Lead Contracts with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader daily rate in Work from Home is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 34 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 943 1,548 2,613
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.17% 5.97% 5.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.60% 6.26% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 1,047 1,905
10th Percentile £425 £423 £410
25th Percentile £500 £503 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £850 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 30
10th Percentile £26.75 £52.45 £16.50
25th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +85.71% +50.80%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.75 £37.38
90th Percentile £75.25 - £66.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +57.14% +31.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,718 42,673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,458 30,801
10th Percentile £325 £360 £355
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 568 609
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.71 £27.22 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Lead daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Lead hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead in the job title.

1 248 (26.30%) Finance
2 199 (21.10%) Agile
3 178 (18.88%) Social Skills
4 169 (17.92%) Azure
5 144 (15.27%) Security Cleared
6 133 (14.10%) SAP
7 128 (13.57%) AWS
7 128 (13.57%) SC Cleared
7 128 (13.57%) DevOps
8 103 (10.92%) Public Sector
9 98 (10.39%) Python
10 94 (9.97%) Project Management
11 90 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 88 (9.33%) Microsoft
12 88 (9.33%) Banking
13 80 (8.48%) CI/CD
14 79 (8.38%) Java
14 79 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
15 76 (8.06%) Migration
16 72 (7.64%) Mentoring
17 69 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
17 69 (7.32%) JavaScript
17 69 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
18 68 (7.21%) SQL
18 68 (7.21%) QA
18 68 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 67 (7.10%) Degree
20 65 (6.89%) Software Engineering
21 64 (6.79%) C#
22 62 (6.57%) Analytics

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 35 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.29%) Apache
3 12 (1.27%) Confluence
4 8 (0.85%) IIS
4 8 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.32%) CMS
6 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.21%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Mule
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 69 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.74%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 5 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.42%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.42%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.42%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.32%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.32%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 169 (17.92%) Azure
2 128 (13.57%) AWS
3 59 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
5 40 (4.24%) Power Platform
6 38 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 34 (3.61%) GCP
8 31 (3.29%) dbt
8 31 (3.29%) Snowflake
9 28 (2.97%) Serverless
10 27 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
11 19 (2.01%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.01%) Azure API Management
12 18 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (1.59%) GitHub
13 15 (1.59%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.48%) PaaS
15 13 (1.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.12%) Firewall
2 11 (1.17%) Network Security
2 11 (1.17%) VPN
3 8 (0.85%) LAN
4 6 (0.64%) DNS
4 6 (0.64%) WAN
5 5 (0.53%) IP Telephony
5 5 (0.53%) SSL
6 4 (0.42%) SNA
7 3 (0.32%) SAN
7 3 (0.32%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.32%) VSAN
8 2 (0.21%) Intranet
8 2 (0.21%) RTP
8 2 (0.21%) Wireless
8 2 (0.21%) WLAN
9 1 (0.11%) BGP
9 1 (0.11%) IPsec
9 1 (0.11%) OSPF
9 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.92%) Data Lake
2 32 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (3.08%) Apache Arrow
3 29 (3.08%) Dremio
4 28 (2.97%) Apache Ignite
5 21 (2.23%) Power BI
6 18 (1.91%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.17%) Big Data
10 10 (1.06%) MySQL
11 8 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.85%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.74%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (4.35%) JIRA
2 29 (3.08%) Git
3 25 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.48%) GitLab
5 12 (1.27%) Selenium
6 7 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.64%) JMeter
7 6 (0.64%) MLflow
7 6 (0.64%) webpack
8 5 (0.53%) JUnit
9 4 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.42%) HP UFT
9 4 (0.42%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (0.42%) Postman
10 3 (0.32%) Mockito
10 3 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.32%) TestRail
10 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 248 (26.30%) Finance
2 178 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 103 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 88 (9.33%) Banking
5 79 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 43 (4.56%) Marketing
8 41 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 40 (4.24%) Telecoms
10 38 (4.03%) Front Office
11 22 (2.33%) Electronics
12 20 (2.12%) Retail
13 16 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.27%) Legal
15 12 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.85%) Automotive
17 8 (0.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.82%) .NET
2 29 (3.08%) gRPC
2 29 (3.08%) Pandas
2 29 (3.08%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (2.97%) NumPy
3 28 (2.97%) SciPy
4 24 (2.55%) AngularJS
4 24 (2.55%) React
4 24 (2.55%) XML
5 22 (2.33%) HTML
6 21 (2.23%) Node.js
7 20 (2.12%) CSS
7 20 (2.12%) Web Services
8 13 (1.38%) Spring
8 13 (1.38%) Spring Boot
9 11 (1.17%) REST
9 11 (1.17%) SOAP
10 10 (1.06%) ARM Templates
11 9 (0.95%) ASP.NET
11 9 (0.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 37 (3.92%) Derivative
2 36 (3.82%) Equities
3 35 (3.71%) Hedge funds
4 32 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 31 (3.29%) Fixed Income
6 28 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.06%) NHS
13 9 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.64%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.53%) CMDB
15 5 (0.53%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.53%) LIMS
16 4 (0.42%) Cloud Native
16 4 (0.42%) PMI
16 4 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.86%) Windows
2 17 (1.80%) Linux
3 13 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.85%) Android
5 7 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.74%) Unix
6 6 (0.64%) VMS
7 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.21%) Windows 2000
8 2 (0.21%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) Solaris
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (21.10%) Agile
2 128 (13.57%) DevOps
3 94 (9.97%) Project Management
4 90 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 80 (8.48%) CI/CD
6 76 (8.06%) Migration
7 72 (7.64%) Mentoring
8 69 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (6.89%) Software Engineering
11 62 (6.57%) Analytics
12 55 (5.83%) ERP
13 52 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
14 50 (5.30%) Roadmaps
14 50 (5.30%) Test Automation
14 50 (5.30%) Test Strategy
15 48 (5.09%) Business Intelligence
16 46 (4.88%) Project Delivery
17 43 (4.56%) Change Management
18 40 (4.24%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 98 (10.39%) Python
2 79 (8.38%) Java
3 69 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 68 (7.21%) SQL
5 64 (6.79%) C#
6 49 (5.20%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.70%) Scala
9 11 (1.17%) Bash
10 6 (0.64%) Ruby
11 4 (0.42%) PHP
11 4 (0.42%) R
11 4 (0.42%) XPath
12 3 (0.32%) Bicep
12 3 (0.32%) C++
12 3 (0.32%) Go
12 3 (0.32%) Korn
12 3 (0.32%) Perl
12 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.10%) Degree
4 23 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.95%) CISSP
10 7 (0.74%) CISM
11 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.64%) PMP
12 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.32%) CCNP
13 3 (0.32%) CGEIT
13 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.32%) CRISC
13 3 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.21%) QA
2 41 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.29%) PMO
4 14 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.17%) SLA
6 10 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.06%) NIST
7 6 (0.64%) GDPR
8 5 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.21%) P3O
10 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.21%) WCAG
11 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (2.97%) Docker
2 14 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (4.45%) Terraform
2 34 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.12%) Ansible
4 10 (1.06%) Grafana
5 7 (0.74%) SCCM
6 6 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.53%) Puppet
7 5 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.42%) vRealize
9 3 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.21%) Kibana
10 2 (0.21%) logstash
10 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.21%) VxRail
11 1 (0.11%) CA Service Virtualization
11 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.11%) Matomo
Vendors
1 133 (14.10%) SAP
2 88 (9.33%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.45%) Oracle
4 21 (2.23%) Databricks
5 17 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.59%) Ariba
7 13 (1.38%) VMware
8 12 (1.27%) Informatica
9 9 (0.95%) IBM
9 9 (0.95%) Pega
9 9 (0.95%) Workday
10 8 (0.85%) Google
11 7 (0.74%) Adobe
11 7 (0.74%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.53%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.53%) InterSystems
12 5 (0.53%) Murex
13 4 (0.42%) F5
13 4 (0.42%) LogRhythm
13 4 (0.42%) Micro Focus