Lead Contracts in the North of England

Leader
England > North of England

The median Leader daily rate in the North of England is £582 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 30 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 273 313 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.69% 5.70% 5.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.12% 5.97% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 189 324
10th Percentile £413 £400 £304
25th Percentile £500 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% +12.50% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £575
90th Percentile £850 £743 £696
England median daily rate £590 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.56% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 10
10th Percentile - £10.09 £35.45
25th Percentile - £15.67 £39.70
Median hourly rate £15.00 £40.59 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year -63.05% -16.21% +84.80%
75th Percentile £24.63 £44.97 £76.88
90th Percentile £46.18 £57.05 £77.85
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +30.95% +60.21%

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 4,458 5,242 6,977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 95.48% 96.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,665 5,109
10th Percentile £263 £263 £205
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £568
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 161 274
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.00 £11.31
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.54
Median hourly rate £23.00 £27.98 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% +41.67% +11.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.50 £34.05
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £62.11
England median hourly rate £38.14 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.26% +88.21% +11.73%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
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 Lead within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +1 164 £585 +6.36% 195
Yorkshire -2 98 £575 -4.17% 115
North East +14 13 £533 -10.32% 38
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 North of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 67 (24.54%) Agile
2 62 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.71%) DevOps
2 62 (22.71%) Social Skills
3 49 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 47 (17.22%) CI/CD
5 45 (16.48%) AWS
5 45 (16.48%) Microsoft
5 45 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (15.75%) Finance
7 41 (15.02%) Windows
8 37 (13.55%) Threat Intelligence
9 36 (13.19%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 35 (12.82%) Node.js
10 35 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (12.82%) Azure
11 34 (12.45%) Apple iOS
12 32 (11.72%) Risk Management
13 30 (10.99%) Firewall
13 30 (10.99%) SAP
13 30 (10.99%) VPN
13 30 (10.99%) Android
13 30 (10.99%) Mobile Device Management
13 30 (10.99%) Windows Server
14 29 (10.62%) Public Cloud
15 28 (10.26%) Public Sector
15 28 (10.26%) Security Architecture
15 28 (10.26%) Zero Trust
16 26 (9.52%) Design Patterns
16 26 (9.52%) Project Management

Lead 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.73%) Apache
1 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.93%) CATIA
1 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.73%) Sketch
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (7.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.93%) DELMIA
2 8 (2.93%) Teamcenter
3 7 (2.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.73%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.73%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.73%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.73%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.73%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP AFS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.37%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.48%) AWS
2 35 (12.82%) Azure
3 18 (6.59%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 13 (4.76%) Serverless
5 11 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.30%) GCP
7 8 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.93%) PowerApps
8 7 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.20%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.20%) Route 53
10 5 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.83%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.99%) Firewall
1 30 (10.99%) VPN
2 8 (2.93%) 5G
3 4 (1.47%) SSL
4 2 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.73%) PPP
5 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.37%) RTP
5 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
5 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.59%) Power BI
2 13 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.10%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.73%) DB2
7 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.73%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (5.86%) Git
2 7 (2.56%) GitLab
3 6 (2.20%) JIRA
3 6 (2.20%) webpack
4 5 (1.83%) Hudson
5 4 (1.47%) JUnit
6 3 (1.10%) JMeter
6 3 (1.10%) LSMW
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 62 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.75%) Finance
3 28 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.76%) Banking
6 12 (4.40%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.40%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.03%) Legal
8 7 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Marketing
10 4 (1.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.10%) Law
11 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Billing
12 2 (0.73%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.82%) Node.js
2 12 (4.40%) React
3 8 (2.93%) PyTorch
3 8 (2.93%) TensorFlow
4 7 (2.56%) Kafka
5 6 (2.20%) .NET
5 6 (2.20%) Express.js
5 6 (2.20%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (2.20%) Redux
5 6 (2.20%) REST
6 5 (1.83%) Spring
6 5 (1.83%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.47%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.47%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.47%) JPA
8 3 (1.10%) BAPI
9 2 (0.73%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.73%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.73%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.62%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 8 (2.93%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.47%) NHS
9 3 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.73%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.37%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.02%) Windows
2 34 (12.45%) Apple iOS
3 30 (10.99%) Android
3 30 (10.99%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.76%) Linux
5 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.10%) zOS
7 1 (0.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.54%) Agile
2 62 (22.71%) DevOps
3 47 (17.22%) CI/CD
4 45 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (13.55%) Threat Intelligence
6 36 (13.19%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 35 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (11.72%) Risk Management
9 30 (10.99%) Mobile Device Management
10 28 (10.26%) Security Architecture
10 28 (10.26%) Zero Trust
11 26 (9.52%) Design Patterns
11 26 (9.52%) Project Management
12 25 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 20 (7.33%) Microservices
15 19 (6.96%) ERP
15 19 (6.96%) Roadmaps
16 17 (6.23%) Migration
16 17 (6.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.16%) Python
2 21 (7.69%) SQL
3 14 (5.13%) Java
4 9 (3.30%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.93%) C#
6 7 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.73%) Bash
8 2 (0.73%) Groovy
8 2 (0.73%) PHP
8 2 (0.73%) Scala
9 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 62 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.49%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.20%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.20%) Degree
5 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.37%) PMP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.13%) NIST
2 13 (4.76%) QA
3 12 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.66%) NIST 800
4 10 (3.66%) SLA
5 7 (2.56%) PMO
6 4 (1.47%) GRC
7 3 (1.10%) GDPR
8 2 (0.73%) COSO
8 2 (0.73%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (2.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.20%) Ansible
4 5 (1.83%) Terraform
5 2 (0.73%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 45 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.99%) SAP
3 8 (2.93%) Google
3 8 (2.93%) Siemens
4 6 (2.20%) Informatica
5 5 (1.83%) Apple
5 5 (1.83%) IBM
5 5 (1.83%) Pega
5 5 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.83%) Sophos
5 5 (1.83%) Splunk
6 4 (1.47%) Databricks
6 4 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.47%) Solace
7 3 (1.10%) F5
8 2 (0.73%) Brio
8 2 (0.73%) Cadence
8 2 (0.73%) Facebook
8 2 (0.73%) Instagram
8 2 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud