Technical Leadership Contracts in the North of England

Technical Leadership
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 145 181
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 -28
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 60 73 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.29% 1.30% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.44% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 40
10th Percentile £478 - £412
25th Percentile £523 £486 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% - +15.97%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £600
90th Percentile £850 £663 £754
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £61.64
25th Percentile £52.50 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £77.07
75th Percentile £57.50 - £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 of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,960 5,069 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.47% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 3,492 4,629
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £570
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.38
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.89
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North of England

Technical Leadership
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 Leadership within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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 0 32 £620 +12.73% 23
Yorkshire +17 22 £583 -2.92% 16
North East - 6 £850 - 8
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) Serverless
4 8 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (13.33%) GCP
5 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
5 7 (11.67%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) IaaS
7 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) Firewall
1 10 (16.67%) VPN
2 5 (8.33%) 5G
2 5 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.67%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 7 (11.67%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (11.67%) Big Data
2 7 (11.67%) BigQuery
2 7 (11.67%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.67%) DataStage
5 1 (1.67%) DB2
5 1 (1.67%) MySQL
5 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) Power Query
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.67%) ERwin
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) JUnit
General
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Legal
4 5 (8.33%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (60.00%) Architect
2 16 (26.67%) Lead
3 15 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 11 (18.33%) Lead Architect
4 11 (18.33%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (16.67%) Technical Leader
6 4 (6.67%) Technical Design Authority
7 3 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Developer
7 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) User Researcher
8 2 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 2 (3.33%) ForgeRock Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Systems Architect
9 1 (1.67%) Data Architect
9 1 (1.67%) Lead Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Node.js
2 7 (11.67%) Kafka
3 4 (6.67%) XML
4 3 (5.00%) DHTML
4 3 (5.00%) HTML
4 3 (5.00%) React
4 3 (5.00%) Web Services
5 2 (3.33%) .NET
5 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.33%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.33%) LDAP
5 2 (3.33%) Middleware
5 2 (3.33%) OAuth
5 2 (3.33%) OpenID
5 2 (3.33%) REST
5 2 (3.33%) SAML
6 1 (1.67%) RESTful
6 1 (1.67%) RxJava
6 1 (1.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (6.67%) NHS
5 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.67%) iSeries
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.67%) Solar Power
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Android
2 11 (18.33%) Apple iOS
3 10 (16.67%) Windows
3 10 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Agile
2 22 (36.67%) DevOps
3 12 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 11 (18.33%) Analytics
4 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (18.33%) Data Modelling
4 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (18.33%) Risk Management
5 10 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 10 (16.67%) ETL
5 10 (16.67%) Microservices
5 10 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 10 (16.67%) Product Strategy
5 10 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
6 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (13.33%) Data Integration
7 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) Java
1 13 (21.67%) SQL
2 9 (15.00%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) Bash
5 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.67%) PHP
5 1 (1.67%) Scala
5 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) GRC
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Google
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Apple
4 3 (5.00%) Adobe
5 2 (3.33%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.67%) Brio
6 1 (1.67%) Embarcadero
6 1 (1.67%) EMC
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft