Lead Contracts in Wiltshire

Leader
South West > Wiltshire

The median Leader daily rate in Wiltshire is £619, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 27 83 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 6.01% 8.79% 6.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.73% 9.65% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 61
10th Percentile £463 £525 £425
25th Percentile £550 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +7.69% +16.07%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £725
90th Percentile £735 £875 £825
South West median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - +6.87% +55.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 401 860 1,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 91.10% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 641 866
10th Percentile £270 £263 £338
25th Percentile £463 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.18%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £651
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 16
10th Percentile £18.58 - £40.63
25th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £61.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%
75th Percentile £39.44 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 - £83.75
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Wiltshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Lead in Wiltshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Wiltshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Wiltshire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Swindon +6 12 £556 -33.58% 37
Corsham -10 11 £650 -10.34%
Lead
South West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Wiltshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Migration
3 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 6 (22.22%) Oracle
5 5 (18.52%) Data Migration
5 5 (18.52%) AWS
5 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
6 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
6 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
6 4 (14.81%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (14.81%) Python
6 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 4 (14.81%) ETL
7 3 (11.11%) Project Management
7 3 (11.11%) Finance
7 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (11.11%) PMO
7 3 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 2 (7.41%) Zero Trust
8 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
8 2 (7.41%) Budget Management
8 2 (7.41%) Regulatory Change
8 2 (7.41%) Pega

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 2 (7.41%) BASE24
2 1 (3.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.41%) Serverless
3 1 (3.70%) Akamai
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) ATM
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) MySQL
1 2 (7.41%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) VersaTest
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Electronics
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) OpenID
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) EMV
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (25.93%) Migration
3 5 (18.52%) Data Migration
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) ETL
4 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Project Management
5 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (7.41%) Budget Management
6 2 (7.41%) Change Management
6 2 (7.41%) ERP
6 2 (7.41%) Programme Management
6 2 (7.41%) Regulatory Change
6 2 (7.41%) Scrum
6 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Python
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) COBOL
2 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) CRD IV
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS 9
3 1 (3.70%) JSP 440
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) HP
2 2 (7.41%) MuleSoft
2 2 (7.41%) Pega
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) Workday