Team Leader Contracts

Team Lead
UK

The median Team Lead daily rate in the UK is £590 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 557 623
Rank change year-on-year +90 +66 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 119 160 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 106 163
10th Percentile £245 £213 £214
25th Percentile £473 £313 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% - +13.10%
75th Percentile £888 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £731 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.09 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +86.67% -19.22%
75th Percentile £20.00 £36.25 £23.94
90th Percentile £38.75 £51.13 £33.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £18.80 £17.00
% change year-on-year -20.19% +10.56% -19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Daily rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Hourly rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +84 112 £590 +31.11% 267
UK excluding London +53 57 £550 +4.76% 230
London +95 56 £825 +126.80% 68
Work from Home +90 41 £825 +26.92% 105
North of England +44 26 £590 +9.77% 57
North West +24 19 £590 +4.89% 33
Midlands +40 17 £188 -66.35% 50
West Midlands +28 9 £999 +50.79% 29
East Midlands +19 8 £174 -63.75% 21
Yorkshire +25 6 £300 +5.26% 14
East of England +18 4 £500 - 23
South East -5 4 £525 -19.23% 45
South West +13 3 £725 +123.08% 32
Scotland +40 2 £603 +17.56% 21
North East - 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £270 -

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Team Leader 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 featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 33 (27.73%) Agile
2 25 (21.01%) Finance
3 24 (20.17%) Java
4 23 (19.33%) JavaScript
4 23 (19.33%) Software Engineering
4 23 (19.33%) AWS
5 22 (18.49%) TypeScript
5 22 (18.49%) Social Skills
6 21 (17.65%) Python
6 21 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 20 (16.81%) Investment Management
7 20 (16.81%) SQL
7 20 (16.81%) Banking
7 20 (16.81%) Front Office
8 19 (15.97%) Asset Management
8 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (15.13%) GCP
9 18 (15.13%) Fixed Income
9 18 (15.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 17 (14.29%) Equities
10 17 (14.29%) Investment Banking
10 17 (14.29%) Hedge funds
10 17 (14.29%) Derivative
10 17 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
10 17 (14.29%) Dremio
10 17 (14.29%) dbt
10 17 (14.29%) Apache Arrow
10 17 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
10 17 (14.29%) gRPC
10 17 (14.29%) Amazon Athena

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (13.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) CATIA
1 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Teamcenter
2 7 (5.88%) DELMIA
3 3 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.68%) Endur
5 1 (0.84%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.84%) HFM
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.84%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.33%) AWS
2 18 (15.13%) GCP
3 17 (14.29%) dbt
4 15 (12.61%) Azure
5 14 (11.76%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.20%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.20%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.36%) GitHub
9 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.84%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.08%) 5G
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.84%) BGP
3 1 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.84%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.84%) IPsec
3 1 (0.84%) LAN
3 1 (0.84%) OSPF
3 1 (0.84%) WAN
3 1 (0.84%) Wireless
3 1 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 17 (14.29%) Apache Arrow
1 17 (14.29%) Dremio
2 16 (13.45%) Apache Ignite
3 14 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.72%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.88%) Power BI
6 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.84%) Essbase
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.68%) Git
3 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.84%) Selenium
3 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (21.01%) Finance
2 22 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.81%) Banking
3 20 (16.81%) Front Office
4 17 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 14 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.68%) Electronics
8 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Automotive
9 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Legal
9 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.29%) gRPC
1 17 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
2 16 (13.45%) NumPy
2 16 (13.45%) Pandas
2 16 (13.45%) SciPy
3 8 (6.72%) .NET
4 5 (4.20%) CSS
4 5 (4.20%) HTML
5 3 (2.52%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (2.52%) REST
5 3 (2.52%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.68%) ADO
6 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.68%) React
7 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.84%) Redux
7 1 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Fixed Income
1 18 (15.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (14.29%) Derivative
2 17 (14.29%) Equities
2 17 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.04%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.84%) Life Science
7 1 (0.84%) PKI
7 1 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) Agile
2 23 (19.33%) Software Engineering
3 20 (16.81%) Investment Management
4 19 (15.97%) Asset Management
4 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (13.45%) Line Management
6 12 (10.08%) DevOps
7 9 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (6.72%) Time Management
8 8 (6.72%) Workflow
9 7 (5.88%) Configuration Management
9 7 (5.88%) Conflict Management
9 7 (5.88%) PLM
9 7 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (5.88%) SIEM
10 5 (4.20%) Analytics
10 5 (4.20%) Mentoring
10 5 (4.20%) Roadmaps
10 5 (4.20%) Service Delivery
10 5 (4.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.17%) Java
2 23 (19.33%) JavaScript
3 22 (18.49%) TypeScript
4 21 (17.65%) Python
5 20 (16.81%) SQL
6 7 (5.88%) C#
7 6 (5.04%) Ruby
8 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.68%) C
9 2 (1.68%) C++
9 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (9.24%) Degree
2 7 (5.88%) CISSP
2 7 (5.88%) NVQ Level 3
2 7 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.04%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) SLA
2 1 (0.84%) GxP
2 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) Siemens
3 7 (5.88%) Splunk
4 3 (2.52%) SAP
5 2 (1.68%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.68%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.84%) Charles River
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco
6 1 (0.84%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.84%) FactSet
6 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.84%) Informatica
6 1 (0.84%) Juniper
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle
6 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.84%) Sybase