Technical Leader Contracts in the North West

Technical Lead
England > North West

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the North West is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 147 160
Rank change year-on-year +49 +13 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 40 14 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.46% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 0.46% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 22
10th Percentile £594 £524 £423
25th Percentile £631 £566 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.78% +22.50% +2.84%
75th Percentile - £1,238 £609
90th Percentile - £1,650 £718
England median daily rate £640 £648 £600
% change year-on-year -1.20% +7.92% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,593 3,051 3,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 94.63% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 2,199 2,861
10th Percentile £283 £300 £205
25th Percentile £394 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £558
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 137 179
10th Percentile £11.03 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.74 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +53.70% +11.73%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £61.71 £65.30 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the North West

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the North West

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the North West

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the North West

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Manchester +45 39 £850 +20.35% 8
Cheshire - 1 £513 - 3
Technical Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 West region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 32 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 32 (80.00%) Node.js
2 30 (75.00%) Firewall
2 30 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 30 (75.00%) Windows
2 30 (75.00%) VPN
2 30 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 30 (75.00%) Android
2 30 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 30 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 29 (72.50%) DevOps
3 29 (72.50%) Agile
4 28 (70.00%) Security Architecture
4 28 (70.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 28 (70.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 28 (70.00%) Zero Trust
5 27 (67.50%) Public Cloud
6 25 (62.50%) Design Patterns
7 20 (50.00%) Security Cleared
8 19 (47.50%) SC Cleared
9 14 (35.00%) Roadmaps
10 13 (32.50%) Microservices
11 11 (27.50%) Strategic Roadmap
11 11 (27.50%) Product Strategy
12 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
13 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
15 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
15 7 (17.50%) Product Roadmap
15 7 (17.50%) User Experience

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (10.00%) Route 53
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 30 (75.00%) Firewall
1 30 (75.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) GitLab
1 4 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Legal
3 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.50%) Military
3 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (80.00%) Node.js
2 4 (10.00%) Express.js
2 4 (10.00%) React
2 4 (10.00%) Redux
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (67.50%) Public Cloud
2 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (75.00%) Android
1 30 (75.00%) Apple iOS
1 30 (75.00%) Windows
1 30 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 30 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 29 (72.50%) Agile
3 29 (72.50%) DevOps
4 28 (70.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 28 (70.00%) Security Architecture
4 28 (70.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 28 (70.00%) Zero Trust
5 25 (62.50%) Design Patterns
6 14 (35.00%) Roadmaps
7 13 (32.50%) Microservices
8 11 (27.50%) Product Strategy
8 11 (27.50%) Strategic Roadmap
9 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 7 (17.50%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (17.50%) User Experience
12 6 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
13 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (47.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Apple
1 5 (12.50%) Google