Technical Leadership Contracts in Wales

Technical Leadership
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.44% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £399 - -
25th Percentile £450 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.12%
75th Percentile £585 - £488
90th Percentile £603 - -
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 309 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.63% 78.63% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 210 421
10th Percentile £185 £165 £183
25th Percentile £285 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £525 £574 £573
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Wales

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Wales

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Wales

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales - 9 £480 - 28
Dyfed - 1 £400 -
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (10.00%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Moodle Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CITP
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (20.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Scheme
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft