Team Leader Contracts in the UK excluding London

Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Team Lead daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 374 391
Rank change year-on-year +58 +17 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 78 68 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.30% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.31% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 93
10th Percentile £167 £209 £225
25th Percentile £316 £302 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +12.94% +8.97%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £540
90th Percentile £733 £731 £678
UK median daily rate £650 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +44.44% -5.26% +12.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 2
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile £12.50 £10.09 £17.94
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.80 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% -2.36% +4.05%
75th Percentile £16.37 £43.75 £20.94
90th Percentile - £50.65 £21.73
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% -10.71% +89.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Team Leader in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Team Leader in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Team Leader
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Team Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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 of England +33 25 £590 +21.65% 80
Midlands +30 20 £188 -66.35% 63
North West +11 19 £590 +11.32% 41
West Midlands +21 13 £999 +45.31% 30
East of England +13 9 £400 - 35
South West +5 9 £700 +115.38% 37
Scotland +53 8 £590 +38.82% 14
East Midlands +12 7 £174 -60.11% 33
South East +1 6 £525 -9.48% 59
Yorkshire +19 5 - - 31
North East - 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £270 - 2
Team Leader
UK

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Team Leader 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 UK excluding London region featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 16 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 12 (15.38%) SQL
3 12 (15.38%) 5G
4 10 (12.82%) Azure
5 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
6 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
6 8 (10.26%) ITIL
6 8 (10.26%) PowerShell
7 7 (8.97%) Driving Licence
7 7 (8.97%) NVQ Level 3
7 7 (8.97%) Degree
7 7 (8.97%) Time Management
7 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (8.97%) Siemens
7 7 (8.97%) Configuration Management
7 7 (8.97%) Workflow
7 7 (8.97%) CATIA
7 7 (8.97%) DELMIA
7 7 (8.97%) PLM
7 7 (8.97%) Teamcenter
7 7 (8.97%) Agile
7 7 (8.97%) Conflict Management
7 7 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
8 6 (7.69%) Security Cleared
8 6 (7.69%) DBS Check
8 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.13%) CMS
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.97%) CATIA
1 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.97%) DELMIA
1 7 (8.97%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.82%) Azure
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.41%) AWS
3 5 (6.41%) PaaS
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.28%) GCP
4 1 (1.28%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.38%) 5G
2 2 (2.56%) Firewall
2 2 (2.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Git
1 1 (1.28%) Hudson
1 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.85%) Finance
6 2 (2.56%) Games
6 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.28%) Automotive
7 1 (1.28%) Electronics
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.41%) .NET
2 3 (3.85%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.28%) CSS
3 1 (1.28%) HTML
3 1 (1.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Driving Licence
1 7 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.56%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (10.26%) ITIL
3 7 (8.97%) Agile
3 7 (8.97%) Configuration Management
3 7 (8.97%) Conflict Management
3 7 (8.97%) PLM
3 7 (8.97%) Time Management
3 7 (8.97%) Workflow
4 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (5.13%) Defect Management
4 4 (5.13%) Incident Response
4 4 (5.13%) Security Operations
4 4 (5.13%) Service Delivery
5 3 (3.85%) Customer Service
6 2 (2.56%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (2.56%) CI/CD
6 2 (2.56%) Community of Practice
6 2 (2.56%) Decision-Making
6 2 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (2.56%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.38%) SQL
2 8 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.13%) Ruby
4 3 (3.85%) Java
5 2 (2.56%) C
5 2 (2.56%) C#
5 2 (2.56%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.28%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Degree
1 7 (8.97%) NVQ Level 3
2 6 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 6 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) SLA
2 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
1 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.28%) SCCM
1 1 (1.28%) Terraform
1 1 (1.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Siemens
3 4 (5.13%) Darktrace
3 4 (5.13%) FireEye
3 4 (5.13%) LogRhythm
3 4 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (1.28%) Apple
4 1 (1.28%) SAP
4 1 (1.28%) Sophos
4 1 (1.28%) VMware