Lead Contracts in South Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Leader daily rate in South Yorkshire is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 8 26
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 27 71 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.92% 13.37% 6.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.49% 14.67% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 32
10th Percentile £430 £403 £300
25th Percentile £478 £473 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £647 £678 £613
90th Percentile £685 £743 £710
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £575 £500
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 416 484 493
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 91.15% 96.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 343 389
10th Percentile £249 £263 £263
25th Percentile £407 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £582 £658 £550
90th Percentile £639 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £10.94
25th Percentile £12.63 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.50 £22.67
90th Percentile £23.75 £33.00 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -35.23% +25.71% -7.89%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Sheffield -24 22 £595 -0.83% 10
Doncaster - 5 £425 - 2
Lead
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) Change Management
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Ansible
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (18.52%) Coaching
5 5 (18.52%) Project Management
5 5 (18.52%) Linux
5 5 (18.52%) ITIL
6 4 (14.81%) Banking
6 4 (14.81%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (14.81%) Windows
6 4 (14.81%) SSL
6 4 (14.81%) IBM
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.81%) ITSM
6 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
6 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.81%) Docker
6 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
6 4 (14.81%) Kafka
6 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
6 4 (14.81%) Solace
6 4 (14.81%) 5G

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (7.41%) CloudBees
2 2 (7.41%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) 5G
1 4 (14.81%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) JUnit
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (14.81%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.41%) JPA
3 2 (7.41%) React
3 2 (7.41%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
1 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Change Management
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) Coaching
5 5 (18.52%) ITIL
5 5 (18.52%) Project Management
6 4 (14.81%) ITSM
6 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.11%) Business Transformation
7 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.41%) Auto-Scaling
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.41%) Decision-Making
8 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.41%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Groovy
1 2 (7.41%) Java
1 2 (7.41%) Python
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
1 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.41%) CISM
2 2 (7.41%) CISSP
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) ISACA
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (7.41%) IASME
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) IBM
1 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
1 4 (14.81%) Solace
2 3 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Reuters