Technical Leadership Contracts in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 119 149
Rank change year-on-year +17 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 35 41 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.27% 1.28% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.42% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 23
10th Percentile £481 £476 £407
25th Percentile £544 £513 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +11.63% +13.52%
75th Percentile £747 £650 £656
90th Percentile £850 £673 £714
England median daily rate £600 £646 £600
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £62.34
25th Percentile - - £75.14
Median hourly rate £17.72 - £96.23
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.47 £62.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -70.22% -17.33% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +15 26 £700 +13.59% 22
Cumbria -22 5 £575 +18.31%
Cheshire - 4 £548 - 7
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
2 2 (5.71%) Serverless
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (2.86%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) VPN
2 10 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.86%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.86%) DataStage
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.86%) ERwin
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) JUnit
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Legal
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (62.86%) Architect
2 15 (42.86%) Lead
3 13 (37.14%) Technical Architect
4 10 (28.57%) Lead Architect
5 9 (25.71%) Technical Leader
6 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Systems Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Android Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Node.js
2 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
2 2 (5.71%) LDAP
2 2 (5.71%) OAuth
2 2 (5.71%) OpenID
2 2 (5.71%) React
2 2 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) SAML
3 1 (2.86%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (2.86%) Dagger
3 1 (2.86%) Jest
3 1 (2.86%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (2.86%) Retrofit
3 1 (2.86%) RxJava
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 8 (22.86%) Product Ownership
3 6 (17.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (8.57%) NHS
5 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Android
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 11 (31.43%) Apple iOS
3 10 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Agile
2 13 (37.14%) DevOps
3 11 (31.43%) Risk Management
3 11 (31.43%) Roadmaps
4 10 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 10 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
4 10 (28.57%) Product Strategy
4 10 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
5 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
5 9 (25.71%) Microservices
6 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 7 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 7 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
6 7 (20.00%) Security Architecture
6 7 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 7 (20.00%) User Experience
6 7 (20.00%) Zero Trust
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) C#
2 2 (5.71%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.86%) PHP
3 1 (2.86%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Scala
3 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Apple
1 5 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Embarcadero
3 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft