Lead Contracts in Central London

Leader
London > Central London

The median Leader daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 144 126 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.20% 5.12% 5.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.77% 5.38% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 86 139
10th Percentile £461 £475 £460
25th Percentile £513 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £734 £775 £750
90th Percentile £901 £888 £875
London median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate £38.50 £37.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +1.35% -12.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,854 2,342 3,681
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 95.24% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,665 2,526
10th Percentile £350 £346 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £725
90th Percentile £775 £791 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 34 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.23 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.44 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.30 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.83 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.64% -21.43% -

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 +7 125 £600 -7.69% 61
West End of London +2 8 £450 -33.33% 8
City of Westminster +3 5 £475 -40.63% 1
Camden - 5 £450 - 1
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, 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 49 (34.03%) Finance
2 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.75%) Python
3 27 (18.75%) Agile
4 26 (18.06%) Azure
4 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
6 24 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (14.58%) AWS
8 19 (13.19%) CI/CD
9 18 (12.50%) Java
9 18 (12.50%) SQL
10 16 (11.11%) Security Cleared
11 15 (10.42%) Migration
11 15 (10.42%) Project Management
12 14 (9.72%) SC Cleared
12 14 (9.72%) Degree
12 14 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (9.72%) Power Platform
12 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
12 14 (9.72%) Roadmaps
13 13 (9.03%) DevOps
13 13 (9.03%) Kubernetes
14 12 (8.33%) Git
14 12 (8.33%) Banking
14 12 (8.33%) Change Management
14 12 (8.33%) .NET
14 12 (8.33%) Linux
15 11 (7.64%) JavaScript
15 11 (7.64%) Business Intelligence

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 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) Apache
3 2 (1.39%) CMS
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.39%) Trello
5 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.69%) Endur
4 1 (0.69%) Kondor
4 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.69%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.69%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.69%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.69%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.69%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.69%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.06%) Azure
2 21 (14.58%) AWS
3 14 (9.72%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.86%) GitHub
5 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.17%) SaaS
6 5 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.47%) Serverless
7 4 (2.78%) GCP
7 4 (2.78%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.08%) dbt
8 3 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.08%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.17%) S/MIME
1 6 (4.17%) SSL
2 5 (3.47%) Firewall
3 3 (2.08%) DNS
3 3 (2.08%) LAN
3 3 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.08%) VPN
3 3 (2.08%) WAN
4 2 (1.39%) BGP
4 2 (1.39%) DHCP
4 2 (1.39%) HTTP
4 2 (1.39%) Multicast
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.69%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.69%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.69%) Intranet
5 1 (0.69%) OSPF
5 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.25%) Power BI
2 7 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.39%) Big Data
4 2 (1.39%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.39%) MySQL
4 2 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.39%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.39%) Tableau
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.69%) Looker
5 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Git
2 6 (4.17%) JIRA
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.08%) Maven
4 2 (1.39%) GitLab
4 2 (1.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.69%) Gradle
5 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.69%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (34.03%) Finance
2 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.33%) Banking
5 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.17%) Back Office
7 6 (4.17%) Retail
8 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Front Office
10 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Law
10 2 (1.39%) Legal
10 2 (1.39%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.69%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.33%) .NET
2 6 (4.17%) Spring
3 5 (3.47%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.47%) HTML
3 5 (3.47%) Kafka
3 5 (3.47%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.78%) Node.js
4 4 (2.78%) REST
5 3 (2.08%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (2.08%) SOAP
5 3 (2.08%) Vue
5 3 (2.08%) Web Services
6 2 (1.39%) CSS
6 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.39%) JPA
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.39%) PySpark
6 2 (1.39%) React
6 2 (1.39%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.94%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.86%) PKI
3 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.47%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.78%) CMDB
5 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.39%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.39%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.39%) iSeries
6 2 (1.39%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.39%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (2.08%) Unix
2 3 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.75%) Agile
2 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (13.19%) CI/CD
5 15 (10.42%) Migration
5 15 (10.42%) Project Management
6 14 (9.72%) Roadmaps
6 14 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
7 13 (9.03%) DevOps
8 12 (8.33%) Change Management
9 11 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (7.64%) Computer Science
9 11 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (6.94%) Mentoring
10 10 (6.94%) Software Engineering
11 9 (6.25%) Analytics
11 9 (6.25%) Cloud Security
11 9 (6.25%) ERP
11 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.75%) Python
2 18 (12.50%) Java
2 18 (12.50%) SQL
3 11 (7.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.86%) C
5 7 (4.86%) C++
6 5 (3.47%) C#
7 4 (2.78%) Bash
8 2 (1.39%) Perl
8 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.69%) Bicep
9 1 (0.69%) Go
9 1 (0.69%) Groovy
9 1 (0.69%) Rust
9 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.72%) Degree
2 14 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.08%) PMP
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CEH
7 1 (0.69%) CISSP
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) GPEN
7 1 (0.69%) GXPN
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.69%) OSCP
7 1 (0.69%) PhD
7 1 (0.69%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.08%) NIST
1 3 (2.08%) PMO
1 3 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
2 1 (0.69%) IFRS
2 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.86%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.69%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.69%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.64%) Terraform
3 4 (2.78%) Argo
4 2 (1.39%) Ansible
4 2 (1.39%) Grafana
4 2 (1.39%) Istio
4 2 (1.39%) PingFederate
4 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.69%) Cilium
5 1 (0.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.94%) SAP
3 9 (6.25%) Oracle
4 5 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.78%) Workday
6 3 (2.08%) Google
6 3 (2.08%) Splunk
7 2 (1.39%) Cisco
7 2 (1.39%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.39%) Databricks
7 2 (1.39%) Juniper
7 2 (1.39%) Okta
7 2 (1.39%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.69%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.69%) Concur
8 1 (0.69%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.69%) TP-LINK
8 1 (0.69%) UiPath