Technical Leadership Contracts in London

Technical Leadership
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 235 272 303
Rank change year-on-year +37 +31 -5
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 164 237 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.94% 0.92% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.01% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 158 232
10th Percentile £475 £471 £501
25th Percentile £525 £550 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £665 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% +6.40% +10.04%
75th Percentile £722 £788 £734
90th Percentile £834 £825 £850
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £90.90
Median % change year-on-year - -61.50% -
England median hourly rate £38.50 £64.34 £75.07
% change year-on-year -40.16% -14.29% +87.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,492 23,515 35,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.89% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 16,974 26,028
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 266 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.25 £17.18
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.43 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.17 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +0.46% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.38 £67.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in London

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +48 29 £700 -6.67% 13
East London -6 2 £594 -18.35% 24
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (3.05%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.83%) Apache
2 3 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.83%) CMS
2 3 (1.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.22%) IIS
3 2 (1.22%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
4 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.61%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.61%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 66 (40.24%) Azure
2 39 (23.78%) AWS
3 26 (15.85%) Dynamics 365
4 25 (15.24%) Serverless
5 23 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (10.37%) Azure API Management
6 17 (10.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (8.54%) GCP
8 14 (8.54%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.71%) GitHub
9 11 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (6.10%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.88%) Azure Functions
11 8 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.27%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.88%) VPN
2 7 (4.27%) Firewall
3 4 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (2.44%) Network Security
3 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.83%) BGP
4 3 (1.83%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.83%) Broadband
4 3 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.83%) Internet
4 3 (1.83%) Intranet
4 3 (1.83%) IPsec
4 3 (1.83%) L2TP
4 3 (1.83%) MPLS
4 3 (1.83%) Multicast
4 3 (1.83%) OSPF
4 3 (1.83%) Unicast
4 3 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.22%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.93%) Big Data
2 10 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.10%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.10%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.05%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.05%) Power BI
5 4 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.83%) Data Mart
6 3 (1.83%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.83%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.83%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.22%) HDInsight
7 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.22%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Git
2 11 (6.71%) JIRA
3 7 (4.27%) Cypress.io
3 7 (4.27%) JMeter
4 4 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.83%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.61%) ERwin
6 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.61%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 47 (28.66%) Finance
3 37 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.93%) Banking
6 6 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Front Office
8 4 (2.44%) Marketing
8 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.83%) Retail
10 2 (1.22%) Legal
10 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Billing
11 1 (0.61%) Law
11 1 (0.61%) Military
11 1 (0.61%) Publishing
11 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (35.98%) Architect
2 52 (31.71%) Lead
3 22 (13.41%) Senior
4 20 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (9.15%) Technical Leader
6 9 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) Technical Architect
7 8 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 8 (4.88%) Developer
8 7 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Analyst
9 6 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (3.66%) Configuration Analyst
9 6 (3.66%) Informatica Architect
9 6 (3.66%) Lead Developer
9 6 (3.66%) Power Platform Architect
10 5 (3.05%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.05%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.20%) XML
2 13 (7.93%) Kafka
3 10 (6.10%) Node.js
4 8 (4.88%) React
5 7 (4.27%) .NET
6 5 (3.05%) LDAP
7 4 (2.44%) J2EE
7 4 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.44%) Web Services
8 3 (1.83%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.83%) Murex MxML
8 3 (1.83%) REST
9 2 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.22%) CSS
9 2 (1.22%) HTML
9 2 (1.22%) JSON
9 2 (1.22%) PySpark
9 2 (1.22%) RESTful
9 2 (1.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (3.05%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.05%) Derivative
2 5 (3.05%) Low-Code
2 5 (3.05%) Machine to Machine
3 4 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.44%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.44%) Mobile Payment
3 4 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.83%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.83%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.83%) Equities
4 3 (1.83%) Fixed Income
4 3 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.83%) Wiki
5 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.22%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.22%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.59%) Linux
2 10 (6.10%) Windows
3 6 (3.66%) Unix
4 2 (1.22%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.88%) Mentoring
2 44 (26.83%) Agile
3 43 (26.22%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (24.39%) DevOps
5 32 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (17.07%) Roadmaps
7 22 (13.41%) CI/CD
8 20 (12.20%) Microservices
9 19 (11.59%) Architectural Design
9 19 (11.59%) Data Transformation
9 19 (11.59%) Software Engineering
10 18 (10.98%) Analytics
10 18 (10.98%) Computer Science
10 18 (10.98%) Test Strategy
11 17 (10.37%) Integration Patterns
12 15 (9.15%) Data Modelling
12 15 (9.15%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (7.93%) ETL
13 13 (7.93%) Technology Roadmap
14 12 (7.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.83%) Python
2 30 (18.29%) SQL
3 23 (14.02%) C#
4 21 (12.80%) Java
5 11 (6.71%) Scala
6 6 (3.66%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.05%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.83%) C
9 3 (1.83%) C++
9 3 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.83%) Perl
9 3 (1.83%) PHP
10 2 (1.22%) R
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.61%) Ruby
11 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.85%) Degree
4 18 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.54%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.83%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.83%) CITP
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.22%) CISSP
9 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.22%) PhD
9 2 (1.22%) SANS
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.61%) CCNA
10 1 (0.61%) CCNP
10 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.80%) QA
2 8 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.66%) SLA
4 2 (1.22%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (11.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (14.02%) Kubernetes
1 23 (14.02%) Terraform
2 7 (4.27%) Argo
3 6 (3.66%) Ansible
4 4 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.61%) Netcool
6 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.61%) Puppet
6 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.61%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 24 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.32%) Oracle
3 10 (6.10%) Databricks
4 8 (4.88%) Informatica
5 6 (3.66%) Cisco
5 6 (3.66%) Google
5 6 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.44%) IBM
7 3 (1.83%) Adobe
7 3 (1.83%) F5
7 3 (1.83%) Marketo
7 3 (1.83%) Murex
7 3 (1.83%) Nokia
7 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.83%) VMware
8 2 (1.22%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.22%) SAP
8 2 (1.22%) Sparx
8 2 (1.22%) Workday