Technical Leadership Contracts in the South East

Technical Leadership
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 149 184
Rank change year-on-year +65 +35 -40
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 128 66 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.22% 1.17% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.31% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 42 58
10th Percentile £475 £500 £444
25th Percentile £518 £503 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +9.59% +9.50%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £736 £698
England median daily rate £619 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -1.51% +4.67% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile - £60.90 £61.35
25th Percentile - £61.00 £61.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £66.71 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.02% +5.89% +93.85%
75th Percentile £29.13 £79.15 £64.50
90th Percentile £35.80 £80.33 £64.65
England median hourly rate £43.49 £65.00 £75.07
% change year-on-year -33.10% -13.41% +71.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
Thames Valley +44 60 £650 +8.33% 24
Berkshire +20 52 £650 +2.97% 14
Hampshire +16 42 £613 +8.22% 1
Surrey +7 13 £525 -16.00% 3
West Sussex - 9 £475 - 1
Buckinghamshire +34 8 £550 +69.23% 4
Middlesex - 3 £625 - 1
Kent +6 1 £800 +33.33% 4
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 4 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.44%) AWS
1 30 (23.44%) Azure
2 9 (7.03%) OpenShift
3 7 (5.47%) GCP
4 3 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.34%) Serverless
4 3 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.56%) PaaS
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.78%) Datadog
6 1 (0.78%) Route 53
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.53%) BGP
1 25 (19.53%) WAN
2 24 (18.75%) SSL
3 22 (17.19%) Cisco Firepower
3 22 (17.19%) MPLS
4 8 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (5.47%) 5G
5 7 (5.47%) VSAN
6 6 (4.69%) 3G
6 6 (4.69%) 4G
6 6 (4.69%) VPN
7 3 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.34%) Firewall
7 3 (2.34%) IOS XR
7 3 (2.34%) Junos
7 3 (2.34%) LAN
7 3 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.56%) DHCP
8 2 (1.56%) DNS
9 1 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.56%) Big Data
3 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.78%) Metadata
4 1 (0.78%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 27 (21.09%) Selenium
2 26 (20.31%) Jenkins
3 25 (19.53%) Cucumber
4 24 (18.75%) REST Assured
4 24 (18.75%) SonarQube
5 17 (13.28%) JIRA
6 15 (11.72%) GitLab
7 7 (5.47%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (3.13%) Git
9 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.56%) JMeter
General
1 51 (39.84%) Social Skills
2 39 (30.47%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (25.00%) Finance
4 20 (15.63%) Law
5 13 (10.16%) Police
6 8 (6.25%) Marketing
7 7 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.34%) Automotive
10 3 (2.34%) Aviation
10 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Advertising
12 1 (0.78%) Banking
12 1 (0.78%) German Language
12 1 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.78%) Local Government
12 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (28.13%) Architect
2 33 (25.78%) Senior
3 25 (19.53%) Network Architect
4 17 (13.28%) Java Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Lead
5 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.47%) Java Architect
6 7 (5.47%) Performance Specialist
6 7 (5.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) Technical Leader
6 7 (5.47%) VMware Expert
7 6 (4.69%) Consultant
7 6 (4.69%) Developer
7 6 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Senior Architect
8 5 (3.91%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.91%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.66%) REST
2 25 (19.53%) Java EE
3 12 (9.38%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.91%) RESTful
5 3 (2.34%) .NET
5 3 (2.34%) Django
5 3 (2.34%) J2EE
5 3 (2.34%) JSON
5 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.34%) YANG
6 2 (1.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.56%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.56%) Kafka
6 2 (1.56%) React
7 1 (0.78%) LDAP
7 1 (0.78%) Node.js
7 1 (0.78%) PySpark
7 1 (0.78%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.34%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.56%) PKI
6 2 (1.56%) Robotics
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.72%) Windows
2 11 (8.59%) Linux
3 9 (7.03%) Unix
4 3 (2.34%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.56%) Solaris
5 2 (1.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.56%) VMS
5 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.28%) DevOps
2 37 (28.91%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (28.13%) Decision-Making
4 31 (24.22%) Customer Requirements
5 28 (21.88%) Software Architecture
5 28 (21.88%) Test Automation
6 27 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (19.53%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (19.53%) Network Management
8 24 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 23 (17.97%) Roadmaps
10 22 (17.19%) Network Design
11 21 (16.41%) Agile
11 21 (16.41%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (14.84%) Containerisation
12 19 (14.84%) Translating Business Requirements
13 17 (13.28%) CI/CD
14 15 (11.72%) Time Management
15 14 (10.94%) Configuration Management
15 14 (10.94%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.13%) Java
2 16 (12.50%) Python
3 10 (7.81%) SQL
4 6 (4.69%) Bash
4 6 (4.69%) C
4 6 (4.69%) C++
5 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.34%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.56%) VBScript
7 1 (0.78%) C#
7 1 (0.78%) Perl
7 1 (0.78%) PHP
7 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (51.56%) Security Cleared
2 42 (32.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.59%) Degree
4 8 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (5.47%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.34%) CCNA
6 3 (2.34%) CCNP
6 3 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.34%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.13%) QA
3 3 (2.34%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Docker
2 8 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.25%) VMware NSX
3 7 (5.47%) vCloud
4 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.34%) XenApp
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (25.78%) Kubernetes
2 30 (23.44%) Ansible
3 26 (20.31%) Terraform
4 22 (17.19%) Endace
5 12 (9.38%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (9.38%) Podman
6 7 (5.47%) Istio
6 7 (5.47%) Rancher
6 7 (5.47%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.34%) SCCM
8 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.78%) Nagios
9 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (21.88%) Cisco
2 25 (19.53%) Juniper
3 22 (17.19%) F5
4 11 (8.59%) VMware
5 7 (5.47%) Google
6 6 (4.69%) SAP
7 5 (3.91%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.34%) Citrix
8 3 (2.34%) Microsoft
8 3 (2.34%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.56%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.56%) Oracle
9 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.56%) Symantec
10 1 (0.78%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.78%) New Relic
10 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.78%) Pega
10 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.78%) Splunk