Technical Leadership Contracts in London

Technical Leadership
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 279 295
Rank change year-on-year +47 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 170 241 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.90% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.98% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 159 237
10th Percentile £475 £473 £509
25th Percentile £517 £547 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +4.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £799 £734
90th Percentile £813 £825 £830
England median daily rate £600 £646 £600
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £18.93 £35.00 £90.90
Median % change year-on-year -45.91% -61.50% -
England median hourly rate £18.47 £62.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -70.22% -17.33% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,770 24,518 35,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 91.07% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,304 17,620 26,197
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 277 426
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.58 £17.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.75 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +6.43% +12.03%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.95 £67.81
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +46 32 £675 -10.00% 13
East London - 3 £594 - 6
West London +6 2 £525 -16.00% 2
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.94%) CMS
1 5 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.76%) Apache
3 3 (1.76%) Confluence
3 3 (1.76%) IIS
3 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) SAS
4 2 (1.18%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.59%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.59%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.59%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 72 (42.35%) Azure
2 41 (24.12%) AWS
3 27 (15.88%) Dynamics 365
4 25 (14.71%) Serverless
5 23 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (10.00%) Azure API Management
6 17 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 16 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (8.24%) GCP
9 14 (8.24%) Power Platform
10 12 (7.06%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.47%) GitHub
11 11 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (5.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.71%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (4.12%) Azure AKS
14 7 (4.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.65%) Firewall
2 12 (7.06%) VPN
3 5 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (2.94%) Internet
3 5 (2.94%) Intranet
3 5 (2.94%) LAN
3 5 (2.94%) Network Security
3 5 (2.94%) WAN
4 4 (2.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.35%) Wireless
5 3 (1.76%) Broadband
5 3 (1.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.76%) IPsec
5 3 (1.76%) L2TP
5 3 (1.76%) MPLS
5 3 (1.76%) Multicast
5 3 (1.76%) Unicast
5 3 (1.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) Big Data
2 10 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.94%) Power BI
5 4 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.76%) Data Mart
6 3 (1.76%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.76%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.76%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.18%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.18%) HDInsight
7 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.24%) Git
2 12 (7.06%) JIRA
3 7 (4.12%) Cypress.io
3 7 (4.12%) JMeter
4 4 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.76%) GitLab
6 1 (0.59%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.59%) ERwin
6 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.59%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.59%) Terragrunt
General
1 52 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.53%) Finance
3 36 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.53%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.71%) Banking
6 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.94%) Marketing
6 5 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.76%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.76%) Front Office
7 3 (1.76%) Law
7 3 (1.76%) Legal
7 3 (1.76%) Retail
8 2 (1.18%) Billing
8 2 (1.18%) Police
8 2 (1.18%) Publishing
8 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (33.53%) Architect
2 56 (32.94%) Lead
3 18 (10.59%) Senior
3 18 (10.59%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (10.59%) Technical Leader
4 9 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (4.71%) Data Engineer
5 8 (4.71%) Technical Architect
6 7 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (3.53%) Developer
7 6 (3.53%) Informatica Architect
8 5 (2.94%) Azure Architect
8 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (2.94%) Platform Architect
8 5 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.76%) XML
2 13 (7.65%) Kafka
3 10 (5.88%) Node.js
4 8 (4.71%) React
5 6 (3.53%) .NET
6 5 (2.94%) LDAP
7 4 (2.35%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.76%) HTML
8 3 (1.76%) J2EE
8 3 (1.76%) Murex MxML
8 3 (1.76%) REST
8 3 (1.76%) Web Services
9 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.18%) CSS
9 2 (1.18%) JSON
9 2 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.18%) PySpark
9 2 (1.18%) RESTful
9 2 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.94%) Low-Code
2 5 (2.94%) Machine to Machine
3 4 (2.35%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.35%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.35%) Mobile Payment
3 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.76%) Derivative
4 3 (1.76%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (1.76%) Equities
4 3 (1.76%) Fixed Income
4 3 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.76%) Wiki
5 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.18%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.94%) Linux
2 13 (7.65%) Windows
3 6 (3.53%) Unix
4 3 (1.76%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.18%) CentOS
5 2 (1.18%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.59%) Android
6 1 (0.59%) VMS
6 1 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.24%) Mentoring
2 47 (27.65%) Agile
3 41 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (22.94%) DevOps
5 31 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (17.06%) Roadmaps
7 22 (12.94%) Architectural Design
8 21 (12.35%) CI/CD
9 20 (11.76%) Microservices
10 19 (11.18%) Analytics
10 19 (11.18%) Data Transformation
11 18 (10.59%) Computer Science
11 18 (10.59%) Test Strategy
12 17 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
13 16 (9.41%) Data Modelling
13 16 (9.41%) Software Engineering
14 15 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
15 14 (8.24%) Migration
16 12 (7.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.29%) Python
2 31 (18.24%) SQL
3 22 (12.94%) C#
4 20 (11.76%) Java
5 11 (6.47%) Scala
6 7 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.76%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.76%) Perl
8 3 (1.76%) PHP
8 3 (1.76%) R
9 2 (1.18%) C
9 2 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (0.59%) Go
10 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.59%) Ruby
10 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (22.35%) SC Cleared
1 38 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.29%) Degree
3 18 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.24%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.76%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.76%) CITP
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) PhD
8 2 (1.18%) SANS
9 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.59%) CCNA
9 1 (0.59%) CCNP
9 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.59%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.12%) QA
2 9 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.94%) SLA
4 2 (1.18%) GRC
4 2 (1.18%) NCSC
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (11.18%) Docker
2 9 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.59%) HDFS
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (14.12%) Terraform
2 22 (12.94%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.71%) Ansible
4 7 (4.12%) Argo
5 4 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.76%) Puppet
6 3 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.18%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.59%) Netcool
8 1 (0.59%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.59%) SCCM
8 1 (0.59%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 28 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.65%) Oracle
3 10 (5.88%) Databricks
4 8 (4.71%) Cisco
4 8 (4.71%) Informatica
5 6 (3.53%) Google
5 6 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.94%) Adobe
7 4 (2.35%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.76%) F5
8 3 (1.76%) Marketo
8 3 (1.76%) Murex
8 3 (1.76%) Nokia
8 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.76%) SAP
8 3 (1.76%) VMware
9 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 2 (1.18%) Sparx
9 2 (1.18%) Workday