Lead Contracts in England

Leader
UK > England

The median Leader daily rate in England is £590 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 30 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 2,164 2,757 4,154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.82% 5.86% 5.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.27% 6.20% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 1,897 2,932
10th Percentile £400 £406 £410
25th Percentile £500 £510 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £584
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +2.74% +7.16%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 54 56
10th Percentile £15.00 £22.75 £24.86
25th Percentile £26.75 £41.25 £32.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.95% +61.54%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £69.92 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.13 £55.00 £47.30
% change year-on-year -21.58% +16.28% +63.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in England

Lead
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +3 1,095 £613 -2.00% 629
North of England +1 274 £582 +3.47% 379
South East 0 257 £550 -4.35% 259
South West +14 241 £569 -9.00% 204
Midlands +3 168 £550 -4.35% 253
North West 0 162 £585 +6.36% 215
West Midlands +9 127 £563 -5.86% 142
Yorkshire +2 101 £575 -4.17% 125
East of England -15 71 £513 -14.58% 146
East Midlands +5 40 £308 -45.09% 110
North East +14 13 £533 -0.93% 42
South Coast - 1 - -
Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 577 (26.66%) Finance
2 495 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 481 (22.23%) Agile
4 363 (16.77%) Security Cleared
5 286 (13.22%) Azure
6 275 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 271 (12.52%) DevOps
8 270 (12.48%) SC Cleared
9 264 (12.20%) AWS
10 254 (11.74%) Microsoft
11 234 (10.81%) Project Management
12 221 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
13 218 (10.07%) Python
14 216 (9.98%) SAP
15 197 (9.10%) Java
16 190 (8.78%) CI/CD
17 185 (8.55%) Public Sector
18 177 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
19 170 (7.86%) Degree
20 164 (7.58%) Software Engineering
21 163 (7.53%) Migration
22 155 (7.16%) Banking
23 139 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
24 138 (6.38%) JavaScript
25 136 (6.28%) SQL
26 134 (6.19%) Mentoring
27 130 (6.01%) QA
28 129 (5.96%) C#
29 126 (5.82%) Roadmaps
30 125 (5.78%) Analytics

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 58 (2.68%) Apache
2 56 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.88%) Confluence
5 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.51%) CMS
8 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) JBoss
10 3 (0.14%) SAS
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.092%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.046%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.046%) Drupal
12 1 (0.046%) Mule
12 1 (0.046%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 75 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.37%) CATIA
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
8 4 (0.18%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) SPSS
10 2 (0.092%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.046%) Revit
11 1 (0.046%) Simulink
11 1 (0.046%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 108 (4.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.55%) SAP MDG
4 11 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.46%) ION Anvil
5 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.42%) DELMIA
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.37%) SAP MM
7 8 (0.37%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 7 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.32%) Shopify
9 6 (0.28%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 286 (13.22%) Azure
2 264 (12.20%) AWS
3 88 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
4 86 (3.97%) Snowflake
5 75 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (3.47%) GCP
6 74 (3.42%) Power Platform
7 58 (2.68%) dbt
8 53 (2.45%) Serverless
9 43 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 35 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (1.43%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.39%) SaaS
14 29 (1.34%) Azure API Management
15 27 (1.25%) PowerApps
16 26 (1.20%) PaaS
16 26 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
17 25 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.45%) Firewall
2 51 (2.36%) VPN
3 24 (1.11%) WAN
4 20 (0.92%) 5G
5 17 (0.79%) LAN
6 15 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.42%) DNS
7 9 (0.42%) SSL
7 9 (0.42%) Wireless
8 8 (0.37%) FTP
8 8 (0.37%) Network Security
9 4 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.18%) MPLS
9 4 (0.18%) SMS
9 4 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.18%) VoIP
10 3 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.14%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (3.37%) Data Lake
2 62 (2.87%) Power BI
3 59 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 57 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (2.31%) Apache Arrow
6 49 (2.26%) Dremio
7 48 (2.22%) Apache Ignite
8 31 (1.43%) Relational Database
9 29 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (1.29%) Tableau
11 25 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (0.79%) Big Data
13 17 (0.79%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.51%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.51%) MySQL
16 10 (0.46%) SAP BW
16 10 (0.46%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 85 (3.93%) JIRA
2 73 (3.37%) Git
3 46 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.02%) GitLab
5 20 (0.92%) Selenium
6 17 (0.79%) JMeter
7 13 (0.60%) JUnit
7 13 (0.60%) webpack
8 12 (0.55%) Postman
9 10 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.46%) LoadRunner
10 9 (0.42%) LSMW
11 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.37%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.32%) NeoLoad
13 6 (0.28%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.28%) Katalon Studio
General
1 577 (26.66%) Finance
2 495 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 185 (8.55%) Public Sector
4 177 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (7.16%) Banking
6 84 (3.88%) Marketing
7 76 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 71 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 70 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 67 (3.10%) Retail
11 65 (3.00%) Front Office
11 65 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (2.26%) Legal
13 39 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 36 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (1.43%) Back Office
17 28 (1.29%) Billing
18 24 (1.11%) Local Government
19 23 (1.06%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (4.67%) .NET
2 74 (3.42%) Node.js
2 74 (3.42%) React
3 50 (2.31%) Protocol Buffers
4 49 (2.26%) gRPC
4 49 (2.26%) Pandas
5 48 (2.22%) NumPy
5 48 (2.22%) SciPy
6 47 (2.17%) CSS
7 44 (2.03%) Spring Boot
8 39 (1.80%) Kafka
9 38 (1.76%) HTML
9 38 (1.76%) Spring
10 35 (1.62%) .NET Core
11 33 (1.52%) Web Services
12 32 (1.48%) AngularJS
13 26 (1.20%) XML
14 25 (1.16%) REST
15 19 (0.88%) PySpark
15 19 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 73 (3.37%) Product Ownership
2 66 (3.05%) Derivative
2 66 (3.05%) Fixed Income
3 57 (2.63%) Equities
4 56 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 53 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 47 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.25%) Data Centre
12 25 (1.16%) FMCG
13 19 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
14 18 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
15 16 (0.74%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.74%) NHS
16 15 (0.69%) Credit Risk
17 14 (0.65%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 98 (4.53%) Windows
2 72 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 69 (3.19%) Linux
4 68 (3.14%) Android
5 42 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.43%) Unix
7 10 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.28%) CentOS
9 6 (0.28%) VMS
10 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.14%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (22.23%) Agile
2 275 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (12.52%) DevOps
4 234 (10.81%) Project Management
5 221 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (8.78%) CI/CD
7 164 (7.58%) Software Engineering
8 163 (7.53%) Migration
9 139 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 134 (6.19%) Mentoring
11 126 (5.82%) Roadmaps
12 125 (5.78%) Analytics
13 118 (5.45%) Project Delivery
14 99 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
14 99 (4.57%) ERP
14 99 (4.57%) Test Automation
15 97 (4.48%) Change Management
16 96 (4.44%) Decision-Making
16 96 (4.44%) Technical Leadership
17 88 (4.07%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 218 (10.07%) Python
2 197 (9.10%) Java
3 138 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 136 (6.28%) SQL
5 129 (5.96%) C#
6 103 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 42 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 23 (1.06%) C
9 22 (1.02%) C++
10 21 (0.97%) Scala
11 19 (0.88%) Bash
12 16 (0.74%) Bicep
13 15 (0.69%) Ruby
14 12 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.46%) Go
15 10 (0.46%) PHP
15 10 (0.46%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.42%) Groovy
16 9 (0.42%) Swift
17 5 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 363 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 270 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 170 (7.86%) Degree
4 100 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 42 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.34%) CISSP
8 25 (1.16%) APMP
9 19 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.83%) CISM
11 16 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.65%) PMP
13 11 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.42%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.42%) CISA
14 9 (0.42%) ISACA
14 9 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.37%) SAP Certification
15 8 (0.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.01%) QA
2 92 (4.25%) PMO
3 72 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.08%) NIST
5 33 (1.52%) SLA
6 22 (1.02%) JSP 440
7 21 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.88%) GDPR
8 19 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.83%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.69%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.65%) GRC
12 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.18%) GAAP
14 4 (0.18%) NCSC
14 4 (0.18%) WCAG
15 3 (0.14%) GxP
15 3 (0.14%) ITGC
15 3 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 51 (2.36%) Docker
2 34 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.18%) Firmware
7 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.18%) vSphere
8 3 (0.14%) XenApp
8 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) Ceph
10 1 (0.046%) Lustre
10 1 (0.046%) NFS
10 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 85 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.14%) Terraform
3 39 (1.80%) Ansible
4 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.65%) Grafana
6 11 (0.51%) Kibana
7 10 (0.46%) logstash
8 9 (0.42%) Puppet
9 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.37%) SCCM
10 6 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.14%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.14%) Argo
13 3 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.14%) VxRail
14 2 (0.092%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.092%) vRealize
Vendors
1 254 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 216 (9.98%) SAP
3 59 (2.73%) Oracle
4 50 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 41 (1.89%) Databricks
6 33 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.20%) Google
8 24 (1.11%) Splunk
9 22 (1.02%) Informatica
9 22 (1.02%) VMware
10 20 (0.92%) Alteryx
11 18 (0.83%) Workday
12 17 (0.79%) Apple
12 17 (0.79%) IBM
13 16 (0.74%) Virgin Media
14 14 (0.65%) Pega
15 13 (0.60%) Cisco
16 11 (0.51%) Adobe
16 11 (0.51%) Cadence
17 10 (0.46%) ION Trading