Lead Contracts in the North East

Leader
England > North East

The median Leader daily rate in the North East is £516 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 26 42 25
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 12 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.55% 3.77% 6.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.93% 3.86% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 26
10th Percentile £476 £255 £228
25th Percentile £491 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £675 £555
Median % change year-on-year -23.52% +21.62% +11.00%
75th Percentile £549 £775 £678
90th Percentile - - £706
England median daily rate £584 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -2.75% +2.48% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.62 - -
25th Percentile £26.55 - -
Median hourly rate £33.09 - -
75th Percentile £39.64 - -
90th Percentile £43.56 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +57.14% +34.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 305 415 497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 97.88% 97.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 319 393
10th Percentile £190 £231 £146
25th Percentile £363 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £720 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 2 17
10th Percentile £10.42 £32.98 £12.16
25th Percentile £11.50 £35.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £13.99 £40.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.67% +139.71% +16.96%
75th Percentile £34.50 £45.56 £19.91
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £46.15
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North East

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North East

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North East

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the North East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North East

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +18 6 £516 -31.17% 29
Northumberland - 6 - -
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

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 North East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (50.00%) Python
4 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Git
4 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) AWS
4 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (50.00%) TensorFlow
4 6 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) GitOps
4 6 (50.00%) PyTorch
4 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) CRM
6 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow Management
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) JIRA
6 2 (16.67%) Marketing
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 6 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) BBC
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) GitOps
2 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) mParticle