Technical Leader Contracts in London

Technical Lead
England > London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in London 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 246 267 327
Rank change year-on-year +21 +60 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 157 230 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.91% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.96% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 175 185
10th Percentile £485 £525 £475
25th Percentile £550 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £813 £748 £738
90th Percentile £850 £788 £875
England median daily rate £650 £650 £605
% change year-on-year - +7.44% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.15
Median hourly rate - - £47.30
75th Percentile - - £48.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.25 £48.61 £35.00
% change year-on-year -41.88% +38.89% -26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +31 17 £656 -6.25% 4
East London -6 3 £630 +2.78% 2
West London +21 1 £650 - 2
North London - 1 £550 -
South London - 1 £550 -
Technical Leader
England

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

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 London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 58 (36.94%) Agile
2 44 (28.03%) Java
3 37 (23.57%) Finance
4 36 (22.93%) C#
5 33 (21.02%) Python
5 33 (21.02%) Banking
5 33 (21.02%) Software Engineering
6 32 (20.38%) Microsoft
7 30 (19.11%) .NET
7 30 (19.11%) Azure
8 29 (18.47%) JavaScript
9 28 (17.83%) Fixed Income
9 28 (17.83%) AWS
10 24 (15.29%) Investment Banking
11 23 (14.65%) DevOps
11 23 (14.65%) Social Skills
12 20 (12.74%) SQL Server
13 19 (12.10%) Back Office
14 18 (11.46%) Front Office
14 18 (11.46%) OO
14 18 (11.46%) TypeScript
14 18 (11.46%) Security Cleared
14 18 (11.46%) Data Lake
15 17 (10.83%) gRPC
15 17 (10.83%) Apache Airflow
15 17 (10.83%) Dremio
15 17 (10.83%) dbt
15 17 (10.83%) Snowflake
15 17 (10.83%) Apache Arrow
15 17 (10.83%) Amazon Athena

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.83%) Apache
1 17 (10.83%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.18%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Drupal
5 1 (0.64%) SAS
5 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.37%) ION Anvil
2 6 (3.82%) ION MarketView
3 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.11%) Azure
2 28 (17.83%) AWS
3 17 (10.83%) dbt
3 17 (10.83%) Snowflake
4 13 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (5.73%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.55%) Serverless
8 4 (2.55%) Slack
9 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.91%) GitHub
9 3 (1.91%) SaaS
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.46%) FTP
2 3 (1.91%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.64%) Firewall
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.74%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.46%) Data Lake
3 17 (10.83%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (10.83%) Apache Arrow
3 17 (10.83%) Apache Ignite
3 17 (10.83%) Dremio
4 5 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.55%) Power BI
6 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.91%) MySQL
6 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.46%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) webpack
4 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.64%) Git
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.64%) Selenium
4 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (23.57%) Finance
2 33 (21.02%) Banking
3 24 (15.29%) Investment Banking
4 23 (14.65%) Social Skills
5 19 (12.10%) Back Office
6 18 (11.46%) Front Office
7 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
8 11 (7.01%) Retail
9 6 (3.82%) Marketing
10 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.91%) Billing
11 3 (1.91%) Local Government
12 2 (1.27%) Legal
13 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.64%) Law
13 1 (0.64%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.11%) .NET
2 17 (10.83%) gRPC
2 17 (10.83%) NumPy
2 17 (10.83%) Pandas
2 17 (10.83%) Protocol Buffers
2 17 (10.83%) SciPy
3 12 (7.64%) .NET Core
4 10 (6.37%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (4.46%) CSS
5 7 (4.46%) HTML
6 6 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.18%) React
8 4 (2.55%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.91%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.91%) Node.js
9 3 (1.91%) REST
9 3 (1.91%) RESTful
9 3 (1.91%) SOAP
9 3 (1.91%) Spring
9 3 (1.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.83%) Fixed Income
2 17 (10.83%) Derivative
2 17 (10.83%) Equities
2 17 (10.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (10.83%) Hedge funds
3 10 (6.37%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.91%) Contactless
6 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.64%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.64%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.55%) Linux
2 10 (6.37%) Android
2 10 (6.37%) Apple iOS
2 10 (6.37%) Unix
3 5 (3.18%) CentOS
3 5 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.91%) Windows
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.94%) Agile
2 33 (21.02%) Software Engineering
3 23 (14.65%) DevOps
4 18 (11.46%) OO
5 17 (10.83%) Asset Management
5 17 (10.83%) Greeks
5 17 (10.83%) Investment Management
6 15 (9.55%) Mentoring
7 14 (8.92%) TDD
8 13 (8.28%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (7.64%) OOD
10 11 (7.01%) CI/CD
10 11 (7.01%) Clean Code
11 10 (6.37%) Roadmaps
11 10 (6.37%) Scrum
12 8 (5.10%) Coaching
12 8 (5.10%) Customer Experience
12 8 (5.10%) Design Patterns
12 8 (5.10%) Software Testing
12 8 (5.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 44 (28.03%) Java
2 36 (22.93%) C#
3 33 (21.02%) Python
4 29 (18.47%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.46%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.64%) Bicep
6 12 (7.64%) SQL
7 5 (3.18%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.18%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.91%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.64%) C
9 1 (0.64%) C++
9 1 (0.64%) PHP
9 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.64%) R
9 1 (0.64%) Ruby
9 1 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) Degree
4 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CCNA CyberOps
6 1 (0.64%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.64%) CISA
6 1 (0.64%) CISM
6 1 (0.64%) CISSP
6 1 (0.64%) CITP
6 1 (0.64%) MBA
6 1 (0.64%) OCP
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.82%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.91%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.82%) Ansible
1 6 (3.82%) Grafana
1 6 (3.82%) Kibana
1 6 (3.82%) Terraform
2 5 (3.18%) logstash
2 5 (3.18%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.37%) ION Trading
3 5 (3.18%) Databricks
4 4 (2.55%) Amdocs
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle
4 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.55%) SAP
5 3 (1.91%) Genesys
5 3 (1.91%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.27%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.64%) Marketo
7 1 (0.64%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.64%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Varonis