Technical Leader Contracts in England

Technical Lead
UK > England

The median Technical Lead daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 300 379
Rank change year-on-year +10 +79 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 283 385 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.82% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.87% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 272 313
10th Percentile £483 £494 £456
25th Percentile £525 £588 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% +10.00%
75th Percentile £813 £741 £723
90th Percentile £850 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £644 £650 £578
% change year-on-year -0.96% +12.55% +5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile £24.73 - -
25th Percentile £25.81 £45.44 -
Median hourly rate £28.25 £48.61 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.88% +38.89% -26.32%
75th Percentile £28.88 £51.78 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £48.61 £41.15
% change year-on-year -41.88% +18.13% -14.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in England

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the England 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
London +21 157 £650 -3.70% 60
North of England +24 45 £850 +41.67% 29
North West +47 42 £850 +41.67% 25
South East +17 24 £600 +5.96% 21
Midlands +5 22 £619 -7.48% 20
South West +5 16 £538 -24.56% 19
West Midlands +1 14 £725 +5.45% 8
East Midlands +12 8 £500 +42.86% 12
East of England -14 7 £600 -6.58% 11
Yorkshire -9 3 £590 -1.67% 2
Technical Leader
UK

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 95 (33.57%) Agile
2 60 (21.20%) DevOps
3 56 (19.79%) Java
4 54 (19.08%) Finance
4 54 (19.08%) Security Cleared
5 50 (17.67%) CI/CD
6 46 (16.25%) AWS
6 46 (16.25%) Social Skills
7 44 (15.55%) SC Cleared
8 43 (15.19%) Android
8 43 (15.19%) Apple iOS
8 43 (15.19%) Technical Leadership
9 41 (14.49%) Node.js
9 41 (14.49%) Windows
10 40 (14.13%) Python
11 38 (13.43%) C#
12 36 (12.72%) Azure
12 36 (12.72%) Software Engineering
13 35 (12.37%) Banking
14 34 (12.01%) .NET
14 34 (12.01%) VPN
14 34 (12.01%) Firewall
14 34 (12.01%) Mobile Device Management
14 34 (12.01%) Windows Server
14 34 (12.01%) Design Patterns
15 33 (11.66%) JavaScript
16 32 (11.31%) Microsoft
16 32 (11.31%) Risk Management
17 31 (10.95%) Zero Trust
18 30 (10.60%) Security Architecture

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (6.01%) Apache
1 17 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.77%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Drupal
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.53%) ION Anvil
2 6 (2.12%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.25%) AWS
2 36 (12.72%) Azure
3 18 (6.36%) dbt
3 18 (6.36%) Snowflake
4 16 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.12%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (1.77%) Route 53
8 5 (1.77%) Serverless
9 4 (1.41%) GCP
9 4 (1.41%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.41%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.01%) Firewall
1 34 (12.01%) VPN
2 7 (2.47%) FTP
3 4 (1.41%) WAN
4 3 (1.06%) IP Telephony
4 3 (1.06%) LAN
4 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.06%) Wireless
4 3 (1.06%) WLAN
5 1 (0.35%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.35%) NAS
5 1 (0.35%) SMS
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.36%) Data Lake
3 17 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (6.01%) Apache Arrow
3 17 (6.01%) Apache Ignite
3 17 (6.01%) Dremio
4 10 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.47%) Power BI
6 5 (1.77%) MySQL
6 5 (1.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.71%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.71%) DB2
9 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.53%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.83%) JIRA
3 6 (2.12%) webpack
4 5 (1.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.35%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.35%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (19.08%) Finance
2 46 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.37%) Banking
4 29 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.48%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.71%) Back Office
7 18 (6.36%) Front Office
8 15 (5.30%) Retail
9 11 (3.89%) Legal
10 8 (2.83%) Marketing
11 6 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (1.77%) Automotive
13 3 (1.06%) Billing
13 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.06%) Local Government
14 2 (0.71%) French Language
14 2 (0.71%) Military
14 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.71%) Police
14 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.49%) Node.js
2 34 (12.01%) .NET
3 17 (6.01%) gRPC
3 17 (6.01%) NumPy
3 17 (6.01%) Pandas
3 17 (6.01%) Protocol Buffers
3 17 (6.01%) SciPy
4 12 (4.24%) .NET Core
4 12 (4.24%) React
4 12 (4.24%) Spring Boot
5 10 (3.53%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (3.18%) HTML
7 8 (2.83%) CSS
8 6 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.12%) J2EE
8 6 (2.12%) Spring
9 5 (1.77%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.77%) Express.js
9 5 (1.77%) Redux
9 5 (1.77%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.25%) Public Cloud
2 28 (9.89%) Fixed Income
3 27 (9.54%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.01%) Derivative
4 17 (6.01%) Equities
4 17 (6.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (6.01%) Hedge funds
5 9 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.12%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.06%) Contactless
8 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.06%) Solar Power
9 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.19%) Android
1 43 (15.19%) Apple iOS
2 41 (14.49%) Windows
3 34 (12.01%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.42%) Linux
5 10 (3.53%) Unix
6 5 (1.77%) CentOS
6 5 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.06%) zOS
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.57%) Agile
2 60 (21.20%) DevOps
3 50 (17.67%) CI/CD
4 43 (15.19%) Technical Leadership
5 36 (12.72%) Software Engineering
6 34 (12.01%) Design Patterns
6 34 (12.01%) Mobile Device Management
7 32 (11.31%) Risk Management
8 31 (10.95%) Zero Trust
9 30 (10.60%) Security Architecture
10 29 (10.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 29 (10.25%) Threat Intelligence
11 28 (9.89%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.07%) Mentoring
13 19 (6.71%) Microservices
14 18 (6.36%) OO
15 17 (6.01%) Asset Management
15 17 (6.01%) Greeks
15 17 (6.01%) Investment Management
15 17 (6.01%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 56 (19.79%) Java
2 40 (14.13%) Python
3 38 (13.43%) C#
4 33 (11.66%) JavaScript
5 25 (8.83%) SQL
6 20 (7.07%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.24%) Bicep
8 6 (2.12%) C
8 6 (2.12%) C++
9 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.06%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.71%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) R
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.89%) Degree
4 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) CCNA CyberOps
8 1 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) CISA
8 1 (0.35%) CISM
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) CITP
8 1 (0.35%) MBA
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.53%) QA
3 6 (2.12%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.71%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Lustre
3 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (3.89%) Terraform
2 10 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.12%) Ansible
3 6 (2.12%) Grafana
3 6 (2.12%) Kibana
4 5 (1.77%) logstash
4 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.53%) ION Trading
3 8 (2.83%) Oracle
4 7 (2.47%) Databricks
4 7 (2.47%) Google
4 7 (2.47%) SAP
5 5 (1.77%) Apple
6 4 (1.41%) Amdocs
6 4 (1.41%) Informatica
6 4 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.06%) F5
7 3 (1.06%) Genesys
7 3 (1.06%) IFS
7 3 (1.06%) OutSystems
7 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.06%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.71%) DocuSign
8 2 (0.71%) IBM
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.35%) Confluent