Lead Contracts in the North West

Leader
England > North West

The median Leader daily rate in the North West is £590 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 27 31 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 163 180 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.90% 5.63% 5.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% 5.94% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 114 193
10th Percentile £375 £389 £351
25th Percentile £500 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £556
90th Percentile £850 £775 £675
England median daily rate £584 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -2.75% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 6
10th Percentile - - £16.19
25th Percentile - £10.09 £17.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £24.16 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -20.15% -
75th Percentile £22.25 £37.19 £47.19
90th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £48.75
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,031 3,927
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.87% 96.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,172 2,878
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 134 175
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.38 £43.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +9 101 £635 +16.51% 93
Cheshire +7 27 £585 +3.08% 33
Lancashire -4 12 £301 -55.37% 13
Cumbria -13 12 £582 -22.40% 7
Merseyside +10 11 £363 -34.09% 18
Lead
England

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

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 North West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 48 (29.45%) Agile
2 43 (26.38%) Security Cleared
3 42 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 42 (25.77%) DevOps
4 38 (23.31%) CI/CD
5 35 (21.47%) Node.js
6 34 (20.86%) Apple iOS
6 34 (20.86%) Windows
7 33 (20.25%) Risk Management
8 32 (19.63%) Firewall
9 31 (19.02%) VPN
10 30 (18.40%) Android
10 30 (18.40%) Mobile Device Management
10 30 (18.40%) Windows Server
11 29 (17.79%) Threat Intelligence
11 29 (17.79%) AWS
12 28 (17.18%) Security Architecture
12 28 (17.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 28 (17.18%) Zero Trust
13 27 (16.56%) Design Patterns
13 27 (16.56%) Public Cloud
14 26 (15.95%) Finance
14 26 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (14.11%) Social Skills
16 21 (12.88%) Azure
17 20 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (12.27%) Microsoft
17 20 (12.27%) Public Sector
17 20 (12.27%) Roadmaps
18 18 (11.04%) Microservices

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.91%) CATIA
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.91%) DELMIA
1 8 (4.91%) Teamcenter
2 6 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.79%) AWS
2 21 (12.88%) Azure
3 13 (7.98%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (5.52%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.29%) Serverless
6 6 (3.68%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.68%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (3.68%) Route 53
7 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (3.07%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.63%) Firewall
2 31 (19.02%) VPN
3 4 (2.45%) 5G
4 2 (1.23%) DNS
4 2 (1.23%) PPP
5 1 (0.61%) DMZ
5 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.91%) Power BI
3 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.45%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.84%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.84%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.23%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.91%) Git
2 7 (4.29%) GitLab
3 6 (3.68%) webpack
4 5 (3.07%) Hudson
5 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.84%) JIRA
5 3 (1.84%) LSMW
6 2 (1.23%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.23%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (15.95%) Finance
2 23 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.75%) Legal
5 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.45%) Law
7 4 (2.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.84%) Banking
8 3 (1.84%) Electronics
8 3 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Marketing
8 3 (1.84%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Automotive
9 2 (1.23%) Billing
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.47%) Node.js
2 9 (5.52%) React
3 6 (3.68%) Express.js
3 6 (3.68%) Redux
4 4 (2.45%) REST
5 3 (1.84%) .NET
5 3 (1.84%) BAPI
5 3 (1.84%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.23%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.23%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.23%) JPA
6 2 (1.23%) Laravel
6 2 (1.23%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.23%) Spring
6 2 (1.23%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.23%) Vue
7 1 (0.61%) JSON
7 1 (0.61%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.56%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.98%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.68%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.07%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.84%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.23%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.86%) Apple iOS
1 34 (20.86%) Windows
2 30 (18.40%) Android
2 30 (18.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.45%) Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.45%) Agile
2 42 (25.77%) DevOps
3 38 (23.31%) CI/CD
4 33 (20.25%) Risk Management
5 30 (18.40%) Mobile Device Management
6 29 (17.79%) Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.18%) Security Architecture
7 28 (17.18%) Zero Trust
8 27 (16.56%) Design Patterns
9 26 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.27%) Roadmaps
11 18 (11.04%) Microservices
12 15 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (6.75%) Containerisation
13 11 (6.75%) Product Strategy
13 11 (6.75%) Strategic Roadmap
14 10 (6.13%) Business Case
14 10 (6.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.36%) SQL
2 7 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.07%) C#
3 5 (3.07%) Python
3 5 (3.07%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.45%) Java
5 3 (1.84%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.23%) PHP
7 1 (0.61%) Go
7 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 42 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.68%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.84%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.13%) QA
2 10 (6.13%) SLA
3 5 (3.07%) NIST
4 4 (2.45%) GDPR
4 4 (2.45%) GRC
5 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.23%) COSO
6 2 (1.23%) ISO 31000
6 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (2.45%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.45%) Terraform
4 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.75%) SAP
3 8 (4.91%) Siemens
4 6 (3.68%) Sophos
5 5 (3.07%) Apple
5 5 (3.07%) Google
5 5 (3.07%) Informatica
5 5 (3.07%) Pega
6 2 (1.23%) Ariba
6 2 (1.23%) CA
6 2 (1.23%) Cadence
6 2 (1.23%) Databricks
6 2 (1.23%) Facebook
6 2 (1.23%) IDERA
6 2 (1.23%) Instagram
7 1 (0.61%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow