Lead Contracts in the UK excluding London

Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Leader daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 1,143 1,196 1,701
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.36% 5.27% 5.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.80% 5.59% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 814 1,241
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £775 £759 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 47 39
10th Percentile £15.00 £20.05 £26.98
25th Percentile £19.18 £41.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £55.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% +30.95% +64.71%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £73.11 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £41.27 £53.99 £47.40
% change year-on-year -23.56% +13.89% +71.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. 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
North of England +2 275 £582 +3.47% 354
South East +1 259 £550 -4.35% 261
South West +19 241 £563 -11.76% 201
Midlands +5 175 £525 -9.09% 232
North West 0 163 £585 +6.36% 199
West Midlands +8 131 £563 -5.86% 139
Scotland +19 118 £500 -4.03% 98
Yorkshire +1 102 £575 -4.17% 118
East of England -19 69 £500 -16.67% 120
East Midlands +4 43 £378 -33.77% 92
Northern Ireland +13 19 £575 - 12
North East +9 12 £533 -0.93% 41
Wales +26 10 £560 +67.16% 39
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
South Coast - 1 - -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 June 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 288 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 267 (23.36%) Security Cleared
3 231 (20.21%) Finance
4 214 (18.72%) Agile
5 181 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 178 (15.57%) SC Cleared
7 142 (12.42%) Project Management
8 138 (12.07%) Microsoft
9 134 (11.72%) Public Sector
10 129 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
10 129 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
11 118 (10.32%) SAP
12 115 (10.06%) DevOps
13 113 (9.89%) Azure
14 94 (8.22%) Degree
15 90 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 88 (7.70%) DV Cleared
17 87 (7.61%) Migration
18 85 (7.44%) Decision-Making
19 78 (6.82%) AWS
20 77 (6.74%) Roadmaps
21 76 (6.65%) Project Delivery
22 72 (6.30%) Windows
22 72 (6.30%) ERP
23 68 (5.95%) Telecoms
24 67 (5.86%) JIRA
25 65 (5.69%) Change Management
25 65 (5.69%) CI/CD
26 62 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
27 61 (5.34%) Risk Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (1.05%) Confluence
2 11 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.35%) CMS
4 2 (0.17%) Apache
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.087%) JBoss
5 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.087%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.45%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (1.31%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.70%) CATIA
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.26%) Revit
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.17%) Sketch
11 1 (0.087%) Simulink
11 1 (0.087%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 58 (5.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.79%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.70%) SAP MDG
3 8 (0.70%) SAP MM
3 8 (0.70%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.52%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.44%) SAP GTS
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.35%) Maximo
6 4 (0.35%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.26%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 113 (9.89%) Azure
2 78 (6.82%) AWS
3 48 (4.20%) Power Platform
4 35 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (2.62%) Snowflake
6 28 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (2.10%) Serverless
9 19 (1.66%) SuccessFactors
10 18 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.31%) PaaS
12 14 (1.22%) GCP
13 13 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.05%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.87%) Azure Functions
15 10 (0.87%) SaaS
16 9 (0.79%) OCI
17 7 (0.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.59%) VPN
2 40 (3.50%) Firewall
3 16 (1.40%) WAN
4 14 (1.22%) 5G
5 13 (1.14%) LAN
6 7 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.44%) Network Security
7 5 (0.44%) Wireless
8 4 (0.35%) MPLS
8 4 (0.35%) SMS
8 4 (0.35%) SSL
8 4 (0.35%) Unified Communications
8 4 (0.35%) VoIP
9 3 (0.26%) BGP
9 3 (0.26%) IPv4
9 3 (0.26%) Junos
9 3 (0.26%) OSPF
9 3 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.26%) RTP
9 3 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.97%) Power BI
2 28 (2.45%) Tableau
3 19 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 8 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.61%) SAP BW
6 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
7 5 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.35%) Big Data
8 4 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.35%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.17%) DB2
Development Applications
1 67 (5.86%) JIRA
2 23 (2.01%) Git
3 9 (0.79%) JUnit
3 9 (0.79%) Selenium
4 8 (0.70%) webpack
5 7 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 7 (0.61%) GitLab
5 7 (0.61%) JMeter
5 7 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.44%) Hudson
6 5 (0.44%) LSMW
7 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.26%) ClearCase
8 3 (0.26%) ClearQuest
8 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.26%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.26%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.26%) Mockito
9 2 (0.17%) Capybara
9 2 (0.17%) Gradle
General
