Lead Contracts in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 35 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 1,091 1,624 2,432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.16% 6.00% 6.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.61% 6.29% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 1,150 1,730
10th Percentile £423 £450 £450
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -0.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £813
England median daily rate £584 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -2.75% +2.48% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 16
10th Percentile £27.50 £21.58 £21.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £32.38 £25.56
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £42.15
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -12.22% +50.54%
75th Percentile £52.50 £52.24 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.88 £56.15 £76.88
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +57.14% +34.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in London

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +6 126 £650 - 74
West London +7 25 £575 -8.00% 25
South London +7 15 £555 -3.48% 6
East London +3 14 £560 +6.67% 30
North London +1 3 £338 -56.95% 6
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 314 (28.78%) Finance
2 269 (24.66%) Agile
3 223 (20.44%) Social Skills
4 181 (16.59%) Azure
5 164 (15.03%) AWS
6 151 (13.84%) DevOps
7 142 (13.02%) Python
8 122 (11.18%) Java
9 119 (10.91%) Microsoft
9 119 (10.91%) CI/CD
10 115 (10.54%) Banking
11 113 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
12 108 (9.90%) Project Management
13 106 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 103 (9.44%) Security Cleared
15 96 (8.80%) SC Cleared
15 96 (8.80%) Software Engineering
16 91 (8.34%) SAP
17 89 (8.16%) JavaScript
17 89 (8.16%) QA
18 88 (8.07%) Public Sector
19 84 (7.70%) SQL
19 84 (7.70%) Mentoring
20 83 (7.61%) C#
20 83 (7.61%) Migration
21 75 (6.87%) Degree
22 73 (6.69%) Test Automation
23 67 (6.14%) Test Strategy
24 66 (6.05%) Analytics
24 66 (6.05%) Analytical Skills

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 36 (3.30%) Apache
2 32 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.19%) Confluence
4 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.55%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.092%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.092%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.092%) CICS
10 1 (0.092%) JBoss
10 1 (0.092%) Mule
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.27%) SPSS
5 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.092%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.092%) Sketch
6 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.092%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 43 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.92%) ION Anvil
4 9 (0.82%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.64%) Shopify
7 6 (0.55%) ION MarketView
7 6 (0.55%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.55%) Oracle AGIS
7 6 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.37%) Endur
9 4 (0.37%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Internet Expenses
Cloud Services
1 181 (16.59%) Azure
2 164 (15.03%) AWS
3 52 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
5 42 (3.85%) GCP
6 40 (3.67%) Snowflake
7 35 (3.21%) Power Platform
8 34 (3.12%) dbt
8 34 (3.12%) Serverless
9 29 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.20%) Azure API Management
11 21 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.65%) GitHub
14 17 (1.56%) SaaS
15 16 (1.47%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.47%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.37%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.37%) Power Automate
17 14 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.56%) Firewall
2 9 (0.82%) WAN
3 8 (0.73%) VPN
4 7 (0.64%) FTP
4 7 (0.64%) LAN
5 6 (0.55%) 5G
5 6 (0.55%) SNA
5 6 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.55%) Wireless
6 5 (0.46%) DNS
6 5 (0.46%) SSL
7 4 (0.37%) Network Security
7 4 (0.37%) VSAN
8 3 (0.27%) Broadband
8 3 (0.27%) IP Telephony
8 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.18%) BGP
9 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.092%) IPsec
10 1 (0.092%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.12%) Data Lake
2 35 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
3 32 (2.93%) SQL Server
4 29 (2.66%) Apache Arrow
4 29 (2.66%) Dremio
5 28 (2.57%) Apache Ignite
6 26 (2.38%) Power BI
7 24 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.56%) Big Data
10 15 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.92%) MySQL
15 8 (0.73%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.64%) Power Query
17 6 (0.55%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (4.67%) Git
1 51 (4.67%) Jenkins
2 41 (3.76%) JIRA
3 16 (1.47%) Selenium
4 12 (1.10%) GitLab
5 9 (0.82%) JMeter
5 9 (0.82%) Postman
6 8 (0.73%) LoadRunner
7 7 (0.64%) TestRail
8 6 (0.55%) JUnit
9 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.46%) HP UFT
9 5 (0.46%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.46%) MLflow
9 5 (0.46%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.46%) webpack
10 4 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.37%) LSMW
11 3 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 314 (28.78%) Finance
2 223 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 115 (10.54%) Banking
