Lead Contracts in South London

Leader
London > South London

The median Leader daily rate in South London is £555 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 30 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 16 19 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 6.64% 4.91% 7.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.81% 5.31% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 20
10th Percentile - £445 £392
25th Percentile £525 £513 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £656 £616 £684
90th Percentile £686 £668 £775
London median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +12.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £24.42 -
25th Percentile £65.63 £29.18 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £37.74 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.19% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 £45.67 -
90th Percentile - £50.05 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% - +35.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 235 358 353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.51% 92.51% 96.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 281 271
10th Percentile £235 £213 £225
25th Percentile £413 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +1.49%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £632 £775 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.13 £39.43
25th Percentile £20.25 £19.06 £40.70
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -21.09% +1.77%
75th Percentile £77.19 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £54.08
London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in South London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in South London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Croydon +2 7 £550 -2.22% 3
Bromley +11 3 £650 -18.75% 5
Kingston Upon Thames -5 2 £675 +28.57% 2
Wandsworth - 2 £509 -
Merton +3 1 £550 - 2
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 South London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (25.00%) Git
3 4 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 4 (25.00%) Requirements Management
4 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 3 (18.75%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) QA
5 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Data Conversion
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) C
5 2 (12.50%) C++
5 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 2 (12.50%) B2C

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Fabric
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 4G
1 1 (6.25%) 5G
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
1 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
1 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Requirements Management
1 4 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) B2C
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Data Conversion
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Budget Management
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) C
2 2 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft