Lead Contracts with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader daily rate in Work from Home is £580 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 28 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 939 1,478 2,558
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.23% 5.89% 5.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.66% 6.18% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 990 1,872
10th Percentile £425 £425 £410
25th Percentile £500 £505 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £688
90th Percentile £850 £764 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 31
10th Percentile £26.75 £51.40 £16.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £23.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +85.71% +50.80%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.75 £53.85
90th Percentile £75.25 - £66.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £36.71
% change year-on-year -9.09% +49.84% +37.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Lead daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Lead hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead in the job title.

1 254 (27.05%) Finance
2 202 (21.51%) Agile
3 181 (19.28%) Social Skills
4 163 (17.36%) Azure
5 140 (14.91%) Security Cleared
6 130 (13.84%) AWS
7 127 (13.53%) SAP
8 124 (13.21%) SC Cleared
8 124 (13.21%) DevOps
9 111 (11.82%) Python
10 101 (10.76%) Public Sector
11 94 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 94 (10.01%) Project Management
12 90 (9.58%) Banking
13 85 (9.05%) Java
13 85 (9.05%) Microsoft
14 78 (8.31%) CI/CD
15 75 (7.99%) Migration
16 73 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
17 70 (7.45%) Degree
18 68 (7.24%) QA
18 68 (7.24%) Software Engineering
18 68 (7.24%) JavaScript
18 68 (7.24%) Mentoring
18 68 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
19 67 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
19 67 (7.14%) C#
19 67 (7.14%) SQL
20 66 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
21 59 (6.28%) Analytics

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 45 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (4.37%) Apache
3 11 (1.17%) Confluence
4 8 (0.85%) IIS
4 8 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.43%) CMS
5 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Mule
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 67 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.64%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.64%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 5 (0.53%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.43%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.43%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 163 (17.36%) Azure
2 130 (13.84%) AWS
3 56 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (5.64%) Dynamics 365
5 41 (4.37%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.26%) dbt
6 40 (4.26%) GCP
7 38 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
7 38 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 28 (2.98%) Serverless
9 27 (2.88%) SuccessFactors
10 19 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (2.02%) Azure API Management
11 14 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (1.49%) GitHub
11 14 (1.49%) PaaS
11 14 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 14 (1.49%) SaaS
12 12 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.34%) Firewall
2 11 (1.17%) Network Security
2 11 (1.17%) VPN
3 8 (0.85%) LAN
4 7 (0.75%) WAN
5 6 (0.64%) DNS
6 5 (0.53%) IP Telephony
6 5 (0.53%) SSL
7 4 (0.43%) SNA
8 3 (0.32%) SAN
8 3 (0.32%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.32%) VSAN
9 2 (0.21%) Intranet
9 2 (0.21%) RTP
9 2 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.21%) Wireless
9 2 (0.21%) WLAN
10 1 (0.11%) BGP
10 1 (0.11%) IPsec
10 1 (0.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.58%) Data Lake
2 41 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
3 35 (3.73%) Apache Arrow
3 35 (3.73%) Dremio
4 34 (3.62%) Apache Ignite
5 20 (2.13%) Power BI
6 19 (2.02%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.17%) Big Data
9 11 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (1.06%) MySQL
11 8 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.85%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 36 (3.83%) JIRA
2 29 (3.09%) Git
3 24 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.38%) GitLab
5 11 (1.17%) Selenium
6 7 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.64%) JMeter
7 6 (0.64%) MLflow
7 6 (0.64%) webpack
8 5 (0.53%) JUnit
8 5 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (0.43%) Postman
10 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.32%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.32%) Mockito
10 3 (0.32%) TestRail
10 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 254 (27.05%) Finance
2 181 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 101 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 90 (9.58%) Banking
5 73 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (5.32%) Investment Banking
7 45 (4.79%) Telecoms
8 44 (4.69%) Front Office
9 42 (4.47%) Marketing
10 35 (3.73%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.13%) Retail
12 19 (2.02%) Electronics
13 14 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.28%) Legal
16 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.96%) Billing
18 8 (0.85%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.15%) .NET
2 35 (3.73%) gRPC
2 35 (3.73%) Pandas
2 35 (3.73%) Protocol Buffers
3 34 (3.62%) NumPy
3 34 (3.62%) SciPy
4 22 (2.34%) AngularJS
5 21 (2.24%) React
5 21 (2.24%) XML
6 18 (1.92%) Node.js
7 17 (1.81%) Web Services
8 16 (1.70%) HTML
9 14 (1.49%) CSS
10 13 (1.38%) Spring
10 13 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.06%) .NET Core
11 10 (1.06%) Kafka
11 10 (1.06%) REST
11 10 (1.06%) RESTful
11 10 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.58%) Derivative
2 42 (4.47%) Equities
3 41 (4.37%) Hedge funds
4 38 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 37 (3.94%) Fixed Income
6 27 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.17%) NHS
11 11 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.53%) CMDB
13 5 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.53%) LIMS
13 5 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
14 4 (0.43%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.43%) PMI
14 4 (0.43%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.09%) Windows
2 20 (2.13%) Linux
3 12 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.06%) Android
4 10 (1.06%) Unix
5 9 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.64%) VMS
7 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.21%) Windows 2000
8 2 (0.21%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) Solaris
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (21.51%) Agile
2 124 (13.21%) DevOps
3 94 (10.01%) Project Management
3 94 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (8.31%) CI/CD
5 75 (7.99%) Migration
6 68 (7.24%) Mentoring
6 68 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (7.24%) Software Engineering
7 66 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (6.28%) Analytics
9 52 (5.54%) Technical Leadership
10 50 (5.32%) ERP
10 50 (5.32%) Test Strategy
11 49 (5.22%) Roadmaps
12 47 (5.01%) Test Automation
13 45 (4.79%) Strategic Thinking
14 44 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (4.69%) Change Management
14 44 (4.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 111 (11.82%) Python
2 85 (9.05%) Java
3 68 (7.24%) JavaScript
4 67 (7.14%) C#
4 67 (7.14%) SQL
5 51 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 20 (2.13%) Scala
8 10 (1.06%) Bash
9 5 (0.53%) Ruby
10 4 (0.43%) R
11 3 (0.32%) Bicep
11 3 (0.32%) C++
11 3 (0.32%) Go
11 3 (0.32%) Perl
11 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.21%) Groovy
12 2 (0.21%) PHP
12 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 124 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.45%) Degree
4 24 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 9 (0.96%) CISSP
9 8 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.75%) CISM
10 7 (0.75%) PMP
11 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.32%) CCNP
13 3 (0.32%) CGEIT
13 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.32%) CRISC
13 3 (0.32%) ISEB
13 3 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.24%) QA
2 38 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.51%) PMO
4 11 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.17%) SLA
5 10 (1.06%) NIST
6 9 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.53%) GDPR
8 4 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.43%) NCSC
9 2 (0.21%) GRC
9 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.21%) P3O
9 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (2.98%) Docker
2 14 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (4.37%) Terraform
2 37 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.24%) Ansible
4 10 (1.06%) Grafana
5 7 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.75%) SCCM
6 5 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.43%) Puppet
7 4 (0.43%) vRealize
8 3 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.21%) Kibana
9 2 (0.21%) logstash
9 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.21%) VxRail
10 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 127 (13.53%) SAP
2 85 (9.05%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.37%) Oracle
4 23 (2.45%) Databricks
5 17 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.60%) Ariba
7 13 (1.38%) VMware
8 11 (1.17%) Informatica
9 9 (0.96%) Google
9 9 (0.96%) IBM
9 9 (0.96%) Pega
10 7 (0.75%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.64%) Adobe
11 6 (0.64%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.53%) F5
12 5 (0.53%) InterSystems
12 5 (0.53%) Murex
12 5 (0.53%) Workday
13 4 (0.43%) Citrix
13 4 (0.43%) Splunk