Lead Contracts in South London

Leader
London > South London

The median Leader daily rate in South London is £555 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 26 33 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 15 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 6.33% 5.44% 8.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.49% 5.88% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 22
10th Percentile - £494 £401
25th Percentile £525 £541 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -8.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £703
90th Percentile £686 £700 £775
London median daily rate £600 £623 £625
% change year-on-year -3.61% -0.40% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £42.15
% change year-on-year +1.35% -12.22% +50.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 231 357 354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.47% 92.49% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 281 274
10th Percentile £201 £213 £252
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £775 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 12
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.13 £39.34
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.06 £40.93
Median hourly rate £23.50 £22.98 £47.44
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -51.55% +2.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.90
90th Percentile £83.75 £52.21 £55.29
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in South London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the South London 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
Croydon +2 7 £550 -4.35% 2
Bromley +10 2 £650 -18.75% 1
Kingston Upon Thames -6 2 £675 +28.57% 2
Wandsworth - 2 £509 - 1
Merton +3 1 £550 - 2
Lead
London

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

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 South London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (26.67%) Supplier Management
3 4 (26.67%) Requirements Management
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Git
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Data Conversion
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 2 (13.33%) B2C
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 1 (6.67%) QA
6 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (6.67%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) Marketing
6 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Fabric
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (6.67%) SailPoint
1 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Requirements Management
1 4 (26.67%) Supplier Management
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) B2C
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Data Conversion
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Budget Management
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Microservices
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (6.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bash
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) C
2 1 (6.67%) C++
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.67%) PMP
4 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft