Lead Contracts in the North West

Leader
England > North West

The median Leader daily rate in the North West is £585 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 27 27 32
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 162 181 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.83% 6.01% 6.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.16% 6.34% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 119 197
10th Percentile £375 £392 £350
25th Percentile £463 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +12.24% +15.29%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £556
90th Percentile £850 £700 £710
England median daily rate £590 £600 £584
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.74% +7.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 10
10th Percentile - - £35.45
25th Percentile - £10.09 £39.70
Median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% -27.75% -19.73%
75th Percentile £22.25 £43.75 £76.88
90th Percentile £34.00 £45.69 £77.85
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +30.95% +61.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,631 2,854 3,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 94.72% 96.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,629 2,025 2,844
10th Percentile £268 £300 £219
25th Percentile £385 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £575
90th Percentile £673 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 132 164
10th Percentile £11.71 £14.56 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.17 £17.72 £15.30
Median hourly rate £32.95 £29.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% +17.17% +37.50%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £51.95
90th Percentile £71.87 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North West

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North West

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West 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
Manchester +5 100 £623 +14.22% 117
Cheshire -9 26 £580 -1.02% 33
Lancashire +5 14 £400 -23.81% 39
Cumbria -3 12 £582 +8.18% 7
Merseyside +5 10 £363 -34.09% 24
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 North West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 48 (29.63%) Agile
2 43 (26.54%) DevOps
3 42 (25.93%) Security Cleared
4 41 (25.31%) SC Cleared
5 37 (22.84%) Windows
5 37 (22.84%) CI/CD
6 35 (21.60%) Node.js
7 34 (20.99%) Apple iOS
8 32 (19.75%) Risk Management
9 30 (18.52%) Firewall
9 30 (18.52%) VPN
9 30 (18.52%) Mobile Device Management
9 30 (18.52%) Android
9 30 (18.52%) Windows Server
10 29 (17.90%) Threat Intelligence
10 29 (17.90%) Social Skills
11 28 (17.28%) Zero Trust
11 28 (17.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 28 (17.28%) Public Cloud
11 28 (17.28%) Security Architecture
12 27 (16.67%) AWS
12 27 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (16.05%) Design Patterns
14 23 (14.20%) Finance
15 21 (12.96%) Azure
15 21 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (12.35%) Microsoft
17 18 (11.11%) Microservices
18 16 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
18 16 (9.88%) Roadmaps

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.62%) Apache
2 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (4.94%) CATIA
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.94%) DELMIA
1 8 (4.94%) SAP S/4HANA
1 8 (4.94%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.23%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.23%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.67%) AWS
2 21 (12.96%) Azure
3 10 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.94%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.94%) Serverless
5 7 (4.32%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (3.70%) GCP
6 6 (3.70%) Route 53
6 6 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.09%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (18.52%) Firewall
1 30 (18.52%) VPN
2 4 (2.47%) 5G
3 2 (1.23%) DNS
3 2 (1.23%) PPP
4 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.94%) Power BI
3 6 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.47%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.85%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.85%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.23%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.23%) DB2
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) Git
2 7 (4.32%) GitLab
3 6 (3.70%) webpack
4 5 (3.09%) Hudson
5 3 (1.85%) LSMW
6 2 (1.23%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.23%) JIRA
6 2 (1.23%) JUnit
7 1 (0.62%) JMeter
7 1 (0.62%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.20%) Finance
3 14 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.32%) Legal
5 6 (3.70%) Banking
5 6 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.85%) Retail
8 2 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Automotive
8 2 (1.23%) Billing
8 2 (1.23%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.60%) Node.js
2 10 (6.17%) React
3 6 (3.70%) Express.js
3 6 (3.70%) Redux
4 5 (3.09%) .NET
5 4 (2.47%) REST
6 3 (1.85%) BAPI
6 3 (1.85%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.85%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.23%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.23%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.23%) JPA
7 2 (1.23%) Kafka
7 2 (1.23%) Laravel
7 2 (1.23%) Middleware
7 2 (1.23%) Spring
7 2 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.28%) Public Cloud
2 12 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.09%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.23%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.62%) NHS
7 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.84%) Windows
2 34 (20.99%) Apple iOS
3 30 (18.52%) Android
3 30 (18.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.32%) Linux
5 4 (2.47%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.85%) zOS
7 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.63%) Agile
2 43 (26.54%) DevOps
3 37 (22.84%) CI/CD
4 32 (19.75%) Risk Management
5 30 (18.52%) Mobile Device Management
6 29 (17.90%) Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.28%) Security Architecture
7 28 (17.28%) Zero Trust
8 27 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (16.05%) Design Patterns
10 21 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (11.11%) Microservices
12 16 (9.88%) Roadmaps
12 16 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (8.64%) ETL
14 12 (7.41%) Business Case
15 11 (6.79%) Containerisation
15 11 (6.79%) Product Strategy
15 11 (6.79%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.88%) SQL
2 8 (4.94%) Python
3 7 (4.32%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.70%) Java
5 5 (3.09%) C#
6 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.23%) PHP
8 2 (1.23%) Scala
9 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.85%) Degree
4 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.79%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.79%) QA
2 10 (6.17%) SLA
3 4 (2.47%) GRC
3 4 (2.47%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) COSO
4 2 (1.23%) ISO 31000
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.23%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (2.47%) Docker
2 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.62%) Grafana
3 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.79%) SAP
3 8 (4.94%) Siemens
4 5 (3.09%) Apple
4 5 (3.09%) Google
4 5 (3.09%) Informatica
4 5 (3.09%) Pega
4 5 (3.09%) Sophos
5 4 (2.47%) Databricks
6 3 (1.85%) F5
7 2 (1.23%) CA
7 2 (1.23%) Cadence
7 2 (1.23%) Facebook
7 2 (1.23%) IDERA
7 2 (1.23%) Instagram
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle
8 1 (0.62%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.62%) Citrix
8 1 (0.62%) IBM
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce