Technical Leadership Contracts in the North of England

Technical Leadership
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 89 136 160
Rank change year-on-year +47 +24 +14
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 79 49 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.40% 1.03% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 1.20% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 32 46
10th Percentile £453 £523 £486
25th Percentile £500 £559 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £719 £650
90th Percentile £776 £850 £675
England median daily rate £600 £601 £646
% change year-on-year -0.08% -7.04% +7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £32.58 - -
25th Percentile £35.85 - -
Median hourly rate £43.22 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +143.91% - -
75th Percentile £52.53 £37.61 -
90th Percentile £56.95 £49.54 -
England median hourly rate £32.70 £18.47 £62.00
% change year-on-year +77.09% -70.22% -17.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership 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 +30 48 £563 -9.27% 98
Yorkshire +21 25 £600 - 49
North East +4 6 £550 -35.29% 17
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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 6 (7.59%) Confluence
2 5 (6.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.06%) Moodle
4 2 (2.53%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (11.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.27%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.72%) Azure
2 12 (15.19%) AWS
3 6 (7.59%) Slack
4 5 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (6.33%) GCP
4 5 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (6.33%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.80%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.53%) Serverless
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.27%) Apigee
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) HTTP
2 3 (3.80%) Ethernet
2 3 (3.80%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) VPN
3 2 (2.53%) WAN
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.27%) DNS
4 1 (1.27%) DWDM
4 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.27%) LAN
4 1 (1.27%) Network Security
4 1 (1.27%) PBX
4 1 (1.27%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) MongoDB
1 14 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.66%) MySQL
3 9 (11.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.53%) GIS
5 2 (2.53%) ObjectStore
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Git
1 12 (15.19%) JIRA
2 7 (8.86%) Cucumber
2 7 (8.86%) Jasmine
2 7 (8.86%) JUnit
3 6 (7.59%) GitLab
4 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (40.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.99%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Automotive
5 7 (8.86%) Finance
6 6 (7.59%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Local Government
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (43.04%) Architect
2 22 (27.85%) Senior
3 21 (26.58%) Developer
4 12 (15.19%) Senior Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (11.39%) Technical Architect
7 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.86%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Lead
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Architect
11 4 (5.06%) Moodle Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 3 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 3 (3.80%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.80%) Scala Developer
12 3 (3.80%) Security Engineer
13 2 (2.53%) Designer
13 2 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
13 2 (2.53%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) RESTful
2 9 (11.39%) Spring
2 9 (11.39%) Spring Boot
3 8 (10.13%) Spring Security
4 7 (8.86%) Spring Batch
4 7 (8.86%) Swagger
5 6 (7.59%) OpenAPI
6 4 (5.06%) .NET
6 4 (5.06%) Kafka
6 4 (5.06%) Node.js
7 3 (3.80%) Akka
7 3 (3.80%) Play Framework
7 3 (3.80%) React
8 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.53%) GeoJSON
8 2 (2.53%) Google Maps API
8 2 (2.53%) LDAP
8 2 (2.53%) Leaflet
8 2 (2.53%) OAuth
8 2 (2.53%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.59%) Industry 4.0
2 6 (7.59%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 5 (6.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.53%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.53%) BYOD
5 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.53%) IoT
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.66%) Linux
1 10 (12.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.27%) CentOS
2 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Mentoring
2 24 (30.38%) Agile
3 22 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (25.32%) Microservices
5 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
6 17 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
8 14 (17.72%) BDD
8 14 (17.72%) Roadmaps
8 14 (17.72%) TDD
9 13 (16.46%) Migration
9 13 (16.46%) Technical Architecture
10 12 (15.19%) DevOps
11 11 (13.92%) Cloud Security
11 11 (13.92%) Containerisation
11 11 (13.92%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (12.66%) API Integration
12 10 (12.66%) Decision-Making
12 10 (12.66%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (11.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.99%) SQL
2 14 (17.72%) Bash
3 12 (15.19%) Java
4 11 (13.92%) Python
5 10 (12.66%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.80%) Scala
6 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.53%) C#
7 2 (2.53%) C++
8 1 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (30.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.19%) Degree
4 8 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (7.59%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.53%) CISSP
10 1 (1.27%) CCNA
10 1 (1.27%) CCNP
10 1 (1.27%) CISM
10 1 (1.27%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.27%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) GDPR
2 3 (3.80%) AUTOSAR
2 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.80%) QA
3 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.53%) NIST
4 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
4 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (20.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.13%) Ansible
3 6 (7.59%) MOM
3 6 (7.59%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.59%) Terraform
4 3 (3.80%) Kibana
5 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.27%) Grafana
6 1 (1.27%) Packer
6 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.39%) SAP
3 7 (8.86%) Siemens
4 6 (7.59%) Rockwell
5 5 (6.33%) Google
5 5 (6.33%) Oracle
6 2 (2.53%) Cisco
6 2 (2.53%) Mapbox
6 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.53%) Workday
7 1 (1.27%) Arista
7 1 (1.27%) Centrify
7 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.27%) Databricks
7 1 (1.27%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.27%) Mitel
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) Thycotic