Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the North East

Technical Leadership
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 29 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 11 11 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.75% 3.83% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.20% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
England median daily rate £575 £603 £630
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.22% +0.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 262 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.96% 91.29% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 101 156
10th Percentile £225 £315 £319
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £570
90th Percentile £645 £700 £638
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 11
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.28 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.61% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £47.20 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the North East

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North East

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North East region over the 6 months to 4 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -8 11 £550 - 10
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Looker
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Mentoring
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 5 (45.45%) Coaching
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
5 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 4 (36.36%) User Stories
6 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google