Lead Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Leader
West London > Hounslow

The median Leader daily rate in Hounslow is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 3.85% 5.26% 4.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.76% 5.63% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £211 £361 £474
25th Percentile £294 £378 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £413 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -19.51% -18.00%
75th Percentile £594 £453 £539
90th Percentile £680 £474 £543
West London median daily rate £625 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hounslow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hounslow. 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 Hounslow with a recognized job title 42 71 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.77% 93.42% 97.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 42 67
10th Percentile £273 £222 £75
25th Percentile £353 £363 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -13.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £531 £498 £600
90th Percentile £558 £624 £638
West London median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile £39.20 £20.75 £51.93
25th Percentile £40.63 £22.06 £63.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.50 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.36% -60.43% +124.19%
75th Percentile £49.00 £36.44 £77.50
90th Percentile £52.60 £47.38 £89.50
West London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.90 £58.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% -57.07% +93.33%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Lead job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Hounslow

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Hounslow over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Hounslow

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Hounslow

Lead Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow

For the 6 months to 20 November 2025, 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 Hounslow region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform