Technical Leadership Contracts in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 102 142
Rank change year-on-year -1 +40 -20
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 32 48 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.15% 1.59% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.78% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 21
10th Percentile £463 £473 £356
25th Percentile £523 £486 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% - +11.29%
75th Percentile £850 £634 £600
90th Percentile - £655 £675
England median daily rate £619 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -1.51% +4.67% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £62.76
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.14
75th Percentile - - £96.23
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.49 £65.00 £75.07
% change year-on-year -33.10% -13.41% +71.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 June 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 +12 27 £700 +15.46% 22
Cheshire - 5 £475 - 1
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.13%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) Firewall
1 10 (31.25%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.13%) Data Vault
2 1 (3.13%) DataStage
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.13%) ERwin
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) JUnit
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Legal
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Architect
2 16 (50.00%) Lead
3 11 (34.38%) Lead Architect
4 10 (31.25%) Technical Architect
5 9 (28.13%) Technical Leader
6 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Developer
7 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Integration Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Systems Architect
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.13%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Node.js
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
2 2 (6.25%) LDAP
2 2 (6.25%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) OAuth
2 2 (6.25%) OpenID
2 2 (6.25%) React
2 2 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) SAML
3 1 (3.13%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (3.13%) Dagger
3 1 (3.13%) Jest
3 1 (3.13%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (3.13%) Retrofit
3 1 (3.13%) RxJava
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Public Cloud
2 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (18.75%) Mobile App
4 3 (9.38%) NHS
5 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Android
2 11 (34.38%) Apple iOS
3 10 (31.25%) Windows
3 10 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Agile
2 16 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 11 (34.38%) Risk Management
5 10 (31.25%) Design Patterns
5 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 10 (31.25%) Mobile Device Management
5 10 (31.25%) Product Strategy
5 10 (31.25%) Strategic Roadmap
6 7 (21.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 7 (21.88%) Product Roadmap
6 7 (21.88%) Security Architecture
6 7 (21.88%) Threat Intelligence
6 7 (21.88%) User Experience
6 7 (21.88%) Zero Trust
7 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) C#
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.13%) PHP
4 1 (3.13%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) GRC
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Apple
1 5 (15.63%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.13%) Embarcadero
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.13%) SAP