Team Leader Contracts in the UK excluding London

Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Team Lead daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 370 382
Rank change year-on-year +55 +12 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 86 60 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 39 93
10th Percentile £171 £204 £225
25th Percentile £325 £288 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £540
90th Percentile £710 £731 £678
UK median daily rate £650 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +52.94% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 2
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile £12.50 £10.09 £17.94
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.80 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% -2.36% +4.05%
75th Percentile £16.37 £43.75 £20.94
90th Percentile - £50.65 £21.73
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% -10.71% +89.19%

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%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
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 Team Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Midlands +32 26 £313 -54.55% 75
North of England +26 25 £590 +47.96% 79
West Midlands +30 19 £525 -23.64% 42
North West +19 19 £590 +21.65% 35
South West 0 10 £550 +69.23% 32
Scotland +57 9 £590 +38.82% 18
East of England +12 9 £350 - 34
East Midlands +11 7 £174 -54.36% 33
South East +3 6 £525 +2.94% 46
Yorkshire +18 5 - - 36
North East - 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £270 - 2
Team Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, Team Leader 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 Team Leader in the job title.

1 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Telecoms
4 12 (13.95%) SQL
4 12 (13.95%) 5G
5 11 (12.79%) Azure
6 10 (11.63%) Windows
7 9 (10.47%) ITIL
7 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
7 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
8 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
9 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (8.14%) Siemens
9 7 (8.14%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.14%) Workflow
9 7 (8.14%) CATIA
9 7 (8.14%) DELMIA
9 7 (8.14%) PLM
9 7 (8.14%) Teamcenter
9 7 (8.14%) Agile
9 7 (8.14%) Time Management
9 7 (8.14%) NVQ Level 3
9 7 (8.14%) Degree
9 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (8.14%) Driving Licence
9 7 (8.14%) Conflict Management
9 7 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
10 6 (6.98%) DBS Check

Team Leader 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 4 (4.65%) CMS
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) CATIA
1 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) DELMIA
1 7 (8.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.79%) Azure
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.98%) PaaS
4 5 (5.81%) AWS
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.16%) GCP
5 1 (1.16%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.95%) 5G
2 2 (2.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Git
1 1 (1.16%) Hudson
1 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Telecoms
3 7 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Finance
6 2 (2.33%) Games
6 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Automotive
7 1 (1.16%) Electronics
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Local Government
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) .NET
2 3 (3.49%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.16%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.16%) CSS
3 1 (1.16%) HTML
3 1 (1.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Driving Licence
1 7 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.33%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Windows
2 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 5 (5.81%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (10.47%) ITIL
3 7 (8.14%) Agile
3 7 (8.14%) Configuration Management
3 7 (8.14%) Conflict Management
3 7 (8.14%) PLM
3 7 (8.14%) Time Management
3 7 (8.14%) Workflow
4 5 (5.81%) Service Delivery
5 4 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (4.65%) Defect Management
5 4 (4.65%) Incident Response
5 4 (4.65%) Security Operations
6 3 (3.49%) Customer Service
7 2 (2.33%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (2.33%) CI/CD
7 2 (2.33%) Coaching
7 2 (2.33%) Community of Practice
7 2 (2.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.95%) SQL
2 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.65%) Ruby
4 3 (3.49%) Java
5 2 (2.33%) C
5 2 (2.33%) C#
5 2 (2.33%) C++
6 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.16%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (8.14%) Degree
1 7 (8.14%) NVQ Level 3
2 6 (6.98%) DBS Check
2 6 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) SLA
2 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
1 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.16%) SCCM
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
1 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) Siemens
3 4 (4.65%) Darktrace
3 4 (4.65%) FireEye
3 4 (4.65%) LogRhythm
3 4 (4.65%) Splunk
4 1 (1.16%) Apple
4 1 (1.16%) SAP
4 1 (1.16%) Sophos
4 1 (1.16%) VMware