1 288 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 231 (20.21%) Finance
3 134 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 129 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (5.95%) Telecoms
6 49 (4.29%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (3.41%) Legal
9 32 (2.80%) Marketing
10 27 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (1.92%) Banking
11 22 (1.92%) Billing
12 21 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.66%) Retail
14 16 (1.40%) Local Government
15 15 (1.31%) Electronics
15 15 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.87%) Automotive
18 9 (0.79%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.72%) Node.js
2 31 (2.71%) React
3 22 (1.92%) .NET
4 15 (1.31%) Spring Boot
5 13 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.96%) HTML
6 11 (0.96%) REST
7 10 (0.87%) CSS
7 10 (0.87%) Kafka
7 10 (0.87%) Web Services
8 8 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.70%) PyTorch
8 8 (0.70%) Spring
8 8 (0.70%) TensorFlow
9 7 (0.61%) J2EE
9 7 (0.61%) React Native
9 7 (0.61%) Redux
10 6 (0.52%) Express.js
10 6 (0.52%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.52%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 43 (3.76%) Management Information System
2 41 (3.59%) Public Cloud
2 41 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 20 (1.75%) Credit Risk
6 18 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 16 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
8 14 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 13 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
9 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 11 (0.96%) NHS
11 10 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 10 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (0.79%) LIMS
13 8 (0.70%) Life Science
14 7 (0.61%) CESG
14 7 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.30%) Windows
2 45 (3.94%) Apple iOS
3 41 (3.59%) Android
4 33 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.71%) Linux
6 13 (1.14%) Unix
7 5 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) VMS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows 2000
8 3 (0.26%) Windows XP
8 3 (0.26%) zOS
9 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (18.72%) Agile
2 181 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 142 (12.42%) Project Management
4 129 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (10.06%) DevOps
6 90 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (7.61%) Migration
8 85 (7.44%) Decision-Making
9 77 (6.74%) Roadmaps
10 76 (6.65%) Project Delivery
11 72 (6.30%) ERP
12 65 (5.69%) Change Management
12 65 (5.69%) CI/CD
13 61 (5.34%) Risk Management
14 58 (5.07%) Cybersecurity
14 58 (5.07%) Mentoring
15 57 (4.99%) Strategic Thinking
16 56 (4.90%) Coaching
17 54 (4.72%) Analytics
18 52 (4.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (4.29%) SQL
2 48 (4.20%) Python
3 46 (4.02%) Java
4 31 (2.71%) JavaScript
5 26 (2.27%) C#
6 23 (2.01%) PowerShell
7 16 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.22%) C
8 14 (1.22%) C++
9 10 (0.87%) PHP
10 9 (0.79%) Ruby
11 3 (0.26%) ABAP
11 3 (0.26%) Bash
11 3 (0.26%) Scala
11 3 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.17%) Groovy
12 2 (0.17%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.087%) COBOL
13 1 (0.087%) ProC
13 1 (0.087%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 267 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 178 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 94 (8.22%) Degree
4 88 (7.70%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.10%) APMP
6 15 (1.31%) CISM
6 15 (1.31%) CISSP
7 14 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.87%) CISA
9 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.70%) ISACA
11 8 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
11 8 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.61%) CEH
12 7 (0.61%) CISMP
12 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.61%) PMP
12 7 (0.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.81%) PMO
2 43 (3.76%) QA
3 33 (2.89%) NIST
4 27 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 24 (2.10%) SLA
6 19 (1.66%) JSP 440
7 17 (1.49%) GDPR
8 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
10 14 (1.22%) NIST 800
10 14 (1.22%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.05%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.87%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.79%) GRC
14 6 (0.52%) WCAG
15 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.26%) ITGC
15 3 (0.26%) NCSC
16 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.17%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 18 (1.57%) Docker
2 11 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.087%) Firmware
6 1 (0.087%) Lustre
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.92%) Terraform
3 13 (1.14%) Ansible
4 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.70%) SCCM
6 4 (0.35%) AirWatch
6 4 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.26%) Puppet
7 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.17%) VxRail
9 1 (0.087%) Kibana
9 1 (0.087%) logstash
9 1 (0.087%) MOM
9 1 (0.087%) WSUS
Vendors
1 138 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 118 (10.32%) SAP
3 27 (2.36%) Oracle
4 26 (2.27%) Alteryx
5 21 (1.84%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.84%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.40%) Apple
6 16 (1.40%) VMware
7 15 (1.31%) Informatica
8 13 (1.14%) Splunk
9 11 (0.96%) IBM
10 10 (0.87%) Google
11 9 (0.79%) IFS
12 8 (0.70%) Juniper
12 8 (0.70%) Siemens
13 7 (0.61%) Cisco
13 7 (0.61%) Databricks
13 7 (0.61%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.61%) InterSystems
14 6 (0.52%) LogRhythm