Team Leader Contracts in London

Team Lead
England > London

The median Team Lead daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 337 435
Rank change year-on-year +10 +98 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 26 58 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.35% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 41
10th Percentile £360 £475 £208
25th Percentile £500 £681 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £825 £350
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +135.71% -38.33%
75th Percentile £650 £888 £713
90th Percentile £675 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.25 -
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £43.99
90th Percentile - - £49.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £15.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +333.33% -57.14% +86.67%

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 11,753 16,611 25,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.26% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,049 12,008 18,613
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 338 287
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.05 £20.02 £22.57
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.88 £64.67 £76.10
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in London

Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Team Leader in London

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Team Leader in London

Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Team Leader in London

Team Leader
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 Team Leader within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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 +16 8 £600 +20.00% 10
North London -4 1 £550 -
Team Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Team Leader 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 Team Leader in the job title.

1 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
1 7 (26.92%) Java
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) C++
3 5 (19.23%) C
3 5 (19.23%) .NET
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (19.23%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
3 5 (19.23%) Algorithmic Trading
3 5 (19.23%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (19.23%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
3 5 (19.23%) Market Making
3 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) SQL

Team Leader 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 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (3.85%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Back Office
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Local Government
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
2 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Swagger
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) iPhone
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Android
3 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (19.23%) Algorithmic Trading
3 5 (19.23%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (19.23%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (19.23%) Market Making
3 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (7.69%) Agile
6 2 (7.69%) Break/Fix
6 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (7.69%) ITIL
6 2 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) C
3 5 (19.23%) C++
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) A+ Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Apple
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) Mitel
3 1 (3.85%) Progress
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow