Technical Leadership Contracts in the South East

Technical Leadership
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 72 151 177
Rank change year-on-year +79 +26 -41
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 133 69 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.44% 1.23% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 1.38% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 45 63
10th Percentile £468 £500 £444
25th Percentile £488 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £679
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £60.90 £36.45
25th Percentile - £61.00 £45.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £66.71 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.02% +6.74% +92.31%
75th Percentile £29.13 £79.15 £64.25
90th Percentile £35.80 £80.33 £64.55
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
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,987 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.05% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,676 3,461 4,681
10th Percentile £250 £249 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 214 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.96
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -19.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.91 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
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 the South East

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the South East

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +48 65 £613 +11.36% 20
Berkshire +18 57 £650 +18.18% 9
Hampshire +21 45 £625 +10.23% 9
Surrey +7 13 £525 -16.00% 4
West Sussex - 9 £475 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 8 £550 - 5
Kent +6 1 £800 +33.33% 1
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (4.51%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.06%) Azure
2 27 (20.30%) AWS
3 10 (7.52%) OpenShift
4 7 (5.26%) GCP
5 4 (3.01%) PaaS
5 4 (3.01%) Serverless
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.75%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.55%) BGP
1 26 (19.55%) WAN
2 25 (18.80%) SSL
3 23 (17.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 23 (17.29%) MPLS
4 8 (6.02%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (5.26%) 5G
5 7 (5.26%) VSAN
6 6 (4.51%) 3G
6 6 (4.51%) 4G
6 6 (4.51%) VPN
7 3 (2.26%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.26%) Firewall
7 3 (2.26%) IOS XR
7 3 (2.26%) Junos
7 3 (2.26%) LAN
7 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.50%) DHCP
8 2 (1.50%) DNS
9 1 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.50%) Big Data
3 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.75%) Metadata
4 1 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Jenkins
1 27 (20.30%) Selenium
2 25 (18.80%) Cucumber
2 25 (18.80%) SonarQube
3 24 (18.05%) REST Assured
4 20 (15.04%) JIRA
5 15 (11.28%) GitLab
6 8 (6.02%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (3.01%) Git
8 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.50%) JMeter
10 1 (0.75%) Maven
10 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 40 (30.08%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (25.56%) Finance
4 20 (15.04%) Law
5 13 (9.77%) Police
6 8 (6.02%) Marketing
6 8 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.26%) Automotive
10 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Banking
11 1 (0.75%) French Language
11 1 (0.75%) German Language
11 1 (0.75%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.75%) Local Government
11 1 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Architect
2 34 (25.56%) Senior
3 26 (19.55%) Network Architect
4 17 (12.78%) Java Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Lead
6 8 (6.02%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Java Architect
7 7 (5.26%) Performance Specialist
7 7 (5.26%) Technical Leader
7 7 (5.26%) VMware Expert
8 6 (4.51%) DOORS Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Senior Architect
8 6 (4.51%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Software Integration Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.56%) REST
2 25 (18.80%) Java EE
3 13 (9.77%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.76%) RESTful
5 4 (3.01%) .NET
5 4 (3.01%) JSON
6 3 (2.26%) Django
6 3 (2.26%) YANG
7 2 (1.50%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.50%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.50%) Kafka
7 2 (1.50%) React
8 1 (0.75%) Node.js
8 1 (0.75%) OAuth
8 1 (0.75%) OpenID
8 1 (0.75%) PySpark
8 1 (0.75%) SOAP
8 1 (0.75%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.26%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.50%) PKI
5 2 (1.50%) Robotics
6 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.03%) Windows
2 11 (8.27%) Linux
3 10 (7.52%) Unix
4 3 (2.26%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.50%) Solaris
5 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.50%) VMS
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.84%) DevOps
2 41 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (27.82%) Decision-Making
4 33 (24.81%) Customer Requirements
5 28 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (21.05%) Software Architecture
5 28 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 26 (19.55%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (19.55%) Network Management
7 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
8 23 (17.29%) Agile
8 23 (17.29%) Network Design
9 22 (16.54%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (15.04%) Roadmaps
10 20 (15.04%) Translating Business Requirements
11 19 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 19 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 14 (10.53%) Configuration Management
12 14 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.56%) Java
2 14 (10.53%) Python
3 11 (8.27%) SQL
4 6 (4.51%) Bash
5 4 (3.01%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.26%) C
6 3 (2.26%) C++
6 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.50%) C#
7 2 (1.50%) VBScript
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) PHP
8 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (51.88%) Security Cleared
2 44 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.03%) Degree
4 9 (6.77%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.02%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (6.02%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.26%) CCNA
6 3 (2.26%) CCNP
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.51%) QA
3 3 (2.26%) SLA
4 2 (1.50%) Def Stans
System Software
1 21 (15.79%) Docker
2 8 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.02%) VMware NSX
3 7 (5.26%) vCloud
4 5 (3.76%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.26%) XenApp
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (25.56%) Kubernetes
2 31 (23.31%) Ansible
3 23 (17.29%) Endace
3 23 (17.29%) Terraform
4 12 (9.02%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (9.02%) Podman
5 7 (5.26%) Istio
5 7 (5.26%) Rancher
5 7 (5.26%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.26%) SCCM
7 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.75%) Nagios
8 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Cisco
2 26 (19.55%) Juniper
3 23 (17.29%) F5
4 11 (8.27%) VMware
5 7 (5.26%) Google
6 5 (3.76%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.76%) SAP
6 5 (3.76%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.26%) Citrix
7 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.26%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.50%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) Symantec
9 1 (0.75%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.75%) Databricks
9 1 (0.75%) New Relic
9 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.75%) Splunk