Technical Leadership Contracts

Technical Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 279 286
Rank change year-on-year +73 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 503 586 866
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 0.99% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.10% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 402 579
10th Percentile £450 £486 £454
25th Percentile £506 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +15.09%
75th Percentile £688 £737 £688
90th Percentile £788 £825 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 11
10th Percentile £12.75 £33.73 £53.81
25th Percentile £17.72 £60.25 £61.75
Median hourly rate £28.72 £66.71 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.96% -11.05% +87.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £80.25 £93.57
90th Percentile £71.90 £82.22 £96.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £64.34 £72.50
% change year-on-year -72.02% -11.25% +81.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK

Technical Leadership
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England +80 455 £600 -5.88% 474
UK excluding London +57 285 £600 - 295
Work from Home +91 185 £600 -4.00% 261
London +53 168 £600 -8.71% 202
South East +64 138 £575 -8.00% 72
North of England +16 51 £620 +3.33% 56
Midlands +41 44 £621 -9.67% 36
North West +15 36 £620 +5.53% 34
East Midlands +34 23 £622 +2.60% 9
West Midlands +19 20 £475 -30.91% 27
Scotland +5 17 £500 -11.97% 25
East of England +21 16 £635 +17.59% 43
South West +6 13 £631 -2.88% 56
Yorkshire +13 12 £600 - 17
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 7
North East - 3 £850 - 7

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.58%) Confluence
2 9 (1.79%) IIS
3 7 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.39%) Apache
4 6 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.99%) CMS
6 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.60%) SAS
7 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) CATIA
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.40%) SAP MDM
1 2 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
1 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (28.23%) Azure
2 106 (21.07%) AWS
3 48 (9.54%) Serverless
4 36 (7.16%) GCP
5 34 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (4.97%) Power Platform
8 21 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 18 (3.58%) Azure API Management
10 18 (3.58%) PaaS
11 17 (3.38%) Azure Functions
12 16 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (3.18%) OpenShift
13 15 (2.98%) GitHub
14 12 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (9.15%) WAN
2 45 (8.95%) VPN
3 42 (8.35%) Firewall
4 33 (6.56%) BGP
5 31 (6.16%) SSL
6 29 (5.77%) MPLS
7 24 (4.77%) Cisco Firepower
7 24 (4.77%) LAN
8 16 (3.18%) Network Security
9 13 (2.58%) DNS
10 11 (2.19%) TCP/IP
10 11 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (1.79%) 5G
12 8 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (1.39%) DHCP
13 7 (1.39%) Junos
13 7 (1.39%) VSAN
14 6 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.98%) Big Data
4 13 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.39%) Power BI
8 6 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.80%) DB2
10 4 (0.80%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.60%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (8.15%) JIRA
2 36 (7.16%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.77%) Selenium
4 27 (5.37%) Git
5 26 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.17%) SonarQube
6 24 (4.77%) REST Assured
7 19 (3.78%) GitLab
8 11 (2.19%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.79%) JMeter
10 8 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.80%) ERwin
11 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.40%) Maven
13 1 (0.20%) Gradle
13 1 (0.20%) JUnit
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 176 (34.99%) Social Skills
2 120 (23.86%) Finance
3 102 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.77%) Banking
6 23 (4.57%) Law
7 18 (3.58%) Marketing
8 17 (3.38%) Police
9 15 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.78%) Legal
11 13 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.99%) Retail
17 4 (0.80%) Automotive
17 4 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 180 (35.79%) Architect
2 126 (25.05%) Lead
3 62 (12.33%) Senior
4 60 (11.93%) Technical Leader
5 47 (9.34%) Solutions Architect
6 39 (7.75%) Technical Architect
7 37 (7.36%) Network Architect
8 21 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (3.98%) Developer
9 20 (3.98%) Software Engineer
10 19 (3.78%) Java Engineer
11 18 (3.58%) Consultant
11 18 (3.58%) Lead Architect
12 16 (3.18%) Analyst
12 16 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (2.58%) Data Engineer
14 11 (2.19%) ForgeRock Architect
14 11 (2.19%) Systems Engineer
15 10 (1.99%) Project Manager
15 10 (1.99%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.16%) REST
2 28 (5.57%) XML
3 25 (4.97%) Java EE
3 25 (4.97%) Node.js
4 22 (4.37%) React
5 20 (3.98%) LDAP
6 19 (3.78%) .NET
7 18 (3.58%) ARM Templates
8 16 (3.18%) Kafka
9 13 (2.58%) OpenID
9 13 (2.58%) SAML
9 13 (2.58%) Web Services
10 12 (2.39%) OAuth
11 11 (2.19%) HTML
11 11 (2.19%) RESTful
12 8 (1.59%) J2EE
13 7 (1.39%) JSON
14 6 (1.19%) CSS
14 6 (1.19%) Middleware
15 5 (0.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.77%) Product Ownership
1 24 (4.77%) Public Cloud
2 16 (3.18%) Data Centre
3 13 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 10 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (1.99%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.19%) NHS
8 5 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (0.99%) Machine to Machine
8 5 (0.99%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.80%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 59 (11.73%) Windows
2 42 (8.35%) Linux
3 22 (4.37%) Unix
3 22 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.38%) Android
5 16 (3.18%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.19%) VMS
7 10 (1.99%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.99%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.80%) CentOS
9 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.40%) Solaris
11 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.40%) zOS
12 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (26.84%) Agile
2 133 (26.44%) DevOps
3 124 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (18.89%) Mentoring
5 92 (18.29%) Roadmaps
6 66 (13.12%) CI/CD
7 62 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (11.33%) Software Engineering
9 55 (10.93%) Decision-Making
10 50 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (9.54%) Migration
12 46 (9.15%) Customer Requirements
13 45 (8.95%) Computer Science
14 42 (8.35%) Project Management
15 41 (8.15%) Microservices
16 39 (7.75%) Containerisation
17 37 (7.36%) Customer Service
18 35 (6.96%) Data Modelling
18 35 (6.96%) Risk Management
19 34 (6.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (14.91%) Java
2 69 (13.72%) Python
3 67 (13.32%) SQL
4 27 (5.37%) C#
5 18 (3.58%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.58%) Scala
8 10 (1.99%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.59%) Bash
10 6 (1.19%) C
10 6 (1.19%) C++
10 6 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.99%) PHP
12 4 (0.80%) Perl
13 3 (0.60%) R
13 3 (0.60%) Ruby
13 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.40%) VBScript
15 1 (0.20%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 159 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 121 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 73 (14.51%) Degree
4 38 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (5.37%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.39%) CCNA
9 10 (1.99%) CCNP
9 10 (1.99%) PMP
10 8 (1.59%) CISSP
10 8 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.39%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.99%) JNCIA
12 5 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.80%) APMP
13 4 (0.80%) CEH
13 4 (0.80%) CISM
13 4 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.35%) QA
2 18 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.58%) SLA
4 9 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.19%) GRC
6 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.40%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.40%) GDPR
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.20%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (9.34%) Docker
2 26 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.99%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.39%) vCloud
6 5 (0.99%) XenApp
7 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.60%) vSphere
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.40%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 51 (10.14%) Terraform
3 43 (8.55%) Ansible
4 23 (4.57%) Endace
5 16 (3.18%) Docker Swarm
6 15 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (2.39%) Podman
8 11 (2.19%) SCCM
9 7 (1.39%) Argo
9 7 (1.39%) Istio
9 7 (1.39%) Rancher
9 7 (1.39%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.99%) Puppet
11 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.40%) Grafana
11 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.20%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.20%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 65 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.54%) Cisco
3 31 (6.16%) Juniper
4 27 (5.37%) F5
5 26 (5.17%) Google
5 26 (5.17%) VMware
6 21 (4.17%) Oracle
6 21 (4.17%) SAP
7 14 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.39%) Databricks
8 12 (2.39%) ForgeRock
9 9 (1.79%) Informatica
10 8 (1.59%) Adobe
11 6 (1.19%) Apple
11 6 (1.19%) Citrix
11 6 (1.19%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.19%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.99%) Computacenter
12 5 (0.99%) CyberArk