Lead Contracts in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader daily rate in England is £584 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 27 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 2,193 2,899 4,168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.93% 5.74% 5.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.40% 6.06% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,990 2,926
10th Percentile £400 £409 £406
25th Percentile £488 £510 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +2.48% +11.52%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 63 65
10th Percentile £15.17 £21.25 £16.50
25th Percentile £26.88 £35.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £73.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.25 £66.54 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +57.14% +31.33%

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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 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 +5 1,091 £600 -3.61% 641
North of England +3 281 £582 +5.82% 289
South East +5 269 £550 -8.33% 240
South West +19 258 £550 -9.09% 154
North West +3 163 £590 +7.27% 157
Midlands +5 142 £555 - 188
West Midlands +4 109 £598 +5.05% 130
Yorkshire +1 107 £575 - 96
East of England -1 81 £560 -4.68% 120
East Midlands +13 31 £235 -58.04% 57
North East +16 12 £516 -23.52% 38
South Coast - 1 - -
Lead
UK

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

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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 556 (25.35%) Finance
2 502 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 455 (20.75%) Agile
4 392 (17.88%) Security Cleared
5 292 (13.32%) Azure
6 291 (13.27%) SC Cleared
7 276 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 272 (12.40%) DevOps
9 268 (12.22%) Project Management
10 252 (11.49%) AWS
11 245 (11.17%) Microsoft
12 231 (10.53%) SAP
12 231 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
13 202 (9.21%) Public Sector
14 199 (9.07%) CI/CD
15 190 (8.66%) Python
16 185 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
17 168 (7.66%) Migration
18 167 (7.62%) Degree
19 160 (7.30%) Java
20 154 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
21 152 (6.93%) Roadmaps
22 149 (6.79%) Mentoring
23 140 (6.38%) SQL
24 136 (6.20%) Software Engineering
25 132 (6.02%) Banking
26 128 (5.84%) QA
27 124 (5.65%) Analytics
28 122 (5.56%) Project Delivery
29 119 (5.43%) Risk Management

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 36 (1.64%) Apache
2 32 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 20 (0.91%) Confluence
5 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.14%) IIS
9 3 (0.14%) SAS
9 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.046%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.046%) CICS
11 1 (0.046%) JBoss
11 1 (0.046%) nginx
11 1 (0.046%) WordPress
Applications
1 68 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.64%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.36%) CATIA
8 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
9 4 (0.18%) Sketch
10 3 (0.14%) SPSS
11 2 (0.091%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.046%) Simulink
12 1 (0.046%) Stateflow
12 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 114 (5.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 11 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.46%) ION Anvil
5 10 (0.46%) SAP MDG
6 9 (0.41%) DELMIA
6 9 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.41%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.41%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.41%) SAP MM
6 9 (0.41%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.32%) Loan IQ
8 7 (0.32%) Shopify
9 6 (0.27%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle AGIS
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.27%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 292 (13.32%) Azure
2 252 (11.49%) AWS
3 82 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
5 78 (3.56%) Power Platform
6 64 (2.92%) Snowflake
7 52 (2.37%) Serverless
8 50 (2.28%) GCP
9 42 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 36 (1.64%) dbt
11 36 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
12 34 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.41%) PowerApps
14 27 (1.23%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.23%) Azure API Management
14 27 (1.23%) SaaS
15 25 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (1.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.10%) Firewall
2 57 (2.60%) VPN
3 25 (1.14%) WAN
4 22 (1.00%) LAN
5 19 (0.87%) 5G
6 13 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.50%) Network Security
7 11 (0.50%) Wireless
8 10 (0.46%) DNS
8 10 (0.46%) SNA
8 10 (0.46%) SSL
9 9 (0.41%) BGP
9 9 (0.41%) IP Telephony
10 8 (0.36%) OSPF
10 8 (0.36%) VLAN
10 8 (0.36%) VSAN
11 7 (0.32%) FTP
11 7 (0.32%) IPv4
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (2.96%) Power BI
2 54 (2.46%) Data Lake
2 54 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
4 32 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 29 (1.32%) Apache Arrow
5 29 (1.32%) Dremio
6 28 (1.28%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (1.14%) Tableau
8 19 (0.87%) Big Data
8 19 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.59%) MySQL
13 12 (0.55%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 88 (4.01%) JIRA
2 80 (3.65%) Git
3 61 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.14%) GitLab
5 22 (1.00%) Selenium
6 12 (0.55%) Postman
7 11 (0.50%) JMeter
7 11 (0.50%) JUnit
7 11 (0.50%) webpack
8 8 (0.36%) LoadRunner
8 8 (0.36%) LSMW
8 8 (0.36%) TestRail
9 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.27%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (0.23%) HP UFT
11 5 (0.23%) Hudson
11 5 (0.23%) MLflow
11 5 (0.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 556 (25.35%) Finance
2 502 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 202 (9.21%) Public Sector
4 185 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (6.02%) Banking
6 89 (4.06%) Marketing
7 86 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 82 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 61 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 57 (2.60%) Legal
10 57 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 56 (2.55%) Retail
12 48 (2.19%) Front Office
13 35 (1.60%) Electronics
14 32 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (1.37%) Back Office
16 28 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (3.83%) .NET
2 78 (3.56%) Node.js
3 64 (2.92%) React
4 37 (1.69%) CSS
5 35 (1.60%) Spring
6 32 (1.46%) HTML
6 32 (1.46%) Spring Boot
7 31 (1.41%) Kafka
7 31 (1.41%) Web Services
8 30 (1.37%) AngularJS
8 30 (1.37%) Protocol Buffers
8 30 (1.37%) REST
9 29 (1.32%) gRPC
9 29 (1.32%) Pandas
10 28 (1.28%) .NET Core
10 28 (1.28%) NumPy
10 28 (1.28%) SciPy
10 28 (1.28%) XML
11 16 (0.73%) GraphQL
11 16 (0.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 67 (3.06%) Product Ownership
2 53 (2.42%) Management Information System
2 53 (2.42%) Onboarding
3 47 (2.14%) Fixed Income
4 45 (2.05%) Derivative
5 43 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 42 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 37 (1.69%) Equities
9 36 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 35 (1.60%) Hedge funds
11 28 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 26 (1.19%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
15 17 (0.78%) FMCG
15 17 (0.78%) NHS
16 15 (0.68%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.64%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 91 (4.15%) Windows
2 69 (3.15%) Linux
3 62 (2.83%) Apple iOS
4 57 (2.60%) Android
5 43 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.00%) Unix
7 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.41%) CentOS
8 9 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.27%) VMS
10 3 (0.14%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.14%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
12 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (20.75%) Agile
2 276 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 272 (12.40%) DevOps
4 268 (12.22%) Project Management
5 231 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 199 (9.07%) CI/CD
7 168 (7.66%) Migration
8 154 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 152 (6.93%) Roadmaps
10 149 (6.79%) Mentoring
11 136 (6.20%) Software Engineering
12 124 (5.65%) Analytics
13 122 (5.56%) Project Delivery
14 119 (5.43%) Risk Management
15 111 (5.06%) Business Intelligence
15 111 (5.06%) ERP
16 105 (4.79%) Technical Leadership
17 104 (4.74%) Cybersecurity
17 104 (4.74%) Decision-Making
18 103 (4.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 190 (8.66%) Python
2 160 (7.30%) Java
3 140 (6.38%) SQL
4 119 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 114 (5.20%) C#
6 79 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 39 (1.78%) PowerShell
8 19 (0.87%) Scala
9 18 (0.82%) Bash
10 16 (0.73%) Bicep
10 16 (0.73%) Ruby
11 15 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.64%) C
13 12 (0.55%) C++
14 11 (0.50%) PHP
15 8 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.32%) Swift
17 6 (0.27%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.27%) R
18 5 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 392 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 291 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 167 (7.62%) Degree
4 99 (4.51%) DV Cleared
5 41 (1.87%) CISSP
6 36 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.32%) CISM
9 22 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.91%) APMP
11 19 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.55%) PMP
14 11 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.50%) ISACA
15 10 (0.46%) CISA
15 10 (0.46%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.41%) CEH
17 8 (0.36%) CISMP
17 8 (0.36%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.84%) QA
2 81 (3.69%) PMO
3 75 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.19%) NIST
5 35 (1.60%) SLA
6 34 (1.55%) GDPR
7 26 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.14%) JSP 440
9 21 (0.96%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.87%) GRC
11 18 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 16 (0.73%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.36%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) COBIT
16 4 (0.18%) GAAP
16 4 (0.18%) NCSC
17 3 (0.14%) GxP
17 3 (0.14%) ITGC
17 3 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (2.37%) Docker
2 36 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.23%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) Firmware
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.14%) NFS
9 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.046%) Ceph
10 1 (0.046%) Lustre
10 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 75 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 73 (3.33%) Terraform
3 46 (2.10%) Ansible
4 15 (0.68%) Grafana
5 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.59%) Kibana
7 12 (0.55%) Puppet
8 11 (0.50%) logstash
8 11 (0.50%) vRealize
9 10 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.32%) CA Service Virtualization
11 7 (0.32%) SCCM
12 6 (0.27%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.23%) VxRail
14 3 (0.14%) Argo
14 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 245 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 231 (10.53%) SAP
3 75 (3.42%) Oracle
4 46 (2.10%) ServiceNow
5 39 (1.78%) Databricks
6 35 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.41%) VMware
8 28 (1.28%) Workday
9 25 (1.14%) Informatica
10 24 (1.09%) Google
11 20 (0.91%) Alteryx
11 20 (0.91%) Cisco
12 19 (0.87%) Splunk
13 18 (0.82%) Virgin Media
14 16 (0.73%) IBM
14 16 (0.73%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.59%) Apple
15 13 (0.59%) Juniper
15 13 (0.59%) Pega
16 12 (0.55%) Adobe