Technical Leadership Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 146 203 248
Rank change year-on-year +57 +45 -32
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 283 277 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.39% 1.20% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.35% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 197 206
10th Percentile £463 £486 £438
25th Percentile £488 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £612
90th Percentile £770 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% +13.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile - £60.00 £53.81
25th Percentile £12.75 £61.00 £61.75
Median hourly rate £28.25 £66.69 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.64% -11.09% +87.50%
75th Percentile £58.13 £78.06 £88.62
90th Percentile £85.20 £80.25 £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the UK excluding 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
South East +79 133 £575 -4.17% 74
North of England +20 60 £595 +8.14% 44
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% 16
West Midlands +21 20 £510 -25.82% 26
East of England +8 16 £635 +17.59% 30
Scotland 0 15 £460 -19.01% 20
South West -17 10 £638 -6.52% 52
North East - 6 £850 - 8
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 4
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
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 9 (3.18%) Confluence
2 7 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) CANalyzer
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) CATIA
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (21.91%) Azure
2 58 (20.49%) AWS
3 28 (9.89%) Serverless
4 27 (9.54%) GCP
5 18 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (6.01%) OpenShift
7 14 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (4.59%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.89%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.53%) PaaS
11 9 (3.18%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.47%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 6 (2.12%) IaaS
14 5 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.77%) SaaS
15 4 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.41%) iPaaS
16 3 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.72%) WAN
2 29 (10.25%) BGP
3 26 (9.19%) MPLS
4 25 (8.83%) SSL
5 23 (8.13%) Cisco Firepower
5 23 (8.13%) VPN
6 15 (5.30%) Firewall
7 13 (4.59%) LAN
8 12 (4.24%) 5G
9 9 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.83%) Radio Access Network
11 7 (2.47%) Junos
11 7 (2.47%) VSAN
12 6 (2.12%) 3G
12 6 (2.12%) 4G
12 6 (2.12%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (1.06%) Ethernet
13 3 (1.06%) FlexRay
13 3 (1.06%) IOS XR
13 3 (1.06%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.18%) Big Data
3 9 (3.18%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.47%) BigQuery
5 7 (2.47%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.77%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.71%) Power BI
10 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.35%) DataStage
11 1 (0.35%) DB2
11 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 40 (14.13%) Jenkins
2 28 (9.89%) Selenium
3 26 (9.19%) JIRA
4 25 (8.83%) Cucumber
4 25 (8.83%) SonarQube
5 24 (8.48%) REST Assured
6 19 (6.71%) Git
7 16 (5.65%) GitLab
8 8 (2.83%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.06%) CANoe
10 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.71%) JMeter
10 2 (0.71%) Maven
11 1 (0.35%) Babel
11 1 (0.35%) ERwin
11 1 (0.35%) ESLint
11 1 (0.35%) Gradle
11 1 (0.35%) JUnit
11 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 67 (23.67%) Finance
3 54 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.07%) Law
6 13 (4.59%) Banking
6 13 (4.59%) Marketing
6 13 (4.59%) Police
7 10 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.18%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.83%) Legal
10 7 (2.47%) Automotive
10 7 (2.47%) Electronics
11 6 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.06%) French Language
13 3 (1.06%) Military
14 2 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 113 (39.93%) Architect
2 42 (14.84%) Lead
3 38 (13.43%) Senior
4 31 (10.95%) Network Architect
4 31 (10.95%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.83%) Technical Architect
6 23 (8.13%) Technical Leader
7 19 (6.71%) Java Engineer
8 14 (4.95%) Developer
9 13 (4.59%) Lead Architect
9 13 (4.59%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.89%) Consultant
10 11 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.89%) ForgeRock Architect
11 10 (3.53%) Analyst
12 9 (3.18%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (3.18%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Senior Architect
13 8 (2.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 7 (2.47%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.66%) REST
2 25 (8.83%) Java EE
3 13 (4.59%) ARM Templates
4 12 (4.24%) LDAP
4 12 (4.24%) OAuth
4 12 (4.24%) OpenID
5 11 (3.89%) SAML
6 10 (3.53%) .NET
6 10 (3.53%) Kafka
6 10 (3.53%) Node.js
7 9 (3.18%) RESTful
8 7 (2.47%) React
8 7 (2.47%) Web Services
9 5 (1.77%) JSON
9 5 (1.77%) XML
10 4 (1.41%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.41%) AWS CDK
10 4 (1.41%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.41%) Middleware
11 3 (1.06%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.07%) Product Ownership
1 20 (7.07%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.12%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.12%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.41%) NHS
6 3 (1.06%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.06%) Infotainment
6 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.06%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.71%) PKI
7 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.66%) Windows
2 15 (5.30%) Unix
3 14 (4.95%) Linux
4 13 (4.59%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.24%) Android
5 12 (4.24%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.83%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.12%) VMS
8 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.71%) Solaris
9 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.10%) DevOps
2 78 (27.56%) Agile
3 72 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (16.25%) Roadmaps
5 43 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (13.78%) Decision-Making
7 38 (13.43%) Customer Requirements
7 38 (13.43%) Software Engineering
8 36 (12.72%) CI/CD
9 35 (12.37%) Containerisation
10 31 (10.95%) Mentoring
11 30 (10.60%) Network Design
11 30 (10.60%) Translating Business Requirements
12 29 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (9.89%) Software Architecture
13 28 (9.89%) Test Automation
14 27 (9.54%) Collaborative Working
14 27 (9.54%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (9.54%) Risk Management
15 26 (9.19%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (19.43%) Java
2 35 (12.37%) Python
3 34 (12.01%) SQL
4 8 (2.83%) Bash
4 8 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.41%) C
6 4 (1.41%) C#
6 4 (1.41%) C++
7 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.06%) VBA
8 2 (0.71%) PHP
8 2 (0.71%) Ruby
8 2 (0.71%) VBScript
9 1 (0.35%) Groovy
9 1 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.35%) Scala
9 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 99 (34.98%) Security Cleared
2 67 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.07%) Degree
4 16 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.89%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.83%) CCNP
6 8 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.47%) CCNA
8 6 (2.12%) PMP
9 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.77%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.41%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.95%) QA
2 9 (3.18%) SLA
3 8 (2.83%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.35%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (10.25%) Docker
2 13 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.83%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.47%) vCloud
5 4 (1.41%) XenApp
6 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.71%) vSphere
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.01%) Ansible
3 32 (11.31%) Terraform
4 23 (8.13%) Endace
5 12 (4.24%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (4.24%) Podman
6 11 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.47%) Istio
7 7 (2.47%) Rancher
7 7 (2.47%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.77%) SCCM
9 3 (1.06%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.71%) Grafana
10 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.35%) Nagios
11 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.37%) Cisco
3 31 (10.95%) Juniper
4 27 (9.54%) Google
5 23 (8.13%) F5
6 16 (5.65%) VMware
7 11 (3.89%) ForgeRock
8 9 (3.18%) SAP
9 6 (2.12%) Apple
9 6 (2.12%) Oracle
10 5 (1.77%) Citrix
10 5 (1.77%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.77%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.41%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.06%) Adobe
12 3 (1.06%) Ivanti
12 3 (1.06%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.71%) Symantec
14 1 (0.35%) Embarcadero
14 1 (0.35%) Salesforce