Technical Leader Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 281 306 346
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 110 151 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.67% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 103 135
10th Percentile £440 £453 £414
25th Percentile £500 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £813 £694 £638
90th Percentile £850 £736 £688
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £24.73 - -
25th Percentile £25.81 - -
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
75th Percentile £28.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -27.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the UK excluding London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +31 14 £510 -4.67% 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
Northern Ireland - 2 £513 - 2
Technical Leader
UK

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 44 (40.00%) Agile
2 38 (34.55%) CI/CD
3 37 (33.64%) Node.js
4 33 (30.00%) DevOps
5 32 (29.09%) Windows
6 31 (28.18%) Risk Management
7 30 (27.27%) Firewall
7 30 (27.27%) VPN
7 30 (27.27%) Android
7 30 (27.27%) Mobile Device Management
7 30 (27.27%) Apple iOS
7 30 (27.27%) Windows Server
7 30 (27.27%) Zero Trust
8 29 (26.36%) Security Architecture
8 29 (26.36%) Security Cleared
9 28 (25.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 28 (25.45%) Threat Intelligence
10 27 (24.55%) Public Cloud
10 27 (24.55%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (23.64%) Design Patterns
12 23 (20.91%) SC Cleared
13 19 (17.27%) Microservices
13 19 (17.27%) Roadmaps
14 18 (16.36%) AWS
15 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
15 16 (14.55%) Social Skills
16 15 (13.64%) Product Ownership
16 15 (13.64%) React
16 15 (13.64%) SQL
17 11 (10.00%) JavaScript

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.36%) AWS
2 11 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (8.18%) Serverless
4 8 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.55%) Azure
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.64%) Route 53
6 4 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.73%) CloudFront
7 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.73%) npm
8 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.82%) NuGet
8 2 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.27%) Firewall
1 30 (27.27%) VPN
2 3 (2.73%) LAN
2 3 (2.73%) WAN
2 3 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.73%) Wireless
2 3 (2.73%) WLAN
3 1 (0.91%) 5G
3 1 (0.91%) DNS
3 1 (0.91%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.91%) NAS
3 1 (0.91%) SMS
3 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.91%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.64%) Power BI
4 2 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.91%) Informix
5 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.91%) MySQL
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.91%) Redis
5 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) webpack
2 4 (3.64%) GitLab
3 3 (2.73%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.82%) Capybara
4 2 (1.82%) Gradle
4 2 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
1 16 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.18%) Finance
3 6 (5.45%) Legal
4 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Automotive
5 4 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.73%) Retail
6 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.82%) French Language
7 2 (1.82%) Marketing
7 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Aviation
8 1 (0.91%) Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Military
8 1 (0.91%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (33.64%) Node.js
2 15 (13.64%) React
3 8 (7.27%) HTML
4 7 (6.36%) CSS
5 5 (4.55%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.64%) .NET
6 4 (3.64%) Express.js
6 4 (3.64%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.64%) Redux
6 4 (3.64%) REST
7 3 (2.73%) OAuth
8 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.82%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.82%) WebKit
9 1 (0.91%) EJB
9 1 (0.91%) Kafka
9 1 (0.91%) Middleware
9 1 (0.91%) OpenMP
9 1 (0.91%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.55%) Public Cloud
2 15 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.27%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.73%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.73%) Solar Power
7 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.82%) NHS
8 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.91%) IoT
8 1 (0.91%) PKI
8 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.09%) Windows
2 30 (27.27%) Android
2 30 (27.27%) Apple iOS
2 30 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.55%) Linux
4 1 (0.91%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.00%) Agile
2 38 (34.55%) CI/CD
3 33 (30.00%) DevOps
4 31 (28.18%) Risk Management
5 30 (27.27%) Mobile Device Management
5 30 (27.27%) Zero Trust
6 29 (26.36%) Security Architecture
7 28 (25.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 28 (25.45%) Threat Intelligence
8 27 (24.55%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (23.64%) Design Patterns
10 19 (17.27%) Microservices
10 19 (17.27%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 11 (10.00%) Product Strategy
11 11 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
12 10 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 10 (9.09%) User Experience
13 8 (7.27%) Customer Experience
13 8 (7.27%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.64%) SQL
2 11 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.45%) Java
5 2 (1.82%) C#
5 2 (1.82%) Python
5 2 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.82%) Degree
4 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.73%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Lustre
2 1 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (0.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (4.55%) Apple
1 5 (4.55%) Google
2 4 (3.64%) IFS
2 4 (3.64%) Informatica
3 3 (2.73%) Oracle
4 2 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.82%) VMware
5 1 (0.91%) Brio
5 1 (0.91%) F5
5 1 (0.91%) IBM
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) Twitter