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 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 25 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 161 179 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.88% 5.91% 6.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.21% 6.22% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 115 195
10th Percentile £375 £390 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £566
90th Percentile £850 £700 £715
England median daily rate £588 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.92% +6.00%
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 £60.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% +57.60%

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 2,591 2,877 3,911
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 94.92% 96.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 2,039 2,853
10th Percentile £272 £300 £213
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 131 164
10th Percentile £11.13 £14.55 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.06 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%
75th Percentile £48.00 £45.62 £52.60
90th Percentile £71.02 £66.00 £75.00
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 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 1 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 1 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 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
Manchester +7 101 £625 +13.64% 116
Cheshire -9 25 £580 -1.02% 31
Lancashire +6 13 £400 -31.91% 44
Cumbria -3 12 £582 +8.18% 6
Merseyside +9 10 £363 -34.09% 21
Lead
England

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

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 West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 49 (30.43%) Agile
2 41 (25.47%) Security Cleared
3 40 (24.84%) SC Cleared
3 40 (24.84%) DevOps
4 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
4 37 (22.98%) Windows
5 35 (21.74%) Node.js
6 34 (21.12%) Apple iOS
7 32 (19.88%) Risk Management
8 30 (18.63%) Firewall
8 30 (18.63%) VPN
8 30 (18.63%) Android
8 30 (18.63%) Mobile Device Management
8 30 (18.63%) Windows Server
9 29 (18.01%) Threat Intelligence
10 28 (17.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 28 (17.39%) Public Cloud
10 28 (17.39%) Zero Trust
10 28 (17.39%) Security Architecture
11 26 (16.15%) AWS
11 26 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (16.15%) Design Patterns
12 25 (15.53%) Social Skills
13 23 (14.29%) Finance
14 20 (12.42%) Azure
15 19 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (11.80%) Microsoft
16 18 (11.18%) Microservices
17 16 (9.94%) SQL
18 15 (9.32%) Technical Leadership

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 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.62%) Apache
2 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (4.97%) CATIA
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.97%) DELMIA
1 8 (4.97%) Teamcenter
2 5 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.15%) AWS
2 20 (12.42%) Azure
3 10 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.97%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.97%) Serverless
5 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (3.73%) GCP
6 6 (3.73%) Route 53
6 6 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.11%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.11%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (18.63%) Firewall
1 30 (18.63%) VPN
2 4 (2.48%) 5G
3 2 (1.24%) DNS
3 2 (1.24%) PPP
4 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.07%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.97%) Power BI
3 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.48%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.86%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.86%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.24%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.24%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.24%) DB2
6 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.24%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 7 (4.35%) Git
1 7 (4.35%) GitLab
2 6 (3.73%) webpack
3 5 (3.11%) Hudson
4 3 (1.86%) LSMW
5 2 (1.24%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.24%) JIRA
5 2 (1.24%) JUnit
6 1 (0.62%) JMeter
6 1 (0.62%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (15.53%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.29%) Finance
3 15 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.83%) Legal
5 6 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.11%) Banking
7 4 (2.48%) Law
7 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.86%) Retail
9 2 (1.24%) Automotive
9 2 (1.24%) Billing
9 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Military
10 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.74%) Node.js
2 9 (5.59%) React
3 6 (3.73%) Express.js
3 6 (3.73%) Redux
4 5 (3.11%) .NET
5 4 (2.48%) REST
6 3 (1.86%) BAPI
6 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.24%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.24%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.24%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.24%) JPA
7 2 (1.24%) Kafka
7 2 (1.24%) Laravel
7 2 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.24%) Spring
7 2 (1.24%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.24%) Vue
8 1 (0.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.39%) Public Cloud
2 12 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.73%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.11%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.24%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) NHS
7 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.98%) Windows
2 34 (21.12%) Apple iOS
3 30 (18.63%) Android
3 30 (18.63%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.35%) Linux
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.86%) zOS
7 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.43%) Agile
2 40 (24.84%) DevOps
3 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
4 32 (19.88%) Risk Management
5 30 (18.63%) Mobile Device Management
6 29 (18.01%) Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 28 (17.39%) Security Architecture
7 28 (17.39%) Zero Trust
8 26 (16.15%) Design Patterns
8 26 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (11.18%) Microservices
11 15 (9.32%) Roadmaps
11 15 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (8.70%) ETL
13 11 (6.83%) Business Case
13 11 (6.83%) Containerisation
13 11 (6.83%) Product Strategy
13 11 (6.83%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.94%) SQL
2 7 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.35%) Python
3 5 (3.11%) C#
3 5 (3.11%) Java
4 4 (2.48%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.24%) PHP
6 2 (1.24%) Scala
7 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 41 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 40 (24.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.21%) QA
2 10 (6.21%) SLA
3 4 (2.48%) GDPR
3 4 (2.48%) GRC
3 4 (2.48%) NIST
4 2 (1.24%) COSO
4 2 (1.24%) ISO 31000
4 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.62%) Grafana
3 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.97%) Siemens
3 7 (4.35%) SAP
4 5 (3.11%) Apple
4 5 (3.11%) Google
4 5 (3.11%) Informatica
4 5 (3.11%) Pega
4 5 (3.11%) Sophos
5 4 (2.48%) Databricks
6 3 (1.86%) F5
7 2 (1.24%) CA
7 2 (1.24%) Cadence
7 2 (1.24%) Facebook
7 2 (1.24%) IDERA
7 2 (1.24%) Instagram
7 2 (1.24%) Oracle
8 1 (0.62%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.62%) IBM
8 1 (0.62%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce