Lead Contracts in West London

Leader
London > West London

The median Leader daily rate in West London is £575 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 20 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 26 39 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 7.26% 6.84% 6.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.67% 7.04% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 25
10th Percentile £401 £300 £365
25th Percentile £525 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +1.63% +17.70%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £701
London median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £20.50
25th Percentile £36.25 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £52.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +131.11% -70.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 - £27.69
90th Percentile - - £32.88
London median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% - +35.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 339 554 575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 97.19% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 404 402
10th Percentile £200 £297 £200
25th Percentile £275 £430 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 54 40
10th Percentile £16.25 £25.38 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £64.00 £21.36
Median % change year-on-year -52.88% +199.59% -20.88%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £37.17
90th Percentile £65.00 £88.50 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in West London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in West London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in West London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in West London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in West London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London 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
Richmond upon Thames +4 8 £575 - 1
Hounslow +3 7 £463 -20.77% 3
Hillingdon +11 4 £643 +2.80% 7
Lead
London

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

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 West London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) C#
2 8 (30.77%) .NET
3 7 (26.92%) CSS
3 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) T-SQL
3 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
3 7 (26.92%) Analytics
3 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 7 (26.92%) .NET Core
3 7 (26.92%) React
4 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 6 (23.08%) LLM
4 6 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 4 (15.38%) Project Management
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (15.38%) Java
6 4 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) SAP
7 3 (11.54%) Finance
7 3 (11.54%) Test Management
7 3 (11.54%) DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) CMS
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Acrobat
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.85%) Google Docs
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Serverless
2 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Gatling
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) TestDirector
1 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Games
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) .NET
2 7 (26.92%) .NET Core
2 7 (26.92%) CSS
2 7 (26.92%) React
3 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (3.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (3.85%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) FMCG
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Analytics
1 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
2 6 (23.08%) Data Governance
2 6 (23.08%) LLM
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Project Management
4 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
4 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Test Management
6 2 (7.69%) Content Management
6 2 (7.69%) Integration Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Investment Management
6 2 (7.69%) Logistics
6 2 (7.69%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) T-SQL
2 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 4 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) CIMA
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) ISEB
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) Ariba
3 1 (3.85%) CA
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) OpenText
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk