Lead Contracts in London

Leader
England > London

The median Leader daily rate in London is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 34 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 1,086 1,570 2,397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.20% 6.14% 6.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.62% 6.45% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 1,115 1,704
10th Percentile £425 £454 £450
25th Percentile £513 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £745 £725 £725
90th Percentile £857 £823 £813
England median daily rate £588 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.56% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 14
10th Percentile - £31.85 £21.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £28.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.25 £48.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% -11.09% +32.38%
75th Percentile £62.19 £52.24 £72.92
90th Percentile £71.88 £54.03 £77.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +30.95% +57.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in London

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London 0 129 £625 -4.21% 61
West London +18 28 £575 -11.54% 35
South London +6 13 £550 -4.35% 7
East London -6 8 £585 -9.03% 25
North London +4 4 £375 -37.50% 7
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 340 (31.31%) Finance
2 296 (27.26%) Agile
3 220 (20.26%) Social Skills
4 178 (16.39%) Azure
5 176 (16.21%) AWS
6 159 (14.64%) Python
7 153 (14.09%) DevOps
8 144 (13.26%) Java
9 128 (11.79%) Banking
10 115 (10.59%) Microsoft
10 115 (10.59%) CI/CD
11 114 (10.50%) Software Engineering
12 106 (9.76%) JavaScript
13 103 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 95 (8.75%) C#
16 93 (8.56%) Project Management
17 90 (8.29%) SAP
17 90 (8.29%) QA
18 88 (8.10%) Public Sector
19 85 (7.83%) Security Cleared
20 84 (7.73%) SQL
21 82 (7.55%) TypeScript
22 80 (7.37%) Mentoring
22 80 (7.37%) SC Cleared
23 77 (7.09%) Degree
24 74 (6.81%) Test Automation
25 72 (6.63%) .NET
26 70 (6.45%) Migration
26 70 (6.45%) Analytics

