Lead Contracts in Cardiff

Leader
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Leader daily rate in Cardiff is £570 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 9 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.23% 2.98% 4.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 3.09% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 17
10th Percentile £536 £209 £369
25th Percentile £563 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -4.55% +33.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £775
90th Percentile £625 £618 £813
South Wales median daily rate £570 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.05% -2.27% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 198 324 513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 96.43% 96.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 259 396
10th Percentile £199 £185 £238
25th Percentile £369 £353 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £626 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -7.99% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cardiff

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Cardiff

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Cardiff region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) LIMS
1 7 (77.78%) Service Management
1 7 (77.78%) Change Management
1 7 (77.78%) InterSystems
2 5 (55.56%) Information Management
3 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) User Stories
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) C#
6 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Line Management
6 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (11.11%) Terraform
6 1 (11.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) LIMS
2 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Change Management
1 7 (77.78%) Service Management
2 5 (55.56%) Information Management
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) InterSystems