £54.55
25th Percentile £12.75 £61.00 £62.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £66.69 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.64% -11.09% +87.50%
75th Percentile £58.13 £78.06 £84.81
90th Percentile £85.20 £80.25 £96.23
UK median hourly rate £43.49 £66.74 £75.00
% change year-on-year -34.84% -11.01% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,136 20,443 27,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.74% 89.32% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,222 14,032 18,934
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,099 1,246 1,342
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.10
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
% change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
South East +70 132 £588 -2.08% 102
North of England +25 58 £600 +9.00% 52
Midlands +46 44 £620 -8.99% 40
North West +6 29 £648 +20.47% 29
East Midlands +28 23 £622 +2.60% 13
Yorkshire +13 22 £583 -2.92% 15
West Midlands +11 21 £510 -25.82% 25
East of England +12 16 £635 -9.29% 47
Scotland -10 15 £460 -17.71% 25
South West -11 11 £625 -8.36% 48
North East - 7 £850 - 10
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 11
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
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 9 (3.19%) Confluence
2 7 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.42%) CANalyzer
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) CATIA
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (21.99%) Azure
2 59 (20.92%) AWS
3 27 (9.57%) GCP
4 26 (9.22%) Serverless
5 17 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.67%) OpenShift
7 14 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (4.61%) Power Platform
9 12 (4.26%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.84%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.84%) PaaS
11 7 (2.48%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 6 (2.13%) IaaS
13 4 (1.42%) iPaaS
13 4 (1.42%) SaaS
14 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.77%) WAN
2 29 (10.28%) BGP
3 26 (9.22%) MPLS
4 25 (8.87%) SSL
5 23 (8.16%) Cisco Firepower
5 23 (8.16%) VPN
6 16 (5.67%) Firewall
7 13 (4.61%) 5G
7 13 (4.61%) LAN
8 10 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (2.84%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (2.48%) Junos
10 7 (2.48%) VSAN
11 6 (2.13%) 3G
11 6 (2.13%) 4G
11 6 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.42%) Ethernet
12 4 (1.42%) FlexRay
13 3 (1.06%) DNS
13 3 (1.06%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.19%) Big Data
3 9 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.84%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.48%) BigQuery
5 7 (2.48%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.42%) Power BI
8 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.35%) DataStage
9 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (13.83%) Jenkins
2 28 (9.93%) Selenium
3 25 (8.87%) Cucumber
3 25 (8.87%) JIRA
4 24 (8.51%) REST Assured
4 24 (8.51%) SonarQube
5 19 (6.74%) Git
6 16 (5.67%) GitLab
7 8 (2.84%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (1.42%) CANoe
9 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.71%) JMeter
10 1 (0.35%) Babel
10 1 (0.35%) ESLint
10 1 (0.35%) Gradle
10 1 (0.35%) JUnit
10 1 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) Vite
10 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 86 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 66 (23.40%) Finance
3 55 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.09%) Law
6 13 (4.61%) Banking
6 13 (4.61%) Marketing
6 13 (4.61%) Police
7 11 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.84%) Automotive
10 8 (2.84%) Electronics
10 8 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.84%) Legal
11 6 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.06%) French Language
13 3 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (39.36%) Architect
2 40 (14.18%) Lead
3 39 (13.83%) Senior
4 32 (11.35%) Solutions Architect
5 31 (10.99%) Network Architect
6 23 (8.16%) Technical Architect
7 22 (7.80%) Technical Leader
8 19 (6.74%) Java Engineer
9 14 (4.96%) Developer
10 13 (4.61%) Lead Architect
10 13 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.26%) Consultant
12 11 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.90%) ForgeRock Architect
13 10 (3.55%) Analyst
14 9 (3.19%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
15 8 (2.84%) Senior Architect
15 8 (2.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 7 (2.48%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.35%) REST
2 25 (8.87%) Java EE
3 12 (4.26%) ARM Templates
3 12 (4.26%) LDAP
3 12 (4.26%) OAuth
3 12 (4.26%) OpenID
3 12 (4.26%) SAML
4 10 (3.55%) Kafka
4 10 (3.55%) Node.js
5 9 (3.19%) RESTful
6 8 (2.84%) .NET
7 7 (2.48%) React
7 7 (2.48%) Web Services
8 4 (1.42%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.42%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.42%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.42%) J2EE
8 4 (1.42%) Middleware
8 4 (1.42%) XML
9 3 (1.06%) DHTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.09%) Product Ownership
1 20 (7.09%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.84%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.42%) Infotainment
6 4 (1.42%) NHS
7 3 (1.06%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.06%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.71%) PKI
8 2 (0.71%) Robotics
8 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.41%) Windows
2 15 (5.32%) Linux
2 15 (5.32%) Unix
3 13 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.26%) Android
4 12 (4.26%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.84%) Windows 7
6 6 (2.13%) VMS
7 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.71%) Solaris
8 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (30.14%) DevOps
2 78 (27.66%) Agile
3 73 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 41 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (13.83%) Decision-Making
7 38 (13.48%) Customer Requirements
8 37 (13.12%) Software Engineering
9 34 (12.06%) Containerisation
10 33 (11.70%) CI/CD
11 31 (10.99%) Network Design
12 30 (10.64%) Mentoring
13 29 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (10.28%) Risk Management
13 29 (10.28%) Translating Business Requirements
14 28 (9.93%) Software Architecture
14 28 (9.93%) Test Automation
15 27 (9.57%) Collaborative Working
16 26 (9.22%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (9.22%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (20.21%) Java
2 36 (12.77%) Python
3 33 (11.70%) SQL
4 8 (2.84%) Bash
4 8 (2.84%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.77%) C
5 5 (1.77%) C++
5 5 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.42%) VBA
7 3 (1.06%) C#
7 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.71%) PHP
8 2 (0.71%) Ruby
8 2 (0.71%) VBScript
9 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.35%) Groovy
9 1 (0.35%) Scala
9 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 100 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 67 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 38 (13.48%) Degree
4 16 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.90%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.84%) CCNP
6 8 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.48%) CCNA
8 6 (2.13%) PMP
9 5 (1.77%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.42%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.96%) QA
2 9 (3.19%) SLA
3 8 (2.84%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.71%) GRC
6 2 (0.71%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (9.93%) Docker
2 13 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.55%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.84%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.48%) vCloud
6 4 (1.42%) XenApp
7 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.71%) vSphere
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (13.12%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.70%) Ansible
2 33 (11.70%) Terraform
3 23 (8.16%) Endace
4 12 (4.26%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.26%) Podman
5 11 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.48%) Istio
6 7 (2.48%) Rancher
6 7 (2.48%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.77%) SCCM
8 4 (1.42%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.71%) Grafana
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.35%) Nagios
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.41%) Cisco
3 31 (10.99%) Juniper
4 27 (9.57%) Google
5 23 (8.16%) F5
6 16 (5.67%) VMware
7 11 (3.90%) ForgeRock
8 9 (3.19%) SAP
9 6 (2.13%) Apple
10 5 (1.77%) Citrix
10 5 (1.77%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.77%) Oracle
10 5 (1.77%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.06%) Adobe
11 3 (1.06%) Ivanti
11 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.06%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.71%) Symantec
13 1 (0.35%) Embarcadero
13 1 (0.35%) Salesforce