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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 249 272
Rank change year-on-year +49 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 501 595 877
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.06% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.18% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 411 575
10th Percentile £458 £475 £463
25th Percentile £507 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.49% +12.86%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £814 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -0.04% +9.09% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £34.15 £61.35
25th Percentile £15.38 £61.00 £64.31
Median hourly rate £48.48 £66.74 £75.07
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% -11.10% +71.59%
75th Percentile £64.38 £80.25 £92.23
90th Percentile £78.80 £81.81 £96.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £66.69 £75.00
% change year-on-year -42.27% -11.09% +71.43%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +62 454 £601 -5.10% 380
UK excluding London +45 290 £600 -0.04% 251
Work from Home +65 180 £600 -4.00% 188
London +28 166 £625 -7.41% 151
South East +66 132 £598 -0.42% 54
North of England +17 62 £595 +8.14% 55
Midlands +43 46 £550 -20.00% 36
North West +4 31 £620 +18.10% 28
East Midlands +29 25 £622 +3.67% 10
Yorkshire +21 23 £583 -2.92% 20
West Midlands +17 21 £493 -28.36% 26
East of England +7 16 £643 -8.21% 33
Scotland -8 14 £455 -18.60% 26
South West -19 14 £625 -3.85% 39
North East - 8 £850 - 9
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 10

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 15 (2.99%) Confluence
2 13 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.20%) Apache
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
6 3 (0.60%) IIS
6 3 (0.60%) SAS
6 3 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) CANalyzer
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) CATIA
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (28.54%) Azure
2 115 (22.95%) AWS
3 53 (10.58%) Serverless
4 45 (8.98%) GCP
5 33 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (5.59%) Power Platform
9 24 (4.79%) Amazon S3
10 22 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.39%) Azure API Management
13 17 (3.39%) Azure Functions
14 16 (3.19%) OpenShift
15 15 (2.99%) GitHub
15 15 (2.99%) PaaS
16 13 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.58%) WAN
2 33 (6.59%) VPN
3 29 (5.79%) BGP
4 26 (5.19%) Firewall
4 26 (5.19%) MPLS
5 25 (4.99%) SSL
6 23 (4.59%) Cisco Firepower
7 14 (2.79%) 5G
7 14 (2.79%) LAN
8 11 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.80%) DNS
10 8 (1.60%) Network Security
10 8 (1.60%) Radio Access Network
11 7 (1.40%) DHCP
11 7 (1.40%) Junos
11 7 (1.40%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.40%) VSAN
12 6 (1.20%) 3G
12 6 (1.20%) 4G
12 6 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.59%) Big Data
2 20 (3.99%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.79%) Data Lake
6 14 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.20%) Hadoop
8 10 (2.00%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.80%) Power BI
10 7 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.60%) Data Mart
13 3 (0.60%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 39 (7.78%) JIRA
3 36 (7.19%) Git
4 29 (5.79%) Selenium
5 26 (5.19%) Cucumber
6 25 (4.99%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.79%) REST Assured
8 20 (3.99%) GitLab
9 9 (1.80%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.80%) JMeter
10 8 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (1.00%) CANoe
12 4 (0.80%) ERwin
13 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.60%) Storybook
13 3 (0.60%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.20%) ESLint
14 1 (0.20%) Gradle
14 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
14 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 159 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 127 (25.35%) Finance
3 101 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.39%) Banking
6 23 (4.59%) Law
7 16 (3.19%) Marketing
7 16 (3.19%) Police
8 15 (2.99%) Legal
9 14 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.80%) Automotive
11 9 (1.80%) Electronics
12 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Retail
14 4 (0.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 194 (38.72%) Architect
2 109 (21.76%) Lead
3 67 (13.37%) Senior
4 62 (12.38%) Solutions Architect
5 48 (9.58%) Technical Leader
6 36 (7.19%) Technical Architect
7 34 (6.79%) Network Architect
8 27 (5.39%) Developer
9 23 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (3.99%) Analyst
10 20 (3.99%) Lead Architect
10 20 (3.99%) Software Engineer
11 19 (3.79%) Java Engineer
12 17 (3.39%) Consultant
13 13 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.20%) ForgeRock Architect
14 11 (2.20%) Senior Architect
14 11 (2.20%) Systems Engineer
15 10 (2.00%) Data Engineer
15 10 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.99%) REST
2 26 (5.19%) Node.js
2 26 (5.19%) XML
3 25 (4.99%) Java EE
4 24 (4.79%) Kafka
5 19 (3.79%) React
6 17 (3.39%) .NET
6 17 (3.39%) LDAP
7 14 (2.79%) SAML
8 13 (2.59%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.59%) OpenID
9 12 (2.40%) OAuth
9 12 (2.40%) Web Services
10 11 (2.20%) RESTful
11 10 (2.00%) J2EE
12 7 (1.40%) HTML
13 6 (1.20%) JSON
13 6 (1.20%) Middleware
14 5 (1.00%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.59%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.39%) Public Cloud
3 13 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.20%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.20%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.20%) NHS
9 5 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.00%) Derivative
9 5 (1.00%) Infotainment
9 5 (1.00%) Machine to Machine
9 5 (1.00%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.80%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 51 (10.18%) Windows
2 35 (6.99%) Linux
3 17 (3.39%) Unix
3 17 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 16 (3.19%) Android
4 16 (3.19%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.00%) Windows 7
6 6 (1.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.40%) Solaris
8 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.40%) zOS
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (27.35%) DevOps
2 133 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
3 130 (25.95%) Agile
4 95 (18.96%) Mentoring
5 90 (17.96%) Roadmaps
6 64 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 62 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (12.38%) Software Engineering
8 58 (11.58%) Decision-Making
9 52 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (9.78%) Computer Science
11 47 (9.38%) Containerisation
12 43 (8.58%) Project Management
13 42 (8.38%) Microservices
13 42 (8.38%) Migration
14 41 (8.18%) Analytics
14 41 (8.18%) Customer Requirements
15 40 (7.98%) Data Modelling
16 37 (7.39%) Risk Management
16 37 (7.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.97%) Python
2 84 (16.77%) Java
3 69 (13.77%) SQL
4 27 (5.39%) C#
5 13 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.59%) Scala
6 12 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.80%) C
8 9 (1.80%) C++
9 8 (1.60%) Bash
10 6 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.00%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.00%) PHP
11 5 (1.00%) VBA
12 3 (0.60%) Ruby
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) R
13 2 (0.40%) VBScript
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 155 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 115 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 78 (15.57%) Degree
4 43 (8.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.59%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.40%) CCNA
8 10 (2.00%) PMP
9 8 (1.60%) CCNP
9 8 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.40%) CISSP
10 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.00%) JNCIA
12 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.80%) APMP
13 4 (0.80%) CISM
13 4 (0.80%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.18%) QA
2 17 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.99%) SLA
4 9 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.00%) GRC
7 3 (0.60%) GDPR
8 2 (0.40%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.40%) HAZOP
8 2 (0.40%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (9.98%) Docker
2 15 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.60%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.40%) vCloud
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.80%) XenApp
6 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.40%) vSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.20%) HDFS
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 62 (12.38%) Terraform
3 38 (7.58%) Ansible
4 23 (4.59%) Endace
5 16 (3.19%) Docker Swarm
6 14 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (2.40%) Podman
8 7 (1.40%) Argo
8 7 (1.40%) Istio
8 7 (1.40%) Rancher
8 7 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.00%) Functional Safety
9 5 (1.00%) SCCM
10 2 (0.40%) Grafana
10 2 (0.40%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.40%) Puppet
10 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 69 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.19%) Cisco
3 35 (6.99%) Google
4 31 (6.19%) Juniper
5 23 (4.59%) F5
6 20 (3.99%) Oracle
6 20 (3.99%) SAP
6 20 (3.99%) VMware
7 13 (2.59%) ForgeRock
8 11 (2.20%) Databricks
9 9 (1.80%) Informatica
10 8 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.20%) Adobe
11 6 (1.20%) Apple
11 6 (1.20%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.00%) Citrix
12 5 (1.00%) Computacenter
12 5 (1.00%) IBM
13 4 (0.80%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.80%) Salesforce