Lead Contracts in Tower Hamlets

Leader
East London > Tower Hamlets

The median Leader daily rate in Tower Hamlets is £585, 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 2 16 12
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 15 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 26.79% 7.21% 8.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 28.85% 8.33% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 2
10th Percentile £522 £511 £346
25th Percentile - £539 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £555 £448
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +24.02% -40.31%
75th Percentile - £570 £511
90th Percentile £617 £596 £550
East London median daily rate £585 £560 £525
% change year-on-year +4.46% +6.67% -29.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £37.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tower Hamlets

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets with a recognized job title 52 96 68
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 86.49% 98.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 94 59
10th Percentile £350 £460 £220
25th Percentile £495 £533 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £597 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -2.53% +1.66%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £756
90th Percentile £649 £770 £830
East London median daily rate £540 £540 £500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £28.60 £22.91 £27.47
% change year-on-year +24.84% -16.58% +39.84%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Tower Hamlets

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Tower Hamlets

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Tower Hamlets

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Tower Hamlets

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Tower Hamlets 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
Canary Wharf +14 15 £585 +5.41%
Lead
East London

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

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 Tower Hamlets region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) SaaS
3 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (40.00%) Low-Code
4 6 (40.00%) Workflow
4 6 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (40.00%) Legal
4 6 (40.00%) Zachman Framework
4 6 (40.00%) TOGAF
5 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) Azure
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) Firewall
6 4 (26.67%) Technology Transformation
6 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (26.67%) iManage
7 3 (20.00%) Threat Management
7 3 (20.00%) Mimecast
7 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (20.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 3 (20.00%) API Management
7 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (20.00%) Active Directory

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) SaaS
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) Mimecast
4 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
6 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (20.00%) VLAN
2 3 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (40.00%) TOGAF
1 6 (40.00%) Workflow
1 6 (40.00%) Zachman Framework
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Technology Transformation
2 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (20.00%) API Management
3 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Threat Management
4 2 (13.33%) Case Management
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) Database Security
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (13.33%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) iManage
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable
3 1 (6.67%) Tripwire