Technical Leader Contracts in Leeds

Technical Lead
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Leeds is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025.

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

 6 months to
26 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 65 78
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 8 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.35% 0.27% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 0.29% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £416 £446 £565
25th Percentile £440 £497 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% -2.08% -10.58%
75th Percentile £556 £672 £613
90th Percentile £567 £719 £620
West Yorkshire median daily rate £440 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -25.11% +2.17% -14.31%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 579 682 1,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.64% 92.04% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 443 754
10th Percentile £311 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% +8.25%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £655 £707
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 27 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.18 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +27.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 - £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £24.18 £17.64
% change year-on-year +36.93% +37.07% -11.80%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Leeds

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Leeds

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Leeds

Technical Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) CCNA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (50.00%) CCTV
1 4 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (37.50%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (37.50%) Redux
2 3 (37.50%) Progressive Web App
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) Next.js
2 3 (37.50%) CMS
2 3 (37.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Express.js
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) HTML5
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) CSS3
2 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
2 3 (37.50%) SEO
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 3 (37.50%) B2C
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (37.50%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Figma
1 3 (37.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Storybook
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) CSS3
1 3 (37.50%) Express.js
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) HTML5
1 3 (37.50%) Next.js
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) Redux
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) CCTV
1 4 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Analytics
1 3 (37.50%) B2C
1 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
1 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
1 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
1 3 (37.50%) Progressive Web App
1 3 (37.50%) SEO
1 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
2 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCNA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
12 Technical Leader jobs in West Yorkshire