Lead Contracts in the City of Westminster

Leader
Central London > City of Westminster

The median Leader daily rate in the City of Westminster is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 11 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 4.55% 2.70% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 2.86% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £750 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £850 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of Westminster

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster. 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 the City of Westminster with a recognized job title 44 35 28
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 94.59% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 20
10th Percentile £400 £222 £198
25th Percentile £478 £370 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +22.22% -16.28%
75th Percentile £799 £644 £623
90th Percentile £919 £850 £703
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the City of Westminster

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for Lead in the City of Westminster

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Westminster +5 1 - - 1
Mayfair - 1 £800 -
Lead
Central London

Lead Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster

For the 6 months to 1 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 job ads across the City of Westminster region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared