Lead Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Leader
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Leader daily rate in Northampton is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 11 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 3.90% 5.53% 9.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.06% 5.94% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 9
10th Percentile £304 £333 £472
25th Percentile £323 £367 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £422 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% -23.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £434 £530 £606
90th Percentile £475 £619 £738
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £443 £560
% change year-on-year -19.19% -20.89% +17.89%

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 271 202 113
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 93.09% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 160 84
10th Percentile £275 £351 £213
25th Percentile £350 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -9.00% +9.27%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £534
90th Percentile £525 £588 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £393 £425 £490
% change year-on-year -7.53% -13.27% +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.28%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £12.22 £13.18
% change year-on-year +75.04% -7.25% -57.42%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Northampton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Northampton

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Northampton over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Northampton

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Northampton.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Northampton

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
1 5 (45.45%) Business Strategy
2 4 (36.36%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (36.36%) Sprint Retrospective
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Scrum
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) QA
3 3 (27.27%) Selenium
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) API Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Postman
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (18.18%) PMO
4 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
4 2 (18.18%) SoapUI
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Nintex
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) JMeter

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Postman
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
2 2 (18.18%) JMeter
2 2 (18.18%) SoapUI
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
1 1 (9.09%) Playwright
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Business Strategy
1 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (36.36%) Scrum
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (27.27%) API Testing
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 2 (18.18%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Nintex