Lead Contracts in Surrey

Leader
South East > Surrey

The median Leader daily rate in Surrey is £575, 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 30 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 9 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.02% 6.47% 6.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.16% 6.97% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 31 30
10th Percentile £453 £456 £190
25th Percentile £513 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £656 £733 £647
90th Percentile £668 £850 £804
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £58.77
25th Percentile - - £65.93
Median hourly rate - £18.35 £80.75
Median % change year-on-year - -77.27% -
75th Percentile - £20.45 £94.43
90th Percentile - £24.22 £100.92
South East median hourly rate £83.50 £31.00 £57.99
% change year-on-year +169.35% -46.54% +65.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 285 545 646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 92.84% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 404 473
10th Percentile £188 £200 £199
25th Percentile £269 £367 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £614 £600
90th Percentile £660 £692 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 56 38
10th Percentile £20.00 £12.38 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%
75th Percentile £36.16 £57.63 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Surrey

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Surrey

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Surrey

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Surrey

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Surrey 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
Staines +1 2 £425 -43.33%
Leatherhead +8 1 £675 +35.00% 1
Guildford -4 1 - - 24
Lead
South East

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

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 Surrey region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) BPEL
4 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
4 2 (22.22%) Maven
4 2 (22.22%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) JAXB
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (22.22%) SOAP
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) XML
4 2 (22.22%) XSD
4 2 (22.22%) XSL
4 2 (22.22%) XSLT
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) XPath
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (22.22%) Apache Solr
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Ajax
1 2 (22.22%) JAXB
1 2 (22.22%) JAX-RS
1 2 (22.22%) JAX-WS
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
1 2 (22.22%) XML
1 2 (22.22%) XSD
1 2 (22.22%) XSL
1 2 (22.22%) XSLT
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) BPEL
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (11.11%) Master Data Management
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) XPath
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
2 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Blue Prism
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft