Lead Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Leader
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Leader daily rate in Liverpool is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 3.36% - 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.42% - 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £297 - -
25th Percentile £340 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.85%
75th Percentile £438 - £641
90th Percentile - - £744
Merseyside median daily rate £425 £369 £463
% change year-on-year +15.22% -20.24% -5.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 146 175 186
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.99% 94.09% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 75 107
10th Percentile £181 £157 £224
25th Percentile £300 £213 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £606 £575 £531
90th Percentile £714 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £431 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +7.63% -11.11% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 13
10th Percentile - £15.99 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £14.76 £18.11 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -9.45% +16.79%
75th Percentile £17.44 £23.53 £29.00
90th Percentile - £28.91 £46.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.37 £18.12 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.14% -9.40% +14.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Liverpool

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Liverpool

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Liverpool

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Liverpool

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Liverpool region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (60.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) UX Design
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
3 1 (20.00%) Faiss
3 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) LangChain
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (20.00%) Gradio
3 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (20.00%) CrewAI
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) C++

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
2 1 (20.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (20.00%) Faiss
2 1 (20.00%) Gradio
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (60.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google