Technical Leader Contracts in the City of London

Technical Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the City of London is £656 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 146 175
Rank change year-on-year +33 +29 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 14 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.65% 0.75% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.79% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 12
10th Percentile £456 £559 £474
25th Percentile £536 £609 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +21.74% -7.07%
75th Percentile £722 £750 £647
90th Percentile £773 £758 £731
Central London median daily rate £656 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +21.74% -7.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,053 3,296 3,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.22% 95.04% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,238 2,981
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +4.65%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 48
10th Percentile £14.90 £15.37 £15.19
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £37.34 £72.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £47.18 £88.30 £65.28
Central London median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -21.70% -13.58% +125.31%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London Bridge - 1 £501 -
Technical Leader
Central London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 City of London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Coaching
3 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Marketing
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
4 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
4 3 (21.43%) Power BI
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 3 (21.43%) Databricks
5 2 (14.29%) WhatsApp
5 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) .NET
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Amdocs
6 1 (7.14%) Information Security
6 1 (7.14%) TDD

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.14%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
4 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) WhatsApp
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) CentOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Coaching
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.14%) Information Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security
5 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.14%) Microservices
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) OO
5 1 (7.14%) OOD
5 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Scala
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) OCP
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
1 1 (7.14%) logstash
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Amdocs
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Guidewire
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) SAP