Team Leader Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Team Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Team Lead daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, 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 291 302 406
Rank change year-on-year +11 +104 +119
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 13 43 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.30% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 42
10th Percentile £500 £515 £373
25th Percentile £538 £608 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £825 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £620 £888 £713
90th Percentile £650 - £731
UK median daily rate £555 £595 £450
% change year-on-year -6.72% +32.22% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.22 £15.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +188.10% -57.14% +86.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Team Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Team Leader trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Team Leader
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Team Leader.

Team Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Team Leader daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Team Leader
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Team Leader.

Team Leader hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Team Leader 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 Team Leader in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Java
1 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Spring
3 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
4 4 (30.77%) Terraform
4 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) C#
4 4 (30.77%) .NET
4 4 (30.77%) Linux
5 3 (23.08%) Ant
5 3 (23.08%) HTML
5 3 (23.08%) CSS
5 3 (23.08%) JSP
5 3 (23.08%) MVC
5 3 (23.08%) Maven
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 3 (23.08%) Docker
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Thymeleaf

Team Leader 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Ant
1 3 (23.08%) Gradle
1 3 (23.08%) Maven
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 3 (23.08%) JSP
4 3 (23.08%) Thymeleaf
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
5 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
6 1 (7.69%) Swagger
6 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) MVC
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) OO
6 1 (7.69%) CRM
6 1 (7.69%) OOD
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
1 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Cloudify
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
2 1 (7.69%) Juniper
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) VMware