Technical Leader Contracts in the North of England

Technical Lead
England > North of England

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the North of England is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 172 203
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 43 38 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.92% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.69% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 41
10th Percentile £585 £495 £423
25th Percentile £631 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +17.07% +2.77%
75th Percentile - £631 £588
90th Percentile - £890 £688
England median daily rate £627 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.50% +8.33% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,371 5,522 6,965
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.31% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,902 5,114
10th Percentile £263 £282 £200
25th Percentile £385 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 162 289
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.03 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +69.27% +4.39%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.06 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the North of England

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West +47 40 £850 +40.21% 13
Yorkshire -1 3 £590 -1.67% 6
Technical Leader
England

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 32 (74.42%) CI/CD
1 32 (74.42%) Node.js
2 31 (72.09%) Windows
3 30 (69.77%) VPN
3 30 (69.77%) Firewall
3 30 (69.77%) Risk Management
3 30 (69.77%) Android
3 30 (69.77%) Mobile Device Management
3 30 (69.77%) Apple iOS
3 30 (69.77%) Windows Server
4 29 (67.44%) DevOps
4 29 (67.44%) Agile
5 28 (65.12%) Security Architecture
5 28 (65.12%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 28 (65.12%) Threat Intelligence
5 28 (65.12%) Zero Trust
6 27 (62.79%) Public Cloud
7 25 (58.14%) Design Patterns
8 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
9 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
10 14 (32.56%) Roadmaps
11 13 (30.23%) Microservices
12 11 (25.58%) Strategic Roadmap
12 11 (25.58%) Product Strategy
13 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
13 10 (23.26%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
14 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
15 7 (16.28%) Product Roadmap
15 7 (16.28%) User Experience

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
2 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (9.30%) Route 53
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Azure
4 1 (2.33%) Kong
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (69.77%) Firewall
1 30 (69.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) GitLab
1 4 (9.30%) webpack
2 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.95%) Legal
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Military
3 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (74.42%) Node.js
2 4 (9.30%) Express.js
2 4 (9.30%) React
2 4 (9.30%) Redux
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (62.79%) Public Cloud
2 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
3 5 (11.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.65%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Windows
2 30 (69.77%) Android
2 30 (69.77%) Apple iOS
2 30 (69.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) Linux
3 1 (2.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) CI/CD
2 30 (69.77%) Mobile Device Management
2 30 (69.77%) Risk Management
3 29 (67.44%) Agile
3 29 (67.44%) DevOps
4 28 (65.12%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 28 (65.12%) Security Architecture
4 28 (65.12%) Threat Intelligence
4 28 (65.12%) Zero Trust
5 25 (58.14%) Design Patterns
6 14 (32.56%) Roadmaps
7 13 (30.23%) Microservices
8 11 (25.58%) Product Strategy
8 11 (25.58%) Strategic Roadmap
9 10 (23.26%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
11 7 (16.28%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (16.28%) User Experience
12 6 (13.95%) Customer Engagement
13 5 (11.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Apple
1 5 (11.63%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) Brio
2 1 (2.33%) F5
2 1 (2.33%) IBM
2 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow