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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 67 86
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +30
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Technical Leadership 22 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.16% 1.58% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.82% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 19
10th Percentile £494 £481 £509
25th Percentile £534 £669 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £713 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +18.75% +7.87%
75th Percentile £600 £850 £641
90th Percentile £643 - £668
North West median daily rate £575 £663 £520
% change year-on-year -13.21% +27.40% -9.57%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 905 1,045 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.90% 86.65% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 657 1,149
10th Percentile £306 £335 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £705 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 47 54
10th Percentile £17.17 £15.97 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.43 £16.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +11.43%
75th Percentile £57.75 £62.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.50 £87.00 £68.80
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year -22.32% +13.80% +41.21%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Manchester

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Technical Leadership

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 1 (4.55%) CICS
1 1 (4.55%) Moodle
1 1 (4.55%) SAS
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) GCP
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (22.73%) Apigee
3 5 (22.73%) GitHub
3 5 (22.73%) PaaS
3 5 (22.73%) SaaS
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Fargate
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (18.18%) Datadog
4 4 (18.18%) Loggly
4 4 (18.18%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (22.73%) BigQuery
2 5 (22.73%) DynamoDB
2 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (18.18%) MySQL
3 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 4 (18.18%) Redis
3 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Git
3 4 (18.18%) Gradle
3 4 (18.18%) Maven
3 4 (18.18%) SonarLint
3 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
5 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Military
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Lead
3 7 (31.82%) Technical Architect
4 5 (22.73%) Java Architect
4 5 (22.73%) Java Technical Architect
5 4 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior
7 2 (9.09%) Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Penetration Tester
8 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Penetration Tester
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Tester
8 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
8 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
8 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
1 6 (27.27%) RESTful
2 5 (22.73%) Dropwizard
2 5 (22.73%) J2EE
2 5 (22.73%) Micronaut
2 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 4 (18.18%) Celery
3 4 (18.18%) JWT
4 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.55%) ISPF
5 1 (4.55%) Middleware
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.55%) React
5 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (22.73%) N-Tier
3 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.09%) Clustering
4 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Microservices
2 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
6 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
7 5 (22.73%) API Design
7 5 (22.73%) Architectural Design
7 5 (22.73%) BDD
7 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
7 5 (22.73%) Design Patterns
7 5 (22.73%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
7 5 (22.73%) SDLC
7 5 (22.73%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) CLIST
4 1 (4.55%) JCL
4 1 (4.55%) REXX
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CREST Certified
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (4.55%) CA Endevor
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Gigya
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) IBM
3 2 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) F5
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) VMware