Lead Contracts in Derby

Leader
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Leader daily rate in Derby is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 8 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 9.76% 3.40% 3.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.67% 3.62% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £485 £152 £586
25th Percentile £538 £167 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £174 £623
Median % change year-on-year +273.56% -72.05% +21.46%
75th Percentile £738 £188 £632
90th Percentile £775 - £633
Derbyshire median daily rate £650 £174 £580
% change year-on-year +273.56% -70.00% +13.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 75 138 124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 93.88% 82.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 101 74
10th Percentile £200 £150 £118
25th Percentile £288 £188 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £269 £456
Median % change year-on-year +62.64% -41.04% +21.18%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £575
90th Percentile £625 £588 £650
Derbyshire median daily rate £425 £262 £450
% change year-on-year +62.02% -41.71% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 17
10th Percentile £21.65 - £11.80
25th Percentile £23.30 £16.25 £13.16
Median hourly rate £24.34 £17.86 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.28% -18.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £24.73 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £24.95 £21.88 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £24.34 £17.72 £21.20
% change year-on-year +37.36% -16.42% +6.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Derby

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Derby

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Derby over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Derby

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Derby

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Derby region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 4 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 4 (50.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 4 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 4 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) SLA
2 4 (50.00%) Supplier Management
3 3 (37.50%) Product Backlog
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) QA
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio

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

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 4 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 4 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 4 (50.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 3 (37.50%) Product Backlog
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) PLM
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Siemens