Lead Contracts in the North of England

Leader
England > North of England

The median Leader daily rate in the North of England is £582 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 28 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 268 316 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.65% 5.74% 5.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.08% 6.01% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 192 313
10th Percentile £413 £400 £303
25th Percentile £500 £474 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £569 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +13.75% +5.60%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £575
90th Percentile £850 £743 £685
England median daily rate £588 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.92% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 10
10th Percentile - £10.09 £35.45
25th Percentile - £15.67 £39.70
Median hourly rate £15.00 £40.59 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year -63.05% -16.21% +85.56%
75th Percentile £24.63 £44.97 £76.88
90th Percentile £46.18 £57.05 £77.85
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,410 5,258 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.43% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,683 5,047
10th Percentile £263 £270 £204
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £598 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 163 272
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.05 £11.35
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.70 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +45.32% +11.99%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.62 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.60 £62.70
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the North of England

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West +2 161 £585 +6.36% 213
Yorkshire -1 96 £575 -4.17% 110
North East +13 12 £533 -14.80% 48
Lead
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 65 (24.25%) Agile
2 61 (22.76%) Security Cleared
3 59 (22.01%) DevOps
4 58 (21.64%) Social Skills
5 48 (17.91%) SC Cleared
6 47 (17.54%) CI/CD
7 45 (16.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (16.42%) Microsoft
8 44 (16.42%) AWS
9 43 (16.04%) Finance
10 41 (15.30%) Windows
11 37 (13.81%) Threat Intelligence
12 36 (13.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 35 (13.06%) Node.js
14 34 (12.69%) Apple iOS
14 34 (12.69%) Azure
15 33 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (11.94%) Risk Management
17 30 (11.19%) Firewall
17 30 (11.19%) VPN
17 30 (11.19%) Android
17 30 (11.19%) Mobile Device Management
17 30 (11.19%) Windows Server
18 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
19 28 (10.45%) Public Cloud
19 28 (10.45%) Security Architecture
19 28 (10.45%) Zero Trust
20 26 (9.70%) Design Patterns
21 24 (8.96%) Project Management
22 23 (8.58%) Python

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (0.75%) Apache
1 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.99%) CATIA
1 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Sketch
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (6.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.99%) DELMIA
2 8 (2.99%) Teamcenter
3 7 (2.61%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.75%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.75%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.75%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP AFS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.37%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.42%) AWS
2 34 (12.69%) Azure
3 18 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.85%) Amazon S3
4 13 (4.85%) Serverless
5 11 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.36%) GCP
7 8 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.99%) PowerApps
8 7 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.24%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.24%) Route 53
10 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.19%) Firewall
1 30 (11.19%) VPN
2 8 (2.99%) 5G
3 4 (1.49%) SSL
4 2 (0.75%) DNS
4 2 (0.75%) PPP
5 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.37%) RTP
5 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
5 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.72%) Power BI
2 13 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.49%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.49%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.12%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.12%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.75%) DB2
7 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.75%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.60%) Git
2 7 (2.61%) GitLab
3 6 (2.24%) JIRA
3 6 (2.24%) webpack
4 5 (1.87%) Hudson
5 4 (1.49%) JUnit
6 3 (1.12%) JMeter
6 3 (1.12%) LSMW
7 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.75%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.04%) Finance
3 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.48%) Legal
5 12 (4.48%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.10%) Banking
7 7 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Law
10 4 (1.49%) Marketing
10 4 (1.49%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Automotive
12 2 (0.75%) Billing
12 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.06%) Node.js
2 11 (4.10%) React
3 7 (2.61%) Kafka
3 7 (2.61%) PyTorch
3 7 (2.61%) TensorFlow
4 6 (2.24%) .NET
4 6 (2.24%) Express.js
4 6 (2.24%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (2.24%) Redux
4 6 (2.24%) REST
5 5 (1.87%) Spring
5 5 (1.87%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.49%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (1.49%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.49%) JPA
7 3 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.12%) BAPI
8 2 (0.75%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.75%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.75%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.45%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 8 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.24%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.49%) NHS
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.75%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.37%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.30%) Windows
2 34 (12.69%) Apple iOS
3 30 (11.19%) Android
3 30 (11.19%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.85%) Linux
5 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.12%) zOS
7 1 (0.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.25%) Agile
2 59 (22.01%) DevOps
3 47 (17.54%) CI/CD
4 45 (16.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (13.81%) Threat Intelligence
6 36 (13.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 33 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (11.94%) Risk Management
9 30 (11.19%) Mobile Device Management
10 28 (10.45%) Security Architecture
10 28 (10.45%) Zero Trust
11 26 (9.70%) Design Patterns
12 24 (8.96%) Project Management
13 23 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (7.84%) Mentoring
15 20 (7.46%) Microservices
16 18 (6.72%) ERP
16 18 (6.72%) Roadmaps
17 17 (6.34%) Migration
18 16 (5.97%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.58%) Python
2 21 (7.84%) SQL
3 13 (4.85%) Java
4 9 (3.36%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.99%) C#
6 7 (2.61%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.24%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.75%) Bash
8 2 (0.75%) Groovy
8 2 (0.75%) PHP
8 2 (0.75%) Scala
9 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.60%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.24%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.49%) Degree
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.22%) NIST
2 13 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.48%) QA
4 10 (3.73%) NIST 800
4 10 (3.73%) SLA
5 6 (2.24%) PMO
6 4 (1.49%) GDPR
6 4 (1.49%) GRC
7 2 (0.75%) COSO
7 2 (0.75%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (2.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.24%) Ansible
4 5 (1.87%) Terraform
5 2 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 44 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.58%) SAP
3 8 (2.99%) Google
3 8 (2.99%) Siemens
4 6 (2.24%) Informatica
5 5 (1.87%) Apple
5 5 (1.87%) IBM
5 5 (1.87%) Pega
5 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.87%) Sophos
5 5 (1.87%) Splunk
6 4 (1.49%) Databricks
6 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.49%) Solace
7 3 (1.12%) F5
8 2 (0.75%) CA
8 2 (0.75%) Facebook
8 2 (0.75%) IDERA
8 2 (0.75%) Instagram
8 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud