Lead Contracts in Gloucestershire

Leader
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Leader daily rate in Gloucestershire is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 40 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.46% 3.38% 3.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.39% 3.61% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 19
10th Percentile £272 £481 £313
25th Percentile £394 £556 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £651 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +13.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £706 £666
90th Percentile - £736 £693
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £557
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.67% +6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £33.00 - -
75th Percentile £45.60 - -
90th Percentile £68.29 - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +55.95% +80.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 385 443 516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 93.46% 95.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 309 417
10th Percentile £300 £320 £179
25th Percentile £425 £440 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £657
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 36 16
10th Percentile £14.90 £35.00 £11.88
25th Percentile £15.75 £49.38 £13.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £71.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.05% +138.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £79.33 £46.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.40 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +9.94%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Gloucestershire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Gloucestershire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Gloucestershire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Gloucestershire

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in Gloucestershire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cheltenham +13 28 £550 -18.58% 8
Gloucester +17 2 £475 +18.75% 3
Filton - 1 - -
Lead
South West

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 31 (77.50%) Project Management
1 31 (77.50%) Problem-Solving
1 31 (77.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (72.50%) Security Cleared
2 29 (72.50%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 25 (62.50%) Presentation Skills
4 24 (60.00%) Agile
5 23 (57.50%) Finance
5 23 (57.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (57.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 22 (55.00%) Project Delivery
6 22 (55.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 22 (55.00%) Commercial Awareness
6 22 (55.00%) PMO
6 22 (55.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (55.00%) PRINCE2
6 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
6 22 (55.00%) Data Management
6 22 (55.00%) Project Planning
6 22 (55.00%) JIRA
6 22 (55.00%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (55.00%) APMP
7 7 (17.50%) SAP
7 7 (17.50%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Office
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Project
1 22 (55.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (12.50%) SAP HR
3 4 (10.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) IPv4
1 3 (7.50%) OSPF
1 3 (7.50%) VLAN
1 3 (7.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) JIRA
General
1 31 (77.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (72.50%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (62.50%) Presentation Skills
4 23 (57.50%) Finance
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Local Government
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) Problem-Solving
1 31 (77.50%) Project Management
2 24 (60.00%) Agile
3 23 (57.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (57.50%) Workshop Facilitation
4 22 (55.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 22 (55.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 22 (55.00%) Data Management
4 22 (55.00%) PRINCE2
4 22 (55.00%) Project Delivery
4 22 (55.00%) Project Planning
4 22 (55.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.50%) Configuration Management
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.50%) Kaizen
7 3 (7.50%) Lean Software Development
7 3 (7.50%) Task Automation
8 2 (5.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (7.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (72.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 22 (55.00%) APMP
4 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.50%) HNC
6 1 (2.50%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (2.50%) CISM
6 1 (2.50%) CISSP
6 1 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (2.50%) GIAC
6 1 (2.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (55.00%) PMO
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Puppet
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) SAP
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.50%) VMware