Lead Contract Job Trends in Staines

Leader
Surrey > Staines

The median Leader daily rate in Staines is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 8 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staines 18.75% 7.69% -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% 8.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £538 - -
Surrey median daily rate £588 £625 £580
% change year-on-year -5.88% +7.76% -3.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Staines

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Staines. 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 Staines with a recognized job title 30 12 40
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 92.31% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 39
10th Percentile £358 £175 £208
25th Percentile £378 £193 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £205 £550
Median % change year-on-year +143.90% -62.73% +65.41%
75th Percentile £550 £211 £624
90th Percentile £1,050 £216 £712
Surrey median daily rate £498 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.74% - -6.40%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Staines

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staines.

Lead job vacancy trend in Staines

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in Staines

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Staines

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in Staines

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in Staines

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines

For the 6 months to 18 February 2026, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Staines region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) QA
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
1 4 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) OCA
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration

Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 2 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
1 4 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) OCA
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 3 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle