Team Leader Contracts

Team Lead
UK

The median Team Lead daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 560 639
Rank change year-on-year +108 +79 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 127 134 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 91 154
10th Percentile £222 £208 £225
25th Percentile £513 £303 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £888 £675 £590
90th Percentile - £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £583 £485 £425
% change year-on-year +20.10% +14.12% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £13.00 - £16.50
25th Percentile - £10.09 £20.75
Median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +45.83% +3.40%
75th Percentile £16.37 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £35.00 £52.97 £49.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £18.80 £19.25
% change year-on-year -20.19% -2.36% -12.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Daily rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Hourly rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +113 117 £750 +81.82% 347
UK excluding London +48 64 £583 +20.10% 300
London +108 58 £825 +135.71% 64
Work from Home +102 46 £825 +26.92% 99
North of England +35 25 £590 +12.38% 77
North West +16 19 £590 +9.77% 42
Midlands +23 18 £188 -70.51% 69
West Midlands +23 11 £999 +45.31% 41
East Midlands +21 7 £174 -63.75% 28
South East +8 6 £525 -9.48% 63
Scotland +45 5 £590 +38.82% 18
Yorkshire +23 5 - - 30
South West +1 5 £725 +123.08% 37
East of England +13 4 £625 - 39
North East - 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £270 - 3

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Team 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 featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 40 (31.50%) Agile
2 35 (27.56%) AWS
3 34 (26.77%) Finance
3 34 (26.77%) Java
4 33 (25.98%) Software Engineering
5 31 (24.41%) Python
6 30 (23.62%) JavaScript
6 30 (23.62%) Front Office
7 29 (22.83%) TypeScript
7 29 (22.83%) GCP
8 28 (22.05%) Fixed Income
8 28 (22.05%) Banking
8 28 (22.05%) Asset Management
9 27 (21.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (21.26%) Derivative
9 27 (21.26%) Equities
9 27 (21.26%) Protocol Buffers
9 27 (21.26%) Hedge funds
9 27 (21.26%) gRPC
9 27 (21.26%) Apache Airflow
9 27 (21.26%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (21.26%) Apache Arrow
9 27 (21.26%) Dremio
9 27 (21.26%) dbt
10 26 (20.47%) Apache Ignite
10 26 (20.47%) Pandas
10 26 (20.47%) Line Management
10 26 (20.47%) SciPy
10 26 (20.47%) NumPy
10 26 (20.47%) Investment Banking

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (21.26%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (20.47%) Apache
3 4 (3.15%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.51%) CATIA
1 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.51%) DELMIA
1 7 (5.51%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.57%) Endur
4 1 (0.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.56%) AWS
2 29 (22.83%) GCP
3 27 (21.26%) dbt
4 24 (18.90%) Snowflake
5 10 (7.87%) Azure
6 4 (3.15%) GitHub
6 4 (3.15%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.57%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.57%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.79%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.45%) 5G
2 3 (2.36%) Firewall
2 3 (2.36%) VPN
3 2 (1.57%) Wireless
4 1 (0.79%) BGP
4 1 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.79%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.79%) IPsec
4 1 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.79%) OSPF
4 1 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) WAN
4 1 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.26%) Amazon Athena
1 27 (21.26%) Apache Arrow
1 27 (21.26%) Dremio
2 26 (20.47%) Apache Ignite
3 24 (18.90%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.30%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.15%) Power BI
6 1 (0.79%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) Hudson
2 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (26.77%) Finance
2 30 (23.62%) Front Office
3 28 (22.05%) Banking
4 26 (20.47%) Investment Banking
5 19 (14.96%) Social Skills
6 14 (11.02%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.51%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.57%) Electronics
9 2 (1.57%) Games
9 2 (1.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Automotive
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.26%) gRPC
1 27 (21.26%) Protocol Buffers
2 26 (20.47%) NumPy
2 26 (20.47%) Pandas
2 26 (20.47%) SciPy
3 8 (6.30%) .NET
4 3 (2.36%) CSS
4 3 (2.36%) HTML
4 3 (2.36%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.57%) ADO
5 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.57%) React
6 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.79%) Redux
6 1 (0.79%) REST
6 1 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.05%) Fixed Income
2 27 (21.26%) Derivative
2 27 (21.26%) Equities
2 27 (21.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (21.26%) Hedge funds
3 7 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.72%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.15%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.57%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.51%) Windows
2 5 (3.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.50%) Agile
2 33 (25.98%) Software Engineering
3 28 (22.05%) Asset Management
4 26 (20.47%) Line Management
5 19 (14.96%) Investment Management
6 18 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.09%) DevOps
8 7 (5.51%) Configuration Management
8 7 (5.51%) Conflict Management
8 7 (5.51%) PLM
8 7 (5.51%) SIEM
8 7 (5.51%) Time Management
8 7 (5.51%) Workflow
9 5 (3.94%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (3.94%) Mentoring
9 5 (3.94%) TDD
10 4 (3.15%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (3.15%) Defect Management
10 4 (3.15%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (3.15%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 34 (26.77%) Java
2 31 (24.41%) Python
3 30 (23.62%) JavaScript
4 29 (22.83%) TypeScript
5 18 (14.17%) SQL
6 6 (4.72%) C#
6 6 (4.72%) Ruby
7 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.36%) C
8 3 (2.36%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (6.30%) Degree
1 8 (6.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.51%) CISSP
2 7 (5.51%) NVQ Level 3
3 6 (4.72%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.15%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.79%) SCCM
3 1 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.66%) Splunk
3 7 (5.51%) Siemens
4 4 (3.15%) Darktrace
4 4 (3.15%) FireEye
4 4 (3.15%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.57%) OpenLink
5 2 (1.57%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) Apple
6 1 (0.79%) Charles River
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco
6 1 (0.79%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.79%) FactSet
6 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.79%) Juniper
6 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.79%) Sophos
6 1 (0.79%) Sybase
6 1 (0.79%) VMware