Technical Leadership Contracts in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 90 114
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +29
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 25 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.86% 1.08% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.28% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 21
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile £400 £463 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £688
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -30.91% +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 £641 £694
90th Percentile £588 £808 £813
England median daily rate £600 £601 £646
% change year-on-year -0.08% -7.04% +7.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the West Midlands

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire +10 13 £500 -37.50% 14
Coventry - 3 £400 - 18
Birmingham +14 2 £600 +20.00% 31
Shropshire - 2 £507 - 32
Staffordshire +2 1 £41 - 25
Herefordshire - 1 £400 -
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (16.00%) Moodle
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) GCP
2 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) IDMS
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) PHPUnit
2 3 (12.00%) Postman
3 2 (8.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.00%) CA Gen
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Local Government
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Lead
3 6 (24.00%) Applications Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Senior
5 4 (16.00%) Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Moodle Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (8.00%) IT Manager
7 2 (8.00%) QA Leader
7 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
1 4 (16.00%) RESTful
2 3 (12.00%) Behat
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) XML
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Axis
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.00%) Django
4 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.00%) Flask
4 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (16.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (16.00%) IoT
2 3 (12.00%) e-Learning
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (12.00%) VLE
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Microservices
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (24.00%) SOA
5 5 (20.00%) Architectural Design
5 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.00%) Scrum
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Interface Catalogue
6 4 (16.00%) ITIL
6 4 (16.00%) Project Planning
6 4 (16.00%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) C#
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) PHP
5 2 (8.00%) COBOL
5 2 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) ISEB
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Infoblox
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Juniper
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Siemens