Lead Contracts in Wokingham

Leader
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Leader daily rate in Wokingham is £550, 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 12 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 18 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 10.17% 10.00% 12.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.00% 10.14% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 4
10th Percentile £414 £503 £504
25th Percentile £425 £555 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -12.69% -
75th Percentile £675 £575 £788
90th Percentile - £638 -
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 Wokingham with a recognized job title 150 69 66
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.75% 98.57% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 56 39
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £638
90th Percentile £662 £675 £758
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.10
25th Percentile - - £46.06
Median hourly rate £14.30 - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Wokingham

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Wokingham

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Wokingham

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Wokingham

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

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 Wokingham region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 8 (44.44%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
4 4 (22.22%) DHCP
4 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 4 (22.22%) DNS
4 4 (22.22%) HP
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
4 4 (22.22%) Veritas
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
4 4 (22.22%) ITSM
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (22.22%) 3PAR
4 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (22.22%) Log Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 2 (11.11%) Figma
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (11.11%) PaaS
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DHCP
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) RESTful
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Reference Data
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 4 (22.22%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) IT Asset Management
3 4 (22.22%) ITSM
3 4 (22.22%) Log Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Data Sharing
5 2 (11.11%) Design Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 2 (11.11%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) 3PAR
2 4 (22.22%) Dell
2 4 (22.22%) HP
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 4 (22.22%) Veritas
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (11.11%) Snow
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
107 Lead jobs in Berkshire