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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
UK median daily rate £588 £611 £625
% change year-on-year -3.89% -2.20% +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 298 296 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 85.63% 76.29% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 166 310
10th Percentile £190 £141 £180
25th Percentile £270 £209 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £412 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -13.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £542 £588
90th Percentile £647 £606 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 51 22
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.20 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.52 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £23.21
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -3.05% +28.93%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.13 £35.69
90th Percentile - £53.75 £49.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 - 8 £480 - 17
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 (12.50%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Health
3 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Migration Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Moodle Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) React
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) IT Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (37.50%) CITP
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Google