Technical Leader Contracts in the South East

Technical Lead
England > South East

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the South East is £550 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 182 193 213
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 13 24 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.42% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.44% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 31
10th Percentile £489 £335 £354
25th Percentile £515 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £604 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +5.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £709 £681
90th Percentile £755 £778 £725
England median daily rate £627 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.50% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,097 5,465 7,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 94.65% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,079 3,820 5,047
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £396 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £617 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 333
10th Percentile £12.78 £17.00 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.95
90th Percentile £77.04 £75.00 £60.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the South East

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the South East

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the South East

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the South East

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +12 10 £550 +4.76% 9
Buckinghamshire +32 6 £550 -10.20% 3
Berkshire -8 4 £500 - 5
Surrey - 2 £680 - 1
Hampshire +3 1 £550 -12.00% 3
Technical Leader
England

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

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 South East region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Journey Map
3 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
3 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
3 5 (38.46%) Journey Map
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Experience
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Business Case
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt
4 3 (23.08%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) NuGet
6 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
6 1 (7.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 1 (7.69%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
6 1 (7.69%) Health Technology

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) NuGet
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) 5G
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Health Technology
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Experience
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Journey Map
2 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
2 5 (38.46%) Journey Map
3 3 (23.08%) Business Case
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (7.69%) Change Management
5 1 (7.69%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) SAP