Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Technical Leadership
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 59 79
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +20
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.96% 1.15% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.35% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £700 £525 -
90th Percentile £728 £540 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £500 -
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -

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 592 594 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.43% 85.47% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 388 692
10th Percentile £293 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +5.12%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 14
10th Percentile £25.05 £13.18 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £14.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +31.58% -10.59%
75th Percentile £26.13 £38.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £45.75 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.44% +31.58% +1.60%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Leeds

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Leeds

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
2 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
2 3 (23.08%) JMeter
2 3 (23.08%) Postman
2 3 (23.08%) REST Assured
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) TestNG
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Playwright
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) FHIR
3 1 (7.69%) Micronaut
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) API Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) BDD
6 2 (15.38%) Coaching
6 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
1 4 (30.77%) WCAG
2 3 (23.08%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) HL7
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) NCSC
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) SAP