Technical Leadership Contracts in Cheshire

Technical Leadership
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 54 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 20 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.45% 0.79% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 0.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £463 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £548 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% - -
75th Percentile £638 £620 -
90th Percentile £668 - -
North West median daily rate £563 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -9.27% +3.33% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Cheshire

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Cheshire

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Cheshire

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Cheshire

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford +3 9 £475 -23.39% 3
Crewe - 6 £525 - 1
Technical Leadership
North West

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 5 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Automotive
3 6 (30.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (30.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 14 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Agile Project Management
3 6 (30.00%) Analytics
3 6 (30.00%) API Integration
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (30.00%) ERP
3 6 (30.00%) Lean Manufacturing
3 6 (30.00%) Operations Management
3 6 (30.00%) PLM
3 6 (30.00%) Presales
3 6 (30.00%) Product Roadmap
3 6 (30.00%) Project Management
3 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) Supply Chain Management
3 6 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) AUTOSAR
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
1 6 (30.00%) MOM
1 6 (30.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Rockwell
1 6 (30.00%) SAP
1 6 (30.00%) Siemens
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle