Lead Contracts in Yorkshire

Leader
England > Yorkshire

The median Leader daily rate in Yorkshire is £516, 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 40 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 52 107 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.11% 6.34% 6.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.42% 6.92% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 86
10th Percentile £319 £423 £413
25th Percentile £444 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £675
90th Percentile £623 £680 £775
England median daily rate £585 £585 £600
% change year-on-year - -2.50% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £84.38 - -
25th Percentile £84.67 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £96.85 - £62.50
75th Percentile £102.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year +12.87% +12.76% +57.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Yorkshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Yorkshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Yorkshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Yorkshire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire -6 31 £500 -11.11% 45
South Yorkshire +1 21 £525 -10.26% 22
Lead
England

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

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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 15 (28.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (23.08%) Change Management
5 10 (19.23%) Python
5 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (17.31%) DevOps
6 9 (17.31%) AWS
7 8 (15.38%) PMO
7 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 7 (13.46%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
8 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (13.46%) Microservices
8 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
8 7 (13.46%) Terraform
8 7 (13.46%) Docker
8 7 (13.46%) Project Management
8 7 (13.46%) Java
8 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
8 7 (13.46%) PRINCE2
8 7 (13.46%) TDD
8 7 (13.46%) JIRA
9 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
9 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
9 6 (11.54%) Linux
9 6 (11.54%) Portfolio Management
9 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (9.62%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) nginx
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.92%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.92%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.92%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.92%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.92%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 4 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Serverless
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.92%) Azure
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.92%) GCP
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Slack
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.92%) DHCP
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) LAN
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.92%) VLAN
2 1 (1.92%) VoIP
2 1 (1.92%) VPN
2 1 (1.92%) WAN
2 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Electronic Patient Records
1 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.92%) GIS
3 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.92%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.92%) JUnit
4 1 (1.92%) Katalon Studio
General
1 16 (30.77%) Finance
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (1.92%) Games
4 1 (1.92%) General Ledger
4 1 (1.92%) Legal
4 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
2 4 (7.69%) Jest
2 4 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (7.69%) Node.js
2 4 (7.69%) Spring
3 3 (5.77%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (3.85%) PySpark
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.92%) cloud-init
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.92%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.92%) Pandas
5 1 (1.92%) React
5 1 (1.92%) RESTful
5 1 (1.92%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) NHS
1 4 (7.69%) PMI
2 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
3 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Windows
4 1 (1.92%) CentOS
4 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (28.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (23.08%) Change Management
5 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (17.31%) DevOps
7 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 7 (13.46%) Microservices
8 7 (13.46%) PRINCE2
8 7 (13.46%) Project Management
8 7 (13.46%) TDD
9 6 (11.54%) Portfolio Management
9 6 (11.54%) The Twelve-Factor App
10 5 (9.62%) BDD
10 5 (9.62%) Critical Thinking
10 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
10 5 (9.62%) Time Management
11 4 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 4 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
11 4 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Python
2 7 (13.46%) Java
2 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.69%) Apex Code
4 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) SQL
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) PMI Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CBAP
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.92%) MBA
6 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) PMO
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
1 7 (13.46%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) AppManager
2 1 (1.92%) Consul
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) HAProxy
2 1 (1.92%) Istio
2 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.92%) linkerd
2 1 (1.92%) Packer
2 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.92%) Puppet
2 1 (1.92%) Rancher
2 1 (1.92%) SCCM
2 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) SAP
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Apple
4 1 (1.92%) Ariba
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco
4 1 (1.92%) Dell
4 1 (1.92%) ESET
4 1 (1.92%) ESRI
4 1 (1.92%) Ivanti
4 1 (1.92%) Okta
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) VMware