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 50 (4.60%) Apache
2 49 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.29%) Confluence
4 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.74%) CMS
7 6 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 2 (0.18%) SAS
11 1 (0.092%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.092%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.092%) IIS
11 1 (0.092%) Mule
11 1 (0.092%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.28%) SPSS
6 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.092%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.092%) Sketch
7 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.092%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 47 (4.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.92%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.74%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.64%) Shopify
6 6 (0.55%) ION MarketView
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.46%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.37%) Endur
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle AGIS
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.18%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
10 2 (0.18%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 178 (16.39%) Azure
2 176 (16.21%) AWS
3 59 (5.43%) GCP
4 55 (5.06%) Snowflake
5 52 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
6 50 (4.60%) dbt
7 35 (3.22%) Serverless
8 34 (3.13%) Power Platform
9 30 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (2.30%) Azure API Management
11 21 (1.93%) SaaS
12 20 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.66%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (1.29%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (1.20%) PowerApps
18 12 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.10%) Firewall
2 8 (0.74%) FTP
2 8 (0.74%) WAN
2 8 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (0.64%) 5G
4 6 (0.55%) VPN
5 5 (0.46%) LAN
5 5 (0.46%) SSL
5 5 (0.46%) Wireless
6 4 (0.37%) DNS
7 3 (0.28%) Broadband
7 3 (0.28%) IP Telephony
7 3 (0.28%) Network Security
7 3 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.18%) SNA
8 2 (0.18%) VSAN
9 1 (0.092%) DHCP
9 1 (0.092%) Intranet
9 1 (0.092%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.52%) Data Lake
2 51 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
3 44 (4.05%) Apache Arrow
3 44 (4.05%) Dremio
4 43 (3.96%) Apache Ignite
5 36 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.39%) Power BI
7 23 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 21 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.38%) Big Data
11 14 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.74%) MySQL
14 8 (0.74%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.64%) Power Query
16 6 (0.55%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (4.51%) Git
2 43 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.68%) JIRA
4 14 (1.29%) Selenium
5 11 (1.01%) GitLab
5 11 (1.01%) JMeter
5 11 (1.01%) Postman
6 10 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.83%) LoadRunner
8 8 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.64%) JUnit
9 7 (0.64%) webpack
10 6 (0.55%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.55%) NeoLoad
11 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.46%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (0.46%) Maven
11 5 (0.46%) MLflow
11 5 (0.46%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.37%) LSMW
General
1 340 (31.31%) Finance
2 220 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 128 (11.79%) Banking
4 88 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 66 (6.08%) Investment Banking
6 60 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 60 (5.52%) Front Office
7 46 (4.24%) Marketing
7 46 (4.24%) Retail
8 31 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.67%) Back Office
10 25 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.84%) Legal
12 19 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.75%) Law
13 17 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.83%) Local Government
17 8 (0.74%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.63%) .NET
2 46 (4.24%) React
3 45 (4.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 44 (4.05%) gRPC
4 44 (4.05%) Pandas
5 43 (3.96%) NumPy
5 43 (3.96%) SciPy
6 37 (3.41%) CSS
7 31 (2.85%) .NET Core
8 28 (2.58%) Spring Boot
9 27 (2.49%) HTML
9 27 (2.49%) Kafka
9 27 (2.49%) Spring
10 24 (2.21%) XML
11 21 (1.93%) Web Services
12 20 (1.84%) AngularJS
12 20 (1.84%) Node.js
13 17 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (1.38%) REST
15 12 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 61 (5.62%) Derivative
1 61 (5.62%) Fixed Income
2 52 (4.79%) Equities
3 51 (4.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 49 (4.51%) Hedge funds
5 42 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.66%) FMCG
9 17 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.64%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.55%) PMI
16 5 (0.46%) FPGA
16 5 (0.46%) Public Cloud
16 5 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.68%) Linux
2 26 (2.39%) Windows
3 25 (2.30%) Android
3 25 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 21 (1.93%) Unix
5 8 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.55%) CentOS
7 4 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.092%) AIX
10 1 (0.092%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (27.26%) Agile
2 153 (14.09%) DevOps
3 115 (10.59%) CI/CD
4 114 (10.50%) Software Engineering
5 103 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
6 102 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 93 (8.56%) Project Management
8 80 (7.37%) Mentoring
9 74 (6.81%) Test Automation
10 70 (6.45%) Analytics
10 70 (6.45%) Migration
11 64 (5.89%) Roadmaps
12 61 (5.62%) Scrum
13 59 (5.43%) Test Strategy
14 58 (5.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (5.16%) Asset Management
16 55 (5.06%) Technical Leadership
17 52 (4.79%) Data Protection
18 50 (4.60%) TDD
19 49 (4.51%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (14.64%) Python
2 144 (13.26%) Java
3 106 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 95 (8.75%) C#
5 84 (7.73%) SQL
6 82 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 17 (1.57%) Scala
8 16 (1.47%) Bicep
8 16 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 15 (1.38%) Bash
10 10 (0.92%) C
11 9 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.74%) C++
12 8 (0.74%) Go
12 8 (0.74%) Ruby
12 8 (0.74%) Swift
13 7 (0.64%) Groovy
14 5 (0.46%) Rust
15 4 (0.37%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 85 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 80 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.09%) Degree
4 32 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.57%) CISSP
7 11 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.83%) PMP
10 7 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.55%) CISM
11 6 (0.55%) ISEB
12 5 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.46%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.37%) CIMA
13 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (8.29%) QA
2 41 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.50%) PMO
4 13 (1.20%) NIST
5 11 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.92%) SLA
7 9 (0.83%) GDPR
7 9 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.55%) GRC
9 4 (0.37%) GAAP
9 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.28%) P3O
10 3 (0.28%) WCAG
11 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.18%) MiFID
12 1 (0.092%) COBIT
12 1 (0.092%) GMP
12 1 (0.092%) GxP
12 1 (0.092%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 33 (3.04%) Docker
2 22 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.28%) Firmware
6 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.092%) Ceph
8 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.092%) NFS
8 1 (0.092%) XenApp
8 1 (0.092%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.59%) Terraform
3 25 (2.30%) Ansible
4 13 (1.20%) Grafana
5 10 (0.92%) Kibana
6 9 (0.83%) logstash
7 8 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.55%) Puppet
9 5 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.18%) SCCM
11 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.18%) vRealize
12 1 (0.092%) CA Service Virtualization
12 1 (0.092%) SCOM
12 1 (0.092%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 115 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.29%) SAP
3 37 (3.41%) Oracle
4 30 (2.76%) Databricks
5 28 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.38%) Google
7 13 (1.20%) Workday
8 12 (1.10%) Virgin Media
9 10 (0.92%) ION Trading
9 10 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.83%) Splunk
11 8 (0.74%) Pega
11 8 (0.74%) Yardi
12 7 (0.64%) Adobe
12 7 (0.64%) Cisco
12 7 (0.64%) VMware
13 6 (0.55%) Cadence
13 6 (0.55%) IBM
13 6 (0.55%) Murex
13 6 (0.55%) Red Hat