Lead Contracts in Central London

Leader
London > Central London

The median Leader daily rate in Central London is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 37 47
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 122 200 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.07% 5.35% 4.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.33% 5.63% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 139 150
10th Percentile £475 £463 £493
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £745 £713
90th Percentile £898 £878 £776
London median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £24.71
25th Percentile - - £31.63
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £46.35
Median % change year-on-year - -24.48% +479.31%
75th Percentile - - £64.13
90th Percentile - - £72.90
London median hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £48.64
% change year-on-year -3.85% -19.82% +58.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,290 3,551 4,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 95.02% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,614 2,420 3,239
10th Percentile £340 £325 £356
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 55
10th Percentile £20.13 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.81 £18.93 £19.14
Median hourly rate £26.41 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.56% - +97.32%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £50.88
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.65 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +15.32%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Central London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Central London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Central London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
City of London +4 113 £635 -5.93% 65
West End of London 0 3 £675 +36.36% 3
Lambeth 0 1 £245 -34.67% 1
City of Westminster -2 1 - -
Southwark - 1 £501 -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £400 -
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 42 (34.43%) Finance
2 30 (24.59%) Agile
3 28 (22.95%) Azure
4 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
5 20 (16.39%) Microsoft
6 19 (15.57%) DevOps
7 16 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (10.66%) Banking
8 13 (10.66%) AWS
9 12 (9.84%) Change Management
9 12 (9.84%) Migration
9 12 (9.84%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (9.02%) CI/CD
10 11 (9.02%) Coaching
10 11 (9.02%) C#
11 10 (8.20%) Java
11 10 (8.20%) SQL
11 10 (8.20%) SAP
11 10 (8.20%) Project Management
11 10 (8.20%) Mentoring
12 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (7.38%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (7.38%) Risk Management
12 9 (7.38%) Scrum
12 9 (7.38%) Python
12 9 (7.38%) Marketing
12 9 (7.38%) QA
13 8 (6.56%) ITIL
13 8 (6.56%) .NET
14 7 (5.74%) SQL Server

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (3.28%) Confluence
1 4 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.64%) Apache
3 2 (1.64%) CMS
3 2 (1.64%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.64%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.82%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.64%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.82%) Endur
4 1 (0.82%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.82%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.95%) Azure
2 13 (10.66%) AWS
3 12 (9.84%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.74%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.92%) GCP
7 5 (4.10%) Azure API Management
7 5 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.28%) Figma
8 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.46%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.46%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.46%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.64%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.82%) DNS
2 1 (0.82%) FTP
2 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.82%) Network Security
2 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.82%) SSL
2 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.28%) Power BI
2 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.64%) MySQL
4 2 (1.64%) Parquet
4 2 (1.64%) Power Query
5 1 (0.82%) Big Data
5 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.10%) JIRA
1 5 (4.10%) Selenium
2 4 (3.28%) Git
3 3 (2.46%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (1.64%) GitLab
4 2 (1.64%) HP UFT
4 2 (1.64%) Postman
4 2 (1.64%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.64%) webpack
5 1 (0.82%) Appium
5 1 (0.82%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.82%) Deequ
5 1 (0.82%) GoCD
5 1 (0.82%) JMeter
5 1 (0.82%) JUnit
5 1 (0.82%) MSI
5 1 (0.82%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (34.43%) Finance
2 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.66%) Banking
4 9 (7.38%) Marketing
5 6 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Legal
7 4 (3.28%) Back Office
7 4 (3.28%) Law
7 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Retail
8 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.64%) Games
9 2 (1.64%) Local Government
10 1 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.82%) French Language
10 1 (0.82%) Front Office
10 1 (0.82%) International Banking
10 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.56%) .NET
2 5 (4.10%) Spring
2 5 (4.10%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.28%) Kafka
3 4 (3.28%) XML
4 3 (2.46%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.46%) HTML
4 3 (2.46%) React
4 3 (2.46%) REST
4 3 (2.46%) RESTful
5 2 (1.64%) ADO
5 2 (1.64%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.64%) CSS
5 2 (1.64%) JSON Schema
5 2 (1.64%) Playwright
5 2 (1.64%) PySpark
5 2 (1.64%) SOAP
5 2 (1.64%) Struts
5 2 (1.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.82%) Acoustics
4 1 (0.82%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (0.82%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (0.82%) Contactless
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.82%) NHS
4 1 (0.82%) PDA
4 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.92%) Windows
2 4 (3.28%) Linux
3 2 (1.64%) Android
3 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.64%) Unix
4 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.82%) CentOS
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.59%) Agile
2 19 (15.57%) DevOps
3 16 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (9.84%) Change Management
4 12 (9.84%) Migration
5 11 (9.02%) CI/CD
5 11 (9.02%) Coaching
6 10 (8.20%) Mentoring
6 10 (8.20%) Project Management
7 9 (7.38%) Risk Management
7 9 (7.38%) Scrum
7 9 (7.38%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (6.56%) ITIL
9 7 (5.74%) Analytics
9 7 (5.74%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (5.74%) Microservices
9 7 (5.74%) Roadmaps
9 7 (5.74%) Software Engineering
9 7 (5.74%) Test Strategy
10 6 (4.92%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.02%) C#
2 10 (8.20%) Java
2 10 (8.20%) SQL
3 9 (7.38%) Python
4 6 (4.92%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.46%) Bicep
6 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.64%) Scala
6 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.64%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (4.10%) Degree
1 5 (4.10%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.28%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.46%) PMP
4 2 (1.64%) ISEB
4 2 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.64%) OCP
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) APMP
5 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.82%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) QA
2 6 (4.92%) PMO
3 5 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.10%) NIST
4 3 (2.46%) GDPR
4 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.64%) WCAG
6 1 (0.82%) GRC
6 1 (0.82%) GxP
6 1 (0.82%) P3O
6 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.82%) Ceph
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.82%) NFS
3 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.92%) Terraform
2 4 (3.28%) Ansible
3 2 (1.64%) Grafana
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.64%) PingFederate
3 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.82%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.82%) Kibana
4 1 (0.82%) logstash
4 1 (0.82%) Mesos
4 1 (0.82%) Packer
4 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.20%) SAP
3 5 (4.10%) Databricks
4 3 (2.46%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.46%) Reuters
5 2 (1.64%) Google
5 2 (1.64%) IBM
5 2 (1.64%) IFS
5 2 (1.64%) Micro Focus
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle
5 2 (1.64%) Rapid7
5 2 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.82%) Amdocs
6 1 (0.82%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.82%) Cerner
6 1 (0.82%) Citrix
6 1 (0.82%) Confluent
6 1 (0.82%) Murex
6 1 (0.82%) Pega
6 1 (0.82%) VMware