Lead Contracts in Telford

Leader
Shropshire > Telford

The median Leader daily rate in Telford is £521, 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 13 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 16 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 14.81% - 5.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.69% - 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile £315 - £436
25th Percentile £502 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £538 - £510
Shropshire median daily rate £521 - £495
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 102 98 137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 83.76% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 68 107
10th Percentile £390 £346 £412
25th Percentile £450 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -4.69% +7.60%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £553
90th Percentile £541 £538 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £493 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.40% -7.06% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.73% +378.26%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £15.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.80% -72.73% +323.08%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Telford

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Telford

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Telford

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Telford

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

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 Telford region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) SQL
4 8 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 7 (43.75%) Process Improvement
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
5 7 (43.75%) PowerApps
5 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (43.75%) OO
5 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
5 7 (43.75%) JIRA
5 7 (43.75%) Problem Management
5 7 (43.75%) Azure
6 5 (31.25%) Atlassian
6 5 (31.25%) Workflow
6 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
6 5 (31.25%) Data Collection
7 3 (18.75%) QA
7 3 (18.75%) Demand Management
8 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (12.50%) CA Gen
8 2 (12.50%) Microservices
8 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
1 7 (43.75%) PowerApps
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) CA Gen
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) OO
3 7 (43.75%) Problem Management
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (43.75%) Process Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Data Collection
4 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Workflow
5 3 (18.75%) Demand Management
6 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (12.50%) Test Management
6 2 (12.50%) Time Management
6 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) COBOL
3 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (12.50%) ISEB
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Atlassian