Technical Leadership Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Leadership
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 176 244 265
Rank change year-on-year +68 +21 +44
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 181 228 417
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.23% 0.93% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.03% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 161 280
10th Percentile £463 £486 £450
25th Percentile £508 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £587
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.52% +11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £663
90th Percentile £753 £800 £751
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% +13.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile - £52.69 £63.08
25th Percentile £12.75 £72.71 £64.31
Median hourly rate £13.50 £78.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -82.80% +8.28% +163.64%
75th Percentile £18.00 £80.44 £82.18
90th Percentile £34.80 £81.00 £90.61
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Technical Leadership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Leadership trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leadership.

Technical Leadership daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Technical Leadership daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Leadership.

Technical Leadership hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Technical Leadership hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.97%) Confluence
2 5 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.66%) Apache
4 3 (1.66%) IIS
4 3 (1.66%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.66%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.55%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) SAP Payroll
1 2 (1.10%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (38.12%) Azure
2 39 (21.55%) AWS
3 25 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (12.71%) Dynamics 365
5 19 (10.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 19 (10.50%) Serverless
6 17 (9.39%) Azure API Management
7 15 (8.29%) GCP
8 12 (6.63%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.42%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.87%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.31%) PaaS
13 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.76%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.21%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.29%) VPN
2 8 (4.42%) Firewall
2 8 (4.42%) Network Security
3 7 (3.87%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (3.31%) 5G
5 5 (2.76%) 3G
5 5 (2.76%) 4G
5 5 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.21%) DHCP
6 4 (2.21%) DNS
6 4 (2.21%) LAN
6 4 (2.21%) VLAN
7 3 (1.66%) BGP
7 3 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.66%) IOS XR
7 3 (1.66%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.66%) WAN
8 2 (1.10%) SAN
9 1 (0.55%) Internet
9 1 (0.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.21%) Big Data
6 4 (2.21%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.21%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.66%) DB2
7 3 (1.66%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.10%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.10%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (13.26%) JIRA
2 15 (8.29%) Git
2 15 (8.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.18%) GitLab
4 8 (4.42%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.42%) REST Assured
4 8 (4.42%) Selenium
4 8 (4.42%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.31%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.10%) ERwin
7 1 (0.55%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.55%) Storybook
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 56 (30.94%) Finance
3 37 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.63%) Banking
6 11 (6.08%) Marketing
7 9 (4.97%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.42%) Law
8 8 (4.42%) Police
8 8 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.21%) Electronics
13 3 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.66%) Military
14 2 (1.10%) Front Office
14 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (29.83%) Architect
2 46 (25.41%) Lead
3 35 (19.34%) Senior
4 28 (15.47%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.18%) Developer
6 11 (6.08%) Consultant
6 11 (6.08%) Technical Leader
7 10 (5.52%) Analyst
7 10 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.42%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (4.42%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.87%) ForgeRock Architect
9 7 (3.87%) Performance Specialist
9 7 (3.87%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.31%) DOORS Engineer
10 6 (3.31%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (3.31%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (3.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.26%) XML
2 14 (7.73%) LDAP
2 14 (7.73%) REST
3 13 (7.18%) .NET
4 9 (4.97%) ARM Templates
5 8 (4.42%) Java EE
5 8 (4.42%) OAuth
5 8 (4.42%) OpenID
6 7 (3.87%) RESTful
6 7 (3.87%) SAML
6 7 (3.87%) Web Services
7 5 (2.76%) J2EE
7 5 (2.76%) Node.js
7 5 (2.76%) React
8 4 (2.21%) Django
8 4 (2.21%) JSON
8 4 (2.21%) Kafka
9 3 (1.66%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.66%) EJB
9 3 (1.66%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.52%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.31%) Low-Code
3 5 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (2.76%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.76%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.76%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.21%) Derivative
4 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.21%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (1.66%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.66%) Wiki
6 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.39%) Windows
2 10 (5.52%) Unix
3 9 (4.97%) Windows 7
4 8 (4.42%) Linux
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.10%) Solaris
5 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.10%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.49%) DevOps
2 52 (28.73%) Mentoring
3 49 (27.07%) Agile
4 43 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (18.78%) Roadmaps
6 27 (14.92%) Test Strategy
7 25 (13.81%) Decision-Making
8 21 (11.60%) Data Transformation
9 20 (11.05%) Information Security
9 20 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (10.50%) Integration Patterns
11 18 (9.94%) Computer Science
11 18 (9.94%) Customer Requirements
12 17 (9.39%) CI/CD
12 17 (9.39%) Data Modelling
12 17 (9.39%) Microservices
13 16 (8.84%) Customer Service
13 16 (8.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (8.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.23%) Java
2 26 (14.36%) C#
2 26 (14.36%) SQL
3 23 (12.71%) Python
4 7 (3.87%) Bash
4 7 (3.87%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.21%) PHP
5 4 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.21%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.66%) C
6 3 (1.66%) C++
6 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.10%) Scala
7 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.55%) Perl
8 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.55%) R
8 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (27.62%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 36 (19.89%) Degree
4 15 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.29%) Master's Degree
5 8 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.87%) CISSP
7 6 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.76%) CCNA
8 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.21%) APMP
9 4 (2.21%) CEH
9 4 (2.21%) CISM
9 4 (2.21%) PMP
9 4 (2.21%) SANS
10 3 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.55%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.47%) QA
2 10 (5.52%) SLA
3 7 (3.87%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.66%) GRC
6 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (9.39%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.10%) vSphere
5 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (11.60%) Kubernetes
1 21 (11.60%) Terraform
2 16 (8.84%) Ansible
3 11 (6.08%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (4.42%) Podman
4 8 (4.42%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.55%) Argo
6 1 (0.55%) Nagios
6 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.55%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 32 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.08%) SAP
3 10 (5.52%) Oracle
4 8 (4.42%) Google
4 8 (4.42%) VMware
5 7 (3.87%) ForgeRock
6 5 (2.76%) Cisco
6 5 (2.76%) Computacenter
7 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.66%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.10%) Adobe
9 2 (1.10%) Embarcadero
9 2 (1.10%) Murex
9 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.10%) Workday
10 1 (0.55%) Informatica
10 1 (0.55%) Juniper