Technical Leader Contracts in Manchester

Technical Lead
North West > Manchester

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Manchester is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 40 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.70% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.81% 0.50% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 5 17
10th Percentile - £564 -
25th Percentile £631 £575 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.78% +22.50% +1.90%
75th Percentile - £1,650 £550
90th Percentile - - £632
North West median daily rate £850 £606 £500
% change year-on-year +40.21% +21.25% +1.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,421 1,805 2,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.42% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,346 1,991
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £656
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 49 59
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.31
% change year-on-year -23.83% +72.33% +13.46%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Manchester

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in Manchester

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Manchester

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 32 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 32 (80.00%) Node.js
2 31 (77.50%) Windows
3 30 (75.00%) Android
3 30 (75.00%) VPN
3 30 (75.00%) Firewall
3 30 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 30 (75.00%) Apple iOS
3 30 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 30 (75.00%) Windows Server
4 29 (72.50%) DevOps
4 29 (72.50%) Agile
5 28 (70.00%) Security Architecture
5 28 (70.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 28 (70.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 28 (70.00%) Zero Trust
6 27 (67.50%) Public Cloud
7 25 (62.50%) Design Patterns
8 20 (50.00%) Security Cleared
9 19 (47.50%) SC Cleared
10 14 (35.00%) Roadmaps
11 13 (32.50%) Microservices
12 11 (27.50%) Product Strategy
12 11 (27.50%) Strategic Roadmap
13 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
14 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
15 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
16 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
16 7 (17.50%) Product Roadmap
16 7 (17.50%) User Experience

Technical Leader Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (10.00%) Route 53
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 30 (75.00%) Firewall
1 30 (75.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) GitLab
1 4 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Legal
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.50%) Military
3 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (80.00%) Node.js
2 4 (10.00%) Express.js
2 4 (10.00%) React
2 4 (10.00%) Redux
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (67.50%) Public Cloud
2 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (77.50%) Windows
2 30 (75.00%) Android
2 30 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 30 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 30 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 29 (72.50%) Agile
3 29 (72.50%) DevOps
4 28 (70.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 28 (70.00%) Security Architecture
4 28 (70.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 28 (70.00%) Zero Trust
5 25 (62.50%) Design Patterns
6 14 (35.00%) Roadmaps
7 13 (32.50%) Microservices
8 11 (27.50%) Product Strategy
8 11 (27.50%) Strategic Roadmap
9 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 7 (17.50%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (17.50%) User Experience
12 6 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
13 5 (12.50%) ETL
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (47.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Apple
1 5 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (2.50%) F5
2 1 (2.50%) IBM