4 88 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 66 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (5.59%) Investment Banking
7 48 (4.40%) Front Office
8 43 (3.94%) Marketing
9 38 (3.48%) Retail
10 29 (2.66%) Back Office
11 21 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.74%) Law
14 18 (1.65%) Legal
15 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.01%) Electronics
17 9 (0.82%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.59%) .NET
2 40 (3.67%) React
3 30 (2.75%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (2.66%) CSS
4 29 (2.66%) gRPC
4 29 (2.66%) Pandas
5 28 (2.57%) NumPy
5 28 (2.57%) SciPy
6 26 (2.38%) Spring
6 26 (2.38%) XML
7 25 (2.29%) Kafka
8 24 (2.20%) .NET Core
8 24 (2.20%) Spring Boot
9 23 (2.11%) Web Services
10 22 (2.02%) HTML
11 19 (1.74%) REST
12 18 (1.65%) Node.js
13 15 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (1.19%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.31%) Fixed Income
2 45 (4.12%) Derivative
3 42 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.39%) Equities
6 35 (3.21%) Hedge funds
7 31 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
8 30 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.01%) FMCG
13 9 (0.82%) PMI
13 9 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.73%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.64%) Cloud Native
15 7 (0.64%) Data Centre
16 6 (0.55%) Blockchain
16 6 (0.55%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.03%) Linux
2 28 (2.57%) Windows
3 19 (1.74%) Android
3 19 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.37%) Unix
5 13 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.82%) CentOS
7 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.092%) AIX
10 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.092%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (24.66%) Agile
2 151 (13.84%) DevOps
3 119 (10.91%) CI/CD
4 113 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (9.90%) Project Management
6 106 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 96 (8.80%) Software Engineering
8 84 (7.70%) Mentoring
9 83 (7.61%) Migration
10 73 (6.69%) Test Automation
11 67 (6.14%) Test Strategy
12 66 (6.05%) Analytics
13 63 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (5.50%) Scrum
15 55 (5.04%) Technical Leadership
16 52 (4.77%) Data Protection
16 52 (4.77%) Roadmaps
17 48 (4.40%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (4.40%) Data Modelling
18 47 (4.31%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 142 (13.02%) Python
2 122 (11.18%) Java
3 89 (8.16%) JavaScript
4 84 (7.70%) SQL
5 83 (7.61%) C#
6 63 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 20 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.47%) Bicep
9 15 (1.37%) Scala
10 14 (1.28%) Bash
11 12 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.92%) Ruby
13 8 (0.73%) C
14 7 (0.64%) Swift
14 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.55%) C++
16 5 (0.46%) R
16 5 (0.46%) Rust
16 5 (0.46%) XPath
17 4 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 103 (9.44%) Security Cleared
2 96 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.87%) Degree
4 29 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 20 (1.83%) CISSP
7 13 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.10%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.73%) CISM
11 8 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.73%) PMP
12 6 (0.55%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.55%) ISEB
13 5 (0.46%) CIMA
13 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.27%) ACCA
14 3 (0.27%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (8.16%) QA
2 34 (3.12%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.12%) PMO
3 14 (1.28%) NIST
4 13 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.10%) GDPR
5 12 (1.10%) SLA
6 10 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.92%) GRC
7 9 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.37%) GAAP
9 3 (0.27%) COBIT
9 3 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.27%) WCAG
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.18%) MiFID
10 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.18%) P3O
11 1 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.092%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 35 (3.21%) Docker
2 24 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.82%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) NFS
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.092%) Ceph
8 1 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 43 (3.94%) Terraform
2 41 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.47%) Ansible
4 13 (1.19%) Grafana
5 12 (1.10%) Kibana
6 11 (1.01%) logstash
7 10 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.73%) Puppet
9 7 (0.64%) vRealize
10 5 (0.46%) CA Service Virtualization
10 5 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.37%) VxRail
12 3 (0.27%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 119 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.34%) SAP
3 44 (4.03%) Oracle
4 30 (2.75%) Databricks
5 22 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.74%) Workday
7 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.19%) Virgin Media
9 12 (1.10%) Google
9 12 (1.10%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.01%) VMware
11 10 (0.92%) ION Trading
12 9 (0.82%) Murex
12 9 (0.82%) Splunk
13 8 (0.73%) Cisco
13 8 (0.73%) Micro Focus
13 8 (0.73%) Yardi
14 7 (0.64%) Adobe
14 7 (0.64%) Amdocs
14 7 (0.64%) Pega