Technical Leader Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 239 313
Rank change year-on-year -4 +74 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 99 229 352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.96% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.00% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 145 241
10th Percentile £413 £525 £463
25th Percentile £506 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £745 £700
90th Percentile - £750 £849
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £576
% change year-on-year - +12.80% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - £77.25
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £48.61 £41.15
% change year-on-year -41.88% +18.13% -14.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,702 22,790 42,423
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,229 16,154 30,827
10th Percentile £325 £357 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 568
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.32 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +32.44% +70.19%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.71 £58.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Technical Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leader.

Technical Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Leader over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Technical Leader daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leader.

Technical Leader hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 36 (36.36%) Agile
2 32 (32.32%) AWS
3 29 (29.29%) Java
4 27 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 27 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 25 (25.25%) Finance
6 22 (22.22%) Banking
6 22 (22.22%) Python
7 19 (19.19%) TypeScript
8 18 (18.18%) Data Quality
8 18 (18.18%) DevOps
9 17 (17.17%) Investment Banking
9 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
9 17 (17.17%) dbt
9 17 (17.17%) Snowflake
10 16 (16.16%) Dremio
10 16 (16.16%) Apache Ignite
10 16 (16.16%) Apache Arrow
10 16 (16.16%) Asset Management
10 16 (16.16%) Fixed Income
10 16 (16.16%) Equities
10 16 (16.16%) Derivative
10 16 (16.16%) Investment Management
10 16 (16.16%) Security Cleared
10 16 (16.16%) Greeks
10 16 (16.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (16.16%) Apache
10 16 (16.16%) Front Office
10 16 (16.16%) Pandas
10 16 (16.16%) Data Lake

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (16.16%) Apache
1 16 (16.16%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.01%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.01%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.32%) AWS
2 17 (17.17%) dbt
2 17 (17.17%) Snowflake
3 14 (14.14%) Azure
4 9 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.05%) Serverless
6 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.04%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.03%) CloudFront
7 3 (3.03%) npm
8 2 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.02%) GCP
8 2 (2.02%) GitHub
8 2 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.01%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) VPN
2 5 (5.05%) Firewall
3 1 (1.01%) FTP
3 1 (1.01%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.01%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) NaaS
3 1 (1.01%) Network Security
3 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.01%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.16%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (16.16%) Apache Arrow
1 16 (16.16%) Apache Ignite
1 16 (16.16%) Data Lake
1 16 (16.16%) Dremio
2 9 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.05%) MySQL
4 4 (4.04%) Power BI
4 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) JIRA
2 5 (5.05%) webpack
3 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.03%) Git
4 3 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.01%) GitLab
5 1 (1.01%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.01%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 25 (25.25%) Finance
2 22 (22.22%) Banking
3 17 (17.17%) Investment Banking
3 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
4 16 (16.16%) Front Office
5 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Back Office
7 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.03%) Marketing
8 3 (3.03%) Retail
9 2 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Automotive
10 1 (1.01%) Billing
10 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) gRPC
1 16 (16.16%) NumPy
1 16 (16.16%) Pandas
1 16 (16.16%) Protocol Buffers
1 16 (16.16%) SciPy
2 12 (12.12%) .NET
3 10 (10.10%) CSS
3 10 (10.10%) HTML
3 10 (10.10%) Node.js
4 8 (8.08%) Spring Boot
5 6 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.06%) React
5 6 (6.06%) SOAP
5 6 (6.06%) Spring
6 5 (5.05%) REST
6 5 (5.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (4.04%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.04%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.04%) jQuery
7 4 (4.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Derivative
1 16 (16.16%) Equities
1 16 (16.16%) Fixed Income
1 16 (16.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 16 (16.16%) Hedge funds
2 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.02%) Contactless
4 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.01%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Android
2 5 (5.05%) Apple iOS
2 5 (5.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.02%) Linux
4 1 (1.01%) CentOS
4 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.01%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.36%) Agile
2 27 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 18 (18.18%) DevOps
4 16 (16.16%) Asset Management
4 16 (16.16%) Greeks
4 16 (16.16%) Investment Management
5 13 (13.13%) CI/CD
5 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (10.10%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (10.10%) Mentoring
6 10 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (9.09%) ERP
8 8 (8.08%) Design Patterns
9 7 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (5.05%) Batch Processing
10 5 (5.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 5 (5.05%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (5.05%) Risk Management
10 5 (5.05%) Threat Intelligence
10 5 (5.05%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.29%) Java
2 27 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 22 (22.22%) Python
4 19 (19.19%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.12%) C#
6 7 (7.07%) SQL
7 3 (3.03%) Bicep
8 2 (2.02%) C
8 2 (2.02%) C++
8 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.01%) PHP
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.07%) Degree
4 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) OCP
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) Docker
1 2 (2.02%) Firmware
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Grafana
1 3 (3.03%) Terraform
2 2 (2.02%) Ansible
2 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Kibana
3 1 (1.01%) logstash
3 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Oracle
3 4 (4.04%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) Google
4 2 (2.02%) IBM
4 2 (2.02%) Informatica
5 1 (1.01%) Databricks
5 1 (1.01%) F5
5 1 (1.01%) Genesys
5 1 (1.01%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.01%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.01%) Splunk