Technical Leadership Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Leadership
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 263 272
Rank change year-on-year +91 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 185 225 429
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.22% 0.88% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.98% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 158 296
10th Percentile £459 £483 £456
25th Percentile £500 £530 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +13.21%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £670
90th Percentile £750 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +15.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 2
10th Percentile - £52.69 £65.65
25th Percentile £12.75 £72.71 £70.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £78.50 £79.87
Median % change year-on-year -82.80% -1.71% +190.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £80.44 £88.36
90th Percentile £34.80 £81.00 £93.08
UK median hourly rate £28.72 £66.71 £75.00
% change year-on-year -56.96% -11.05% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Technical Leadership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leadership trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
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 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 a work from home option citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 9 (4.86%) Confluence
2 7 (3.78%) IIS
3 5 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.62%) Apache
4 3 (1.62%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.62%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP Payroll
1 2 (1.08%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (40.00%) Azure
2 41 (22.16%) AWS
3 29 (15.68%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (12.97%) Dynamics 365
5 19 (10.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 19 (10.27%) Serverless
6 17 (9.19%) Azure API Management
7 13 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.49%) GCP
8 12 (6.49%) Power Platform
9 10 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.32%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.78%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.24%) PaaS
12 6 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.70%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.19%) VPN
2 14 (7.57%) Firewall
3 12 (6.49%) Network Security
4 8 (4.32%) DNS
5 7 (3.78%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (3.24%) 5G
7 5 (2.70%) 3G
7 5 (2.70%) 4G
7 5 (2.70%) LAN
7 5 (2.70%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.16%) DHCP
8 4 (2.16%) SSL
8 4 (2.16%) VLAN
8 4 (2.16%) WAN
9 3 (1.62%) BGP
9 3 (1.62%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.62%) IOS XR
9 3 (1.62%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.62%) Wireless
10 2 (1.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.95%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.62%) DB2
6 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.08%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.08%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.08%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) JIRA
2 13 (7.03%) GitLab
2 13 (7.03%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.49%) Git
4 8 (4.32%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.32%) REST Assured
4 8 (4.32%) Selenium
4 8 (4.32%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.24%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.08%) ERwin
7 1 (0.54%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.54%) Storybook
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (34.05%) Social Skills
2 52 (28.11%) Finance
3 35 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.95%) Marketing
5 11 (5.95%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.86%) Banking
6 9 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.32%) Law
7 8 (4.32%) Police
7 8 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.16%) Electronics
10 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.62%) Military
11 2 (1.08%) Front Office
11 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (29.19%) Lead
2 48 (25.95%) Architect
3 35 (18.92%) Senior
4 22 (11.89%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.19%) Technical Leader
6 13 (7.03%) Developer
7 11 (5.95%) Consultant
8 10 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Analyst
10 8 (4.32%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.32%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) ForgeRock Architect
11 7 (3.78%) Performance Specialist
12 6 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) DOORS Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.24%) Software Integration Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.97%) XML
2 14 (7.57%) LDAP
2 14 (7.57%) REST
3 13 (7.03%) .NET
3 13 (7.03%) ARM Templates
4 8 (4.32%) Java EE
4 8 (4.32%) OAuth
4 8 (4.32%) OpenID
5 7 (3.78%) React
5 7 (3.78%) RESTful
5 7 (3.78%) SAML
5 7 (3.78%) Web Services
6 5 (2.70%) HTML
6 5 (2.70%) Node.js
7 4 (2.16%) Django
7 4 (2.16%) J2EE
7 4 (2.16%) JSON
8 3 (1.62%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.62%) CSS
8 3 (1.62%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.41%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (3.24%) Low-Code
4 5 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 5 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.16%) Mobile Payment
6 3 (1.62%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.62%) Wiki
7 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.08%) Derivative
7 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.08%) Replication
7 2 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.97%) Windows
2 14 (7.57%) Linux
3 10 (5.41%) Unix
4 9 (4.86%) Windows 7
5 6 (3.24%) VMS
6 3 (1.62%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.62%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.08%) Solaris
7 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.54%) Android
8 1 (0.54%) CentOS
8 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.35%) DevOps
2 53 (28.65%) Agile
3 52 (28.11%) Mentoring
4 42 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (17.84%) Roadmaps
7 27 (14.59%) Test Strategy
8 25 (13.51%) Decision-Making
9 21 (11.35%) Data Transformation
10 20 (10.81%) Information Security
11 19 (10.27%) Computer Science
11 19 (10.27%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (10.27%) Migration
11 19 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (9.73%) Customer Requirements
12 18 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (9.73%) Microservices
13 17 (9.19%) CI/CD
14 16 (8.65%) Customer Service
14 16 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.22%) Java
2 28 (15.14%) SQL
3 26 (14.05%) C#
4 21 (11.35%) Python
5 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.32%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.78%) Bash
8 6 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.16%) PHP
10 3 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.08%) C
11 2 (1.08%) C++
11 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.08%) Scala
11 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.54%) R
12 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 45 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 37 (20.00%) Degree
4 16 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (8.11%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.78%) CISSP
8 6 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.70%) CCNA
9 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.16%) APMP
10 4 (2.16%) CEH
10 4 (2.16%) CISM
10 4 (2.16%) PMP
10 4 (2.16%) SANS
11 3 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.54%) CCNP
13 1 (0.54%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.14%) QA
2 9 (4.86%) SLA
3 7 (3.78%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.62%) GRC
6 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.08%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.54%) NCSC
7 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (9.73%) Docker
2 10 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.08%) vSphere
6 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) XenApp
6 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.27%) Terraform
3 17 (9.19%) Ansible
4 11 (5.95%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (4.32%) Podman
5 8 (4.32%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.16%) SCCM
7 2 (1.08%) Puppet
7 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.54%) Argo
8 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.54%) Grafana
8 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.54%) Nagios
8 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.54%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 30 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.49%) SAP
3 10 (5.41%) Oracle
4 8 (4.32%) VMware
5 7 (3.78%) ForgeRock
6 6 (3.24%) Cisco
7 5 (2.70%) Computacenter
7 5 (2.70%) Google
8 4 (2.16%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.62%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.08%) Adobe
10 2 (1.08%) Embarcadero
10 2 (1.08%) Murex
10 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.08%) Workday
11 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.54%) Databricks