Lead Contracts in Swindon

Leader
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Leader daily rate in Swindon is £556, 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 10 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 12 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 12.24% 4.07% 10.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.04% 4.55% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 21
10th Percentile £506 - £313
25th Percentile £550 £819 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £838 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.58% +45.65% +6.88%
75th Percentile £630 £856 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £725
Wiltshire median daily rate £619 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -11.57% +7.69% +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate - £71.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 92 110 233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.43% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 69 190
10th Percentile £248 £143 £200
25th Percentile £354 £200 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £593 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £682 £694
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Swindon

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Swindon

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Swindon

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Swindon

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

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 Swindon region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
1 6 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Pega
4 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) MySQL
4 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) NonStop SQL
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
2 1 (8.33%) EMV
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
5 1 (8.33%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Compliance Management
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Change
5 1 (8.33%) Risk and Compliance Management
5 1 (8.33%) Scorecard
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) COBOL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) CRD IV
2 1 (8.33%) IFRS
2 1 (8.33%) IFRS 9
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 2 (16.67%) Pega
3 1 (8.33%) HP