Lead Contracts in Sheffield

Leader
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Leader daily rate in Sheffield is £595 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 32 8 25
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 22 68 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.80% 15.14% 7.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.45% 15.45% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 27
10th Percentile £434 £402 £300
25th Percentile £560 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £673
90th Percentile £690 £743 £711
South Yorkshire median daily rate £585 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +20.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 341 440 371
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.97% 98.00% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 305 299
10th Percentile £360 £363 £300
25th Percentile £413 £473 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +8.21% +20.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £18.11
90th Percentile - £33.00 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Sheffield

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Sheffield

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Sheffield

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Sheffield

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

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 Sheffield region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Change Management
3 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Ansible
4 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Migration
5 5 (22.73%) Linux
5 5 (22.73%) Coaching
5 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
5 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
6 4 (18.18%) Solace
6 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 4 (18.18%) Docker
6 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
6 4 (18.18%) Kafka
6 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
6 4 (18.18%) ITIL
6 4 (18.18%) Windows
6 4 (18.18%) SSL
6 4 (18.18%) IBM
6 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (18.18%) ITSM
6 4 (18.18%) Project Management
6 4 (18.18%) Banking
6 4 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (13.64%) Google
7 3 (13.64%) Spring

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) CloudBees
2 2 (9.09%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (18.18%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 2 (9.09%) JPA
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) e-Learning
1 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Change Management
3 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Migration
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Coaching
6 4 (18.18%) ITIL
6 4 (18.18%) ITSM
6 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 4 (18.18%) Project Management
6 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Business Transformation
7 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (9.09%) BDD
8 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (9.09%) High Availability
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (9.09%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Groovy
1 2 (9.09%) Java
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
1 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.09%) CISM
2 2 (9.09%) CISSP
2 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) ISACA
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (9.09%) IASME
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) IBM
1 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
1 4 (18.18%) Solace
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Reuters