Technical Leader Contracts in Central London

Technical Lead
London > Central London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Central London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 155 181
Rank change year-on-year +45 +26 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 18 25 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.70% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 12
10th Percentile £413 £556 £474
25th Percentile £516 £606 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £731 £750 £647
90th Percentile £775 £765 £731
London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,285 3,584 4,265
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.29% 95.07% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,616 2,461 3,248
10th Percentile £340 £325 £358
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 53
10th Percentile £20.13 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.81 £18.93 £19.78
Median hourly rate £26.41 £35.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.56% -9.09% +120.00%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.65 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Central London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in Central London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
City of London +33 15 £675 -3.57% 9
City of Westminster -1 1 - -
Lambeth - 1 £245 -
Southwark - 1 £501 -
West End of London - 1 - -
Technical Leader
London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Coaching
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (16.67%) Power BI
5 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 3 (16.67%) Databricks
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Marketing
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) .NET
5 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (11.11%) SAP
6 2 (11.11%) OOD
6 2 (11.11%) OO
6 2 (11.11%) Python
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) TDD
6 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
1 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.11%) WhatsApp
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Back Office
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) CSS3
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Contactless
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.56%) CentOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Coaching
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) OO
5 2 (11.11%) OOD
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) TDD
6 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Data Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (5.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) Bicep
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Scala
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) OCP
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Kibana
1 1 (5.56%) logstash
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Amdocs
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Guidewire
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat