Technical Leadership Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 149 207
Rank change year-on-year +28 +58 +39
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 262 277 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.05% 1.36% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.61% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 155 194
10th Percentile £353 £463 £486
25th Percentile £463 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £686 £673
90th Percentile £738 £783 £734
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 11
10th Percentile £29.04 - £60.00
25th Percentile £41.29 £12.75 £61.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.25 £66.69
Median % change year-on-year +130.09% -57.64% -11.09%
75th Percentile £87.50 £58.13 £78.06
90th Percentile £88.50 £85.20 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.40 £43.49 £66.74
% change year-on-year -7.11% -34.84% -11.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 17,190 21,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.41% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,199 10,232 14,530
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 830 2,049 1,280
10th Percentile £14.19 £12.30 £10.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.43
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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
North of England +37 73 £600 -2.64% 249
South East -15 61 £550 -4.35% 363
North West +22 43 £544 -12.30% 136
Midlands +13 42 £500 -19.48% 158
South West +61 31 £600 -5.88% 130
East of England +38 27 £550 -13.39% 108
West Midlands +21 27 £500 +5.26% 87
Yorkshire +20 24 £600 +0.04% 90
Scotland +13 18 £611 +35.91% 65
East Midlands -4 14 £453 -27.17% 60
Wales - 10 £480 - 23
North East -1 6 £550 -35.29% 26
Northern Ireland -13 2 £513 -14.58% 21
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 13 (4.96%) Moodle
2 10 (3.82%) Confluence
3 5 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.76%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) Maximo
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 65 (24.81%) Azure
2 63 (24.05%) AWS
3 15 (5.73%) GCP
4 14 (5.34%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.58%) Serverless
6 9 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.05%) SaaS
8 7 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.67%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.29%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.29%) Slack
10 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.91%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.91%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.53%) GitHub
11 4 (1.53%) PaaS
12 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.87%) DNS
1 18 (6.87%) Firewall
2 16 (6.11%) WAN
3 14 (5.34%) DHCP
3 14 (5.34%) LAN
3 14 (5.34%) Network Security
4 13 (4.96%) HTTP
4 13 (4.96%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.29%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.91%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.53%) VoIP
8 3 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.15%) PBX
8 3 (1.15%) VPN
9 2 (0.76%) BGP
9 2 (0.76%) DWDM
9 2 (0.76%) IPsec
9 2 (0.76%) MPLS
9 2 (0.76%) OSPF
9 2 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.73%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.73%) MySQL
3 10 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (3.44%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.53%) Power BI
7 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.15%) GIS
7 3 (1.15%) Metadata
7 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.76%) IDMS
8 2 (0.76%) ObjectStore
8 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (12.21%) JIRA
2 23 (8.78%) Git
3 21 (8.02%) Cucumber
3 21 (8.02%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.63%) GitLab
5 13 (4.96%) REST Assured
5 13 (4.96%) Selenium
6 10 (3.82%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.67%) Jasmine
7 7 (2.67%) JUnit
8 4 (1.53%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.15%) PHPUnit
9 3 (1.15%) Postman
10 2 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.76%) CA Gen
10 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.76%) Subversion
11 1 (0.38%) Appium
11 1 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 100 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.07%) Finance
3 29 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.20%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.82%) Law
6 9 (3.44%) Banking
7 6 (2.29%) Automotive
8 5 (1.91%) Billing
8 5 (1.91%) Marketing
8 5 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.53%) Police
10 3 (1.15%) Electronics
10 3 (1.15%) Local Government
11 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.76%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (36.64%) Architect
2 44 (16.79%) Lead
3 42 (16.03%) Developer
4 37 (14.12%) Senior
5 30 (11.45%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (8.40%) Senior Developer
6 22 (8.40%) Technical Architect
7 15 (5.73%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.34%) Network Architect
9 13 (4.96%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.96%) Moodle Developer
10 11 (4.20%) Java Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Network Technical Architect
12 9 (3.44%) Applications Architect
12 9 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.44%) Team Leader
12 9 (3.44%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (3.05%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.78%) REST
2 18 (6.87%) RESTful
3 13 (4.96%) Java EE
3 13 (4.96%) Spring
3 13 (4.96%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.82%) .NET
5 9 (3.44%) ARM Templates
6 8 (3.05%) JSON
6 8 (3.05%) Spring Security
6 8 (3.05%) Web Services
7 7 (2.67%) Kafka
7 7 (2.67%) Node.js
7 7 (2.67%) Spring Batch
7 7 (2.67%) Swagger
8 6 (2.29%) Middleware
8 6 (2.29%) OpenAPI
8 6 (2.29%) XML
9 5 (1.91%) React
10 3 (1.15%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.02%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.96%) EPoS
4 9 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.29%) Blockchain
6 6 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.29%) IoT
7 5 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.91%) Frameworx
7 5 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.91%) TM Forum
8 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.15%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.15%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.69%) Linux
2 21 (8.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (7.63%) Windows
4 12 (4.58%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.53%) Unix
7 3 (1.15%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.76%) Android
8 2 (0.76%) CentOS
8 2 (0.76%) Solaris
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (27.48%) Agile
3 65 (24.81%) Mentoring
4 54 (20.61%) DevOps
5 48 (18.32%) Microservices
6 40 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (14.12%) Software Engineering
8 36 (13.74%) CI/CD
9 34 (12.98%) Roadmaps
10 33 (12.60%) Migration
10 33 (12.60%) Test Automation
11 30 (11.45%) Containerisation
12 26 (9.92%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (8.02%) Architectural Design
13 21 (8.02%) Decision-Making
13 21 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (7.63%) Configuration Management
14 20 (7.63%) Enterprise Architecture
14 20 (7.63%) Service Delivery
15 19 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.89%) Java
2 37 (14.12%) Python
3 34 (12.98%) SQL
4 29 (11.07%) PowerShell
5 22 (8.40%) Bash
6 12 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.67%) C#
8 6 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.91%) Scala
10 4 (1.53%) Perl
11 3 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.15%) Bicep
11 3 (1.15%) C
11 3 (1.15%) PHP
11 3 (1.15%) Ruby
12 2 (0.76%) C++
12 2 (0.76%) COBOL
12 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.38%) Magik
Qualifications
1 87 (33.21%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.54%) Degree
4 15 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.82%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.91%) CCNP
9 5 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.53%) CCNA
10 4 (1.53%) CISSP
10 4 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.15%) CITP
11 3 (1.15%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.76%) CCDP
12 2 (0.76%) ISEB
12 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.87%) QA
2 12 (4.58%) GDPR
3 9 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.53%) NIST
5 3 (1.15%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.15%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.76%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.76%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.38%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (12.60%) Docker
2 8 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.76%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) XenApp
7 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.69%) Terraform
3 26 (9.92%) Ansible
4 9 (3.44%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (3.44%) Podman
5 8 (3.05%) Puppet
6 7 (2.67%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.91%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.53%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.15%) Kibana
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.76%) SELinux
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.34%) VMware
3 13 (4.96%) Cisco
4 12 (4.58%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.82%) Oracle
6 9 (3.44%) Google
6 9 (3.44%) SAP
7 8 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.05%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.67%) Apple
8 7 (2.67%) Juniper
8 7 (2.67%) Samsung
8 7 (2.67%) SOTI
9 6 (2.29%) F5
9 6 (2.29%) Veritas
10 5 (1.91%) Databricks
10 5 (1.91%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.53%) Dell
11 4 (1.53%) HP
11 4 (1.53%) Workday