Lead Contracts in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 34 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 1,103 1,564 2,386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.24% 6.22% 6.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.66% 6.54% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 1,121 1,705
10th Percentile £425 £450 £450
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £748 £725 £725
90th Percentile £875 £800 £813
England median daily rate £588 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.56% +7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 14
10th Percentile - £35.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.75 £25.28
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £41.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +13.49% +13.91%
75th Percentile £62.19 £52.49 £65.43
90th Percentile £71.88 £54.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +30.95% +63.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +6 132 £625 -3.85% 44
West London +16 32 £575 -11.54% 28
South London +5 12 £550 - 5
East London -5 9 £575 - 25
North London +4 4 £375 -37.50% 3
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 357 (32.37%) Finance
2 316 (28.65%) Agile
3 233 (21.12%) Social Skills
4 189 (17.14%) AWS
5 187 (16.95%) Azure
6 175 (15.87%) Python
7 160 (14.51%) Java
8 158 (14.32%) DevOps
9 140 (12.69%) Banking
10 129 (11.70%) Software Engineering
11 124 (11.24%) CI/CD
12 117 (10.61%) Microsoft
13 116 (10.52%) JavaScript
14 108 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 106 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
16 102 (9.25%) C#
17 95 (8.61%) Project Management
18 93 (8.43%) SAP
18 93 (8.43%) QA
18 93 (8.43%) TypeScript
19 88 (7.98%) SQL
20 87 (7.89%) Public Sector
21 84 (7.62%) Degree
22 83 (7.52%) Security Cleared
23 80 (7.25%) SC Cleared
23 80 (7.25%) Mentoring
24 78 (7.07%) .NET
25 75 (6.80%) Migration
25 75 (6.80%) Investment Banking
25 75 (6.80%) Analytics

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 61 (5.53%) Apache
2 59 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.27%) Confluence
6 13 (1.18%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.63%) CMS
8 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.18%) JBoss
11 2 (0.18%) SAS
12 1 (0.091%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.091%) Camunda
12 1 (0.091%) IIS
12 1 (0.091%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.27%) SPSS
6 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.091%) Sketch
7 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.091%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 47 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.91%) ION Anvil
4 9 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.73%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.63%) Shopify
7 6 (0.54%) ION MarketView
7 6 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.45%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle AGIS
9 4 (0.36%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.18%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
11 2 (0.18%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 189 (17.14%) AWS
2 187 (16.95%) Azure
3 70 (6.35%) GCP
4 65 (5.89%) Snowflake
5 60 (5.44%) dbt
6 52 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
8 37 (3.35%) Power Platform
9 34 (3.08%) Serverless
10 29 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.27%) Azure API Management
12 20 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.72%) SaaS
14 18 (1.63%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.36%) Entra ID
16 14 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (1.27%) PowerApps
17 13 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.09%) Firewall
2 8 (0.73%) FTP
2 8 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (0.63%) 5G
3 7 (0.63%) DNS
3 7 (0.63%) WAN
4 5 (0.45%) VPN
5 4 (0.36%) DHCP
5 4 (0.36%) LAN
5 4 (0.36%) NetScaler
5 4 (0.36%) SSL
5 4 (0.36%) Wireless
6 3 (0.27%) Broadband
6 3 (0.27%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.27%) Network Security
6 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.18%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.18%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.18%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.35%) Data Lake
2 61 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (4.99%) Apache Arrow
4 54 (4.90%) Dremio
5 53 (4.81%) Apache Ignite
6 38 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 28 (2.54%) Power BI
8 24 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.45%) Big Data
12 14 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.09%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.73%) MySQL
17 7 (0.63%) Power Query
17 7 (0.63%) SAP HANA
18 6 (0.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (4.35%) Git
2 42 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.63%) JIRA
4 14 (1.27%) JMeter
4 14 (1.27%) Selenium
5 11 (1.00%) GitLab
5 11 (1.00%) LoadRunner
5 11 (1.00%) Postman
6 9 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.63%) JUnit
8 7 (0.63%) webpack
9 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.54%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.45%) Katalon Studio
10 5 (0.45%) MLflow
10 5 (0.45%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 357 (32.37%) Finance
2 233 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 140 (12.69%) Banking
