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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 88 103
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +30
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 26 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.75% 1.22% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.50% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 14
10th Percentile £389 - £463
25th Percentile £428 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £688
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -25.82% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £694
90th Percentile £616 £795 £781
England median daily rate £600 £620 £628
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.27% +4.67%

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 1,320 1,663 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.77% 81.04% 87.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 1,106 1,334
10th Percentile £203 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £623
90th Percentile £668 £734 £706
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 117 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.24 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £38.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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 July 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 July 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 -3 13 £500 -7.06% 16
Solihull +10 3 £420 - 3
Birmingham +9 3 £600 +26.32% 53
Staffordshire +1 1 £41 - 26
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 2
Shropshire - 1 £525 - 27
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 (15.38%) Moodle
2 1 (3.85%) JBoss
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Network Security
2 3 (11.54%) DHCP
2 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.69%) Ethereal
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 2 (7.69%) Wireless
3 2 (7.69%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (3.85%) DKIM
4 1 (3.85%) DMARC
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) PHPUnit
2 3 (11.54%) Postman
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Local Government
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Applications Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Senior
3 6 (23.08%) Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Moodle Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) IT Architect
7 1 (3.85%) IT Security Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Java Applications Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Java Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) Behat
2 3 (11.54%) JSON
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
2 3 (11.54%) XML
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Axis
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) Java SE
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) IoT
2 4 (15.38%) Blockchain
2 4 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (11.54%) e-Learning
3 3 (11.54%) VLE
4 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
1 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Mentoring
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Microservices
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Architectural Design
4 6 (23.08%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) SOA
5 5 (19.23%) ITIL
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
6 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
6 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) Interface Catalogue
6 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 4 (15.38%) Project Planning
6 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (11.54%) Design Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) C#
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) PHP
4 3 (11.54%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.69%) Ruby
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) CCIE
3 2 (7.69%) CCNP
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.69%) CISSP
3 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) OpenView
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco
2 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 2 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (3.85%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.85%) Juniper
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) SAP