Lead Contracts in West Yorkshire

Leader
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Leader daily rate in West Yorkshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -12
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Lead 54 44 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.24% 5.09% 4.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.52% 5.51% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 38
10th Percentile £400 £434 £485
25th Percentile £481 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -9.68% +1.09%
75th Percentile £574 £588 £647
90th Percentile £629 £710 £725
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 £31.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +182.12% +71.05% -
75th Percentile £98.56 £33.75 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +182.12% +71.05% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 718 799 1,318
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 92.48% 97.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 510 882
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 29 19
10th Percentile - £15.64 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £18.50 £13.17
Median hourly rate £33.11 £24.18 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.93% +37.07% -10.59%
75th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £20.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.35% +5.26%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in West Yorkshire

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Lead
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +4 43 £513 -2.38% 63
Halifax - 7 £388 - 3
Bradford -5 2 £630 +32.63% 9
Huddersfield - 1 £525 - 5
Lead
Yorkshire

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 August 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (22.22%) AWS
4 11 (20.37%) Python
4 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
5 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
5 10 (18.52%) Terraform
6 9 (16.67%) Serverless
6 9 (16.67%) DevOps
6 9 (16.67%) Azure
6 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 9 (16.67%) Agile
6 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 7 (12.96%) SAP
7 7 (12.96%) Analytics
7 7 (12.96%) ServiceNow
8 6 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (11.11%) CRM
8 6 (11.11%) CMS
8 6 (11.11%) DevSecOps
9 5 (9.26%) Decision-Making
9 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.26%) Impact Assessments
9 5 (9.26%) Finance
9 5 (9.26%) Salesforce
9 5 (9.26%) Retail
9 5 (9.26%) Migration
9 5 (9.26%) QA
9 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.85%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.85%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.85%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.85%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) Azure
2 9 (16.67%) Serverless
3 4 (7.41%) Figma
3 4 (7.41%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.70%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
1 1 (1.85%) SSL
1 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.85%) Flink
2 1 (1.85%) GIS
2 1 (1.85%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Storybook
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Retail
4 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Games
5 1 (1.85%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Local Government
5 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) Node.js
2 4 (7.41%) Bootstrap
2 4 (7.41%) CSS
2 4 (7.41%) CSS3
2 4 (7.41%) Express.js
2 4 (7.41%) HTML
2 4 (7.41%) HTML5
2 4 (7.41%) Next.js
2 4 (7.41%) React
2 4 (7.41%) Redux
2 4 (7.41%) RESTful
3 3 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.85%) .NET
4 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.85%) JDBC
4 1 (1.85%) Kafka
4 1 (1.85%) pytest
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) CCTV
1 4 (7.41%) Driving Licence
1 4 (7.41%) NHS
2 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.85%) EPoS
3 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.85%) Social Media
3 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (16.67%) Agile
3 9 (16.67%) DevOps
4 7 (12.96%) Analytics
5 6 (11.11%) CRM
5 6 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 6 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
6 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (9.26%) Decision-Making
6 5 (9.26%) Impact Assessments
6 5 (9.26%) Migration
6 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (7.41%) B2C
7 4 (7.41%) Code Quality
7 4 (7.41%) E-Commerce
7 4 (7.41%) Performance Analysis
7 4 (7.41%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) Java
2 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.85%) Bash
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) CCNA
3 4 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) CBAP
5 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) MBA
5 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (3.70%) NIST
4 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.85%) PMO
5 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Terraform
2 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.85%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) SAP
2 7 (12.96%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.26%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.70%) Databricks
5 1 (1.85%) Ariba
5 1 (1.85%) ESRI
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) Splunk