Technical Leader Contracts in England

Technical Lead
UK > England

The median Technical Lead daily rate in England is £627 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 321 404
Rank change year-on-year +27 +83 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 263 368 448
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.74% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.78% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 252 285
10th Percentile £478 £475 £436
25th Percentile £525 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £809 £738 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £778
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £24.73 - -
25th Percentile £25.81 - -
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
75th Percentile £28.88 - -
90th Percentile - - £39.04
UK median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -27.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +42 153 £650 - 50
North of England +31 43 £850 +41.67% 21
North West +47 40 £850 +40.21% 13
South West +30 16 £600 +6.67% 10
South East +11 13 £550 -8.90% 27
Midlands +5 13 £619 -10.00% 19
West Midlands +2 10 £725 +5.45% 12
East of England -2 9 £600 - 13
East Midlands +22 3 £500 +42.86% 7
Yorkshire -1 3 £590 -1.67% 6
Technical Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 92 (34.98%) Agile
2 57 (21.67%) DevOps
3 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
4 51 (19.39%) CI/CD
5 49 (18.63%) Technical Leadership
6 47 (17.87%) SC Cleared
7 45 (17.11%) Social Skills
8 44 (16.73%) Finance
9 42 (15.97%) Java
10 41 (15.59%) Windows
10 41 (15.59%) Android
10 41 (15.59%) Apple iOS
11 40 (15.21%) Node.js
12 37 (14.07%) Firewall
13 35 (13.31%) Azure
14 34 (12.93%) AWS
14 34 (12.93%) C#
14 34 (12.93%) VPN
14 34 (12.93%) Mobile Device Management
14 34 (12.93%) Windows Server
14 34 (12.93%) Design Patterns
15 33 (12.55%) Microsoft
16 32 (12.17%) Risk Management
17 31 (11.79%) Banking
17 31 (11.79%) Zero Trust
18 30 (11.41%) Public Sector
18 30 (11.41%) Public Cloud
18 30 (11.41%) Security Architecture
19 29 (11.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
19 29 (11.03%) Threat Intelligence

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (4.18%) Apache
1 11 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.04%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
5 2 (0.76%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.80%) ION Anvil
2 6 (2.28%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.31%) Azure
2 34 (12.93%) AWS
3 18 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (5.32%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.56%) dbt
6 12 (4.56%) Snowflake
7 7 (2.66%) Slack
8 6 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.28%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (1.90%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.90%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.90%) Route 53
9 5 (1.90%) Serverless
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.07%) Firewall
2 34 (12.93%) VPN
3 7 (2.66%) FTP
4 4 (1.52%) LAN
5 3 (1.14%) DNS
5 3 (1.14%) IP Telephony
5 3 (1.14%) WAN
5 3 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.14%) Wireless
5 3 (1.14%) WLAN
6 2 (0.76%) Network Security
6 2 (0.76%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) 5G
7 1 (0.38%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.38%) NAS
7 1 (0.38%) SMS
7 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.56%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.18%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.18%) Apache Arrow
4 11 (4.18%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (4.18%) Dremio
5 8 (3.04%) Power BI
6 5 (1.90%) MySQL
7 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.38%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.38%) DTS
10 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.18%) JIRA
3 5 (1.90%) GitLab
3 5 (1.90%) webpack
4 2 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.38%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.73%) Finance
3 31 (11.79%) Banking
4 30 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.22%) Back Office
6 18 (6.84%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.56%) Front Office
7 12 (4.56%) Legal
8 11 (4.18%) Retail
9 8 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.66%) Marketing
11 5 (1.90%) Automotive
12 3 (1.14%) Billing
12 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Police
12 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) French Language
13 2 (0.76%) Local Government
13 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.21%) Node.js
2 28 (10.65%) .NET
3 12 (4.56%) .NET Core
4 11 (4.18%) gRPC
4 11 (4.18%) NumPy
4 11 (4.18%) Pandas
4 11 (4.18%) Protocol Buffers
4 11 (4.18%) React
4 11 (4.18%) SciPy
5 10 (3.80%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.04%) HTML
8 7 (2.66%) CSS
8 7 (2.66%) Spring
9 6 (2.28%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.90%) Express.js
10 5 (1.90%) Redux
11 4 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.52%) SOAP
11 4 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.41%) Public Cloud
2 28 (10.65%) Product Ownership
3 22 (8.37%) Fixed Income
4 11 (4.18%) Derivative
4 11 (4.18%) Equities
4 11 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (4.18%) Hedge funds
4 11 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.90%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.14%) Contactless
7 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.14%) Solar Power
8 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.59%) Android
1 41 (15.59%) Apple iOS
1 41 (15.59%) Windows
2 34 (12.93%) Windows Server
3 23 (8.75%) Linux
4 10 (3.80%) Unix
5 8 (3.04%) CentOS
5 8 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.76%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.98%) Agile
2 57 (21.67%) DevOps
3 51 (19.39%) CI/CD
4 49 (18.63%) Technical Leadership
5 34 (12.93%) Design Patterns
5 34 (12.93%) Mobile Device Management
6 32 (12.17%) Risk Management
7 31 (11.79%) Zero Trust
8 30 (11.41%) Security Architecture
9 29 (11.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 29 (11.03%) Roadmaps
9 29 (11.03%) Threat Intelligence
10 26 (9.89%) Software Engineering
11 21 (7.98%) Mentoring
12 20 (7.60%) Microservices
13 18 (6.84%) OO
14 17 (6.46%) Migration
14 17 (6.46%) Strategic Roadmap
15 16 (6.08%) Product Strategy
16 15 (5.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.97%) Java
2 34 (12.93%) C#
3 28 (10.65%) JavaScript
3 28 (10.65%) Python
4 26 (9.89%) SQL
5 15 (5.70%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.56%) Bicep
7 8 (3.04%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.66%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.42%) Degree
4 6 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.76%) CITP
7 1 (0.38%) CCNA CyberOps
7 1 (0.38%) CCNP
7 1 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.38%) CISA
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CISM
7 1 (0.38%) CISSP
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.42%) QA
3 6 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.90%) Docker
4 1 (0.38%) Lustre
4 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.42%) Ansible
2 9 (3.42%) Grafana
2 9 (3.42%) Kibana
3 8 (3.04%) logstash
3 8 (3.04%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.14%) SCCM
5 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.18%) SAP
3 10 (3.80%) ION Trading
4 7 (2.66%) Oracle
4 7 (2.66%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.28%) Amdocs
5 6 (2.28%) Google
6 5 (1.90%) Apple
7 4 (1.52%) IFS
7 4 (1.52%) Informatica
8 3 (1.14%) Databricks
8 3 (1.14%) Genesys
8 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.14%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco
9 2 (0.76%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.76%) IBM
9 2 (0.76%) SYSPRO
10 1 (0.38%) Confluent
10 1 (0.38%) Rapid7