Technical Leadership Contracts in the North of England

Technical Leadership
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 146 193
Rank change year-on-year +12 +47 -42
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 51 66 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.09% 1.14% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.26% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 45
10th Percentile £475 £486 £418
25th Percentile £550 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +9.09% +16.16%
75th Percentile £713 £642 £620
90th Percentile £850 £675 £736
England median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £62.34
25th Percentile - - £75.14
Median hourly rate £17.72 - £96.23
75th Percentile £37.61 - -
90th Percentile £49.54 - -
England median hourly rate £18.47 £62.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -70.22% -17.33% +87.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Technical Leadership is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,027 5,253 6,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.66% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,466 3,653 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 209 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.25 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +56.81% +2.51%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +8 36 £620 +4.42% 30
Yorkshire +14 12 £600 - 15
North East - 3 £850 - 6
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 3 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.73%) AWS
2 6 (11.76%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) Serverless
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.92%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.96%) GCP
5 1 (1.96%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.96%) PaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) VPN
2 10 (19.61%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) 5G
3 2 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.96%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.92%) Power BI
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.96%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.96%) DataStage
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Power Query
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.96%) ERwin
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) JUnit
General
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.76%) Legal
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Military
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) Architect
2 16 (31.37%) Lead
2 16 (31.37%) Technical Architect
3 11 (21.57%) Lead Architect
4 10 (19.61%) Technical Leader
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Developer
6 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (3.92%) ForgeRock Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Systems Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Technical Design Authority
8 1 (1.96%) Integration Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Lead Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) Node.js
2 4 (7.84%) XML
3 3 (5.88%) DHTML
3 3 (5.88%) HTML
3 3 (5.88%) React
3 3 (5.88%) Web Services
4 2 (3.92%) .NET
4 2 (3.92%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
4 2 (3.92%) LDAP
4 2 (3.92%) Middleware
4 2 (3.92%) OAuth
4 2 (3.92%) OpenID
4 2 (3.92%) REST
4 2 (3.92%) SAML
5 1 (1.96%) Jest
5 1 (1.96%) RESTful
5 1 (1.96%) Retrofit
5 1 (1.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Public Cloud
2 8 (15.69%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.76%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.84%) NHS
5 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) iSeries
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.96%) Solar Power
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.53%) Android
1 12 (23.53%) Windows
2 11 (21.57%) Apple iOS
3 10 (19.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.96%) Linux
5 1 (1.96%) Unix
5 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Agile
2 15 (29.41%) DevOps
3 12 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
4 11 (21.57%) Risk Management
5 10 (19.61%) Design Patterns
5 10 (19.61%) Microservices
5 10 (19.61%) Mobile Device Management
5 10 (19.61%) Product Strategy
5 10 (19.61%) Strategic Roadmap
6 7 (13.73%) Customer Service
6 7 (13.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 7 (13.73%) Product Roadmap
6 7 (13.73%) Security Architecture
6 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (13.73%) Threat Intelligence
6 7 (13.73%) User Experience
6 7 (13.73%) Zero Trust
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) Java
1 6 (11.76%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.92%) C#
3 2 (3.92%) Python
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.96%) PHP
4 1 (1.96%) Scala
4 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) GRC
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Apple
1 5 (9.80%) Google
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) Adobe
4 2 (3.92%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.96%) Brio
5 1 (1.96%) Embarcadero
5 1 (1.96%) EMC
5 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft