Lead Contracts in Manchester

Leader
North West > Manchester

The median Leader daily rate in Manchester is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 100 108 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.87% 6.15% 6.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.21% 6.41% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 78 141
10th Percentile £413 £383 £355
25th Percentile £500 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £541 £490
Median % change year-on-year +15.01% +10.46% +8.89%
75th Percentile £804 £647 £538
90th Percentile £850 £740 £650
North West median daily rate £585 £550 £490
% change year-on-year +6.36% +12.24% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £27.13 £66.20
25th Percentile - £28.44 £68.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.25 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% -58.05% +10.37%
75th Percentile - £33.44 £79.50
90th Percentile - £34.38 £80.40
North West median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year -57.14% -27.75% -19.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,387 1,684 2,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 95.95% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 1,259 1,985
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 44 60
10th Percentile £12.14 £14.37 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.41 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £20.35 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.66% +3.05% +16.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £35.63 £34.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £60.83 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £28.70 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.62% +14.80% +38.45%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 - 2
Lead
North West

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 43 (43.00%) Agile
2 35 (35.00%) Node.js
2 35 (35.00%) DevOps
2 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 34 (34.00%) Apple iOS
3 34 (34.00%) Windows
4 32 (32.00%) Security Cleared
5 31 (31.00%) SC Cleared
6 30 (30.00%) Android
6 30 (30.00%) Firewall
6 30 (30.00%) Risk Management
6 30 (30.00%) VPN
6 30 (30.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 30 (30.00%) Windows Server
7 28 (28.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 28 (28.00%) Public Cloud
7 28 (28.00%) Security Architecture
7 28 (28.00%) Zero Trust
7 28 (28.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 25 (25.00%) Design Patterns
9 17 (17.00%) AWS
10 16 (16.00%) Microservices
10 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
11 14 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (14.00%) Roadmaps
11 14 (14.00%) Azure
12 13 (13.00%) ETL
13 12 (12.00%) Finance
13 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (11.00%) Data Quality

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.00%) Apache
1 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.00%) AWS
2 14 (14.00%) Azure
3 8 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.00%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (6.00%) GCP
5 6 (6.00%) Route 53
5 6 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (5.00%) Mimecast
7 3 (3.00%) Serverless
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (30.00%) Firewall
1 30 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.00%) Power BI
2 6 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.00%) SAP BW
4 3 (3.00%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.00%) Data Hub
5 2 (2.00%) DB2
5 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.00%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.00%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.00%) GitLab
2 6 (6.00%) webpack
3 5 (5.00%) Hudson
4 3 (3.00%) Git
4 3 (3.00%) LSMW
5 2 (2.00%) ER Studio
5 2 (2.00%) JUnit
6 1 (1.00%) JMeter
6 1 (1.00%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.00%) Legal
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Banking
5 2 (2.00%) Billing
5 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Military
6 1 (1.00%) Retail
6 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.00%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (35.00%) Node.js
2 9 (9.00%) React
3 6 (6.00%) Express.js
3 6 (6.00%) Redux
4 3 (3.00%) BAPI
4 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.00%) .NET
5 2 (2.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.00%) JPA
5 2 (2.00%) Kafka
5 2 (2.00%) Middleware
5 2 (2.00%) REST
5 2 (2.00%) Spring
6 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.00%) JSON
6 1 (1.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.00%) RESTful
6 1 (1.00%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.00%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (1.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.00%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (34.00%) Apple iOS
1 34 (34.00%) Windows
2 30 (30.00%) Android
2 30 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.00%) Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.00%) zOS
6 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.00%) Agile
2 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 35 (35.00%) DevOps
3 30 (30.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 30 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 28 (28.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 28 (28.00%) Security Architecture
4 28 (28.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 28 (28.00%) Zero Trust
5 25 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 16 (16.00%) Microservices
7 14 (14.00%) Roadmaps
7 14 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (13.00%) ETL
9 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.00%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.00%) Product Strategy
10 11 (11.00%) Strategic Roadmap
11 8 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
11 8 (8.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.00%) Java
3 5 (5.00%) Python
4 4 (4.00%) SQL
4 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.00%) C#
5 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.00%) Scala
6 1 (1.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.00%) QA
3 4 (4.00%) GRC
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.00%) NIST
4 2 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.00%) SAP
2 5 (5.00%) Apple
2 5 (5.00%) Google
2 5 (5.00%) Informatica
2 5 (5.00%) Pega
2 5 (5.00%) Sophos
3 4 (4.00%) Databricks
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.00%) F5
5 2 (2.00%) CA
5 2 (2.00%) Facebook
5 2 (2.00%) IDERA
5 2 (2.00%) Instagram
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.00%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.00%) IBM