Team Leader Contracts

Team Lead
UK

The median Team Lead daily rate in the UK is £615 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 549 633
Rank change year-on-year +94 +84 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Team Leader 124 135 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 90 150
10th Percentile £211 £208 £219
25th Percentile £475 £308 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -4.31% +6.88%
75th Percentile £888 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £498 £425
% change year-on-year +13.07% +17.06% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile - - £16.50
25th Percentile - £10.09 £18.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +59.09% -5.21%
75th Percentile £17.28 £43.75 £31.88
90th Percentile £36.88 £52.97 £48.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £18.80 £17.00
% change year-on-year -20.19% +10.56% -23.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Daily rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Team Leader.

Hourly rate trend for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Team Leader over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Team Leader in the UK

Team Leader
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +107 114 £738 +78.79% 313
UK excluding London +50 62 £563 +13.07% 270
London +105 56 £825 +135.71% 59
Work from Home +107 45 £825 +26.92% 107
North of England +33 26 £590 +9.77% 76
North West +21 20 £590 +7.27% 42
Midlands +32 18 £188 -70.51% 55
West Midlands +28 11 £999 +45.31% 31
East Midlands +17 7 £174 -63.75% 24
South East 0 6 £525 -9.48% 46
Scotland +39 5 £590 +38.82% 15
Yorkshire +18 5 - - 27
South West +1 4 £725 +123.08% 42
East of England +10 2 £525 - 33
Northern Ireland - 1 £270 - 3
North East - 1 - - 7

Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring Team Leader in the job title.

1 38 (30.65%) Agile
2 33 (26.61%) AWS
3 32 (25.81%) Finance
3 32 (25.81%) Java
4 31 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 29 (23.39%) JavaScript
5 29 (23.39%) Python
6 28 (22.58%) TypeScript
6 28 (22.58%) Front Office
7 27 (21.77%) GCP
8 26 (20.97%) Fixed Income
8 26 (20.97%) Banking
8 26 (20.97%) Asset Management
9 25 (20.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (20.16%) Derivative
9 25 (20.16%) Equities
9 25 (20.16%) Hedge funds
9 25 (20.16%) Protocol Buffers
9 25 (20.16%) gRPC
9 25 (20.16%) Apache Airflow
9 25 (20.16%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (20.16%) Dremio
9 25 (20.16%) dbt
9 25 (20.16%) Apache Arrow
10 24 (19.35%) Apache Ignite
10 24 (19.35%) Pandas
10 24 (19.35%) Line Management
10 24 (19.35%) SciPy
10 24 (19.35%) NumPy
10 24 (19.35%) Investment Banking

Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (20.16%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (19.35%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) CATIA
1 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.65%) DELMIA
1 7 (5.65%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.61%) Endur
4 1 (0.81%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.61%) AWS
2 27 (21.77%) GCP
3 25 (20.16%) dbt
4 22 (17.74%) Snowflake
5 11 (8.87%) Azure
6 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.23%) GitHub
8 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.42%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.42%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.81%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) 5G
2 3 (2.42%) Firewall
2 3 (2.42%) VPN
3 2 (1.61%) Wireless
4 1 (0.81%) BGP
4 1 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.81%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.81%) IPsec
4 1 (0.81%) LAN
4 1 (0.81%) OSPF
4 1 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.81%) WAN
4 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.16%) Amazon Athena
1 25 (20.16%) Apache Arrow
1 25 (20.16%) Dremio
2 24 (19.35%) Apache Ignite
3 22 (17.74%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.23%) Power BI
6 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) JIRA
2 2 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) Hudson
3 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) Selenium
3 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (25.81%) Finance
2 28 (22.58%) Front Office
3 26 (20.97%) Banking
4 24 (19.35%) Investment Banking
5 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
6 14 (11.29%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.61%) Electronics
9 2 (1.61%) Games
9 2 (1.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.16%) gRPC
1 25 (20.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 24 (19.35%) NumPy
2 24 (19.35%) Pandas
2 24 (19.35%) SciPy
3 8 (6.45%) .NET
4 3 (2.42%) CSS
4 3 (2.42%) HTML
4 3 (2.42%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.61%) ADO
5 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.61%) React
6 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.81%) Redux
6 1 (0.81%) REST
6 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.97%) Fixed Income
2 25 (20.16%) Derivative
2 25 (20.16%) Equities
2 25 (20.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (20.16%) Hedge funds
3 7 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.84%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.61%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.03%) Windows
2 3 (2.42%) Linux
3 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.65%) Agile
2 31 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 26 (20.97%) Asset Management
4 24 (19.35%) Line Management
5 19 (15.32%) Investment Management
6 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.06%) DevOps
8 8 (6.45%) Workflow
9 7 (5.65%) Configuration Management
9 7 (5.65%) Conflict Management
9 7 (5.65%) PLM
9 7 (5.65%) SIEM
9 7 (5.65%) Time Management
10 5 (4.03%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (4.03%) Mentoring
10 5 (4.03%) TDD
11 4 (3.23%) Defect Management
11 4 (3.23%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (3.23%) Test Automation
12 3 (2.42%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.81%) Java
2 29 (23.39%) JavaScript
2 29 (23.39%) Python
3 28 (22.58%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.52%) SQL
5 7 (5.65%) C#
6 6 (4.84%) Ruby
7 4 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.42%) C
8 3 (2.42%) C++
9 2 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (7.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.45%) Degree
3 7 (5.65%) CISSP
3 7 (5.65%) NVQ Level 3
4 6 (4.84%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.81%) SCCM
3 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) Splunk
3 7 (5.65%) Siemens
4 2 (1.61%) Darktrace
4 2 (1.61%) FireEye
4 2 (1.61%) LogRhythm
4 2 (1.61%) OpenLink
4 2 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Apple
5 1 (0.81%) Charles River
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco
5 1 (0.81%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.81%) FactSet
5 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.81%) Juniper
5 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.81%) Sophos
5 1 (0.81%) Sybase
5 1 (0.81%) VMware