Lead Contracts in South Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Leader daily rate in South Yorkshire is £525, 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 28 29 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -21 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 21 27 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.63% 5.91% 13.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.19% 6.49% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 36
10th Percentile £413 £430 £403
25th Percentile £444 £478 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £647 £678
90th Percentile £588 £685 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £516 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% - +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in South Yorkshire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Sheffield -3 14 £507 -14.79% 31
Doncaster +4 1 £450 +5.88% 19
Lead
Yorkshire

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

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 South Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (28.57%) Change Management
3 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 6 (28.57%) Docker
3 6 (28.57%) Microservices
3 6 (28.57%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
5 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (19.05%) PMO
5 4 (19.05%) Jest
5 4 (19.05%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
5 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
5 4 (19.05%) Fintech
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) BDD
5 4 (19.05%) Node.js
5 4 (19.05%) Portfolio Management
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2
5 4 (19.05%) Python
5 4 (19.05%) PMI
5 4 (19.05%) PMI Certification
5 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 4 (19.05%) TDD
5 4 (19.05%) Time Management
5 4 (19.05%) Java

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Katalon Studio
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Jest
1 4 (19.05%) Node.js
1 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
2 3 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (9.52%) PySpark
4 1 (4.76%) Anaconda
4 1 (4.76%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) PMI
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Change Management
2 6 (28.57%) Microservices
2 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (28.57%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) BDD
4 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (19.05%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Fintech
4 4 (19.05%) Portfolio Management
4 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
4 4 (19.05%) TDD
4 4 (19.05%) Time Management
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
6 2 (9.52%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (19.05%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft