Lead Contracts in Merseyside

Leader
North West > Merseyside

The median Leader daily rate in Merseyside is £363 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 22 30 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 10 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.69% 5.25% 5.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.88% 5.46% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile - £483 £200
25th Percentile £350 £525 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £387
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +42.30% +24.68%
75th Percentile £375 - £569
90th Percentile £503 £600 £700
North West median daily rate £585 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +6.36% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £10.09 -
Median % change year-on-year +113.08% - -
75th Percentile £22.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £15.00 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -45.45% -42.11% -25.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 205 293 325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.24% 96.07% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 207 232
10th Percentile £154 £235 £170
25th Percentile £213 £397 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +10.47% +14.67%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £628 £638
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 15
10th Percentile - - £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £10.09 £11.06
Median hourly rate £21.43 £16.37 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +9.13% -6.25%
75th Percentile £35.29 £18.75 £16.50
90th Percentile £43.75 £27.30 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £31.81 £30.27 £23.03
% change year-on-year +5.08% +31.45% +28.65%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Merseyside

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +12 7 £350 -33.33% 15
Birkenhead - 2 £369 - 1
Wirral - 1 £375 - 1
Lead
North West

Lead Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (40.00%) 5G
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Application Discovery
2 2 (20.00%) Vue
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Laravel
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Rockwell
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) 5G
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Laravel
1 2 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Application Discovery
1 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (10.00%) Rockwell