Technical Leadership Contracts in West Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 63 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 +14
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 13 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.29% 0.83% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 0.95% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £450 £572 -
25th Percentile £494 £574 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £600
90th Percentile £610 £609 £658
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.92% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 525 838 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.59% 86.48% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 499 953
10th Percentile £284 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £625
90th Percentile £609 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 19
10th Percentile - £11.95 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +7.53%
75th Percentile £30.10 £15.24 £44.88
90th Percentile £34.43 £53.75 £65.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -41.75%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in West Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in West Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in West Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Leeds +9 13 £550 -6.78% 35
Halifax - 2 £550 -
Technical Leadership
Yorkshire

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
2 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) JMeter
2 3 (23.08%) Postman
2 3 (23.08%) REST Assured
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) TestNG
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) Jasmine
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Moodle Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) Akka
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.69%) OpenID
2 1 (7.69%) Play Framework
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Security
2 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Blockchain
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) BDD
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) API Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) Interface Catalogue
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
1 3 (23.08%) WCAG
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kibana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft