Lead Contracts in Central London

Leader
London > Central London

The median Leader daily rate in Central London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 126 201 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.14% 5.21% 5.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.40% 5.47% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 140 151
10th Percentile £475 £450 £464
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £713
90th Percentile £888 £875 £788
London median daily rate £600 £623 £625
% change year-on-year -3.61% -0.40% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -51.72% +415.10%
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £42.15
% change year-on-year +1.35% -12.22% +50.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,332 3,675 4,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.22% 95.33% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 2,520 3,256
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £48.30 £86.32 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Central London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 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
City of London +6 117 £650 -1.89% 52
West End of London -1 4 £675 +36.36% 5
City of Westminster 0 2 £800 +100.00% 1
Southwark - 1 £501 - 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £400 - 1
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Central London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 35 (27.78%) Finance
2 31 (24.60%) Agile
2 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
3 29 (23.02%) Azure
4 24 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 16 (12.70%) DevOps
6 15 (11.90%) Banking
6 15 (11.90%) Migration
6 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (10.32%) Project Management
7 13 (10.32%) CI/CD
8 12 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (9.52%) SQL
8 12 (9.52%) AWS
9 11 (8.73%) Change Management
9 11 (8.73%) Coaching
9 11 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (7.94%) Mentoring
10 10 (7.94%) Risk Management
10 10 (7.94%) Java
10 10 (7.94%) SAP
11 9 (7.14%) C#
11 9 (7.14%) Test Strategy
11 9 (7.14%) Marketing
11 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (6.35%) Analytics
12 8 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (6.35%) QA
12 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
12 8 (6.35%) ITIL

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.38%) Confluence
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.59%) Apache
3 2 (1.59%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.59%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.59%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.59%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.79%) Endur
4 1 (0.79%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.79%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.02%) Azure
2 12 (9.52%) AWS
2 12 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.97%) Azure API Management
7 4 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.17%) Figma
7 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.17%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.17%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.38%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.38%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.59%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.59%) GCP
9 2 (1.59%) Kong
9 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) DNS
2 2 (1.59%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.79%) SSL
3 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.38%) MySQL
4 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.38%) Power BI
5 2 (1.59%) Parquet
5 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.59%) Power Query
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.79%) Big Data
6 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.79%) Metadata
6 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Git
1 6 (4.76%) JIRA
2 5 (3.97%) Selenium
3 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.38%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (1.59%) GitLab
4 2 (1.59%) HP UFT
4 2 (1.59%) Postman
4 2 (1.59%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.59%) TestRail
5 1 (0.79%) Appium
5 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.79%) Deequ
5 1 (0.79%) GoCD
5 1 (0.79%) JMeter
5 1 (0.79%) JUnit
5 1 (0.79%) MSI
5 1 (0.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (27.78%) Finance
2 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.90%) Banking
4 9 (7.14%) Marketing
5 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.76%) Law
6 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.97%) Legal
8 4 (3.17%) Back Office
8 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.17%) Retail
9 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) Front Office
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) .NET
2 5 (3.97%) Spring
2 5 (3.97%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.38%) Kafka
3 3 (2.38%) REST
3 3 (2.38%) RESTful
3 3 (2.38%) XML
4 2 (1.59%) ADO
4 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.59%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.59%) jQuery
4 2 (1.59%) JSON
4 2 (1.59%) JSON Schema
4 2 (1.59%) Middleware
4 2 (1.59%) SOAP
4 2 (1.59%) Struts
4 2 (1.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.59%) Web Services
4 2 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
2 2 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
3 1 (0.79%) Contactless
3 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.79%) Digital Media
3 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.79%) LIMS
3 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (0.79%) Market Risk
3 1 (0.79%) NHS
3 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.35%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.79%) CentOS
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) VMS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (24.60%) Agile
2 16 (12.70%) DevOps
3 15 (11.90%) Migration
3 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (10.32%) CI/CD
4 13 (10.32%) Project Management
5 11 (8.73%) Change Management
5 11 (8.73%) Coaching
5 11 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (7.94%) Mentoring
6 10 (7.94%) Risk Management
7 9 (7.14%) Test Strategy
8 8 (6.35%) Analytics
8 8 (6.35%) ITIL
8 8 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (5.56%) Scrum
9 7 (5.56%) Software Engineering
9 7 (5.56%) User Experience
9 7 (5.56%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.52%) SQL
2 10 (7.94%) Java
3 9 (7.14%) C#
4 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.35%) Python
5 4 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.79%) Scala
8 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (3.97%) Degree
1 5 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (2.38%) PMP
2 3 (2.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.59%) ISEB
3 2 (1.59%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) QA
2 6 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.97%) NIST
4 4 (3.17%) GDPR
4 4 (3.17%) PMO
5 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.59%) GRC
6 2 (1.59%) WCAG
7 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.17%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Ceph
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.79%) NFS
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (3.97%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.97%) Terraform
2 3 (2.38%) Ansible
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.59%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.79%) Kibana
4 1 (0.79%) logstash
4 1 (0.79%) Mesos
4 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) SAP
3 5 (3.97%) Databricks
4 4 (3.17%) Bloomberg
4 4 (3.17%) Reuters
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle
6 2 (1.59%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (1.59%) IBM
6 2 (1.59%) IFS
6 2 (1.59%) Micro Focus
6 2 (1.59%) Murex
6 2 (1.59%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.79%) Citrix
7 1 (0.79%) Infor
7 1 (0.79%) LabWare
7 1 (0.79%) MobileIron
7 1 (0.79%) Pega
7 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.79%) Tanium