Technical Leadership Contracts in Leeds

Technical Leadership
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 39 57 85
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 +7
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 21 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.52% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 0.87% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 9
10th Percentile £550 £572 -
25th Percentile £563 £574 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £775 £606 £600
90th Percentile £780 £609 £658
West Yorkshire median daily rate £725 £590 £550
% change year-on-year +22.88% +7.27% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Leeds

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Leeds

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Leeds

Technical Leadership
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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Slack
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) MongoDB
2 9 (42.86%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (42.86%) MySQL
2 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 7 (33.33%) Jasmine
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
1 7 (33.33%) JUnit
2 6 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
1 12 (57.14%) Senior
2 9 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Java Developer
4 7 (33.33%) Architect
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Applications Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Lead
7 1 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Spring
1 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 8 (38.10%) Spring Security
3 7 (33.33%) RESTful
3 7 (33.33%) Spring Batch
4 6 (28.57%) Swagger
5 5 (23.81%) OpenAPI
6 1 (4.76%) Akka
6 1 (4.76%) cloud-init
6 1 (4.76%) Kafka
6 1 (4.76%) LDAP
6 1 (4.76%) OAuth
6 1 (4.76%) OpenID
6 1 (4.76%) Play Framework
6 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (9.52%) Blockchain
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) IoT
3 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
1 10 (47.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.76%) CentOS
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Microservices
2 12 (57.14%) BDD
2 12 (57.14%) TDD
3 11 (52.38%) Mentoring
3 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) Coaching
4 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 8 (38.10%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (28.57%) API Design
6 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 6 (28.57%) Kernel Tuning
6 6 (28.57%) Operational Stability
6 6 (28.57%) OWASP
6 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 5 (23.81%) High Availability
8 4 (19.05%) Integration Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) Bash
3 9 (42.86%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Packer
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft