Lead Contracts in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader daily rate in England is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 31 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 2,141 2,785 4,145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.80% 5.83% 5.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% 6.17% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 1,909 2,916
10th Percentile £400 £407 £410
25th Percentile £500 £513 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 54 55
10th Percentile £15.00 £22.75 £25.20
25th Percentile £26.75 £41.25 £33.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.95% +57.60%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £69.92 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £55.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -18.18% +18.92% +56.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead in England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +3 1,086 £606 -3.00% 822
North of England +3 268 £582 +3.47% 386
South East 0 256 £550 -4.35% 310
South West +26 254 £563 -8.91% 197
North West +3 161 £585 +6.36% 223
Midlands +5 149 £550 -4.35% 261
West Midlands +5 115 £575 -2.13% 145
Yorkshire +1 96 £575 -4.17% 118
East of England -16 73 £531 -11.46% 143
East Midlands -3 33 £210 -62.50% 114
North East +13 12 £533 -14.80% 48
South Coast - 1 - -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 563 (26.30%) Finance
2 482 (22.51%) Social Skills
3 471 (22.00%) Agile
4 363 (16.95%) Security Cleared
5 276 (12.89%) Azure
6 272 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 268 (12.52%) SC Cleared
8 263 (12.28%) DevOps
9 260 (12.14%) AWS
10 247 (11.54%) Microsoft
11 233 (10.88%) Project Management
12 214 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 208 (9.72%) Python
14 205 (9.57%) SAP
15 187 (8.73%) Public Sector
16 186 (8.69%) Java
17 182 (8.50%) CI/CD
18 173 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
19 164 (7.66%) Degree
20 160 (7.47%) Migration
21 151 (7.05%) Software Engineering
22 148 (6.91%) Banking
23 140 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
24 134 (6.26%) SQL
25 133 (6.21%) JavaScript
26 131 (6.12%) Mentoring
27 128 (5.98%) QA
28 126 (5.89%) Analytics
29 125 (5.84%) Roadmaps
30 124 (5.79%) C#

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 52 (2.43%) Apache
2 51 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.84%) Confluence
5 16 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.56%) CMS
8 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) JBoss
10 3 (0.14%) SAS
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.047%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.047%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.047%) IIS
12 1 (0.047%) Mule
12 1 (0.047%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 74 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.37%) CATIA
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.19%) CINEMA 4D
8 4 (0.19%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) SPSS
10 2 (0.093%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.093%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.047%) Simulink
11 1 (0.047%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 107 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.56%) SAP MDG
4 11 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.47%) ION Anvil
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.42%) DELMIA
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.37%) SAP MM
7 8 (0.37%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.33%) SAP EWM
8 7 (0.33%) Shopify
9 6 (0.28%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.23%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 276 (12.89%) Azure
2 260 (12.14%) AWS
3 86 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
4 81 (3.78%) Snowflake
5 75 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (3.36%) Power Platform
7 69 (3.22%) GCP
8 54 (2.52%) Serverless
9 53 (2.48%) dbt
10 42 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 36 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.45%) SaaS
14 29 (1.35%) Azure API Management
15 26 (1.21%) PaaS
15 26 (1.21%) PowerApps
15 26 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
16 23 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (1.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.57%) Firewall
2 52 (2.43%) VPN
3 25 (1.17%) WAN
4 20 (0.93%) 5G
5 18 (0.84%) LAN
6 15 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (0.47%) Wireless
8 9 (0.42%) SSL
9 8 (0.37%) FTP
9 8 (0.37%) Network Security
10 7 (0.33%) DNS
11 4 (0.19%) BGP
11 4 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.19%) IPsec
11 4 (0.19%) MPLS
11 4 (0.19%) OSPF
11 4 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.19%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.19%) VoIP
11 4 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.18%) Data Lake
2 60 (2.80%) Power BI
3 57 (2.66%) SQL Server
4 52 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (2.06%) Apache Arrow
5 44 (2.06%) Dremio
6 43 (2.01%) Apache Ignite
7 30 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.31%) Tableau
9 27 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 23 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (0.75%) Big Data
14 15 (0.70%) NoSQL
15 12 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.51%) MySQL
17 10 (0.47%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 86 (4.02%) JIRA
2 73 (3.41%) Git
3 47 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.03%) GitLab
5 20 (0.93%) Selenium
6 15 (0.70%) JMeter
7 13 (0.61%) JUnit
7 13 (0.61%) webpack
8 12 (0.56%) Postman
9 10 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.42%) LoadRunner
10 9 (0.42%) LSMW
11 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.33%) NeoLoad
12 7 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
12 7 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.28%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.28%) Katalon Studio
General
1 563 (26.30%) Finance
2 482 (22.51%) Social Skills
3 187 (8.73%) Public Sector
4 173 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (6.91%) Banking
6 83 (3.88%) Marketing
7 76 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 71 (3.32%) Manufacturing
9 66 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 66 (3.08%) Retail
10 64 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (2.80%) Front Office
12 58 (2.71%) Legal
13 37 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 35 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.40%) Back Office
17 25 (1.17%) Billing
18 24 (1.12%) Law
19 23 (1.07%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (4.58%) .NET
2 75 (3.50%) Node.js
3 71 (3.32%) React
4 45 (2.10%) Protocol Buffers
5 44 (2.06%) CSS
5 44 (2.06%) gRPC
5 44 (2.06%) Pandas
6 43 (2.01%) NumPy
6 43 (2.01%) SciPy
6 43 (2.01%) Spring Boot
7 38 (1.77%) Spring
8 36 (1.68%) Kafka
9 35 (1.63%) HTML
10 34 (1.59%) .NET Core
11 32 (1.49%) AngularJS
11 32 (1.49%) Web Services
12 26 (1.21%) XML
13 23 (1.07%) REST
14 18 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.36%) Product Ownership
2 61 (2.85%) Derivative
2 61 (2.85%) Fixed Income
3 52 (2.43%) Equities
3 52 (2.43%) Onboarding
4 51 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 50 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.29%) Hedge funds
6 49 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 38 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 36 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.26%) Data Centre
10 24 (1.12%) FMCG
11 19 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (0.70%) Credit Risk
13 15 (0.70%) NHS
14 14 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 14 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 92 (4.30%) Windows
2 69 (3.22%) Linux
3 68 (3.18%) Apple iOS
4 62 (2.90%) Android
5 40 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.31%) Unix
7 10 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.28%) CentOS
9 6 (0.28%) VMS
10 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.14%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (22.00%) Agile
2 272 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 263 (12.28%) DevOps
4 233 (10.88%) Project Management
5 214 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 182 (8.50%) CI/CD
7 160 (7.47%) Migration
8 151 (7.05%) Software Engineering
9 140 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 131 (6.12%) Mentoring
11 126 (5.89%) Analytics
12 125 (5.84%) Roadmaps
13 115 (5.37%) Project Delivery
14 99 (4.62%) ERP
14 99 (4.62%) Test Automation
15 98 (4.58%) Decision-Making
16 97 (4.53%) Business Intelligence
17 96 (4.48%) Change Management
17 96 (4.48%) Technical Leadership
18 90 (4.20%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 208 (9.72%) Python
2 186 (8.69%) Java
3 134 (6.26%) SQL
4 133 (6.21%) JavaScript
5 124 (5.79%) C#
6 98 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 39 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.03%) C
9 20 (0.93%) Bash
9 20 (0.93%) C++
9 20 (0.93%) Scala
10 16 (0.75%) Bicep
11 15 (0.70%) Ruby
12 12 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.47%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.42%) Go
14 9 (0.42%) Groovy
14 9 (0.42%) PHP
15 8 (0.37%) Swift
16 5 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 363 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 268 (12.52%) SC Cleared
3 164 (7.66%) Degree
4 100 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 40 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.40%) CISSP
8 25 (1.17%) APMP
9 20 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.89%) CISM
11 16 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.61%) PMP
13 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.47%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.42%) CISA
15 9 (0.42%) ISACA
16 8 (0.37%) CEH
16 8 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.37%) NVQ Level 3
16 8 (0.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.98%) QA
2 91 (4.25%) PMO
3 71 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.10%) NIST
5 32 (1.49%) SLA
6 29 (1.35%) GDPR
7 25 (1.17%) JSP 440
8 21 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 15 (0.70%) GRC
11 15 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.19%) GAAP
14 4 (0.19%) NCSC
15 3 (0.14%) COBIT
15 3 (0.14%) GxP
15 3 (0.14%) ITGC
15 3 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (2.38%) Docker
2 33 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.19%) Firmware
6 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.19%) vSphere
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.047%) Ceph
8 1 (0.047%) Lustre
8 1 (0.047%) NFS
8 1 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.047%) XenApp
8 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 82 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.18%) Terraform
3 40 (1.87%) Ansible
4 16 (0.75%) Grafana
5 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.56%) Kibana
7 10 (0.47%) logstash
8 9 (0.42%) Puppet
9 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.23%) SCCM
12 4 (0.19%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.14%) Argo
13 3 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.14%) VxRail
14 2 (0.093%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.093%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.093%) vRealize
Vendors
1 247 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 205 (9.57%) SAP
3 59 (2.76%) Oracle
4 48 (2.24%) Salesforce
5 39 (1.82%) Databricks
6 32 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.21%) Google
8 24 (1.12%) Splunk
9 21 (0.98%) Informatica
9 21 (0.98%) VMware
10 20 (0.93%) Alteryx
11 17 (0.79%) IBM
11 17 (0.79%) Virgin Media
11 17 (0.79%) Workday
12 14 (0.65%) Apple
12 14 (0.65%) Cisco
12 14 (0.65%) Pega
13 11 (0.51%) Adobe
14 10 (0.47%) Cadence
14 10 (0.47%) ION Trading