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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 103 110
Rank change year-on-year +22 +7 +38
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 43 34 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.21% 1.28% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 1.49% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 40
10th Percentile £447 £463 -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% +12.73% +3.53%
75th Percentile £646 £713 £639
90th Percentile £738 £850 £653
England median daily rate £585 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -4.49% -2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.58 - -
25th Percentile £35.85 - -
Median hourly rate £43.22 - -
75th Percentile £52.53 - -
90th Percentile £56.95 - -
England median hourly rate £28.70 £38.50 £64.34
% change year-on-year -25.45% -40.16% -14.29%

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 1,750 2,283 2,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.07% 85.83% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,449 1,995
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £389 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £660 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 249 139
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.80
25th Percentile £22.81 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £31.88 £23.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% -34.72% +52.90%
75th Percentile £62.25 £45.88 £49.46
90th Percentile £84.39 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

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 14 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 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
Manchester +15 20 £563 -19.64% 60
Cheshire +7 13 £475 - 18
Cumbria +2 6 £605 +5.22% 3
Lancashire - 2 £638 - 32
Merseyside - 2 £525 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Moodle
2 2 (4.65%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (11.63%) OneDrive
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.33%) Apigee
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Ethernet
1 3 (6.98%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) PBX
2 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.33%) VoIP
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (4.65%) GIS
2 2 (4.65%) ObjectStore
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) JIRA
3 4 (9.30%) GitLab
4 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.30%) Finance
5 3 (6.98%) Automotive
6 2 (4.65%) Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Local Government
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Architect
2 8 (18.60%) Technical Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Lead
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.65%) GIS Developer
5 2 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Lead Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Moodle Developer
5 2 (4.65%) SAP Architect
5 2 (4.65%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) SAS Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) .NET
1 4 (9.30%) Node.js
2 3 (6.98%) React
2 3 (6.98%) RESTful
3 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.65%) GeoJSON
3 2 (4.65%) Google Maps API
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
3 2 (4.65%) Leaflet
3 2 (4.65%) MapLibre
3 2 (4.65%) SAP PI
4 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth
4 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.33%) Swagger
4 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) BYOD
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
2 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.91%) Technical Architecture
3 9 (20.93%) Performance Optimisation
4 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 8 (18.60%) DevOps
5 7 (16.28%) Agile
6 6 (13.95%) Migration
6 6 (13.95%) Zero Trust
7 5 (11.63%) Cloud Security
7 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
7 5 (11.63%) Data Governance
7 5 (11.63%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (11.63%) Data Protection
7 5 (11.63%) Due Diligence
7 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.30%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 7 (16.28%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) SQL
4 4 (9.30%) Bash
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.98%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Ansible
3 5 (11.63%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Google
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
4 2 (4.65%) Mapbox
4 2 (4.65%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.33%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.33%) Mitel
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Siemens
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk