Technical Leadership Contracts in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 111 143
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 -25
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 34 50 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.27% 1.61% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.78% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 22
10th Percentile £463 - £414
25th Percentile £525 £486 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -1.12% +17.91%
75th Percentile £713 £641 £672
90th Percentile £850 £655 £715
England median daily rate £613 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -2.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £61.64
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £77.07
75th Percentile - - £96.23
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.50 £64.34 £75.07
% change year-on-year -40.16% -14.29% +87.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,301 2,811 3,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.89% 90.41% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,463 1,981 2,578
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 137 170
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £23.38
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +53.99% +26.91%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £49.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 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 10 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
Manchester +19 24 £700 +12.45% 18
Cumbria -28 5 £575 +18.31% 2
Cheshire - 5 £475 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (5.88%) Serverless
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (2.94%) iPaaS
3 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Firewall
1 10 (29.41%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.94%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.94%) DataStage
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.94%) ERwin
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Legal
2 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Architect
2 15 (44.12%) Lead
3 13 (38.24%) Technical Architect
4 10 (29.41%) Lead Architect
5 9 (26.47%) Technical Leader
6 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) ForgeRock Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Systems Architect
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (2.94%) Head of Software Engineering
8 1 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Node.js
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.88%) Entity Framework
2 2 (5.88%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) OAuth
2 2 (5.88%) OpenID
2 2 (5.88%) React
2 2 (5.88%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) SAML
3 1 (2.94%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (2.94%) Dagger
3 1 (2.94%) Jest
3 1 (2.94%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) Retrofit
3 1 (2.94%) RxJava
3 1 (2.94%) Spring
3 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Public Cloud
2 8 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 6 (17.65%) Mobile App
4 3 (8.82%) NHS
5 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Android
2 11 (32.35%) Apple iOS
3 10 (29.41%) Windows
3 10 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) Risk Management
3 11 (32.35%) Roadmaps
4 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 10 (29.41%) Design Patterns
4 10 (29.41%) Mobile Device Management
4 10 (29.41%) Product Strategy
4 10 (29.41%) Strategic Roadmap
5 9 (26.47%) Microservices
6 7 (20.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 7 (20.59%) Product Roadmap
6 7 (20.59%) Security Architecture
6 7 (20.59%) Threat Intelligence
6 7 (20.59%) User Experience
6 7 (20.59%) Zero Trust
7 5 (14.71%) Customer Service
7 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) C#
2 2 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.94%) PHP
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Scala
3 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) GRC
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Apple
1 5 (14.71%) Google
2 2 (5.88%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.94%) Embarcadero
3 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft