Technical Leadership Contracts in Manchester

Technical Leadership
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 59 70 92
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 20 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.16% 1.71% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.97% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 20
10th Percentile £445 £524 £487
25th Percentile £493 £544 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £616
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +13.59% +18.80%
75th Percentile £716 £850 £650
90th Percentile £738 - £675
North West median daily rate £563 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -9.27% +3.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
North West median hourly rate £43.22 £17.72 -
% change year-on-year +143.91% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (10.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) Apigee
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) PBX
1 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.00%) VoIP
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (10.00%) GIS
1 2 (10.00%) ObjectStore
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.00%) GIS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.00%) SAP Architect
4 2 (10.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) SAS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Moodle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
1 4 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) GeoJSON
3 2 (10.00%) Google Maps API
3 2 (10.00%) Leaflet
3 2 (10.00%) MapLibre
3 2 (10.00%) SAP PI
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) BYOD
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.00%) User Experience
6 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (10.00%) Digital Twin
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Mapbox
2 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (5.00%) Mitel
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Siemens
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk