Lead Contracts in Hampshire

Leader
South East > Hampshire

The median Leader daily rate in Hampshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 30 51 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.00% 2.96% 4.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.18% 3.27% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 35
10th Percentile £511 £448 £400
25th Percentile £525 £522 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £650 £616 £650
90th Percentile £700 £635 £718
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £26.90 £45.76
25th Percentile - £28.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £51.98 £71.28
90th Percentile - £64.26 £74.03
South East median hourly rate £83.50 £29.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year +183.05% -49.13% +65.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 718 1,558 1,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 90.48% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 899 772
10th Percentile £256 £363 £235
25th Percentile £417 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £521
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.31% +4.25%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £612
90th Percentile £661 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 185 99
10th Percentile £20.25 £14.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £20.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +144.19%
75th Percentile £68.13 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £33.47 £48.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.28% -4.00% +143.90%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Hampshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Hampshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Hampshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Hampshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Hampshire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Andover - 9 £513 -
Basingstoke +28 6 £550 - 93
Havant +1 5 £650 +30.00% 2
Southampton +9 4 £563 -2.17% 94
Portsmouth -2 1 £540 -7.22% 91
Lead
South East

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Hampshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 10 (33.33%) SAP
1 10 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytics
3 6 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (20.00%) SAP IBP
4 5 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) ERP
4 5 (16.67%) Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle
5 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 4 (13.33%) Regression Testing
5 4 (13.33%) SAP ECC
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (13.33%) Process Improvement
5 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) PMO
5 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (10.00%) Metadata
6 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (10.00%) OCI
6 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (10.00%) Kafka

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (3.33%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 10 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (20.00%) SAP IBP
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (13.33%) SAP ECC
4 2 (6.67%) SAP CO
4 2 (6.67%) SAP FI
4 2 (6.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (6.67%) SAP GTS
4 2 (6.67%) SAP SD
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) Serverless
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Metadata
1 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.33%) Tableau
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Billing
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Analytics
2 6 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Agile
3 5 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 5 (16.67%) ERP
3 5 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 4 (13.33%) Regression Testing
4 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.00%) API Integration
5 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (10.00%) ETL
5 3 (10.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (10.00%) ITIL
5 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) ABAP
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) DataWeave
2 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) PMO
2 3 (10.00%) Def Stans
3 2 (6.67%) GRC
3 2 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) COBIT
4 1 (3.33%) ISO 22301
4 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Adobe
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft