Lead Contracts in Cheltenham

Leader
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Leader daily rate in Cheltenham is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 24 19
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 29 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 15.85% 7.05% 5.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.47% 7.28% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 7
10th Percentile - £555 -
25th Percentile £525 £609 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £676 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.58% +17.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £728 £638
90th Percentile - £738 £699
Gloucestershire median daily rate £513 £651 £575
% change year-on-year -21.21% +13.13% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 166 151 114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.79% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 108 95
10th Percentile £363 £319 £170
25th Percentile £469 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £588
90th Percentile £743 £729 £670
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £42.75 £67.05 £12.08
25th Percentile £70.13 £67.13 £12.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £74.50 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +484.31% -74.50%
75th Percentile £73.19 £88.13 £13.69
90th Percentile £74.38 £91.95 £14.03
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 £71.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.05% +138.33% -40.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cheltenham

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Cheltenham

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Cheltenham

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Cheltenham region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 26 (89.66%) DV Cleared
1 26 (89.66%) Security Cleared
2 25 (86.21%) Agile
3 24 (82.76%) Workshop Facilitation
4 23 (79.31%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 23 (79.31%) PMO
4 23 (79.31%) Project Delivery
4 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
4 23 (79.31%) Presentation Skills
4 23 (79.31%) APMP
4 23 (79.31%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (79.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 23 (79.31%) Commercial Awareness
4 23 (79.31%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (79.31%) Data Management
4 23 (79.31%) Project Management
4 23 (79.31%) Finance
4 23 (79.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (79.31%) Project Planning
4 23 (79.31%) JIRA
4 23 (79.31%) Spreadsheet
4 23 (79.31%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (79.31%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (79.31%) PRINCE2
4 23 (79.31%) Microsoft
4 23 (79.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (10.34%) VPN
5 3 (10.34%) OSPF
5 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
5 3 (10.34%) IPv4

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

Applications
1 23 (79.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (79.31%) Microsoft Office
1 23 (79.31%) Microsoft Project
1 23 (79.31%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Azure
1 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) IPv4
1 3 (10.34%) OSPF
1 3 (10.34%) VLAN
1 3 (10.34%) VPN
Development Applications
1 23 (79.31%) JIRA
General
1 23 (79.31%) Analytical Skills
1 23 (79.31%) Finance
1 23 (79.31%) Presentation Skills
1 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) Agile
2 24 (82.76%) Workshop Facilitation
3 23 (79.31%) Commercial Awareness
3 23 (79.31%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 23 (79.31%) Data Management
3 23 (79.31%) PRINCE2
3 23 (79.31%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (79.31%) Project Delivery
3 23 (79.31%) Project Management
3 23 (79.31%) Project Planning
3 23 (79.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 23 (79.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
5 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.34%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (89.66%) DV Cleared
1 26 (89.66%) Security Cleared
2 23 (79.31%) APMP
3 1 (3.45%) GIAC
3 1 (3.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (79.31%) PMO
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Puppet
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (79.31%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.45%) VMware