Lead Contracts in Oxfordshire

Leader
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Leader daily rate in Oxfordshire is £450 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 13 31 31
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 14 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.36% 1.74% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.53% 1.88% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 5
10th Percentile - £413 £345
25th Percentile £263 £418 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -29.41% +12.58%
75th Percentile £475 £578 £675
90th Percentile £649 £639 £690
South East median daily rate £550 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 186 213 258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.55% 92.61% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 144 212
10th Percentile £131 £213 £169
25th Percentile £173 £346 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £493 £550 £575
90th Percentile £549 £634 £649
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 17
10th Percentile £12.92 £18.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £13.97 £19.06 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.98 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +29.88% +6.52%
75th Percentile £26.00 £32.30 £21.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £50.78 £32.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% +147.50% -20.00%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Oxfordshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Oxfordshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Oxfordshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Oxfordshire

Lead
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +13 8 £450 - 6
Kidlington - 4 £275 -
Witney - 1 £488 -
Lead
South East

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

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 Oxfordshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 4 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 4 (28.57%) Data Lineage
3 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Informatica
3 4 (28.57%) Use Case
3 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Line Management
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Facebook
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Instagram
4 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Information Governance
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 2 (14.29%) Critical Success Factor
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Selenium
1 1 (7.14%) Terragrunt
1 1 (7.14%) TestRail
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Next.js
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (28.57%) Customer Experience
2 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 4 (28.57%) Data Lineage
2 4 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 4 (28.57%) Use Case
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Line Management
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Business Development
4 2 (14.29%) Information Governance
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Informatica
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 3 (21.43%) Facebook
2 3 (21.43%) Instagram