4 87 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.80%) Investment Banking
6 69 (6.26%) Front Office
7 62 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (4.35%) Retail
9 46 (4.17%) Marketing
10 30 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.63%) Back Office
12 24 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.54%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.36%) Legal
16 14 (1.27%) Law
17 12 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (1.00%) Local Government
18 11 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.73%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (7.07%) .NET
2 55 (4.99%) Protocol Buffers
3 54 (4.90%) gRPC
3 54 (4.90%) Pandas
4 53 (4.81%) NumPy
4 53 (4.81%) SciPy
5 50 (4.53%) React
6 40 (3.63%) CSS
7 34 (3.08%) .NET Core
8 31 (2.81%) Kafka
9 29 (2.63%) HTML
9 29 (2.63%) Spring Boot
10 28 (2.54%) Spring
11 24 (2.18%) XML
12 22 (1.99%) Web Services
13 19 (1.72%) Node.js
13 19 (1.72%) PySpark
14 18 (1.63%) AngularJS
15 17 (1.54%) REST
16 16 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.44%) Derivative
1 71 (6.44%) Fixed Income
2 61 (5.53%) Equities
2 61 (5.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 39 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 28 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.72%) FMCG
8 16 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.82%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.63%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.54%) Virtual Team
17 5 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
17 5 (0.45%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.54%) Linux
2 31 (2.81%) Windows
3 27 (2.45%) Android
3 27 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 20 (1.81%) Unix
5 8 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.54%) CentOS
8 5 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.091%) AIX
10 1 (0.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (28.65%) Agile
2 158 (14.32%) DevOps
3 129 (11.70%) Software Engineering
4 124 (11.24%) CI/CD
5 108 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 106 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (8.61%) Project Management
8 80 (7.25%) Mentoring
9 75 (6.80%) Analytics
9 75 (6.80%) Migration
10 74 (6.71%) Test Automation
11 69 (6.26%) Roadmaps
12 66 (5.98%) Asset Management
13 63 (5.71%) Scrum
14 60 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (5.44%) Test Strategy
15 54 (4.90%) Project Delivery
16 53 (4.81%) Technical Leadership
17 51 (4.62%) Data Modelling
17 51 (4.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 175 (15.87%) Python
2 160 (14.51%) Java
3 116 (10.52%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.25%) C#
5 93 (8.43%) TypeScript
6 88 (7.98%) SQL
7 21 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.63%) Scala
9 16 (1.45%) Bicep
10 14 (1.27%) Bash
11 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.82%) C
12 9 (0.82%) Go
12 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.82%) Swift
13 8 (0.73%) C++
13 8 (0.73%) Ruby
14 7 (0.63%) Groovy
15 5 (0.45%) Rust
16 4 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (7.62%) Degree
2 83 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 80 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.45%) CISSP
7 11 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 9 (0.82%) PMP
9 8 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.54%) CISM
10 6 (0.54%) ISEB
10 6 (0.54%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.36%) CIMA
12 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.43%) QA
2 45 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.45%) PMO
4 14 (1.27%) NIST
5 12 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.00%) SLA
7 10 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.45%) GRC
9 4 (0.36%) GAAP
9 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.36%) WCAG
10 3 (0.27%) GDPR
10 3 (0.27%) P3O
11 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.18%) MiFID
11 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.091%) GMP
12 1 (0.091%) GxP
12 1 (0.091%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 34 (3.08%) Docker
2 25 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.36%) XenApp
6 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.18%) vSphere
9 1 (0.091%) Ceph
9 1 (0.091%) NFS
9 1 (0.091%) Snort
Systems Management
1 49 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.81%) Terraform
3 26 (2.36%) Ansible
4 12 (1.09%) Grafana
5 10 (0.91%) Kibana
5 10 (0.91%) logstash
6 8 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.63%) Puppet
8 5 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.18%) Argo
10 2 (0.18%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.18%) SCCM
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.18%) vRealize
11 1 (0.091%) Ganglia
11 1 (0.091%) SCOM
11 1 (0.091%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 117 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.43%) SAP
3 36 (3.26%) Oracle
4 33 (2.99%) Databricks
5 28 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.36%) Google
7 14 (1.27%) Workday
8 12 (1.09%) Virgin Media
9 11 (1.00%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.91%) ION Trading
10 10 (0.91%) Splunk
11 9 (0.82%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.82%) VMware
12 8 (0.73%) Cadence
12 8 (0.73%) Pega
12 8 (0.73%) Yardi
13 7 (0.63%) Adobe
13 7 (0.63%) Cisco
13 7 (0.63%) Informatica
13 7 (0.63%) Reuters