Lead Contracts in Northampton

Leader
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Leader daily rate in Northampton is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 6 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.88% 4.72% 5.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.36% 4.88% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile - £159 £410
25th Percentile £185 £246 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% -8.42% +2.15%
75th Percentile £475 £522 £667
90th Percentile £600 £549 £706
Northamptonshire median daily rate £320 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -36.00% -3.38% +11.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 112 123 125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 96.85% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 94 96
10th Percentile £266 £333 £200
25th Percentile £358 £356 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +11.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £573 £500
90th Percentile £560 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £433 £400
% change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.55
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £16.90
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.16% +24.13%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.57
90th Percentile - £35.75 £19.38
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
% change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Northampton

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Northampton

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Northampton

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Northampton

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Northampton region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) EPoS
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Web Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Nintex
3 2 (33.33%) Postman

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) EPoS
2 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Nintex