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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 31 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 2,148 2,767 4,112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.90% 5.78% 5.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.36% 6.11% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 1,897 2,896
10th Percentile £400 £406 £406
25th Percentile £500 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £578
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +3.90% +6.94%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £839 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 56 58
10th Percentile £15.17 £22.98 £20.93
25th Percentile £26.94 £38.32 £28.11
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £41.01
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +34.13% +53.86%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £69.01 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -13.64% +30.95% +44.83%

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 33,784 45,257 67,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,405 32,145 47,943
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £646
90th Percentile £750 £763 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,479 1,329 1,839
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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
London +5 1,083 £600 -4.00% 657
North of England +1 266 £582 +5.82% 318
South West +17 265 £550 -10.93% 166
South East +5 265 £550 -6.78% 288
North West +2 157 £585 +6.36% 190
Midlands +2 141 £560 -3.03% 258
West Midlands 0 109 £600 +0.42% 149
Yorkshire +1 99 £575 -4.17% 88
East of England -11 69 £560 -6.67% 129
East Midlands +6 31 £210 -63.64% 109
North East +14 11 £533 -8.39% 43
South Coast - 1 - -
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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.

1 565 (26.30%) Finance
2 483 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 472 (21.97%) Agile
4 364 (16.95%) Security Cleared
5 281 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 279 (12.99%) Azure
7 268 (12.48%) DevOps
8 267 (12.43%) SC Cleared
9 257 (11.96%) AWS
10 243 (11.31%) Project Management
11 242 (11.27%) Microsoft
12 220 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
13 210 (9.78%) SAP
14 207 (9.64%) Python
15 192 (8.94%) Public Sector
16 186 (8.66%) CI/CD
17 184 (8.57%) Java
18 175 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
19 162 (7.54%) Degree
20 161 (7.50%) Migration
21 149 (6.94%) Software Engineering
22 143 (6.66%) Continuous Improvement
23 142 (6.61%) Banking
24 141 (6.56%) SQL
25 135 (6.28%) Roadmaps
26 131 (6.10%) Mentoring
26 131 (6.10%) QA
27 126 (5.87%) Analytics
27 126 (5.87%) JavaScript
28 125 (5.82%) 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 51 (2.37%) Apache
2 47 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.88%) Confluence
5 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.56%) CMS
8 6 (0.28%) 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%) Camunda
12 1 (0.047%) IIS
12 1 (0.047%) Mule
12 1 (0.047%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 74 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (2.00%) 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%) Revit
11 1 (0.047%) Simulink
11 1 (0.047%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 109 (5.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.56%) SAP MDG
4 11 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
4 11 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.47%) ION Anvil
6 9 (0.42%) DELMIA
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.37%) SAP MM
7 8 (0.37%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.33%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.33%) Shopify
9 6 (0.28%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
10 5 (0.23%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 279 (12.99%) Azure
2 257 (11.96%) AWS
3 82 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
4 79 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (3.58%) Snowflake
6 75 (3.49%) Power Platform
7 65 (3.03%) GCP
8 53 (2.47%) Serverless
9 49 (2.28%) dbt
10 38 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
11 37 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
12 35 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (1.54%) SaaS
14 32 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
15 30 (1.40%) Amazon S3
16 29 (1.35%) Azure API Management
17 28 (1.30%) PowerApps
18 24 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 23 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
20 22 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.61%) Firewall
2 52 (2.42%) VPN
3 26 (1.21%) WAN
4 20 (0.93%) 5G
5 19 (0.88%) LAN
6 15 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.51%) Wireless
8 10 (0.47%) Network Security
9 9 (0.42%) IP Telephony
9 9 (0.42%) SSL
10 8 (0.37%) DNS
10 8 (0.37%) FTP
11 4 (0.19%) BGP
11 4 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.19%) IPsec
11 4 (0.19%) MPLS
11 4 (0.19%) OSPF
11 4 (0.19%) VoIP
11 4 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 63 (2.93%) Power BI
3 60 (2.79%) SQL Server
4 48 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (1.91%) Apache Arrow
5 41 (1.91%) Dremio
6 40 (1.86%) Apache Ignite
7 30 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.30%) Tableau
9 26 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (0.88%) Big Data
11 19 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (0.70%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.56%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.51%) MySQL
16 10 (0.47%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 86 (4.00%) JIRA
2 74 (3.45%) Git
3 49 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.02%) GitLab
5 21 (0.98%) Selenium
6 14 (0.65%) 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%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.42%) LoadRunner
10 9 (0.42%) LSMW
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%) Katalon Studio
13 6 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 565 (26.30%) Finance
2 483 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 192 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 175 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (6.61%) Banking
6 86 (4.00%) Marketing
7 78 (3.63%) Telecoms
8 74 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 63 (2.93%) Investment Banking
10 62 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 61 (2.84%) Retail
12 59 (2.75%) Front Office
13 55 (2.56%) Legal
14 35 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 35 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.40%) Back Office
17 25 (1.16%) Electronics
18 24 (1.12%) Local Government
19 23 (1.07%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (4.52%) .NET
2 76 (3.54%) Node.js
3 69 (3.21%) React
4 42 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
5 41 (1.91%) gRPC
5 41 (1.91%) Pandas
6 40 (1.86%) CSS
6 40 (1.86%) NumPy
6 40 (1.86%) SciPy
6 40 (1.86%) Spring Boot
7 36 (1.68%) Kafka
7 36 (1.68%) Spring
8 34 (1.58%) .NET Core
9 31 (1.44%) AngularJS
9 31 (1.44%) HTML
9 31 (1.44%) Web Services
10 26 (1.21%) XML
11 22 (1.02%) REST
12 18 (0.84%) RESTful
13 16 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 70 (3.26%) Product Ownership
2 58 (2.70%) Derivative
2 58 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 51 (2.37%) Onboarding
4 50 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 49 (2.28%) Equities
5 49 (2.28%) Management Information System
6 48 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 46 (2.14%) Hedge funds
8 36 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 21 (0.98%) FMCG
11 19 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
11 19 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (0.79%) Security Posture
14 15 (0.70%) Credit Risk
14 15 (0.70%) NHS
15 14 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 92 (4.28%) Windows
2 69 (3.21%) Linux
3 67 (3.12%) Apple iOS
4 61 (2.84%) Android
5 40 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.35%) Unix
7 10 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.28%) CentOS
10 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.23%) VMS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.14%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.093%) zOS
13 1 (0.047%) AIX
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (21.97%) Agile
2 281 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (12.48%) DevOps
4 243 (11.31%) Project Management
5 220 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
6 186 (8.66%) CI/CD
7 161 (7.50%) Migration
8 149 (6.94%) Software Engineering
9 143 (6.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (6.28%) Roadmaps
11 131 (6.10%) Mentoring
12 126 (5.87%) Analytics
13 117 (5.45%) Project Delivery
14 104 (4.84%) Decision-Making
15 102 (4.75%) Business Intelligence
15 102 (4.75%) Risk Management
16 101 (4.70%) ERP
17 96 (4.47%) Test Automation
18 95 (4.42%) Technical Leadership
19 92 (4.28%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 207 (9.64%) Python
2 184 (8.57%) Java
3 141 (6.56%) SQL
4 126 (5.87%) JavaScript
5 125 (5.82%) C#
6 94 (4.38%) TypeScript
7 32 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.02%) C
9 21 (0.98%) Scala
10 20 (0.93%) C++
11 19 (0.88%) Bash
12 18 (0.84%) Bicep
13 15 (0.70%) Ruby
14 12 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.37%) Go
16 8 (0.37%) PHP
16 8 (0.37%) Swift
17 7 (0.33%) Groovy
18 5 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 364 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 267 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 162 (7.54%) Degree
4 101 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 37 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.44%) CISSP
7 28 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.16%) APMP
9 20 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (0.93%) CISM
10 19 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 13 (0.61%) PMP
12 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.47%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.42%) CISA
14 9 (0.42%) ISACA
15 8 (0.37%) CEH
15 8 (0.37%) CISMP
15 8 (0.37%) NVQ Level 3
15 8 (0.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.10%) QA
2 91 (4.24%) PMO
3 71 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.14%) NIST
5 32 (1.49%) SLA
6 30 (1.40%) GDPR
7 25 (1.16%) JSP 440
8 22 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.74%) GRC
12 15 (0.70%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.19%) COBIT
15 4 (0.19%) GAAP
15 4 (0.19%) NCSC
16 3 (0.14%) ITGC
16 3 (0.14%) P3O
16 3 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (2.37%) Docker
2 36 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.19%) Firmware
6 4 (0.19%) vSphere
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.093%) NFS
9 1 (0.047%) Ceph
9 1 (0.047%) Lustre
9 1 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.047%) XenApp
9 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 79 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 64 (2.98%) Terraform
3 38 (1.77%) Ansible
4 15 (0.70%) Grafana
4 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.56%) Kibana
6 9 (0.42%) logstash
7 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.37%) Puppet
8 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.23%) SCCM
10 4 (0.19%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.14%) Argo
11 3 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.093%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.093%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.093%) SCOM
12 2 (0.093%) vRealize
Vendors
1 242 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 210 (9.78%) SAP
3 62 (2.89%) Oracle
4 41 (1.91%) Databricks
5 38 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.21%) Google
8 24 (1.12%) Splunk
9 23 (1.07%) Informatica
10 20 (0.93%) Alteryx
11 19 (0.88%) VMware
11 19 (0.88%) Workday
12 17 (0.79%) IBM
12 17 (0.79%) Virgin Media
13 15 (0.70%) Cisco
14 14 (0.65%) Apple
15 13 (0.61%) Pega
16 11 (0.51%) Adobe
16 11 (0.51%) IFS
17 10 (0.47%) Cadence