Technical Leadership Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Leadership
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 126 170 271
Rank change year-on-year +44 +101 +6
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 205 186 216
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.07% 1.21% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.38% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 114 149
10th Percentile £408 £459 £473
25th Percentile £505 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £801
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile £44.00 - £52.69
25th Percentile £57.50 £12.75 £72.71
Median hourly rate £77.50 £13.50 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year +474.07% -82.80% -1.71%
75th Percentile £90.63 £18.00 £80.44
90th Percentile £91.75 £34.80 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £42.70 £28.72 £66.71
% change year-on-year +48.69% -56.96% -11.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Technical Leadership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leadership trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Leadership.

Technical Leadership daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Technical Leadership daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Leadership.

Technical Leadership hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Technical Leadership hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
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 16 (7.80%) Moodle
2 8 (3.90%) Confluence
3 7 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.93%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) Camunda
6 1 (0.49%) Documentum
6 1 (0.49%) FileNet
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.49%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.49%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.49%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (27.80%) AWS
2 51 (24.88%) Azure
3 27 (13.17%) GCP
4 13 (6.34%) Serverless
5 10 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.39%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.93%) Slack
10 5 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.44%) GitHub
10 5 (2.44%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.95%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.37%) VPN
2 10 (4.88%) DNS
2 10 (4.88%) HTTP
3 9 (4.39%) Network Security
4 8 (3.90%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.41%) Firewall
6 5 (2.44%) DHCP
6 5 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (2.44%) LAN
7 4 (1.95%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.95%) WAN
8 3 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.46%) DWDM
8 3 (1.46%) SSL
9 2 (0.98%) BGP
9 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.98%) Internet
9 2 (0.98%) Multicast
9 2 (0.98%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.98%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.29%) Relational Database
2 16 (7.80%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.32%) MySQL
4 14 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.90%) Big Data
5 8 (3.90%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.93%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.93%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.95%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.95%) Redis
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.98%) GIS
10 2 (0.98%) ObjectStore
10 2 (0.98%) Power BI
10 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (10.73%) Git
2 19 (9.27%) JIRA
3 16 (7.80%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.85%) GitLab
5 11 (5.37%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.39%) JUnit
7 7 (3.41%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.93%) Jasmine
8 6 (2.93%) Selenium
9 5 (2.44%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.44%) Maven
9 5 (2.44%) PHPUnit
9 5 (2.44%) Postman
9 5 (2.44%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.95%) Gradle
10 4 (1.95%) JMeter
10 4 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.46%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.46%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.46%) TestNG
General
1 69 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.66%) Public Sector
3 27 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.71%) Finance
5 9 (4.39%) Law
5 9 (4.39%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.93%) Banking
8 5 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.95%) Automotive
9 4 (1.95%) Billing
9 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.95%) Police
10 3 (1.46%) Military
11 2 (0.98%) Front Office
11 2 (0.98%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (27.32%) Architect
2 48 (23.41%) Developer
3 46 (22.44%) Lead
4 41 (20.00%) Senior
5 26 (12.68%) Senior Developer
6 22 (10.73%) Software Engineer
6 22 (10.73%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (7.80%) Moodle Developer
8 12 (5.85%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.39%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.39%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 8 (3.90%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.41%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.93%) Java Engineer
12 6 (2.93%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (2.44%) Designer
13 5 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.29%) RESTful
1 17 (8.29%) Spring
2 16 (7.80%) Spring Boot
3 13 (6.34%) Node.js
4 12 (5.85%) AngularJS
4 12 (5.85%) React
4 12 (5.85%) REST
5 11 (5.37%) Web Services
6 9 (4.39%) .NET
6 9 (4.39%) JSON
6 9 (4.39%) Kafka
6 9 (4.39%) OpenAPI
6 9 (4.39%) Swagger
7 7 (3.41%) Middleware
8 6 (2.93%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.93%) HTML
8 6 (2.93%) XML
9 5 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.44%) Java EE
9 5 (2.44%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.34%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.41%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.93%) CMDB
5 6 (2.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.44%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.44%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.44%) VLE
7 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.95%) Frameworx
7 4 (1.95%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 4 (1.95%) Tandem
7 4 (1.95%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.71%) Linux
2 11 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.39%) Windows
4 5 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.46%) Android
5 3 (1.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.49%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.17%) Mentoring
2 59 (28.78%) CI/CD
3 56 (27.32%) Agile
3 56 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (20.00%) DevOps
5 39 (19.02%) Microservices
6 38 (18.54%) Containerisation
7 34 (16.59%) Software Engineering
8 33 (16.10%) Test Automation
9 29 (14.15%) Migration
10 25 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (11.71%) Roadmaps
12 23 (11.22%) Computer Science
13 21 (10.24%) High Availability
14 19 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (8.78%) Analytics
15 18 (8.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 17 (8.29%) Data Modelling
16 17 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (7.80%) OO
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.41%) Python
2 45 (21.95%) Java
3 31 (15.12%) JavaScript
4 30 (14.63%) SQL
5 17 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.37%) C#
6 11 (5.37%) C++
7 10 (4.88%) Bash
8 9 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.41%) C
10 6 (2.93%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.93%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.44%) PHP
11 5 (2.44%) Scala
12 4 (1.95%) R
13 2 (0.98%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.98%) Go
13 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.98%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (31.22%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.66%) Degree
4 23 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.34%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.95%) CCNP
10 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.46%) CCNA
10 3 (1.46%) CITP
10 3 (1.46%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.98%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.98%) Cyber Scheme
11 2 (0.98%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.98%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.44%) GDPR
1 5 (2.44%) QA
2 4 (1.95%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.98%) Def Stans
3 2 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.98%) NIST
3 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (22.93%) Docker
2 9 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.49%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.49%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.49%) vSphere
4 1 (0.49%) XenApp
4 1 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.17%) Terraform
3 15 (7.32%) Ansible
4 8 (3.90%) Grafana
4 8 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (2.44%) Podman
6 4 (1.95%) MOM
6 4 (1.95%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.98%) Kibana
7 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.98%) Puppet
7 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.49%) Argo
8 1 (0.49%) Cloudify
8 1 (0.49%) Istio
8 1 (0.49%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.49%) linkerd
8 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.80%) VMware
3 12 (5.85%) Google
4 10 (4.88%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.39%) Oracle
6 8 (3.90%) Cisco
6 8 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.90%) SAP
7 6 (2.93%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.44%) Dell
9 4 (1.95%) 3PAR
9 4 (1.95%) Databricks
9 4 (1.95%) HP
9 4 (1.95%) IBM
9 4 (1.95%) Siemens
9 4 (1.95%) Veritas
10 3 (1.46%) Apple
10 3 (1.46%) Arista
10 3 (1.46%) Rockwell