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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 104 129
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 +55
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 72 66 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.79% 1.60% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.90% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 35 53
10th Percentile £452 £463 £482
25th Percentile £491 £507 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +12.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £630
90th Percentile £683 £850 £670
England median daily rate £600 £620 £628
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.20% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £53.98 - -
25th Percentile £56.68 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £63.10 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% - -
75th Percentile £67.60 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £69.13 - -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £38.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +82.23% +54.00% -68.55%

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 3,573 3,467 4,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.06% 83.91% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,275 2,082 3,093
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 245 202
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.17 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.63 £26.00 £27.74
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -6.27% +38.70%
75th Percentile £44.44 £48.75 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.90 £61.54
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +7 46 £575 -16.36% 110
Yorkshire -17 24 £600 +6.67% 50
North East -12 2 £625 -26.47% 14
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 7 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.56%) Moodle
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
4 2 (2.78%) CICS
4 2 (2.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.39%) SAS
5 1 (1.39%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.39%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (37.50%) Azure
2 23 (31.94%) AWS
3 17 (23.61%) GCP
4 8 (11.11%) GitHub
5 7 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (9.72%) Serverless
6 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (8.33%) OneDrive
6 6 (8.33%) SaaS
7 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (6.94%) Apigee
7 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.94%) PaaS
8 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (5.56%) Datadog
8 4 (5.56%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) DNS
1 2 (2.78%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) LAN
2 1 (1.39%) Network Security
2 1 (1.39%) SAN
2 1 (1.39%) Skype
2 1 (1.39%) SSH
2 1 (1.39%) WAN
2 1 (1.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.28%) NoSQL
3 10 (13.89%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.94%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (5.56%) MySQL
6 4 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.56%) Redis
6 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.78%) Looker
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.67%) Git
3 10 (13.89%) JIRA
4 6 (8.33%) Maven
5 5 (6.94%) GitLab
6 4 (5.56%) Gradle
6 4 (5.56%) SonarLint
6 4 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.17%) JMeter
7 3 (4.17%) Postman
7 3 (4.17%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.17%) Selenium
7 3 (4.17%) TestNG
8 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.39%) JUnit
9 1 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
General
1 34 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.39%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Finance
4 5 (6.94%) Military
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Automotive
7 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (51.39%) Architect
2 17 (23.61%) Technical Architect
3 16 (22.22%) Senior
4 12 (16.67%) Lead
5 7 (9.72%) Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Architect
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Java Architect
7 5 (6.94%) Java Technical Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Moodle Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Test Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) RESTful
2 9 (12.50%) Kafka
3 7 (9.72%) Celery
4 6 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 6 (8.33%) Micronaut
4 6 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.94%) Dropwizard
5 5 (6.94%) J2EE
6 4 (5.56%) Django
6 4 (5.56%) FastAPI
6 4 (5.56%) Flask
6 4 (5.56%) JWT
7 3 (4.17%) gRPC
7 3 (4.17%) Playwright
7 3 (4.17%) WebSockets
8 2 (2.78%) .NET
8 2 (2.78%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.78%) Middleware
9 1 (1.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.94%) N-Tier
4 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.17%) Clustering
5 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.78%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.39%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.39%) NHS
7 1 (1.39%) PKI
7 1 (1.39%) Replication
7 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.39%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) zOS
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.39%) Solaris
3 1 (1.39%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) Mentoring
2 24 (33.33%) Agile
3 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 19 (26.39%) Microservices
6 12 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 11 (15.28%) Roadmaps
8 10 (13.89%) DevOps
8 10 (13.89%) Event-Driven
8 10 (13.89%) OOP
8 10 (13.89%) Risk Management
8 10 (13.89%) Technical Architecture
9 9 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 9 (12.50%) Migration
9 9 (12.50%) TDD
9 9 (12.50%) TOGAF
10 8 (11.11%) Architectural Design
10 8 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 8 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.61%) Java
2 13 (18.06%) Python
3 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.72%) SQL
5 4 (5.56%) Bash
6 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.78%) Bicep
7 2 (2.78%) C++
7 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.39%) C#
8 1 (1.39%) CLIST
8 1 (1.39%) JCL
8 1 (1.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 22 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.78%) CISSP
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.39%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.39%) CISM
6 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.39%) GIAC
6 1 (1.39%) VCAP
6 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) GDPR
2 4 (5.56%) QA
3 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) WCAG
4 2 (2.78%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.78%) NIST
4 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.39%) HL7
5 1 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (1.39%) SOC 1
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.39%) KVM
4 1 (1.39%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.89%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) Ansible
4 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) CA Endevor
6 1 (1.39%) Grafana
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.39%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (1.39%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.72%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) Gigya
4 3 (4.17%) F5
4 3 (4.17%) Google
4 3 (4.17%) IBM
4 3 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.39%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.39%) Citrix
5 1 (1.39%) Databricks
5 1 (1.39%) EMC
5 1 (1.39%) HP
5 1 (1.39%) NetApp
5 1 (1.39%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.39%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow