Technical Leadership Contracts in England

Technical Leadership
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 260 293
Rank change year-on-year +74 +33 +5
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 448 477 652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.23% 0.99% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.10% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 322 433
10th Percentile £463 £475 £451
25th Percentile £513 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £800 £814 £815
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% +13.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 12
10th Percentile - £32.88 £54.55
25th Percentile £12.75 £53.75 £62.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £64.34 £75.07
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -14.29% +87.68%
75th Percentile £60.00 £80.25 £92.23
90th Percentile £83.40 £80.63 £96.23
UK median hourly rate £43.49 £66.74 £75.07
% change year-on-year -34.84% -11.10% +87.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in England

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in England

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in England

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in England

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in England

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +37 164 £623 -6.39% 141
South East +79 133 £575 -4.17% 68
North of England +20 60 £595 +8.14% 46
Midlands +35 43 £620 -9.82% 34
North West 0 32 £620 +12.73% 23
East Midlands +28 23 £622 +2.60% 8
Yorkshire +17 22 £583 -2.92% 18
West Midlands +21 20 £510 -25.82% 26
East of England +8 16 £635 +17.59% 30
South West -17 10 £638 -6.52% 52
North East - 6 £850 - 8
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (2.90%) Confluence
2 12 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.12%) Apache
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.45%) IIS
6 2 (0.45%) SAS
6 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.67%) CANalyzer
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) CATIA
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
1 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (27.01%) Azure
2 95 (21.21%) AWS
3 43 (9.60%) Serverless
4 38 (8.48%) GCP
5 29 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
6 28 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.46%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (4.02%) Azure API Management
10 18 (4.02%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (2.68%) GitHub
11 12 (2.68%) PaaS
12 11 (2.46%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.46%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.81%) WAN
2 34 (7.59%) VPN
3 32 (7.14%) BGP
4 29 (6.47%) MPLS
5 26 (5.80%) SSL
6 24 (5.36%) Firewall
7 23 (5.13%) Cisco Firepower
8 12 (2.68%) 5G
8 12 (2.68%) LAN
8 12 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.79%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (1.56%) Junos
10 7 (1.56%) VSAN
11 6 (1.34%) 3G
11 6 (1.34%) 4G
11 6 (1.34%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (1.34%) IPsec
11 6 (1.34%) Network Security
11 6 (1.34%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.91%) Big Data
2 19 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 13 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.23%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.01%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.56%) Power BI
9 4 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.89%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.67%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (8.48%) JIRA
2 37 (8.26%) Jenkins
3 32 (7.14%) Git
4 29 (6.47%) Selenium
5 26 (5.80%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.80%) SonarQube
6 24 (5.36%) REST Assured
7 19 (4.24%) GitLab
8 9 (2.01%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.01%) JMeter
9 8 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.67%) CANoe
11 3 (0.67%) ERwin
12 1 (0.22%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.22%) Babel
12 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 145 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 126 (28.13%) Finance
3 93 (20.76%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.03%) Banking
6 21 (4.69%) Law
7 17 (3.79%) Marketing
8 15 (3.35%) Police
9 14 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.90%) Legal
10 13 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.23%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.56%) Automotive
13 7 (1.56%) Electronics
13 7 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.34%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.12%) Retail
16 4 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 174 (38.84%) Architect
2 99 (22.10%) Lead
3 58 (12.95%) Senior
4 52 (11.61%) Solutions Architect
5 45 (10.04%) Technical Leader
6 36 (8.04%) Technical Architect
7 33 (7.37%) Network Architect
8 19 (4.24%) Java Engineer
9 18 (4.02%) Developer
9 18 (4.02%) Lead Architect
10 17 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (3.79%) Software Engineer
11 16 (3.57%) Analyst
12 15 (3.35%) Consultant
13 14 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.46%) Data Engineer
14 11 (2.46%) ForgeRock Architect
15 10 (2.23%) Systems Engineer
16 9 (2.01%) Java Developer
16 9 (2.01%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.04%) REST
2 25 (5.58%) Java EE
2 25 (5.58%) XML
3 24 (5.36%) Node.js
4 23 (5.13%) Kafka
5 17 (3.79%) LDAP
5 17 (3.79%) React
6 14 (3.13%) .NET
7 13 (2.90%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.90%) OpenID
7 13 (2.90%) SAML
8 12 (2.68%) OAuth
9 8 (1.79%) RESTful
9 8 (1.79%) Web Services
10 7 (1.56%) JSON
11 5 (1.12%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.12%) HTML
11 5 (1.12%) Middleware
12 4 (0.89%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.89%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.91%) Public Cloud
2 21 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.12%) Derivative
8 5 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.12%) Machine to Machine
8 5 (1.12%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.12%) NHS
8 5 (1.12%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.89%) Mobile Payment
10 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.04%) Windows
2 32 (7.14%) Linux
3 17 (3.79%) Unix
4 16 (3.57%) Android
4 16 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 16 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.23%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.67%) VMS
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.45%) Solaris
7 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.45%) zOS
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (28.13%) DevOps
2 117 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (25.45%) Agile
4 78 (17.41%) Mentoring
5 73 (16.29%) Roadmaps
6 62 (13.84%) CI/CD
7 55 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (12.05%) Software Engineering
9 50 (11.16%) Decision-Making
10 47 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (9.38%) Containerisation
12 41 (9.15%) Customer Requirements
13 38 (8.48%) Data Modelling
14 37 (8.26%) Computer Science
14 37 (8.26%) Microservices
15 36 (8.04%) Project Management
16 34 (7.59%) Analytics
16 34 (7.59%) Migration
16 34 (7.59%) Translating Business Requirements
17 32 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 78 (17.41%) Java
2 74 (16.52%) Python
3 60 (13.39%) SQL
4 27 (6.03%) C#
5 13 (2.90%) Scala
6 12 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.46%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.56%) Bash
8 7 (1.56%) C
8 7 (1.56%) C++
9 5 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.12%) PHP
9 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.89%) Perl
10 4 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.67%) VBA
12 2 (0.45%) R
12 2 (0.45%) Ruby
12 2 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 141 (31.47%) Security Cleared
2 109 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 63 (14.06%) Degree
4 34 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.58%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.01%) CCNP
9 8 (1.79%) CCNA
9 8 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.34%) PMP
12 5 (1.12%) JNCIA
12 5 (1.12%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.67%) CITP
14 3 (0.67%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.26%) QA
2 15 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.35%) SLA
3 9 (2.01%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.89%) GRC
6 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.22%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (9.60%) Docker
2 12 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.79%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.56%) vCloud
6 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.89%) XenApp
7 2 (0.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.22%) HDFS
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (12.95%) Kubernetes
2 54 (12.05%) Terraform
3 38 (8.48%) Ansible
4 23 (5.13%) Endace
5 16 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
6 14 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (2.68%) Podman
8 7 (1.56%) Argo
8 7 (1.56%) Istio
8 7 (1.56%) Rancher
8 7 (1.56%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.12%) SCCM
10 3 (0.67%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.45%) Puppet
11 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Nagios
12 1 (0.22%) Netcool
12 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 51 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.15%) Cisco
3 33 (7.37%) Google
4 31 (6.92%) Juniper
5 26 (5.80%) F5
6 19 (4.24%) VMware
7 18 (4.02%) Oracle
8 15 (3.35%) SAP
9 12 (2.68%) ForgeRock
10 11 (2.46%) Databricks
11 10 (2.23%) ServiceNow
12 9 (2.01%) Informatica
13 6 (1.34%) Adobe
13 6 (1.34%) Apple
14 5 (1.12%) Citrix
14 5 (1.12%) Computacenter
14 5 (1.12%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.89%) IBM
15 4 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.89%) Salesforce