Lead Contracts in the North of England

Leader
England > North of England

The median Leader daily rate in the North of England is £584 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 29 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 275 322 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.86% 5.64% 5.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.29% 5.92% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 198 314
10th Percentile £413 £400 £305
25th Percentile £500 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £575
90th Percentile £850 £755 £675
England median daily rate £585 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 6
10th Percentile - - £19.31
25th Percentile - £10.09 £26.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £27.50 £40.01
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% -31.26% +53.87%
75th Percentile £24.63 £43.75 £47.19
90th Percentile £46.18 £60.40 £48.75
England median hourly rate £62.02 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% +57.14% +33.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West +6 160 £590 +7.27% 172
Yorkshire +2 104 £575 -4.17% 106
North East +15 12 £516 -23.52% 44
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 64 (23.27%) Agile
2 62 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.55%) DevOps
3 56 (20.36%) Social Skills
4 49 (17.82%) SC Cleared
5 48 (17.45%) Finance
5 48 (17.45%) CI/CD
6 46 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (16.36%) AWS
8 43 (15.64%) Microsoft
9 39 (14.18%) Windows
10 37 (13.45%) Threat Intelligence
11 36 (13.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 35 (12.73%) Node.js
12 35 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (12.36%) Apple iOS
13 34 (12.36%) Azure
14 33 (12.00%) Risk Management
15 32 (11.64%) Public Sector
16 31 (11.27%) Firewall
17 30 (10.91%) VPN
17 30 (10.91%) Project Management
17 30 (10.91%) Security Architecture
17 30 (10.91%) Android
17 30 (10.91%) Mobile Device Management
17 30 (10.91%) Windows Server
18 28 (10.18%) Public Cloud
18 28 (10.18%) Zero Trust
19 27 (9.82%) Design Patterns
19 27 (9.82%) SAP

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.36%) Apache
2 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.36%) Confluence
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.91%) CATIA
1 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.73%) Sketch
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (7.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.91%) DELMIA
2 8 (2.91%) Teamcenter
3 7 (2.55%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.73%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.73%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.73%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP AFS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.36%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.36%) AWS
2 34 (12.36%) Azure
3 19 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (4.36%) Amazon S3
5 12 (4.36%) Serverless
6 10 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.27%) PowerApps
7 9 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (2.91%) GCP
9 7 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.18%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (2.18%) Route 53
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.27%) Firewall
2 30 (10.91%) VPN
3 8 (2.91%) 5G
4 4 (1.45%) SSL
5 2 (0.73%) DNS
5 2 (0.73%) PPP
6 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.36%) RTP
6 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.55%) Power BI
2 13 (4.73%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.45%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.09%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.73%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.73%) Tableau
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.36%) DB2
7 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.45%) Git
2 9 (3.27%) GitLab
3 6 (2.18%) JIRA
3 6 (2.18%) webpack
4 5 (1.82%) Hudson
5 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.45%) JUnit
6 3 (1.09%) LSMW
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.73%) JMeter
7 2 (0.73%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 56 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.45%) Finance
3 32 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.09%) Manufacturing
5 14 (5.09%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.36%) Legal
7 9 (3.27%) Banking
8 8 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.18%) Marketing
10 5 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Law
11 4 (1.45%) Retail
12 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.73%) Automotive
13 2 (0.73%) Billing
13 2 (0.73%) Electronics
13 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.73%) Node.js
2 11 (4.00%) React
3 7 (2.55%) Kafka
4 6 (2.18%) Express.js
4 6 (2.18%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (2.18%) PyTorch
4 6 (2.18%) Redux
4 6 (2.18%) REST
4 6 (2.18%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.82%) Spring
5 5 (1.82%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.45%) .NET
6 4 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (1.45%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.45%) JPA
7 3 (1.09%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.09%) BAPI
8 2 (0.73%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.73%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.73%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.18%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.18%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.82%) NHS
9 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.73%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.36%) BBC
11 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.36%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.18%) Windows
2 34 (12.36%) Apple iOS
3 30 (10.91%) Android
3 30 (10.91%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.73%) Linux
5 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.73%) Unix
6 2 (0.73%) zOS
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.27%) Agile
2 62 (22.55%) DevOps
3 48 (17.45%) CI/CD
4 46 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (13.45%) Threat Intelligence
6 36 (13.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 35 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.00%) Risk Management
9 30 (10.91%) Mobile Device Management
9 30 (10.91%) Project Management
9 30 (10.91%) Security Architecture
10 28 (10.18%) Zero Trust
11 27 (9.82%) Design Patterns
12 25 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (9.09%) Roadmaps
13 22 (8.00%) Mentoring
14 20 (7.27%) Microservices
15 19 (6.91%) ERP
16 17 (6.18%) Information Security
17 16 (5.82%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.27%) Python
2 19 (6.91%) SQL
3 13 (4.73%) Java
4 10 (3.64%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.91%) C#
6 7 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.55%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.73%) Bash
7 2 (0.73%) Groovy
7 2 (0.73%) PHP
8 1 (0.36%) Go
8 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.45%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.18%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.45%) Degree
6 2 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.73%) CISM
6 2 (0.73%) CISSP
6 2 (0.73%) ISACA
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PMP
7 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.45%) NIST
2 14 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.73%) QA
4 10 (3.64%) NIST 800
4 10 (3.64%) SLA
5 5 (1.82%) GDPR
5 5 (1.82%) PMO
6 4 (1.45%) GRC
7 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.73%) COSO
8 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.73%) IASME
8 2 (0.73%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (2.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.91%) Terraform
3 6 (2.18%) Ansible
4 2 (0.73%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.36%) Grafana
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.82%) SAP
3 9 (3.27%) Google
4 8 (2.91%) Siemens
5 6 (2.18%) Informatica
5 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.18%) Sophos
6 5 (1.82%) Apple
6 5 (1.82%) IBM
6 5 (1.82%) Pega
6 5 (1.82%) Splunk
7 4 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.45%) Solace
8 3 (1.09%) Databricks
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle
9 2 (0.73%) Ariba
9 2 (0.73%) CA
9 2 (0.73%) Facebook
9 2 (0.73%) HP
9 2 (0.73%) Instagram