Lead Contracts in the Midlands

Leader
England > Midlands

The median Leader daily rate in the Midlands is £555 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 28 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 142 194 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.21% 5.64% 5.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.66% 5.96% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 140 182
10th Percentile £253 £412 £314
25th Percentile £413 £475 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +5.71% +13.51%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £638
90th Percentile £775 £743 £738
England median daily rate £584 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -2.75% +2.48% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile £22.68 - -
25th Percentile £27.63 £22.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £24.00 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +40.02% -63.92%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.00 £22.19
90th Percentile £62.88 - £34.50
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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,508 3,256 4,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.65% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,289 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £223 £206
25th Percentile £325 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +3.83% +14.38%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 177
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.74% +14.47%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £32.70
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +4 109 £598 +5.05% 130
East Midlands +13 31 £235 -58.04% 57
Lead
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 55 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.31%) Finance
3 21 (14.79%) Agile
4 20 (14.08%) Degree
5 17 (11.97%) Migration
6 16 (11.27%) Data Migration
6 16 (11.27%) Data Quality
7 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (9.86%) SAP
8 14 (9.86%) ERP
9 12 (8.45%) Azure
9 12 (8.45%) Oracle
9 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
9 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
10 11 (7.75%) Roadmaps
10 11 (7.75%) Informatica
10 11 (7.75%) Data Architecture
11 10 (7.04%) Time Management
11 10 (7.04%) Data Integration
11 10 (7.04%) Security Cleared
11 10 (7.04%) Project Management
11 10 (7.04%) Microsoft
11 10 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (6.34%) Customer Service
12 9 (6.34%) Business Transformation
12 9 (6.34%) SQL
12 9 (6.34%) ITIL

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) CMS
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.70%) Revit
4 1 (0.70%) Simulink
4 1 (0.70%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (5.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.11%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.11%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.41%) Maximo
3 2 (1.41%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.41%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (1.41%) Primavera
4 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.45%) Azure
2 6 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (3.52%) AWS
4 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.82%) OCI
4 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.82%) SaaS
4 4 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (2.11%) PaaS
6 2 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.41%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.41%) Serverless
6 2 (1.41%) SonarCloud
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.70%) IaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) WAN
2 4 (2.82%) 5G
2 4 (2.82%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (2.82%) LAN
2 4 (2.82%) MPLS
3 3 (2.11%) BGP
3 3 (2.11%) Firewall
3 3 (2.11%) IPsec
3 3 (2.11%) Junos
3 3 (2.11%) VPN
4 2 (1.41%) Network Security
4 2 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.41%) SMS
5 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.70%) SAN
5 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.70%) Wireless
5 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.82%) Power BI
2 3 (2.11%) SAP BW
2 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.70%) MySQL
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Git
2 3 (2.11%) JIRA
3 2 (1.41%) Moq
3 2 (1.41%) NUnit
4 1 (0.70%) LSMW
4 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.70%) Selenium
4 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 55 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.31%) Finance
3 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.93%) Automotive
5 7 (4.93%) Retail
6 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.52%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.82%) Local Government
7 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.11%) Marketing
8 3 (2.11%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.41%) Games
9 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Law
9 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.70%) Electronics
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.23%) .NET
2 4 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.11%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (2.11%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.70%) EDI
5 1 (0.70%) Flash
5 1 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.70%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.70%) OpenMP
5 1 (0.70%) RAML
5 1 (0.70%) REST
5 1 (0.70%) RESTful
5 1 (0.70%) SOAP
5 1 (0.70%) Spring
5 1 (0.70%) Swagger
5 1 (0.70%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.11%) FMCG
3 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.41%) DataPower
4 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.70%) CCTV
5 1 (0.70%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.52%) Windows
2 4 (2.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (14.79%) Agile
2 17 (11.97%) Migration
3 16 (11.27%) Data Migration
4 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (9.86%) ERP
5 14 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (7.75%) Data Architecture
6 11 (7.75%) Roadmaps
7 10 (7.04%) Data Integration
7 10 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (7.04%) Project Management
7 10 (7.04%) Time Management
8 9 (6.34%) Business Transformation
8 9 (6.34%) Customer Service
8 9 (6.34%) Data Governance
8 9 (6.34%) ITIL
9 8 (5.63%) Conflict Management
10 7 (4.93%) DevOps
10 7 (4.93%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (4.93%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.34%) SQL
2 8 (5.63%) Java
3 4 (2.82%) C#
3 4 (2.82%) Ruby
4 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.70%) ProC
Qualifications
1 20 (14.08%) Degree
2 10 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.63%) NVQ Level 3
4 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.41%) CCNP
5 2 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.70%) ACCA
6 1 (0.70%) CCNA
6 1 (0.70%) CIMA
6 1 (0.70%) ISEB
6 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.70%) PMP
6 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.23%) SLA
3 3 (2.11%) GRC
3 3 (2.11%) ITGC
3 3 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.70%) Lustre
2 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.41%) SCCM
2 2 (1.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) Grafana
3 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.70%) Kibana
3 1 (0.70%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 14 (9.86%) SAP
2 12 (8.45%) Oracle
3 11 (7.75%) Informatica
4 10 (7.04%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.23%) Workday
6 5 (3.52%) Cisco
6 5 (3.52%) IBM
7 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.11%) Juniper
8 3 (2.11%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.41%) Apple
9 2 (1.41%) HP
9 2 (1.41%) Laserfiche
9 2 (1.41%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.41%) NEC
9 2 (1.41%) Northgate
9 2 (1.41%) Sage
9 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.41%) VMware
10 1 (0.70%) Rapid7