Lead Contracts in East London

Leader
London > East London

The median Leader daily rate in East London is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +22 0 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 21 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 20.59% 4.78% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.11% 5.34% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 2
10th Percentile £495 £500 £341
25th Percentile £550 £538 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £560 £423
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +32.54% -43.65%
75th Percentile - £606 £474
90th Percentile £603 £644 £505
London median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £13.80 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £37.00 - -
75th Percentile £38.50 - -
90th Percentile £39.40 - -
London median hourly rate £38.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +7.14% -5.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 95 206 162
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 89.57% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 177 134
10th Percentile £275 £320 £191
25th Percentile £370 £425 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% +8.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £592 £638 £697
90th Percentile £675 £770 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 2
10th Percentile £14.66 £11.95 £20.64
25th Percentile £24.66 £12.84 £23.20
Median hourly rate £28.60 £22.91 £27.47
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% -16.58% +61.56%
75th Percentile £37.00 £28.37 £31.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 £34.29
London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +26.00% -21.99% +0.71%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in East London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in East London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in East London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in East London

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in East London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in East London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in East London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Tower Hamlets +15 15 £585 +6.36%
Havering - 3 £285 -
Greenwich +11 1 £538 -10.75%
Lead
London

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

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

1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (38.10%) SaaS
3 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Low-Code
4 6 (28.57%) Azure
4 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (28.57%) Zachman Framework
4 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 6 (28.57%) Workflow
4 6 (28.57%) Legal
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Firewall
6 4 (19.05%) Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (19.05%) iManage
6 4 (19.05%) Technology Transformation
6 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
7 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) API Management
7 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 3 (14.29%) Threat Management
7 3 (14.29%) Mimecast
7 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Line Management
7 3 (14.29%) AWS

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 (23.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (38.10%) SaaS
3 6 (28.57%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (14.29%) Mimecast
4 3 (14.29%) OneDrive
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) Canva
6 1 (4.76%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) DHCP
2 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 3 (14.29%) VLAN
2 3 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (9.52%) JSON
2 2 (9.52%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Low-Code
2 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (9.52%) NHS
3 2 (9.52%) Social Media
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
1 6 (28.57%) Workflow
1 6 (28.57%) Zachman Framework
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Analytics
3 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (19.05%) Technology Transformation
3 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (14.29%) API Management
4 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 3 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 3 (14.29%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Line Management
4 3 (14.29%) TDD
4 3 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Threat Management
4 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (4.76%) CISSP
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) iManage
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) Tenable
3 1 (4.76%) Tripwire