Technical Leadership Contracts in the South West

Technical Leadership
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 140 116 126
Rank change year-on-year -24 +10 -30
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 17 43 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 1.27% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.43% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 32 33
10th Percentile £555 £579 £429
25th Percentile £600 £600 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £691 £728 £670
90th Percentile £753 £812 £821
England median daily rate £619 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -1.51% +4.67% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
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 West

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the South West

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -5 7 £619 +1.02% 19
Gloucestershire -2 3 £738 +13.46% 9
Devon -6 3 £563 -21.05% 3
Dorset +7 2 £625 -10.71%
Wiltshire -10 2 - - 3
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
3 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
3 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) npm
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) LAN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Babel
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) ESLint
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.88%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) Vite
2 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Military
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Identity Management Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.88%) Jest
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Material-UI
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.88%) Parceljs
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) CentOS
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Business Case
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) User Experience
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Open Source
5 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.76%) Product Management
5 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) C
2 1 (5.88%) C++
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) XenApp
3 1 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) NetIQ Identity Manager
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.88%) Ivanti
3 1 (5.88%) NetIQ
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat