Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in West London

Technical Lead
London > West London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in West London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.02% - 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £571
25th Percentile - - £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £605
Median % change year-on-year - - +98.36%
75th Percentile £800 - £641
90th Percentile £920 - £662
London median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in West London with a recognized job title 254 198 365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.10% 94.29% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 149 265
10th Percentile £204 £206 £193
25th Percentile £409 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.94% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £475 £588
90th Percentile £716 £586 £645
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 29
10th Percentile £19.21 £19.09 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.98 - £16.86
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% -31.48% -48.00%
75th Percentile £30.59 £25.40 £53.75
90th Percentile £32.88 £29.80 £66.40
London median hourly rate £32.50 £38.11 £28.50
% change year-on-year -14.72% +33.72% -15.95%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in West London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in West London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in West London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in West London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in West London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 11 February 2026, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collibra
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) ETL

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Collibra
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Mixpanel
1 2 (66.67%) OLAP
1 2 (66.67%) OLTP
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Great Expectations
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) MapReduce
2 2 (66.67%) Monte Carlo Method
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Ariba
2 1 (33.33%) SAP