Lead Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Leader
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Leader daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £550, 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 21 26 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 16 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.56% 2.47% 3.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.78% 2.71% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 7
10th Percentile £463 £476 £670
25th Percentile £510 £491 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £516 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -31.17% +22.45%
75th Percentile £613 £549 £775
90th Percentile £650 - -
North East median daily rate £550 £516 £675
% change year-on-year +6.54% -23.52% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £33.09 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 236 221 342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 90.95% 98.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 102 266
10th Percentile £223 £271 £311
25th Percentile £350 £377 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £734
North East median daily rate £461 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 41 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £23.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £49.08 £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
% change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Tyne and Wear

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Lead in Tyne and Wear

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Tyne and Wear

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Tyne and Wear

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 16 £550 +6.54% 36
Lead
North East

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

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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) QA
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) SAP
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (25.00%) GitLab
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 3 (18.75%) Node.js
5 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Azure
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (18.75%) Service Management
5 3 (18.75%) Electronics
5 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
5 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
5 3 (18.75%) Programme Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Kong
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.25%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Electronics
3 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
3 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (6.25%) pytest
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
3 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
3 3 (18.75%) Service Management
3 3 (18.75%) Software Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
4 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Register
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Packer
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) New Relic
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Virgin Media