Lead Contracts in the North of England

Leader
England > North of England

The median Leader daily rate in the North of England is £585 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 25 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 271 321 391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.85% 5.62% 5.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.26% 5.89% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 196 311
10th Percentile £413 £400 £315
25th Percentile £500 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +10.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £575
90th Percentile £850 £745 £675
England median daily rate £588 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -2.08% +3.45% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 8
10th Percentile - £10.09 £33.00
25th Percentile - £15.67 £37.51
Median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% -26.32% +82.69%
75th Percentile £24.63 £43.75 £75.63
90th Percentile £46.18 £57.05 £78.55
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,326 5,451 6,955
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 95.41% 96.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 3,839 5,103
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £388 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £556
90th Percentile £675 £680 £639
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 158 295
10th Percentile £11.04 £14.25 £11.08
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.50 £14.43
Median hourly rate £20.74 £30.54 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.09% +58.69% +7.51%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.48 £34.31
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £58.75
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West +5 161 £590 +7.27% 186
Yorkshire -2 100 £575 -4.17% 106
North East +12 11 £533 -18.08% 48
Lead
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 64 (23.62%) Agile
2 61 (22.51%) Security Cleared
3 60 (22.14%) DevOps
4 55 (20.30%) Social Skills
5 48 (17.71%) SC Cleared
5 48 (17.71%) Finance
6 47 (17.34%) CI/CD
7 46 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (16.61%) AWS
9 44 (16.24%) Microsoft
10 39 (14.39%) Windows
11 37 (13.65%) Threat Intelligence
12 36 (13.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 35 (12.92%) Node.js
13 35 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (12.92%) Azure
14 34 (12.55%) Apple iOS
15 33 (12.18%) Risk Management
16 31 (11.44%) Firewall
16 31 (11.44%) Public Sector
17 30 (11.07%) Windows Server
17 30 (11.07%) Mobile Device Management
17 30 (11.07%) VPN
17 30 (11.07%) Android
18 29 (10.70%) Project Management
19 28 (10.33%) Security Architecture
19 28 (10.33%) Zero Trust
20 27 (9.96%) Public Cloud
20 27 (9.96%) SAP
21 26 (9.59%) Design Patterns

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Apache
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.37%) Confluence
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.95%) CATIA
1 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Sketch
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (7.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.95%) DELMIA
2 8 (2.95%) Teamcenter
3 7 (2.58%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.74%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.74%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP AFS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.37%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.61%) AWS
2 35 (12.92%) Azure
3 19 (7.01%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (4.43%) Amazon S3
5 12 (4.43%) Serverless
6 10 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.32%) PowerApps
7 9 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (2.95%) GCP
9 7 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.21%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (2.21%) Route 53
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.44%) Firewall
2 30 (11.07%) VPN
3 8 (2.95%) 5G
4 4 (1.48%) SSL
5 2 (0.74%) DNS
5 2 (0.74%) PPP
6 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.37%) RTP
6 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.64%) Power BI
2 13 (4.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.48%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.11%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.11%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.74%) Tableau
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.37%) DB2
8 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (5.54%) Git
2 8 (2.95%) GitLab
3 6 (2.21%) JIRA
3 6 (2.21%) webpack
4 5 (1.85%) Hudson
5 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.48%) JUnit
6 3 (1.11%) JMeter
6 3 (1.11%) LSMW
7 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.74%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.74%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 55 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.71%) Finance
3 31 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.17%) Manufacturing
5 14 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.43%) Legal
7 9 (3.32%) Banking
8 8 (2.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.21%) Marketing
11 5 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Law
12 4 (1.48%) Retail
13 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.74%) Automotive
14 2 (0.74%) Billing
14 2 (0.74%) Electronics
14 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.92%) Node.js
2 11 (4.06%) React
3 7 (2.58%) Kafka
4 6 (2.21%) .NET
4 6 (2.21%) Express.js
4 6 (2.21%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (2.21%) PyTorch
4 6 (2.21%) Redux
4 6 (2.21%) REST
4 6 (2.21%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.85%) Spring
5 5 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.48%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (1.48%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.48%) JPA
7 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.11%) BAPI
8 2 (0.74%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.74%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.74%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.96%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 8 (2.95%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (2.95%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.85%) NHS
8 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.74%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.37%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.37%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.39%) Windows
2 34 (12.55%) Apple iOS
3 30 (11.07%) Android
3 30 (11.07%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.43%) Linux
5 4 (1.48%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.74%) zOS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.62%) Agile
2 60 (22.14%) DevOps
3 47 (17.34%) CI/CD
4 46 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (13.65%) Threat Intelligence
6 36 (13.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 35 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.18%) Risk Management
9 30 (11.07%) Mobile Device Management
10 29 (10.70%) Project Management
11 28 (10.33%) Security Architecture
11 28 (10.33%) Zero Trust
12 26 (9.59%) Design Patterns
13 25 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (8.12%) Mentoring
14 22 (8.12%) Roadmaps
15 20 (7.38%) Microservices
16 18 (6.64%) ERP
17 16 (5.90%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (5.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.75%) Python
2 19 (7.01%) SQL
3 14 (5.17%) Java
4 10 (3.69%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.32%) C#
6 7 (2.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.58%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.74%) Bash
7 2 (0.74%) Groovy
7 2 (0.74%) PHP
8 1 (0.37%) Go
8 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.71%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.54%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.21%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.48%) Degree
6 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.37%) PMP
7 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.54%) NIST
2 13 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.43%) QA
4 10 (3.69%) NIST 800
4 10 (3.69%) SLA
5 5 (1.85%) PMO
6 4 (1.48%) GDPR
6 4 (1.48%) GRC
7 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.74%) COSO
8 2 (0.74%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (2.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.58%) Terraform
4 6 (2.21%) Ansible
5 2 (0.74%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 44 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.96%) SAP
3 8 (2.95%) Google
3 8 (2.95%) Siemens
4 6 (2.21%) Informatica
4 6 (2.21%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.21%) Sophos
5 5 (1.85%) Apple
5 5 (1.85%) IBM
5 5 (1.85%) Pega
5 5 (1.85%) Splunk
6 4 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.48%) Solace
7 3 (1.11%) Databricks
7 3 (1.11%) Oracle
8 2 (0.74%) Ariba
8 2 (0.74%) CA
8 2 (0.74%) Facebook
8 2 (0.74%) HP
8 2 (0.74%) Instagram