Lead Contracts in the Midlands

Leader
England > Midlands

The median Leader daily rate in the Midlands is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 30 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 144 197 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.33% 5.87% 5.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.79% 6.20% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 146 198
10th Percentile £254 £408 £335
25th Percentile £413 £475 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +8.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £632
90th Percentile £778 £750 £738
England median daily rate £588 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -2.08% +3.45% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £22.68 - -
25th Percentile £27.63 £22.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £24.00 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +23.78% -59.18%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.00 £25.31
90th Percentile £62.88 - £34.50
England median hourly rate £61.01 £53.99 £36.71
% change year-on-year +13.01% +47.08% +40.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,486 3,179 4,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 94.73% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 2,234 3,494
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £688 £685 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 119 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.40 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.67 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +7 113 £598 - 124
East Midlands +11 29 £210 -63.00% 86
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 54 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.14%) Finance
3 23 (15.97%) Agile
4 19 (13.19%) Migration
5 18 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (12.50%) Degree
6 17 (11.81%) Data Migration
7 15 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
8 14 (9.72%) SAP
8 14 (9.72%) ERP
9 13 (9.03%) Data Quality
9 13 (9.03%) Roadmaps
10 12 (8.33%) Azure
10 12 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
11 11 (7.64%) Security Cleared
12 10 (6.94%) Time Management
12 10 (6.94%) Data Architecture
12 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
12 10 (6.94%) Oracle
12 10 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (6.25%) Customer Service
13 9 (6.25%) Business Transformation
13 9 (6.25%) Informatica
14 8 (5.56%) Data Integration
14 8 (5.56%) NVQ Level 3
14 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
14 8 (5.56%) SQL

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.39%) CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.69%) Revit
3 1 (0.69%) Simulink
3 1 (0.69%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.78%) Workday HCM
3 3 (2.08%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.39%) Maximo
4 2 (1.39%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.39%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.69%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.33%) Azure
2 8 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (2.78%) AWS
3 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.78%) OCI
3 4 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.78%) SaaS
3 4 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (2.08%) PaaS
5 2 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (1.39%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.39%) Serverless
5 2 (1.39%) SonarCloud
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) WAN
2 4 (2.78%) 5G
2 4 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (2.78%) Firewall
2 4 (2.78%) LAN
2 4 (2.78%) MPLS
3 3 (2.08%) BGP
3 3 (2.08%) IPsec
3 3 (2.08%) Junos
3 3 (2.08%) VPN
4 2 (1.39%) Network Security
4 2 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.39%) SMS
5 1 (0.69%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.69%) SAN
5 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.69%) Wireless
5 1 (0.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) Power BI
1 3 (2.08%) SAP BW
1 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (1.39%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) Moq
2 2 (1.39%) NUnit
3 1 (0.69%) LSMW
3 1 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.69%) Selenium
3 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 54 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.14%) Finance
3 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.86%) Automotive
5 7 (4.86%) Retail
6 5 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.78%) Local Government
7 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Games
8 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.08%) Marketing
8 3 (2.08%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Legal
9 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.69%) German Language
10 1 (0.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) .NET
2 4 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.08%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (2.08%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.39%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.39%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.69%) CSS
5 1 (0.69%) EDI
5 1 (0.69%) Flash
5 1 (0.69%) HTML
5 1 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.69%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.69%) OpenMP
5 1 (0.69%) RAML
5 1 (0.69%) REST
5 1 (0.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.69%) SOAP
5 1 (0.69%) Spring
5 1 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (2.08%) FMCG
3 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.39%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.39%) DataPower
4 2 (1.39%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.69%) CCTV
5 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.17%) Linux
1 6 (4.17%) Windows
2 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.69%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (15.97%) Agile
2 19 (13.19%) Migration
3 18 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (11.81%) Data Migration
5 15 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (9.72%) ERP
7 13 (9.03%) Roadmaps
8 10 (6.94%) Data Architecture
8 10 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (6.94%) Time Management
9 9 (6.25%) Business Transformation
9 9 (6.25%) Customer Service
10 8 (5.56%) Conflict Management
10 8 (5.56%) Data Integration
10 8 (5.56%) ITIL
11 7 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (4.86%) Data Governance
11 7 (4.86%) Project Management
11 7 (4.86%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (4.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.56%) SQL
2 7 (4.86%) Java
3 4 (2.78%) C#
3 4 (2.78%) Ruby
4 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.69%) ProC
Qualifications
1 18 (12.50%) Degree
2 11 (7.64%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.56%) NVQ Level 3
3 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.39%) CCNP
4 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.69%) ACCA
5 1 (0.69%) CCNA
5 1 (0.69%) CIMA
5 1 (0.69%) CIPD
5 1 (0.69%) ISEB
5 1 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.69%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.69%) PMP
5 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.17%) SLA
3 4 (2.78%) QA
4 3 (2.08%) GRC
4 3 (2.08%) ITGC
5 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) Lustre
2 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.39%) SCCM
1 2 (1.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Grafana
2 1 (0.69%) Kibana
2 1 (0.69%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 14 (9.72%) SAP
2 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.94%) Oracle
3 9 (6.25%) Informatica
4 7 (4.86%) Workday
5 5 (3.47%) Cisco
5 5 (3.47%) IBM
6 4 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.08%) Juniper
7 3 (2.08%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (1.39%) Apple
8 2 (1.39%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.39%) Laserfiche
8 2 (1.39%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.39%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.39%) NEC
8 2 (1.39%) Northgate
8 2 (1.39%) Sage
8 2 (1.39%) Splunk
8 2 (1.39%) VMware