Technical Leader Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Work from Home is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 260 343
Rank change year-on-year +15 +83 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 99 227 306
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.88% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.92% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 139 204
10th Percentile £413 £523 £432
25th Percentile £496 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £649 £598
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.62% +17.10%
75th Percentile £775 £743 £678
90th Percentile £850 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £585
% change year-on-year -0.80% +6.84% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £44.30
UK median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -27.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,718 42,673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,458 30,801
10th Percentile £325 £360 £355
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 568 609
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.71 £27.22 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Technical Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leader.

Technical Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Leader over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Technical Leader daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leader.

Technical Leader hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 34 (34.34%) Agile
2 28 (28.28%) AWS
3 24 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 22 (22.22%) Java
5 21 (21.21%) Software Engineering
5 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
6 19 (19.19%) Banking
6 19 (19.19%) Finance
6 19 (19.19%) Azure
7 18 (18.18%) DevOps
8 17 (17.17%) TypeScript
8 17 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
9 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
10 14 (14.14%) Python
11 13 (13.13%) SQL
11 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (13.13%) Mentoring
11 13 (13.13%) CI/CD
12 12 (12.12%) Data Quality
12 12 (12.12%) HTML
12 12 (12.12%) CSS
13 11 (11.11%) Investment Banking
13 11 (11.11%) dbt
13 11 (11.11%) Snowflake
14 10 (10.10%) Dremio
14 10 (10.10%) Full Stack Development
14 10 (10.10%) Apache Ignite
14 10 (10.10%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (10.10%) Apache Airflow

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (10.10%) Apache
1 10 (10.10%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.04%) IIS
3 1 (1.01%) CICS
3 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.01%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.01%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.28%) AWS
2 19 (19.19%) Azure
3 11 (11.11%) dbt
3 11 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 8 (8.08%) Amazon S3
4 8 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (8.08%) Serverless
5 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.04%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.04%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (3.03%) CloudFront
8 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.03%) npm
9 2 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.02%) GitHub
9 2 (2.02%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (6.06%) VPN
3 5 (5.05%) Network Security
4 4 (4.04%) DNS
4 4 (4.04%) SSL
5 1 (1.01%) FTP
5 1 (1.01%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.01%) LAN
5 1 (1.01%) NaaS
5 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.01%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) Amazon Athena
1 10 (10.10%) Apache Arrow
1 10 (10.10%) Apache Ignite
1 10 (10.10%) Data Lake
1 10 (10.10%) Dremio
2 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.05%) MySQL
4 4 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.04%) Power BI
4 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.01%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.01%) DB2
6 1 (1.01%) IDMS
6 1 (1.01%) Informix
6 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) JIRA
2 4 (4.04%) Git
2 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.04%) webpack
3 3 (3.03%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.01%) GitLab
5 1 (1.01%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.01%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Banking
2 19 (19.19%) Finance
3 11 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 10 (10.10%) Front Office
5 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.05%) Back Office
8 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Retail
9 2 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.02%) Marketing
10 1 (1.01%) Automotive
10 1 (1.01%) Billing
10 1 (1.01%) German Language
10 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) CSS
1 12 (12.12%) HTML
2 10 (10.10%) gRPC
2 10 (10.10%) NumPy
2 10 (10.10%) Pandas
2 10 (10.10%) Protocol Buffers
2 10 (10.10%) SciPy
3 9 (9.09%) Node.js
4 8 (8.08%) .NET
5 7 (7.07%) React
5 7 (7.07%) SOAP
5 7 (7.07%) Spring
6 6 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.05%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.05%) REST
7 5 (5.05%) Web Services
8 4 (4.04%) jQuery
8 4 (4.04%) RESTful
8 4 (4.04%) Struts
8 4 (4.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.10%) Derivative
1 10 (10.10%) Equities
1 10 (10.10%) Fixed Income
1 10 (10.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 10 (10.10%) Hedge funds
2 7 (7.07%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.02%) Contactless
4 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.01%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.01%) NHS
5 1 (1.01%) Replication
5 1 (1.01%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Android
2 5 (5.05%) Apple iOS
2 5 (5.05%) Linux
2 5 (5.05%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.04%) VMS
4 1 (1.01%) CentOS
4 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) Agile
2 21 (21.21%) Software Engineering
3 18 (18.18%) DevOps
4 17 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (13.13%) CI/CD
5 13 (13.13%) Mentoring
5 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (10.10%) Asset Management
6 10 (10.10%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (10.10%) Greeks
6 10 (10.10%) Investment Management
6 10 (10.10%) Migration
7 9 (9.09%) ERP
8 8 (8.08%) Design Patterns
8 8 (8.08%) Roadmaps
9 7 (7.07%) Microservices
9 7 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.07%) Technical Architecture
9 7 (7.07%) Test Automation
10 5 (5.05%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.24%) JavaScript
2 22 (22.22%) Java
3 17 (17.17%) TypeScript
4 14 (14.14%) Python
5 13 (13.13%) SQL
6 7 (7.07%) C#
7 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.01%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.01%) COBOL
9 1 (1.01%) JCL
9 1 (1.01%) PHP
9 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) Degree
3 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) QA
4 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.03%) Docker
3 2 (2.02%) Firmware
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.04%) Grafana
1 4 (4.04%) SCCM
2 3 (3.03%) Ansible
2 3 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Kibana
3 1 (1.01%) logstash
3 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Oracle
3 6 (6.06%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) IBM
4 2 (2.02%) Informatica
5 1 (1.01%) Genesys
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.01%) Murex
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.01%) Splunk