Team Leader Contracts

Team Lead
UK

The median Team Lead daily rate in the UK is £590 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 568 603
Rank change year-on-year +101 +35 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 119 154 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.27% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 100 159
10th Percentile £245 £212 £212
25th Percentile £473 £313 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.57% -2.63% +13.10%
75th Percentile £888 £675 £589
90th Percentile - £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +3.57% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.09 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +86.67% -19.22%
75th Percentile £20.00 £43.75 £23.94
90th Percentile £38.75 £51.13 £33.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £27.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +61.76% -19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Daily rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Hourly rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +93 112 £600 +41.18% 299
London +97 57 £825 +126.80% 84
UK excluding London +53 56 £544 +3.57% 245
Work from Home +94 42 £825 +26.92% 155
North of England +39 26 £590 +7.27% 67
North West +17 20 £590 +4.89% 39
Midlands +30 17 £188 -70.51% 47
West Midlands +28 9 £999 +45.31% 27
East Midlands +23 8 £174 -63.75% 20
Yorkshire +31 5 - - 19
South East -7 4 £525 -19.23% 44
East of England +12 3 £450 - 25
South West +11 3 £725 +123.08% 38
Scotland +26 2 £603 +41.76% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £270 -
North East - 1 - - 9

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 34 (28.57%) Agile
2 26 (21.85%) Java
2 26 (21.85%) Finance
2 26 (21.85%) AWS
3 25 (21.01%) Software Engineering
3 25 (21.01%) JavaScript
4 24 (20.17%) TypeScript
5 23 (19.33%) Python
6 22 (18.49%) Banking
6 22 (18.49%) Front Office
6 22 (18.49%) Social Skills
7 21 (17.65%) Asset Management
7 21 (17.65%) GCP
8 20 (16.81%) Investment Management
8 20 (16.81%) Fixed Income
8 20 (16.81%) SQL
8 20 (16.81%) Microsoft
8 20 (16.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 19 (15.97%) Equities
9 19 (15.97%) Investment Banking
9 19 (15.97%) Hedge funds
9 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (15.97%) Derivative
9 19 (15.97%) Protocol Buffers
9 19 (15.97%) gRPC
9 19 (15.97%) Apache Airflow
9 19 (15.97%) dbt
9 19 (15.97%) Apache Arrow
9 19 (15.97%) Dremio
9 19 (15.97%) Amazon Athena

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (15.97%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (15.13%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) CATIA
1 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Teamcenter
2 7 (5.88%) DELMIA
3 3 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.68%) Endur
5 1 (0.84%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.84%) HFM
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.85%) AWS
2 21 (17.65%) GCP
3 19 (15.97%) dbt
4 16 (13.45%) Snowflake
5 15 (12.61%) Azure
6 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.20%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.20%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.36%) GitHub
9 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.84%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.84%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.08%) 5G
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.84%) BGP
3 1 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.84%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.84%) IPsec
3 1 (0.84%) LAN
3 1 (0.84%) OSPF
3 1 (0.84%) WAN
3 1 (0.84%) Wireless
3 1 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.97%) Amazon Athena
1 19 (15.97%) Apache Arrow
1 19 (15.97%) Dremio
2 18 (15.13%) Apache Ignite
3 16 (13.45%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.72%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.88%) Power BI
6 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.84%) Essbase
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.68%) Git
3 1 (0.84%) Hudson
3 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.84%) Selenium
3 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (21.85%) Finance
2 22 (18.49%) Banking
2 22 (18.49%) Front Office
2 22 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.97%) Investment Banking
4 14 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.68%) Electronics
7 2 (1.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.84%) Automotive
8 1 (0.84%) Legal
8 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.97%) gRPC
1 19 (15.97%) Protocol Buffers
2 18 (15.13%) NumPy
2 18 (15.13%) Pandas
2 18 (15.13%) SciPy
3 8 (6.72%) .NET
4 5 (4.20%) CSS
4 5 (4.20%) HTML
5 3 (2.52%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (2.52%) REST
5 3 (2.52%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.68%) ADO
6 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.68%) React
7 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.84%) Redux
7 1 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) Fixed Income
1 20 (16.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (15.97%) Derivative
2 19 (15.97%) Equities
2 19 (15.97%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.04%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.84%) PKI
7 1 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.57%) Agile
2 25 (21.01%) Software Engineering
3 21 (17.65%) Asset Management
4 20 (16.81%) Investment Management
5 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (14.29%) Line Management
7 12 (10.08%) DevOps
8 8 (6.72%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (6.72%) Workflow
9 7 (5.88%) Configuration Management
9 7 (5.88%) Conflict Management
9 7 (5.88%) PLM
9 7 (5.88%) SIEM
9 7 (5.88%) Time Management
10 6 (5.04%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (4.20%) Mentoring
11 5 (4.20%) Roadmaps
11 5 (4.20%) SDLC
11 5 (4.20%) Service Delivery
11 5 (4.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.85%) Java
2 25 (21.01%) JavaScript
3 24 (20.17%) TypeScript
4 23 (19.33%) Python
5 20 (16.81%) SQL
6 7 (5.88%) C#
7 6 (5.04%) Ruby
8 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.68%) C
9 2 (1.68%) C++
9 2 (1.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (8.40%) Degree
2 7 (5.88%) CISSP
2 7 (5.88%) NVQ Level 3
2 7 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.04%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) Siemens
3 7 (5.88%) Splunk
4 2 (1.68%) OpenLink
4 2 (1.68%) SAP
5 1 (0.84%) Charles River
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco
5 1 (0.84%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.84%) FactSet
5 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.84%) Hyperion
5 1 (0.84%) Informatica
5 1 (0.84%) Juniper
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle
5 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.84%) Sophos
5 1 (0.84%) Sybase