Technical Leadership Contracts

Technical Leadership
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 203 275
Rank change year-on-year +76 +72 +7
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 637 512 577
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.18% 1.17% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.36% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 283 391
10th Percentile £402 £450 £486
25th Percentile £500 £503 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 18
10th Percentile - £12.75 £33.73
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.72 £60.25
Median hourly rate £42.70 £28.72 £66.71
Median % change year-on-year +48.69% -56.96% -11.05%
75th Percentile £81.88 £60.00 £80.25
90th Percentile £90.75 £71.90 £82.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £18.00 £64.34
% change year-on-year +261.11% -72.02% -11.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +67 541 £600 - 694
UK excluding London +42 278 £550 -8.33% 428
London +102 277 £650 +8.33% 314
Work from Home +53 206 £550 -8.33% 441
North of England +55 79 £600 -3.23% 99
South East -21 61 £550 -4.35% 106
North West +24 48 £563 -9.27% 66
Midlands +17 40 £500 -19.35% 72
South West +67 35 £606 -3.96% 60
East of England +45 27 £550 -14.40% 40
Scotland +15 26 £600 +18.81% 27
Yorkshire +28 25 £600 - 24
West Midlands +20 25 £500 +5.26% 39
East Midlands 0 14 £453 -27.17% 32
Wales - 10 £480 - 23
North East +4 6 £550 -35.29% 9
Northern Ireland -12 2 £513 -14.58% 6

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (2.83%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.67%) Confluence
3 16 (2.51%) Moodle
3 16 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.26%) Apache
5 4 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.47%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) FileNet
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Sitefinity
8 1 (0.16%) Smallworld
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.47%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) Maximo
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 174 (27.32%) Azure
2 160 (25.12%) AWS
3 59 (9.26%) GCP
4 40 (6.28%) Serverless
5 31 (4.87%) Power Platform
6 28 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.24%) Entra ID
8 24 (3.77%) SaaS
9 20 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (3.14%) OpenShift
10 19 (2.98%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.51%) PowerApps
13 14 (2.20%) GitHub
13 14 (2.20%) PaaS
14 11 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.12%) Network Security
2 31 (4.87%) Firewall
3 25 (3.92%) DNS
4 20 (3.14%) WAN
5 19 (2.98%) LAN
6 18 (2.83%) HTTP
6 18 (2.83%) TCP/IP
7 16 (2.51%) DHCP
8 14 (2.20%) VPN
9 10 (1.57%) SSL
10 9 (1.41%) HTTPS
11 8 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (1.10%) Ethernet
13 6 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.94%) SSH
14 5 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (0.63%) BGP
15 4 (0.63%) DWDM
15 4 (0.63%) NGFW
15 4 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.34%) MySQL
3 33 (5.18%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.02%) Relational Database
5 24 (3.77%) Big Data
6 21 (3.30%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (2.67%) Power BI
8 16 (2.51%) NoSQL
9 13 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (1.88%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 10 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.26%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.26%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.94%) Metadata
14 6 (0.94%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (7.54%) Git
2 43 (6.75%) JIRA
3 40 (6.28%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.87%) GitLab
5 24 (3.77%) Cucumber
6 17 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 14 (2.20%) Selenium
8 13 (2.04%) JUnit
8 13 (2.04%) REST Assured
9 10 (1.57%) Jasmine
10 6 (0.94%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.78%) JMeter
11 5 (0.78%) Maven
11 5 (0.78%) PHPUnit
11 5 (0.78%) Postman
11 5 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.63%) Gradle
General
1 268 (42.07%) Social Skills
2 102 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (15.38%) Finance
4 77 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.40%) Banking
6 17 (2.67%) Law
6 17 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.51%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.20%) Automotive
9 13 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.57%) Marketing
11 9 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.26%) Retail
13 7 (1.10%) Billing
13 7 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.10%) Legal
14 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 230 (36.11%) Architect
2 134 (21.04%) Lead
3 91 (14.29%) Senior
4 80 (12.56%) Developer
5 72 (11.30%) Solutions Architect
6 45 (7.06%) Technical Architect
7 40 (6.28%) Senior Developer
8 38 (5.97%) Technical Leader
9 32 (5.02%) Software Engineer
10 22 (3.45%) Java Developer
11 21 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
12 20 (3.14%) Security Architect
13 18 (2.83%) Senior Architect
14 17 (2.67%) Lead Developer
14 17 (2.67%) Network Architect
15 16 (2.51%) Java Engineer
15 16 (2.51%) Moodle Developer
16 15 (2.35%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (2.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.34%) .NET
2 33 (5.18%) REST
2 33 (5.18%) RESTful
3 29 (4.55%) Spring
4 28 (4.40%) Spring Boot
5 25 (3.92%) Kafka
6 19 (2.98%) AngularJS
7 17 (2.67%) Node.js
7 17 (2.67%) React
7 17 (2.67%) Swagger
8 16 (2.51%) OpenAPI
8 16 (2.51%) Web Services
9 15 (2.35%) JSON
10 14 (2.20%) Middleware
10 14 (2.20%) XML
11 13 (2.04%) Java EE
12 12 (1.88%) Spring Security
13 11 (1.73%) ARM Templates
13 11 (1.73%) Spring Batch
14 9 (1.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.18%) Data Centre
2 28 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.24%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.04%) EPoS
10 12 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.88%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.73%) CMDB
12 10 (1.57%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.41%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 8 (1.26%) Hedge funds
14 8 (1.26%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 8 (1.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (8.95%) Linux
2 41 (6.44%) Windows
3 28 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.04%) Unix
6 5 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.63%) Android
7 4 (0.63%) CentOS
8 3 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.31%) Solaris
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) SUSE
10 1 (0.16%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (27.16%) Mentoring
3 157 (24.65%) Agile
4 134 (21.04%) DevOps
5 120 (18.84%) CI/CD
6 100 (15.70%) Microservices
7 96 (15.07%) Software Engineering
8 86 (13.50%) Roadmaps
9 77 (12.09%) Migration
9 77 (12.09%) Test Automation
10 73 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 63 (9.89%) Containerisation
12 61 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 60 (9.42%) Analytics
14 54 (8.48%) Computer Science
14 54 (8.48%) Continuous Integration
15 51 (8.01%) Decision-Making
16 48 (7.54%) Data Modelling
17 45 (7.06%) Enterprise Architecture
18 40 (6.28%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 138 (21.66%) Python
2 117 (18.37%) Java
3 75 (11.77%) SQL
4 53 (8.32%) PowerShell
5 50 (7.85%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.34%) Bash
7 28 (4.40%) C#
8 24 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.30%) C
9 21 (3.30%) C++
10 13 (2.04%) Go
10 13 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.41%) Ruby
12 7 (1.10%) ActionScript
12 7 (1.10%) ActionScript 2.0
13 6 (0.94%) Scala
14 5 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.78%) Perl
14 5 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 196 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 154 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 84 (13.19%) Degree
4 48 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.87%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.08%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.77%) AWS Certification
8 22 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 19 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.20%) CCNP
12 11 (1.73%) CISSP
12 11 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.26%) CCNA
15 7 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.94%) CISM
16 6 (0.94%) JNCIS
17 5 (0.78%) PMP
18 4 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.02%) QA
2 21 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.98%) GDPR
4 11 (1.73%) NIST
5 7 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
7 3 (0.47%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.47%) PMO
8 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.31%) COBIT
8 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.31%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
8 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (12.56%) Docker
2 22 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.83%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.47%) vSphere
7 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) HDFS
8 1 (0.16%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.16%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.16%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) XenApp
8 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 97 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 71 (11.15%) Terraform
3 50 (7.85%) Ansible
4 14 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.73%) Grafana
5 11 (1.73%) Puppet
6 10 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (1.41%) Podman
8 8 (1.26%) MOM
8 8 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.94%) SCCM
9 6 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.63%) Kibana
10 4 (0.63%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.47%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.47%) Packer
12 2 (0.31%) CASB
12 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.31%) SELinux
Vendors
1 98 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.59%) Oracle
3 33 (5.18%) SAP
4 30 (4.71%) VMware
5 27 (4.24%) Cisco
6 24 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.61%) Google
7 23 (3.61%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.83%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.04%) Databricks
10 12 (1.88%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.73%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.57%) Apple
12 10 (1.57%) Juniper
13 9 (1.41%) F5
13 9 (1.41%) IBM
13 9 (1.41%) Siemens
14 8 (1.26%) DocuSign
14 8 (1.26%) Samsung
14 8 (1.26%) SOTI