Lead Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Leader
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Leader daily rate in Basingstoke is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 1.44% - 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% - 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £628
25th Percentile - - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.84%
75th Percentile - - £669
90th Percentile - - £673
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +6.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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 Basingstoke with a recognized job title 199 258 198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.67% 91.49% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 199 57
10th Percentile £463 £425 £173
25th Percentile £513 £475 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £610
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -4.10% +16.19%
75th Percentile - £688 £650
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile £14.11 £35.85 £15.04
25th Percentile £17.00 £38.63 £15.21
Median hourly rate £21.39 £45.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.47% +181.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £52.13 £24.25
90th Percentile - £55.35 £42.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £68.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.42% +30.95% +40.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Lead job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Basingstoke

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Basingstoke

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Basingstoke region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Dagster
2 1 (33.33%) Poetry
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP IBP
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Dagster
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Poetry
1 1 (33.33%) Pylint
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) B2B
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) SAP