Lead Contracts in Manchester

Leader
North West > Manchester

The median Leader daily rate in Manchester is £635 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 22 31 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 101 103 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.59% 5.44% 5.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.88% 5.63% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 73 138
10th Percentile £423 £365 £400
25th Percentile £500 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £545 £509
Median % change year-on-year +16.51% +7.13% +13.06%
75th Percentile £802 £638 £538
90th Percentile £850 £795 £627
North West median daily rate £590 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% - -
North West median hourly rate £15.00 £24.16 £30.25
% change year-on-year -37.90% -20.15% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,468 1,829 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.76% 96.62% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 1,360 1,993
10th Percentile £313 £313 £214
25th Percentile £394 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.13 £23.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.40 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Manchester

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Manchester

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Manchester

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Manchester

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Wigan - 5 £400 -
Altrincham - 1 £563 - 3
Lead
North West

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

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 Manchester region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 42 (41.58%) Agile
2 35 (34.65%) Node.js
2 35 (34.65%) DevOps
2 35 (34.65%) CI/CD
3 34 (33.66%) Apple iOS
4 33 (32.67%) Security Cleared
5 32 (31.68%) SC Cleared
6 31 (30.69%) Windows
6 31 (30.69%) Firewall
7 30 (29.70%) Risk Management
7 30 (29.70%) VPN
7 30 (29.70%) Android
7 30 (29.70%) Mobile Device Management
7 30 (29.70%) Windows Server
8 28 (27.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 28 (27.72%) Threat Intelligence
8 28 (27.72%) Security Architecture
8 28 (27.72%) Zero Trust
9 27 (26.73%) Public Cloud
10 26 (25.74%) Design Patterns
11 19 (18.81%) AWS
12 18 (17.82%) Roadmaps
13 16 (15.84%) Microservices
14 15 (14.85%) Azure
14 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
15 13 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (12.87%) Social Skills
16 12 (11.88%) Finance
17 11 (10.89%) Legal
17 11 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement

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

Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.81%) AWS
2 15 (14.85%) Azure
3 10 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (8.91%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (5.94%) Route 53
7 5 (4.95%) Mimecast
8 4 (3.96%) GCP
9 3 (2.97%) IaaS
9 3 (2.97%) PaaS
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (30.69%) Firewall
2 30 (29.70%) VPN
3 2 (1.98%) DNS
4 1 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) Power BI
2 6 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.97%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.97%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.98%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) GitLab
2 6 (5.94%) webpack
3 5 (4.95%) Hudson
4 4 (3.96%) Git
5 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.97%) LSMW
6 2 (1.98%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.98%) JUnit
7 1 (0.99%) Selenium
7 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.99%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
2 13 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.88%) Finance
4 11 (10.89%) Legal
5 4 (3.96%) Law
6 3 (2.97%) Electronics
6 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.97%) Marketing
6 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.98%) Banking
7 2 (1.98%) Billing
7 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.99%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (34.65%) Node.js
2 8 (7.92%) React
3 6 (5.94%) Express.js
3 6 (5.94%) Redux
4 3 (2.97%) BAPI
4 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.98%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.98%) JPA
5 2 (1.98%) REST
5 2 (1.98%) Spring
6 1 (0.99%) .NET
6 1 (0.99%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.99%) AWS SAM
6 1 (0.99%) Jest
6 1 (0.99%) JSON
6 1 (0.99%) Kafka
6 1 (0.99%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.99%) RESTful
6 1 (0.99%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (0.99%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.73%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.90%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.95%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.98%) NHS
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 34 (33.66%) Apple iOS
2 31 (30.69%) Windows
3 30 (29.70%) Android
3 30 (29.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.96%) Linux
4 4 (3.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (41.58%) Agile
2 35 (34.65%) CI/CD
2 35 (34.65%) DevOps
3 30 (29.70%) Mobile Device Management
3 30 (29.70%) Risk Management
4 28 (27.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 28 (27.72%) Security Architecture
4 28 (27.72%) Threat Intelligence
4 28 (27.72%) Zero Trust
5 26 (25.74%) Design Patterns
6 18 (17.82%) Roadmaps
7 16 (15.84%) Microservices
8 13 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (10.89%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.89%) Product Strategy
9 11 (10.89%) Strategic Roadmap
10 9 (8.91%) ETL
11 8 (7.92%) Customer Engagement
11 8 (7.92%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
3 4 (3.96%) Java
4 3 (2.97%) Python
5 2 (1.98%) C#
5 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.99%) Go
6 1 (0.99%) Scala
6 1 (0.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (32.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (31.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.94%) QA
3 4 (3.96%) GDPR
3 4 (3.96%) GRC
4 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.97%) NIST
5 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.96%) Terraform
4 1 (0.99%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (5.94%) SAP
1 6 (5.94%) Sophos
2 5 (4.95%) Apple
2 5 (4.95%) Google
2 5 (4.95%) Informatica
2 5 (4.95%) Pega
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.98%) CA
4 2 (1.98%) Databricks
4 2 (1.98%) Facebook
4 2 (1.98%) IDERA
4 2 (1.98%) Instagram
5 1 (0.99%) Rapid7