Lead Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Leader
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Leader daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £558, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 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
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.06% 2.21% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.36% 2.40% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £486 £503 £630
25th Percentile £522 £508 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £533 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -18.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £641 £549 £688
90th Percentile £689 - £695
North East median daily rate £558 £533 £594
% change year-on-year +4.69% -10.32% +10.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £33.09 £46.18
% change year-on-year - -28.35% -

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 224 208 262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 92.04% 97.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 94 198
10th Percentile £218 £335 £261
25th Percentile £360 £387 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £650
90th Percentile £629 £642 £739
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 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 £20.30 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £48.75 £68.75 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £39.34
% change year-on-year -7.08% -64.44% +138.42%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +6 11 £550 +3.29% 102
Lead
North East

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Kong
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Data Science
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking

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 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Kong
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Looker
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Data Science
3 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Virgin Media