Technical Leader Contracts in the Midlands

Technical Lead
England > Midlands

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the Midlands is £619 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 121 126 171
Rank change year-on-year +5 +45 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 13 37 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.48% 1.08% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.15% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 29 14
10th Percentile £416 £407 £331
25th Percentile £472 £488 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £688 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +30.95% +3.35%
75th Percentile £766 £694 £625
90th Percentile £813 £765 £634
England median daily rate £627 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.50% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.63 - -
Median hourly rate £28.25 - -
75th Percentile £28.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,513 3,228 4,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 94.58% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 2,271 3,526
10th Percentile £213 £220 £209
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 127 170
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.30 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.08
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.08
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.50 £34.55
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the Midlands

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the Midlands

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the Midlands

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the Midlands

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +2 10 £725 +5.45% 12
East Midlands +22 3 £500 +42.86% 8
Technical Leader
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Automotive
3 4 (30.77%) Informatica
3 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
4 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Power BI
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Retail
4 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 2 (15.38%) Marketing
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Workflow
5 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Presales
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
6 1 (7.69%) Ticket Management
6 1 (7.69%) Docker
6 1 (7.69%) InfiniBand

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) InfiniBand
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Automotive
3 3 (23.08%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
1 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
1 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Change Management
2 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
2 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (15.38%) Presales
2 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (15.38%) Workflow
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Experience
3 1 (7.69%) ITSM
3 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Service Management
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Lustre
1 1 (7.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Informatica