Lead Contracts in the City of London

Leader
Central London > City of London

The median Leader daily rate in the City of London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 117 189 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.31% 5.20% 5.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.60% 5.46% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 130 145
10th Percentile £476 £496 £466
25th Percentile £525 £518 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £663 £620
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +6.85% +12.73%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £713
90th Percentile £898 £875 £788
Central London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -51.72% +556.85%
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -51.72% +415.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,091 3,462 4,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.19% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 2,355 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £560
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.64 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the City of London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Lead in the City of London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the City of London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the City of London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the City of London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 Bridge - 1 £501 -
Lead
Central London

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 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 City of London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 34 (29.06%) Finance
2 28 (23.93%) Agile
3 27 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 26 (22.22%) Azure
5 21 (17.95%) Microsoft
6 14 (11.97%) Banking
6 14 (11.97%) Migration
6 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (11.97%) DevOps
7 12 (10.26%) Project Management
7 12 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (9.40%) CI/CD
8 11 (9.40%) AWS
8 11 (9.40%) Coaching
9 10 (8.55%) Java
9 10 (8.55%) SAP
9 10 (8.55%) Change Management
10 9 (7.69%) Risk Management
10 9 (7.69%) SQL
10 9 (7.69%) Test Strategy
10 9 (7.69%) Marketing
10 9 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 8 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (6.84%) QA
11 8 (6.84%) C#
11 8 (6.84%) ITIL
11 8 (6.84%) Windows
12 7 (5.98%) User Experience

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (2.56%) Confluence
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.71%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.71%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) IIS
3 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.71%) Loan IQ
2 2 (1.71%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.85%) Endur
3 1 (0.85%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.85%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.22%) Azure
2 12 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (9.40%) AWS
4 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.27%) Azure API Management
6 5 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.42%) Figma
7 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.42%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.42%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.56%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.71%) GCP
9 2 (1.71%) Kong
9 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) DNS
1 2 (1.71%) Firewall
1 2 (1.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.85%) SSL
2 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
1 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.71%) MySQL
3 2 (1.71%) Power BI
4 1 (0.85%) Big Data
4 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Parquet
4 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) JIRA
2 5 (4.27%) Git
2 5 (4.27%) Selenium
3 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.56%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (1.71%) GitLab
4 2 (1.71%) HP UFT
4 2 (1.71%) Postman
4 2 (1.71%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.71%) TestRail
5 1 (0.85%) Appium
5 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.85%) GoCD
5 1 (0.85%) JMeter
5 1 (0.85%) JUnit
5 1 (0.85%) MSI
5 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 34 (29.06%) Finance
2 27 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.97%) Banking
4 9 (7.69%) Marketing
5 6 (5.13%) Law
6 5 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.27%) Legal
7 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.56%) Back Office
8 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Retail
9 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.71%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
10 1 (0.85%) International Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.27%) Spring
1 5 (4.27%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.42%) .NET
3 3 (2.56%) Kafka
3 3 (2.56%) REST
3 3 (2.56%) RESTful
3 3 (2.56%) XML
4 2 (1.71%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.71%) ADO
4 2 (1.71%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.71%) jQuery
4 2 (1.71%) Middleware
4 2 (1.71%) Playwright
4 2 (1.71%) SOAP
4 2 (1.71%) Struts
4 2 (1.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.71%) Web Services
4 2 (1.71%) YAML
5 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.85%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
2 2 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
3 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
3 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.85%) LIMS
3 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
3 1 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (0.85%) NHS
3 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
3 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.84%) Windows
2 4 (3.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.85%) CentOS
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.93%) Agile
2 14 (11.97%) DevOps
2 14 (11.97%) Migration
2 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (10.26%) Project Management
4 11 (9.40%) CI/CD
4 11 (9.40%) Coaching
4 11 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (8.55%) Change Management
6 9 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 9 (7.69%) Risk Management
6 9 (7.69%) Test Strategy
7 8 (6.84%) ITIL
7 8 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (5.98%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (5.98%) User Experience
8 7 (5.98%) User Research
9 6 (5.13%) Data Governance
9 6 (5.13%) Microservices
9 6 (5.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.55%) Java
2 9 (7.69%) SQL
3 8 (6.84%) C#
4 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.13%) Python
5 2 (1.71%) Bicep
5 2 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.85%) Scala
6 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (4.27%) Degree
1 5 (4.27%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (1.71%) ISEB
2 2 (1.71%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.71%) PMP
3 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) QA
2 5 (4.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.27%) NIST
3 4 (3.42%) GDPR
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.56%) PMO
5 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.71%) GRC
5 2 (1.71%) WCAG
6 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.42%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Ceph
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.85%) NFS
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (4.27%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.27%) Terraform
2 3 (2.56%) Ansible
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.71%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.85%) Grafana
4 1 (0.85%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.85%) Kibana
4 1 (0.85%) logstash
4 1 (0.85%) Mesos
4 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Puppet
4 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.55%) SAP
3 4 (3.42%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.42%) Reuters
4 3 (2.56%) Databricks
5 2 (1.71%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (1.71%) IBM
5 2 (1.71%) IFS
5 2 (1.71%) Micro Focus
5 2 (1.71%) Murex
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle
5 2 (1.71%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.85%) Cerner
6 1 (0.85%) Citrix
6 1 (0.85%) Infor
6 1 (0.85%) MobileIron
6 1 (0.85%) Pega
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.85%) Sitecore