Technical Leader Contracts in the South West

Technical Lead
England > South West

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the South West is £600 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 130 160 153
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 16 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.50% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 12
10th Percentile £473 £478 £431
25th Percentile £484 £531 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £596
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.54% +19.10%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £650
90th Percentile £698 £760 -
England median daily rate £627 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.50% +8.33% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,968 3,350 3,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.46% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 2,513 2,535
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £388 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 267 206
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +39.78% +9.41%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.25 £69.49
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the South West

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +23 10 £569 +1.11% 2
Wiltshire +10 3 £825 +50.00% 2
Gloucestershire +5 2 - -
Somerset - 1 - -
Technical Leader
England

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

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 West region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (18.75%) Client Onboarding
3 3 (18.75%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Solar Power
3 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 3 (18.75%) LAN
3 3 (18.75%) WLAN
3 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (18.75%) Wireless
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Data Privacy
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) LAN
1 3 (18.75%) WAN
1 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (18.75%) Wireless
1 3 (18.75%) WLAN
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Social Housing
3 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 3 (18.75%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (18.75%) Solar Power
3 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) IoT
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Data Privacy
2 2 (12.50%) Microservices
2 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
3 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
3 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (6.25%) Security Management
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) VMware