Lead Contracts in the North of England

Leader
England > North of England

The median Leader daily rate in the North of England is £582 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 25 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 281 327 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.90% 5.60% 5.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.34% 5.89% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 196 319
10th Percentile £413 £400 £298
25th Percentile £500 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £575
90th Percentile £850 £775 £675
England median daily rate £584 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -2.75% +2.48% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 7
10th Percentile - £10.09 £16.20
25th Percentile - £12.88 £18.37
Median hourly rate £15.00 £26.66 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.73% +6.62% -3.85%
75th Percentile £24.63 £43.75 £45.63
90th Percentile £46.18 £58.73 £48.75
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,435 5,555 7,004
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 95.17% 97.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 3,916 5,142
10th Percentile £263 £283 £200
25th Percentile £381 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 166 292
10th Percentile £11.01 £13.73 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +65.08% +2.45%
75th Percentile £46.00 £49.30 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.38 £49.98
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the North of England 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
North West +3 163 £590 +7.27% 157
Yorkshire +1 107 £575 - 95
North East +16 12 £516 -23.52% 38
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 66 (23.49%) Agile
2 63 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 63 (22.42%) DevOps
3 59 (21.00%) Social Skills
4 50 (17.79%) SC Cleared
4 50 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (17.44%) Finance
6 48 (17.08%) CI/CD
7 46 (16.37%) AWS
8 45 (16.01%) Microsoft
9 38 (13.52%) Windows
10 37 (13.17%) Threat Intelligence
11 36 (12.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 36 (12.81%) Azure
12 35 (12.46%) Node.js
12 35 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (12.10%) Apple iOS
13 34 (12.10%) Public Sector
13 34 (12.10%) Risk Management
14 32 (11.39%) Firewall
15 31 (11.03%) SAP
15 31 (11.03%) VPN
16 30 (10.68%) Project Management
16 30 (10.68%) Security Architecture
16 30 (10.68%) Android
16 30 (10.68%) Windows Server
16 30 (10.68%) Mobile Device Management
17 28 (9.96%) Zero Trust
18 27 (9.61%) Design Patterns
18 27 (9.61%) Public Cloud

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.36%) Confluence
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.85%) CATIA
1 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.71%) Sketch
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (7.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.85%) DELMIA
2 8 (2.85%) Teamcenter
3 7 (2.49%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.71%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.71%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.71%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP AFS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 1 (0.36%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.36%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.37%) AWS
2 36 (12.81%) Azure
3 20 (7.12%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (4.27%) Serverless
6 11 (3.91%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.20%) PowerApps
8 9 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.49%) GCP
10 7 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.14%) Route 53
12 5 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.78%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.39%) Firewall
2 31 (11.03%) VPN
3 8 (2.85%) 5G
4 4 (1.42%) SSL
5 2 (0.71%) DNS
5 2 (0.71%) PPP
6 1 (0.36%) DMZ
6 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.36%) RTP
6 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.76%) Power BI
2 11 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.42%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.07%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.07%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.71%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.71%) Tableau
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.36%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.98%) Git
2 9 (3.20%) GitLab
3 7 (2.49%) JIRA
4 6 (2.14%) webpack
5 5 (1.78%) Hudson
5 5 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.42%) JUnit
7 3 (1.07%) LSMW
8 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.71%) JMeter
8 2 (0.71%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) Postman
9 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 59 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.44%) Finance
3 34 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.34%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.98%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.27%) Legal
8 9 (3.20%) Banking
9 8 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.49%) Marketing
10 7 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Law
12 4 (1.42%) Retail
13 3 (1.07%) Electronics
13 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.71%) Automotive
14 2 (0.71%) Billing
14 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.46%) Node.js
2 11 (3.91%) React
3 6 (2.14%) Express.js
3 6 (2.14%) Kafka
3 6 (2.14%) Lambda Expressions
3 6 (2.14%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.14%) Redux
3 6 (2.14%) REST
3 6 (2.14%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.78%) Spring
4 5 (1.78%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.42%) .NET
5 4 (1.42%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (1.42%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.42%) JPA
6 3 (1.07%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.07%) BAPI
7 2 (0.71%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.71%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.71%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.61%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (3.20%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.85%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.78%) NHS
10 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.71%) e-Learning
12 1 (0.36%) BBC
12 1 (0.36%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.36%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.36%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.36%) Smart Meter
12 1 (0.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.52%) Windows
2 34 (12.10%) Apple iOS
3 30 (10.68%) Android
3 30 (10.68%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.91%) Linux
5 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.71%) Unix
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.49%) Agile
2 63 (22.42%) DevOps
3 50 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (17.08%) CI/CD
5 37 (13.17%) Threat Intelligence
6 36 (12.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 35 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (12.10%) Risk Management
9 30 (10.68%) Mobile Device Management
9 30 (10.68%) Project Management
9 30 (10.68%) Security Architecture
10 28 (9.96%) Zero Trust
11 27 (9.61%) Design Patterns
12 26 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (9.25%) Roadmaps
13 23 (8.19%) Mentoring
14 20 (7.12%) ERP
14 20 (7.12%) Microservices
15 18 (6.41%) Information Security
16 17 (6.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.76%) Python
2 17 (6.05%) SQL
3 13 (4.63%) Java
4 10 (3.56%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.85%) C#
6 7 (2.49%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.71%) Groovy
7 2 (0.71%) PHP
8 1 (0.36%) Bash
8 1 (0.36%) Go
8 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.34%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.14%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.07%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.07%) Degree
6 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.71%) CISM
6 2 (0.71%) CISSP
6 2 (0.71%) ISACA
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PMP
7 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.34%) Data Quality
1 15 (5.34%) NIST
2 13 (4.63%) QA
3 10 (3.56%) NIST 800
3 10 (3.56%) SLA
4 5 (1.78%) GDPR
4 5 (1.78%) PMO
5 4 (1.42%) GRC
6 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.71%) COSO
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.71%) IASME
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (2.85%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.20%) Terraform
3 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.14%) Ansible
5 2 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.03%) SAP
3 9 (3.20%) Google
4 8 (2.85%) Siemens
5 7 (2.49%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.14%) Sophos
7 5 (1.78%) Apple
7 5 (1.78%) Informatica
7 5 (1.78%) Pega
7 5 (1.78%) Splunk
8 4 (1.42%) IBM
8 4 (1.42%) Oracle
8 4 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.42%) Solace
9 2 (0.71%) Ariba
9 2 (0.71%) Brio
9 2 (0.71%) CA
9 2 (0.71%) Cadence
9 2 (0.71%) HP
9 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud