Lead Contracts in the South West

Leader
England > South West

The median Leader daily rate in the South West is £538 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 18 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 272 187 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.55% 5.28% 4.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.17% 5.71% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 138 120
10th Percentile £361 £386 £423
25th Percentile £413 £519 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £669 £706 £650
90th Percentile £775 £791 £714
England median daily rate £585 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.45% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 14 5
10th Percentile £20.96 £52.46 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £60.64 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +55.95% +80.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £101.25 £43.92
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
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,966 3,276 3,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 92.41% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 2,456 2,498
10th Percentile £210 £275 £225
25th Percentile £396 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 257 201
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.89 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +36.48% +10.59%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.98 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.60 £83.40 £69.16
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the South West

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the South West

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +2 83 £700 +7.69% 21
Bristol +12 75 £575 -2.13% 66
Devon +26 49 £425 - 23
Gloucestershire +22 42 £513 -21.21% 17
Somerset +8 14 £390 -37.60% 27
Cornwall - 2 £230 - 4
Dorset -1 1 £350 +44.33% 9
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 South West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 159 (58.46%) Security Cleared
2 100 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 75 (27.57%) Social Skills
4 69 (25.37%) Project Management
5 65 (23.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 62 (22.79%) DV Cleared
7 61 (22.43%) Cybersecurity
8 54 (19.85%) Finance
9 51 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
10 48 (17.65%) Microsoft
11 40 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
12 39 (14.34%) Roadmaps
12 39 (14.34%) Telecoms
13 37 (13.60%) Agile
14 35 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (11.76%) JIRA
16 30 (11.03%) Degree
16 30 (11.03%) PMO
17 29 (10.66%) Public Sector
17 29 (10.66%) Microsoft Project
17 29 (10.66%) PRINCE2
18 28 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
18 28 (10.29%) Data Management
18 28 (10.29%) Risk Management
19 27 (9.93%) Network Management
19 27 (9.93%) Project Delivery
19 27 (9.93%) Presentation Skills
19 27 (9.93%) Identity Access Management
20 25 (9.19%) Project Planning
20 25 (9.19%) JSP 440

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (10.66%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (8.82%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.84%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.47%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.37%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Primavera
4 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
1 7 (2.57%) SuccessFactors
2 6 (2.21%) Azure
3 3 (1.10%) AWS
3 3 (1.10%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (0.37%) IaaS
4 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.57%) LAN
1 7 (2.57%) WAN
1 7 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.47%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.10%) Firewall
3 3 (1.10%) IPv4
3 3 (1.10%) OSPF
3 3 (1.10%) VLAN
3 3 (1.10%) VPN
3 3 (1.10%) Wireless
3 3 (1.10%) WLAN
4 2 (0.74%) RTP
5 1 (0.37%) DNS
5 1 (0.37%) Internet
5 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.10%) Power BI
3 2 (0.74%) Metadata
4 1 (0.37%) IDMS
4 1 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) ERwin
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) GoCD
2 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.85%) Finance
3 40 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (14.34%) Telecoms
5 29 (10.66%) Public Sector
6 27 (9.93%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (8.46%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.78%) Marketing
9 10 (3.68%) Electronics
10 8 (2.94%) Legal
11 6 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Law
13 3 (1.10%) Banking
13 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Local Government
15 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
15 1 (0.37%) Police
15 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.74%) Node.js
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.37%) .NET
2 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.37%) CSS
2 1 (0.37%) HTML
2 1 (0.37%) Keycloak
2 1 (0.37%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.37%) React
2 1 (0.37%) RESTful
2 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.82%) Security Posture
1 24 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 14 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.78%) Cyber Defence
4 12 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.94%) CESG
5 8 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.84%) NHS
7 3 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.10%) Solar Power
8 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.37%) IoT
9 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.57%) Windows
2 5 (1.84%) Linux
3 4 (1.47%) Unix
4 3 (1.10%) VMS
4 3 (1.10%) Windows 2000
4 3 (1.10%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.37%) Project Management
2 65 (23.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (22.43%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
5 39 (14.34%) Roadmaps
6 37 (13.60%) Agile
7 35 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (10.66%) PRINCE2
9 28 (10.29%) Data Management
9 28 (10.29%) Risk Management
10 27 (9.93%) Identity Access Management
10 27 (9.93%) Network Management
10 27 (9.93%) Project Delivery
11 25 (9.19%) Digital Identity
11 25 (9.19%) Project Planning
11 25 (9.19%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 25 (9.19%) Stakeholder Identification
11 25 (9.19%) Workshop Facilitation
12 24 (8.82%) Commercial Awareness
12 24 (8.82%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.57%) PowerShell
1 7 (2.57%) Python
2 6 (2.21%) SQL
3 5 (1.84%) C#
3 5 (1.84%) Java
4 4 (1.47%) C++
5 3 (1.10%) C
5 3 (1.10%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.74%) Bash
6 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 159 (58.46%) Security Cleared
2 100 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 62 (22.79%) DV Cleared
4 30 (11.03%) Degree
5 24 (8.82%) APMP
6 19 (6.99%) CISM
6 19 (6.99%) CISSP
7 8 (2.94%) CEH
7 8 (2.94%) CISA
7 8 (2.94%) CISMP
7 8 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (2.94%) ISACA
7 8 (2.94%) SSCP
8 7 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.21%) CRISC
10 5 (1.84%) HNC
11 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.74%) PMP
13 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.03%) PMO
2 25 (9.19%) JSP 440
2 25 (9.19%) NIST
3 14 (5.15%) NIST 800
4 13 (4.78%) GDPR
5 9 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.94%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.10%) NCSC
7 3 (1.10%) QA
8 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.74%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.47%) Docker
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.74%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) NFS
4 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (2.21%) Ansible
2 5 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.84%) Terraform
3 3 (1.10%) Puppet
4 1 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.35%) SAP
3 7 (2.57%) VMware
4 6 (2.21%) Oracle
5 3 (1.10%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.10%) Juniper
5 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.74%) IBM
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe
7 1 (0.37%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.37%) Citrix
7 1 (0.37%) FIS
7 1 (0.37%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.37%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.37%) Remedy