Lead Contracts in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader daily rate in England is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 33 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 2,200 2,791 4,092
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.98% 5.70% 5.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.46% 6.02% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,910 2,889
10th Percentile £400 £406 £406
25th Percentile £491 £507 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +9.35%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £838 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 58 61
10th Percentile £15.17 £21.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £27.53 £39.19 £26.25
Median hourly rate £61.01 £55.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% +51.06% +39.46%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £68.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +37.50% +50.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +6 1,095 £600 -4.00% 655
South West +19 272 £538 -10.42% 185
North of England +4 272 £584 +6.09% 314
South East +8 270 £550 -8.33% 236
North West +3 161 £590 +7.27% 172
Midlands +5 144 £563 -1.10% 202
West Midlands +7 113 £598 - 124
Yorkshire -3 101 £575 -4.17% 99
East of England 0 81 £560 -6.67% 116
East Midlands +10 29 £210 -63.00% 77
North East +15 11 £533 -18.08% 43
South Coast - 1 - -
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 584 (26.55%) Finance
2 506 (23.00%) Social Skills
3 467 (21.23%) Agile
4 395 (17.95%) Security Cleared
5 294 (13.36%) SC Cleared
6 293 (13.32%) Azure
7 282 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 273 (12.41%) DevOps
9 266 (12.09%) Project Management
9 266 (12.09%) AWS
10 246 (11.18%) Microsoft
11 231 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
12 220 (10.00%) SAP
13 201 (9.14%) Public Sector
14 200 (9.09%) Python
15 194 (8.82%) CI/CD
16 182 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
17 171 (7.77%) Java
18 170 (7.73%) Migration
18 170 (7.73%) Degree
19 155 (7.05%) Roadmaps
20 149 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
21 145 (6.59%) Software Engineering
22 142 (6.45%) SQL
23 140 (6.36%) Mentoring
24 138 (6.27%) Banking
25 132 (6.00%) QA
26 127 (5.77%) Project Delivery
27 125 (5.68%) Analytics
27 125 (5.68%) JavaScript

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 45 (2.05%) Apache
2 40 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.77%) Confluence
6 13 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.41%) CMS
8 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.18%) SAS
9 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) JBoss
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.091%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.091%) IIS
11 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.045%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.045%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.045%) Camunda
12 1 (0.045%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 75 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.36%) CATIA
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
8 4 (0.18%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) SPSS
10 2 (0.091%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.045%) Simulink
11 1 (0.045%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 115 (5.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
3 13 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 11 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
5 11 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.45%) ION Anvil
6 10 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (0.41%) DELMIA
7 9 (0.41%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.41%) SAP MM
7 9 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.32%) Loan IQ
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.32%) Shopify
9 6 (0.27%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle AGIS
9 6 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 293 (13.32%) Azure
2 266 (12.09%) AWS
3 84 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
4 82 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (3.55%) Power Platform
6 72 (3.27%) Snowflake
7 58 (2.64%) GCP
8 52 (2.36%) Serverless
9 43 (1.95%) dbt
10 41 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 37 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
13 35 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (1.55%) SaaS
15 31 (1.41%) PowerApps
16 30 (1.36%) Amazon S3
17 29 (1.32%) Azure API Management
18 26 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
19 25 (1.14%) PaaS
20 24 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.86%) Firewall
2 55 (2.50%) VPN
3 28 (1.27%) WAN
4 21 (0.95%) LAN
5 20 (0.91%) 5G
6 15 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.55%) Wireless
8 11 (0.50%) Network Security
9 10 (0.45%) SSL
10 9 (0.41%) DNS
10 9 (0.41%) IP Telephony
11 7 (0.32%) FTP
11 7 (0.32%) SNA
11 7 (0.32%) VSAN
12 6 (0.27%) BGP
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.23%) OSPF
13 5 (0.23%) VLAN
13 5 (0.23%) WLAN
14 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (2.91%) Power BI
2 59 (2.68%) Data Lake
2 59 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 42 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
4 35 (1.59%) Apache Arrow
4 35 (1.59%) Dremio
5 34 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
6 32 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.23%) Tableau
8 26 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.86%) Big Data
11 17 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.73%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.59%) MySQL
15 12 (0.55%) DynamoDB
16 9 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 93 (4.23%) JIRA
2 82 (3.73%) Git
3 56 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.09%) GitLab
5 21 (0.95%) Selenium
6 15 (0.68%) JMeter
7 13 (0.59%) JUnit
7 13 (0.59%) Postman
8 11 (0.50%) webpack
9 10 (0.45%) LoadRunner
10 9 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.41%) TestRail
11 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.36%) LSMW
12 7 (0.32%) NeoLoad
12 7 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.27%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.27%) Katalon Studio
13 6 (0.27%) Maven
13 6 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 584 (26.55%) Finance
2 506 (23.00%) Social Skills
3 201 (9.14%) Public Sector
4 182 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 138 (6.27%) Banking
6 88 (4.00%) Marketing
7 83 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 80 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 65 (2.95%) Investment Banking
10 61 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.68%) Legal
12 57 (2.59%) Retail
13 53 (2.41%) Front Office
14 34 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (1.36%) Back Office
15 30 (1.36%) Electronics
15 30 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (1.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (4.27%) .NET
2 76 (3.45%) Node.js
3 70 (3.18%) React
4 38 (1.73%) CSS
5 37 (1.68%) Spring
6 36 (1.64%) Protocol Buffers
6 36 (1.64%) Spring Boot
7 35 (1.59%) gRPC
7 35 (1.59%) Kafka
7 35 (1.59%) Pandas
8 34 (1.55%) .NET Core
8 34 (1.55%) NumPy
8 34 (1.55%) SciPy
9 31 (1.41%) AngularJS
10 29 (1.32%) HTML
10 29 (1.32%) Web Services
11 28 (1.27%) REST
12 25 (1.14%) XML
13 17 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
13 17 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.14%) Product Ownership
2 53 (2.41%) Fixed Income
2 53 (2.41%) Management Information System
3 52 (2.36%) Derivative
3 52 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 48 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 43 (1.95%) Equities
7 41 (1.86%) Hedge funds
8 39 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 35 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 20 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
13 19 (0.86%) FMCG
14 18 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
15 16 (0.73%) NHS
16 15 (0.68%) Credit Risk
17 14 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 94 (4.27%) Windows
2 71 (3.23%) Linux
3 64 (2.91%) Apple iOS
4 58 (2.64%) Android
5 42 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.23%) Unix
7 10 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
8 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.23%) VMS
10 3 (0.14%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.14%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.091%) zOS
12 1 (0.045%) AIX
12 1 (0.045%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.045%) Solaris
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (21.23%) Agile
2 282 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 273 (12.41%) DevOps
4 266 (12.09%) Project Management
5 231 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (8.82%) CI/CD
7 170 (7.73%) Migration
8 155 (7.05%) Roadmaps
9 149 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 145 (6.59%) Software Engineering
11 140 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 127 (5.77%) Project Delivery
13 125 (5.68%) Analytics
14 117 (5.32%) Risk Management
15 109 (4.95%) Business Intelligence
16 106 (4.82%) ERP
17 104 (4.73%) Decision-Making
17 104 (4.73%) Technical Leadership
18 103 (4.68%) Test Automation
19 101 (4.59%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 200 (9.09%) Python
2 171 (7.77%) Java
3 142 (6.45%) SQL
4 125 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 123 (5.59%) C#
6 91 (4.14%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 21 (0.95%) Scala
9 18 (0.82%) Bash
9 18 (0.82%) Bicep
9 18 (0.82%) C
10 16 (0.73%) C++
10 16 (0.73%) Ruby
11 12 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.50%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.36%) PHP
14 7 (0.32%) Swift
15 6 (0.27%) R
16 5 (0.23%) Go
16 5 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 395 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 294 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 170 (7.73%) Degree
4 101 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 40 (1.82%) CISSP
6 38 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.23%) CISM
9 24 (1.09%) APMP
10 22 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.55%) PMP
13 10 (0.45%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.41%) CEH
14 9 (0.41%) CISA
14 9 (0.41%) ISACA
15 8 (0.36%) CISMP
15 8 (0.36%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (6.00%) QA
2 90 (4.09%) PMO
3 73 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.27%) NIST
5 35 (1.59%) SLA
6 31 (1.41%) GDPR
7 26 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.14%) JSP 440
9 20 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.77%) GRC
11 15 (0.68%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.23%) COBIT
15 4 (0.18%) GAAP
15 4 (0.18%) GxP
15 4 (0.18%) NCSC
16 3 (0.14%) ITGC
16 3 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (2.36%) Docker
2 40 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.23%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Firmware
8 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.14%) NFS
10 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.045%) Ceph
11 1 (0.045%) Lustre
11 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 77 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 71 (3.23%) Terraform
3 41 (1.86%) Ansible
4 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.68%) Grafana
6 12 (0.55%) Kibana
7 9 (0.41%) logstash
7 9 (0.41%) Puppet
7 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.36%) vRealize
9 7 (0.32%) SCCM
9 7 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.14%) Argo
12 3 (0.14%) CA Service Virtualization
12 3 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 246 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 220 (10.00%) SAP
3 72 (3.27%) Oracle
4 41 (1.86%) Databricks
4 41 (1.86%) ServiceNow
5 34 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.36%) VMware
7 26 (1.18%) Informatica
8 23 (1.05%) Google
9 22 (1.00%) Splunk
10 21 (0.95%) Workday
11 20 (0.91%) Alteryx
12 17 (0.77%) Cisco
12 17 (0.77%) Virgin Media
13 16 (0.73%) IBM
14 14 (0.64%) Apple
15 13 (0.59%) Pega
16 12 (0.55%) IFS
16 12 (0.55%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.50%) Adobe