Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Technical Leadership
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +36
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 11 11 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 4.53% 5.45% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 5.98% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
North East median daily rate £550 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 184 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.24% 91.09% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 81 102
10th Percentile £225 £325 £350
25th Percentile £403 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -7.55%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £643 £675 £719
North East median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 7
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £18.28 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.61% +48.85% +14.29%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Tyne and Wear

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +3 11 £550 - 9
Technical Leadership
North East

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Looker
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Mentoring
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 5 (45.45%) Coaching
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
5 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 4 (36.36%) User Stories
6 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google