Lead Contract Job Trends in Norwich

Leader
Norfolk > Norwich

The median Leader daily rate in Norwich is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Norwich 5.00% - 5.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.45% - 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -52.17%
75th Percentile - - £288
90th Percentile - - -
Norfolk median daily rate £600 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -52.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Norwich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Norwich. 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 Norwich with a recognized job title 55 37 35
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 92.50% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 30
10th Percentile - £195 £158
25th Percentile £171 £202 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £393 £275
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% +42.73% +17.02%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £466
90th Percentile £549 £564 £510
Norfolk median daily rate £475 £368 £275
% change year-on-year +29.25% +33.64% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £12.97 - £15.17
25th Percentile £13.50 - £16.18
Median hourly rate £20.23 - £17.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.10%
75th Percentile £23.38 - £19.54
90th Percentile £31.20 - £20.55
Norfolk median hourly rate £19.75 £20.00 £26.81
% change year-on-year -1.25% -25.40% +40.99%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Norwich

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Norwich

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in Norwich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Norwich

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Norwich

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Norwich

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Norwich region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCenter
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline

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

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCenter
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
4 Lead jobs in Norwich