Technical Leader Contracts in the North of England

Technical Lead
England > North of England

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the North of England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 142 181
Rank change year-on-year -15 +39 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 9 43 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.90% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.97% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 31 19
10th Percentile £604 £506 £495
25th Percentile £609 £631 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £850 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% +18.52%
75th Percentile £788 - £631
90th Percentile - - £890
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West -18 5 £775 -8.82% 49
Yorkshire +9 4 £600 +1.69% 33
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) BYOD
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (11.11%) Business Process Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet