Lead Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Leader
West London > Hillingdon

The median Leader daily rate in Hillingdon is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 4.23% 4.44% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.08% 4.55% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £315 £660
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -52.27% +1.54%
West London median daily rate £603 £380 £550
% change year-on-year +58.76% -31.00% +18.28%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hillingdon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hillingdon. 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 Hillingdon with a recognized job title 59 44 81
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.10% 97.78% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 50
10th Percentile £256 £182 £200
25th Percentile £363 £240 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% +9.09% -28.26%
75th Percentile £711 £475 £534
90th Percentile £721 £575 £628
West London median daily rate £524 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +30.94% -15.79% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £16.44 - £15.80
25th Percentile £19.04 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.18 £19.20 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £21.30 - £30.16
90th Percentile £21.46 - £31.79
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% -31.48% -48.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon.

Lead job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Hillingdon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Hillingdon

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Hillingdon.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Hillingdon

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Uxbridge -7 2 - - 2
Heathrow - 1 £450 -
Lead
West London

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon

For the 6 months to 17 February 2026, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hillingdon region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Deep Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Dagster
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Dagster
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aviation
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Deep Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Operations Research
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft