Lead Contracts in the North West

Leader
England > North West

The median Leader daily rate in the North West is £590 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 26 31 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 161 178 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.01% 5.69% 5.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.36% 6.00% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 114 189
10th Percentile £375 £389 £354
25th Percentile £481 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £694 £647 £550
90th Percentile £850 £760 £673
England median daily rate £585 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.45% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 7
10th Percentile - - £37.51
25th Percentile - £10.09 £41.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £27.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% -42.11% -
75th Percentile £22.25 £43.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £34.00 - £78.90
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
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,533 2,968 3,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 94.92% 96.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 2,109 2,840
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 127 176
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.71 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +23.02% +38.01%
75th Percentile £46.91 £49.08 £50.01
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £75.00
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +12 101 £645 +17.81% 97
Cheshire +3 25 £588 +0.26% 32
Lancashire +1 13 £400 -38.46% 17
Cumbria -9 12 £582 -22.40% 18
Merseyside +12 10 £363 -34.09% 19
Lead
England

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

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 North West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 47 (29.19%) Agile
2 42 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 41 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 41 (25.47%) DevOps
4 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
5 35 (21.74%) Windows
5 35 (21.74%) Node.js
6 34 (21.12%) Apple iOS
7 32 (19.88%) Risk Management
8 31 (19.25%) Firewall
9 30 (18.63%) VPN
9 30 (18.63%) Android
9 30 (18.63%) Mobile Device Management
9 30 (18.63%) Windows Server
10 29 (18.01%) Threat Intelligence
11 28 (17.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 28 (17.39%) Zero Trust
11 28 (17.39%) Security Architecture
11 28 (17.39%) AWS
12 27 (16.77%) Public Cloud
13 26 (16.15%) Design Patterns
13 26 (16.15%) Finance
13 26 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (13.04%) Azure
14 21 (13.04%) Social Skills
15 20 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (11.80%) Microsoft
17 18 (11.18%) Roadmaps
17 18 (11.18%) Microservices
18 17 (10.56%) Public Sector

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.97%) CATIA
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.97%) DELMIA
1 8 (4.97%) Teamcenter
2 6 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.39%) AWS
2 21 (13.04%) Azure
3 12 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.35%) Serverless
7 6 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (3.73%) Route 53
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (3.11%) GCP
8 5 (3.11%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (19.25%) Firewall
2 30 (18.63%) VPN
3 4 (2.48%) 5G
4 2 (1.24%) DNS
4 2 (1.24%) PPP
5 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.45%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.97%) Power BI
3 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.48%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.86%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.86%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.24%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.62%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) Git
2 7 (4.35%) GitLab
3 6 (3.73%) webpack
4 5 (3.11%) Hudson
5 3 (1.86%) LSMW
6 2 (1.24%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.24%) JIRA
6 2 (1.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.62%) JMeter
7 1 (0.62%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.62%) Selenium
7 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (16.15%) Finance
2 21 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.83%) Legal
5 6 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.73%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.48%) Law
6 4 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.86%) Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.86%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.24%) Automotive
8 2 (1.24%) Billing
8 2 (1.24%) Electronics
8 2 (1.24%) Marketing
9 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.74%) Node.js
2 9 (5.59%) React
3 6 (3.73%) Express.js
3 6 (3.73%) Redux
4 5 (3.11%) .NET
5 4 (2.48%) REST
6 3 (1.86%) BAPI
6 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.24%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.24%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.24%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.24%) JPA
7 2 (1.24%) Kafka
7 2 (1.24%) Laravel
7 2 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.24%) Spring
7 2 (1.24%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.24%) Vue
8 1 (0.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.77%) Public Cloud
2 13 (8.07%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.73%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.24%) NHS
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.62%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.74%) Windows
2 34 (21.12%) Apple iOS
3 30 (18.63%) Android
3 30 (18.63%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.73%) Linux
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.24%) zOS
7 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (29.19%) Agile
2 41 (25.47%) DevOps
3 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
4 32 (19.88%) Risk Management
5 30 (18.63%) Mobile Device Management
6 29 (18.01%) Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.39%) Security Architecture
7 28 (17.39%) Zero Trust
8 26 (16.15%) Design Patterns
8 26 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (11.18%) Microservices
10 18 (11.18%) Roadmaps
11 15 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (7.45%) ETL
13 11 (6.83%) Containerisation
13 11 (6.83%) Product Strategy
13 11 (6.83%) Strategic Roadmap
14 10 (6.21%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.70%) SQL
2 7 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.73%) C#
3 6 (3.73%) Python
4 5 (3.11%) Java
4 5 (3.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.24%) PHP
7 1 (0.62%) Go
7 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.21%) QA
2 10 (6.21%) SLA
3 5 (3.11%) NIST
4 4 (2.48%) GDPR
4 4 (2.48%) GRC
5 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.24%) COSO
6 2 (1.24%) ISO 31000
6 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (2.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.86%) Terraform
4 1 (0.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) SAP
3 8 (4.97%) Siemens
4 6 (3.73%) Sophos
5 5 (3.11%) Apple
5 5 (3.11%) Google
5 5 (3.11%) Informatica
5 5 (3.11%) Pega
6 3 (1.86%) Databricks
7 2 (1.24%) Ariba
7 2 (1.24%) CA
7 2 (1.24%) Cadence
7 2 (1.24%) F5
7 2 (1.24%) Facebook
7 2 (1.24%) IDERA
7 2 (1.24%) Instagram
8 1 (0.62%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.62%) IBM
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce