Lead Contracts in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 35 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 1,095 1,587 2,392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.20% 6.02% 6.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.65% 6.32% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 1,121 1,706
10th Percentile £425 £450 £450
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +12.51%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £725
90th Percentile £850 £823 £813
England median daily rate £585 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.45% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 15
10th Percentile - £24.18 £21.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% - +35.41%
75th Percentile £62.19 £51.19 £70.83
90th Percentile £71.88 £53.32 £77.25
England median hourly rate £61.01 £53.99 £37.00
% change year-on-year +13.01% +45.91% +41.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,469 25,124 36,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 18,241 26,939
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 285 443
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in London

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +5 125 £650 - 60
West London +10 26 £575 -8.00% 28
South London +4 16 £555 +0.91% 11
East London +4 10 £563 +33.14% 37
North London +4 4 £375 -37.50% 9
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 335 (30.59%) Finance
2 279 (25.48%) Agile
3 227 (20.73%) Social Skills
4 186 (16.99%) Azure
5 177 (16.16%) AWS
6 158 (14.43%) DevOps
7 150 (13.70%) Python
8 132 (12.05%) Java
9 120 (10.96%) Banking
10 117 (10.68%) CI/CD
11 116 (10.59%) Microsoft
12 111 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
13 105 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 105 (9.59%) Project Management
13 105 (9.59%) Software Engineering
14 99 (9.04%) Security Cleared
15 96 (8.77%) JavaScript
16 92 (8.40%) SC Cleared
17 91 (8.31%) QA
18 90 (8.22%) C#
18 90 (8.22%) SAP
18 90 (8.22%) Public Sector
19 85 (7.76%) SQL
20 83 (7.58%) Migration
21 77 (7.03%) Mentoring
22 76 (6.94%) Test Automation
23 75 (6.85%) Degree
24 73 (6.67%) TypeScript
25 69 (6.30%) Test Strategy
26 67 (6.12%) Analytics

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 44 (4.02%) Apache
2 39 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.00%) Confluence
7 7 (0.64%) CMS
8 6 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.27%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.18%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.091%) Camunda
12 1 (0.091%) IIS
12 1 (0.091%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.27%) SPSS
5 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.091%) Sketch
6 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.091%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 47 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.91%) ION Anvil
3 10 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
4 8 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.73%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.64%) Shopify
6 6 (0.55%) ION MarketView
6 6 (0.55%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle AGIS
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.37%) Endur
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.37%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 186 (16.99%) Azure
2 177 (16.16%) AWS
3 55 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (4.75%) Dynamics 365
5 49 (4.47%) GCP
6 47 (4.29%) Snowflake
7 41 (3.74%) dbt
8 36 (3.29%) Power Platform
9 35 (3.20%) Serverless
10 30 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.28%) Azure API Management
12 21 (1.92%) SaaS
13 20 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (1.64%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.46%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (1.37%) PowerApps
17 14 (1.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.28%) Firewall
2 9 (0.82%) WAN
3 8 (0.73%) VPN
3 8 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (0.64%) 5G
4 7 (0.64%) FTP
5 6 (0.55%) LAN
5 6 (0.55%) Wireless
6 5 (0.46%) SSL
7 4 (0.37%) DNS
7 4 (0.37%) SNA
7 4 (0.37%) VSAN
8 3 (0.27%) Broadband
8 3 (0.27%) IP Telephony
8 3 (0.27%) Network Security
8 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.18%) BGP
9 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.091%) IPsec
10 1 (0.091%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.66%) Data Lake
2 42 (3.84%) Amazon Athena
3 35 (3.20%) Apache Arrow
3 35 (3.20%) Dremio
3 35 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 34 (3.11%) Apache Ignite
5 27 (2.47%) Power BI
6 25 (2.28%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.55%) Big Data
9 16 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.82%) MySQL
13 9 (0.82%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.64%) Power Query
15 6 (0.55%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 55 (5.02%) Git
2 47 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.84%) JIRA
4 14 (1.28%) Selenium
5 11 (1.00%) GitLab
5 11 (1.00%) JMeter
6 10 (0.91%) LoadRunner
6 10 (0.91%) Postman
7 7 (0.64%) JUnit
7 7 (0.64%) TestRail
8 6 (0.55%) NeoLoad
8 6 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.46%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.46%) Maven
9 5 (0.46%) MLflow
9 5 (0.46%) webpack
10 4 (0.37%) LSMW
General
1 335 (30.59%) Finance
2 227 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 120 (10.96%) Banking
4 90 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.94%) Investment Banking
6 62 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (4.84%) Front Office
8 45 (4.11%) Marketing
9 40 (3.65%) Retail
10 29 (2.65%) Back Office
11 24 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.74%) Law
13 19 (1.74%) Legal
13 19 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.91%) Electronics
15 10 (0.91%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.12%) .NET
2 45 (4.11%) React
3 36 (3.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 35 (3.20%) gRPC
4 35 (3.20%) Pandas
5 34 (3.11%) NumPy
5 34 (3.11%) SciPy
6 32 (2.92%) CSS
7 31 (2.83%) .NET Core
8 27 (2.47%) Kafka
8 27 (2.47%) Spring
8 27 (2.47%) Spring Boot
9 23 (2.10%) XML
10 22 (2.01%) HTML
11 19 (1.74%) Node.js
11 19 (1.74%) Web Services
12 18 (1.64%) AngularJS
13 17 (1.55%) REST
14 14 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.84%) Fixed Income
2 52 (4.75%) Derivative
3 47 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 43 (3.93%) Equities
5 41 (3.74%) Hedge funds
6 39 (3.56%) Product Ownership
7 32 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 30 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.19%) FMCG
11 11 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.82%) PMI
14 8 (0.73%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.64%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.55%) Blockchain
16 6 (0.55%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.65%) Linux
2 28 (2.56%) Windows
3 21 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 20 (1.83%) Android
5 19 (1.74%) Unix
6 9 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.55%) CentOS
8 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.091%) AIX
10 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.091%) Solaris
10 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (25.48%) Agile
2 158 (14.43%) DevOps
3 117 (10.68%) CI/CD
4 111 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (9.59%) Project Management
5 105 (9.59%) Software Engineering
5 105 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 83 (7.58%) Migration
7 77 (7.03%) Mentoring
8 76 (6.94%) Test Automation
9 69 (6.30%) Test Strategy
10 67 (6.12%) Analytics
11 63 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (5.30%) Roadmaps
12 58 (5.30%) Scrum
13 54 (4.93%) Data Protection
14 53 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
15 50 (4.57%) Project Delivery
15 50 (4.57%) TDD
16 48 (4.38%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (13.70%) Python
2 132 (12.05%) Java
3 96 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 90 (8.22%) C#
5 85 (7.76%) SQL
6 73 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 19 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.64%) Bicep
9 17 (1.55%) Scala
10 13 (1.19%) Bash
11 10 (0.91%) C
11 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.82%) Ruby
12 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.73%) C++
14 7 (0.64%) Swift
15 5 (0.46%) R
15 5 (0.46%) Rust
16 4 (0.37%) Go
16 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 99 (9.04%) Security Cleared
2 92 (8.40%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.85%) Degree
4 29 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.47%) Master's Degree
6 21 (1.92%) CISSP
7 13 (1.19%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 9 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.73%) CISM
10 8 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.73%) PMP
11 6 (0.55%) ISEB
12 5 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.37%) CIMA
13 4 (0.37%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.27%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.31%) QA
2 37 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.29%) PMO
4 15 (1.37%) NIST
5 12 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.10%) SLA
6 11 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.91%) GDPR
8 9 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.73%) GRC
10 4 (0.37%) GAAP
10 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.27%) COBIT
11 3 (0.27%) WCAG
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.18%) MiFID
12 2 (0.18%) P3O
13 1 (0.091%) EMIR
13 1 (0.091%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 33 (3.01%) Docker
2 26 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) NFS
8 2 (0.18%) vSphere
9 1 (0.091%) Ceph
9 1 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 44 (4.02%) Terraform
2 43 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.19%) Ansible
4 12 (1.10%) Grafana
5 10 (0.91%) Kibana
6 9 (0.82%) logstash
7 8 (0.73%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.46%) Puppet
8 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.46%) vRealize
9 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) Argo
10 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.18%) CA Service Virtualization
11 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.18%) Packer
11 2 (0.18%) SCCM
11 2 (0.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 116 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.22%) SAP
3 43 (3.93%) Oracle
4 31 (2.83%) Databricks
5 21 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.19%) Workday
7 12 (1.10%) Google
7 12 (1.10%) Virgin Media
8 10 (0.91%) ION Trading
9 9 (0.82%) Murex
9 9 (0.82%) Splunk
9 9 (0.82%) VMware
10 8 (0.73%) Cisco
10 8 (0.73%) Yardi
11 7 (0.64%) Adobe
11 7 (0.64%) Pega
11 7 (0.64%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (0.55%) Sitecore