Lead Contracts in the Midlands

Leader
England > Midlands

The median Leader daily rate in the Midlands is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 26 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 149 194 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.34% 5.97% 5.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.79% 6.32% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 149 197
10th Percentile £251 £405 £358
25th Percentile £400 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £638
90th Percentile £808 £751 £738
England median daily rate £588 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.92% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £22.68 - £22.90
25th Percentile £27.63 £22.00 £26.13
Median hourly rate £39.00 £24.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -27.27% -30.53%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £62.88 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% +57.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,572 3,071 4,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 94.52% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,168 3,508
10th Percentile £213 £228 £212
25th Percentile £336 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +1.60% +15.43%
75th Percentile £587 £594 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 155
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +15.31% +18.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.63
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the Midlands

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +5 115 £575 -2.13% 150
East Midlands -2 33 £210 -62.50% 113
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Midlands region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 49 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.48%) Finance
3 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (14.09%) Migration
5 19 (12.75%) Agile
6 18 (12.08%) Degree
7 16 (10.74%) Data Migration
7 16 (10.74%) ERP
8 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (9.40%) SAP
8 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
9 13 (8.72%) Microsoft
9 13 (8.72%) Security Cleared
10 12 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (7.38%) Roadmaps
11 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
12 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
12 10 (6.71%) Time Management
12 10 (6.71%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (6.04%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (6.04%) Salesforce
14 8 (5.37%) Oracle
14 8 (5.37%) Azure
14 8 (5.37%) Data Quality
14 8 (5.37%) Business Transformation
14 8 (5.37%) NVQ Level 3
14 8 (5.37%) SAP S/4HANA
14 8 (5.37%) Conflict Management
14 8 (5.37%) Customer Service

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.67%) Revit
3 1 (0.67%) Simulink
3 1 (0.67%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (5.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.36%) NetSuite
3 3 (2.01%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.34%) Maximo
4 2 (1.34%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.71%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (5.37%) Azure
3 4 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.68%) OCI
3 4 (2.68%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (2.01%) PaaS
5 2 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (1.34%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.34%) SaaS
5 2 (1.34%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Serverless
5 2 (1.34%) SonarCloud
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.67%) IaaS
6 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.67%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) 5G
1 4 (2.68%) MPLS
1 4 (2.68%) WAN
2 3 (2.01%) BGP
2 3 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (2.01%) IPsec
2 3 (2.01%) Junos
2 3 (2.01%) LAN
3 2 (1.34%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.34%) SMS
3 2 (1.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) Firewall
4 1 (0.67%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.01%) Power BI
1 3 (2.01%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Git
2 2 (1.34%) JIRA
2 2 (1.34%) Moq
2 2 (1.34%) NUnit
3 1 (0.67%) LSMW
3 1 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.67%) Selenium
3 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 49 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.48%) Finance
3 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.70%) Automotive
5 7 (4.70%) Retail
6 6 (4.03%) Marketing
7 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.68%) Local Government
8 4 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.01%) Games
9 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.01%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Billing
11 1 (0.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.03%) .NET
2 4 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.01%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (2.01%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.34%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.34%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.34%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (1.34%) CSS
4 2 (1.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.67%) Flash
5 1 (0.67%) Kafka
5 1 (0.67%) Laravel
5 1 (0.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.67%) OpenMP
5 1 (0.67%) RAML
5 1 (0.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.67%) Spring
5 1 (0.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.01%) FMCG
4 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.34%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.34%) DataPower
5 2 (1.34%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Linux
1 4 (2.68%) Windows
2 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (14.09%) Migration
3 19 (12.75%) Agile
4 16 (10.74%) Data Migration
4 16 (10.74%) ERP
5 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (7.38%) Roadmaps
7 10 (6.71%) Time Management
8 9 (6.04%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (5.37%) Business Transformation
9 8 (5.37%) Conflict Management
9 8 (5.37%) Customer Service
10 7 (4.70%) Decision-Making
10 7 (4.70%) ITIL
10 7 (4.70%) Workflow
11 6 (4.03%) CRM
11 6 (4.03%) Project Management
11 6 (4.03%) Service Delivery
11 6 (4.03%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (4.03%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.70%) Java
2 6 (4.03%) SQL
3 4 (2.68%) C#
3 4 (2.68%) Ruby
4 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.67%) PHP
5 1 (0.67%) ProC
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Degree
2 13 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.37%) NVQ Level 3
5 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.34%) CCNP
5 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) ACCA
6 1 (0.67%) CCNA
6 1 (0.67%) ISEB
6 1 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.67%) PMP
6 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.03%) SLA
3 4 (2.68%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) GRC
4 3 (2.01%) ITGC
5 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.67%) Lustre
2 1 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.34%) VxRail
3 1 (0.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.67%) Kibana
3 1 (0.67%) logstash
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) SCCM
3 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (9.40%) SAP
2 13 (8.72%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.04%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.37%) Oracle
5 5 (3.36%) IBM
6 4 (2.68%) Cisco
6 4 (2.68%) Informatica
7 3 (2.01%) Juniper
7 3 (2.01%) Sage
7 3 (2.01%) VMware
7 3 (2.01%) Workday
8 2 (1.34%) Apple
8 2 (1.34%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.34%) FireEye
8 2 (1.34%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.34%) Marketo
8 2 (1.34%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.34%) NEC
8 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.34%) Splunk