Lead Contracts in Wiltshire

Leader
South West > Wiltshire

The median Leader daily rate in Wiltshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 June 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
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 25 72 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 5.47% 7.42% 5.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.11% 8.36% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 47
10th Percentile - £519 £320
25th Percentile £550 £582 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £750
90th Percentile £750 £890 £849
South West median daily rate £625 £569 £625
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +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 409 861 977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 88.76% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 646 796
10th Percentile £300 £306 £350
25th Percentile £463 £461 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £12.79 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.28 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £23.79 £16.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.17% -73.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £87.50
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £64.15
% change year-on-year - -14.26% +39.45%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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
Corsham -1 12 £550 -15.38% 2
Swindon +9 8 £650 -22.39% 120
Lead
South West

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (24.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.00%) AWS
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Dependency Management
6 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Programme Management
6 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 4 (16.00%) Python
6 4 (16.00%) ETL
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (12.00%) Critical Path Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Programme Governance
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (12.00%) PMO
7 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
8 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
8 2 (8.00%) NCSC
8 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (8.00%) Zero Trust

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 (8.00%) BASE24
2 1 (4.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (8.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Akamai
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.00%) MySQL
1 2 (8.00%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) VersaTest
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OpenID
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) EMV
1 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (24.00%) Migration
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Dependency Management
4 4 (16.00%) ETL
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (12.00%) Critical Path Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) Programme Governance
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.00%) Data Strategy
6 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) COBOL
2 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) PMO
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) NCSC
3 1 (4.00%) CRD IV
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.00%) IFRS
3 1 (4.00%) IFRS 9
3 1 (4.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) HP
1 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
1 2 (8.00%) Pega
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Workday