Lead Contracts in the South West

Leader
England > South West

The median Leader daily rate in the South West 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 17 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +26 +10 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 256 167 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.87% 4.94% 4.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.50% 5.33% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 120 121
10th Percentile £350 £324 £432
25th Percentile £430 £513 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £618 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +10.27% +6.67%
75th Percentile £669 £725 £650
90th Percentile £738 £813 £775
England median daily rate £588 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.92% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 14 5
10th Percentile £12.66 £52.46 -
25th Percentile £26.75 £56.89 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +55.95% +78.72%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £101.25 £43.92
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
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,011 3,132 3,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.58% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,894 2,325 2,533
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 250 210
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +41.91% +1.57%
75th Percentile £71.25 £74.69 £63.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.38
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the South West

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the South West

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the South West

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +18 84 £563 -2.17% 56
Wiltshire +7 76 £700 +4.67% 19
Gloucestershire +25 38 £513 -21.15% 42
Devon +14 28 £450 -35.79% 22
Somerset +10 17 £430 -21.82% 29
Dorset +6 5 £636 +162.37% 16
Cornwall - 2 £230 - 7
Lead
England

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 South West region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 147 (57.42%) Security Cleared
2 91 (35.55%) SC Cleared
3 71 (27.73%) Social Skills
4 64 (25.00%) Project Management
5 61 (23.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (23.44%) DV Cleared
7 51 (19.92%) Finance
7 51 (19.92%) Strategic Thinking
8 48 (18.75%) Microsoft
9 39 (15.23%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (14.84%) Telecoms
11 35 (13.67%) Agile
12 32 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (12.11%) JIRA
14 30 (11.72%) PMO
15 29 (11.33%) Network Management
15 29 (11.33%) Microsoft Project
16 28 (10.94%) PRINCE2
16 28 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
16 28 (10.94%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (10.55%) Project Delivery
17 27 (10.55%) Degree
18 26 (10.16%) Data Management
18 26 (10.16%) Public Sector
18 26 (10.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 26 (10.16%) Identity Access Management
19 25 (9.77%) Workshop Facilitation
19 25 (9.77%) Digital Identity
19 25 (9.77%) Project Planning

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (0.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (11.33%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (9.38%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.17%) SAP HCM
2 3 (1.17%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.39%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Primavera
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 7 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (2.34%) Azure
3 4 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (1.17%) AWS
4 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.73%) LAN
1 7 (2.73%) WAN
1 7 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.56%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.17%) Firewall
3 3 (1.17%) IPv4
3 3 (1.17%) OSPF
3 3 (1.17%) VLAN
3 3 (1.17%) VPN
3 3 (1.17%) Wireless
3 3 (1.17%) WLAN
4 2 (0.78%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.17%) Power BI
2 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.39%) IDMS
3 1 (0.39%) MySQL
3 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (12.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) Git
2 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.92%) Finance
3 38 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (14.84%) Telecoms
4 28 (10.94%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.59%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.69%) Marketing
8 9 (3.52%) Electronics
9 6 (2.34%) Legal
10 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Law
12 3 (1.17%) Banking
12 3 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Retail
14 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.78%) Node.js
1 2 (0.78%) React
2 1 (0.39%) .NET
2 1 (0.39%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.39%) CSS
2 1 (0.39%) HTML
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.39%) RESTful
2 1 (0.39%) Spring
2 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 14 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.08%) Cyber Defence
4 12 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (4.30%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.13%) CESG
7 8 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.95%) NHS
9 3 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.17%) Solar Power
10 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.39%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.39%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.95%) Windows
2 4 (1.56%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Linux
3 3 (1.17%) VMS
3 3 (1.17%) Windows 2000
3 3 (1.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (25.00%) Project Management
2 61 (23.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (19.92%) Strategic Thinking
4 39 (15.23%) Cybersecurity
5 35 (13.67%) Agile
6 32 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (11.33%) Network Management
8 28 (10.94%) PRINCE2
9 27 (10.55%) Project Delivery
10 26 (10.16%) Data Management
10 26 (10.16%) Identity Access Management
10 26 (10.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 25 (9.77%) Digital Identity
11 25 (9.77%) Project Planning
11 25 (9.77%) Workshop Facilitation
12 24 (9.38%) Commercial Awareness
12 24 (9.38%) Creative Problem-Solving
12 24 (9.38%) Information Security
13 21 (8.20%) Systems Engineering
14 18 (7.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.95%) Python
3 4 (1.56%) Java
3 4 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.17%) ABAP
4 3 (1.17%) C#
4 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
4 3 (1.17%) SQL
5 2 (0.78%) Bash
5 2 (0.78%) C++
5 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.39%) C
6 1 (0.39%) COBOL
6 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 147 (57.42%) Security Cleared
2 91 (35.55%) SC Cleared
3 60 (23.44%) DV Cleared
4 27 (10.55%) Degree
5 24 (9.38%) APMP
6 13 (5.08%) CISM
6 13 (5.08%) CISSP
7 8 (3.13%) CEH
7 8 (3.13%) CISA
7 8 (3.13%) CISMP
7 8 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (3.13%) ISACA
7 8 (3.13%) SSCP
8 7 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.95%) HNC
10 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.78%) HND
11 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.78%) PMP
11 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.72%) PMO
2 25 (9.77%) JSP 440
3 24 (9.38%) NIST
4 14 (5.47%) NIST 800
5 13 (5.08%) GDPR
6 8 (3.13%) HIPAA
6 8 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.17%) NCSC
8 2 (0.78%) GRC
8 2 (0.78%) QA
9 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.56%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.34%) Ansible
1 6 (2.34%) Terraform
2 5 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.42%) SAP
3 6 (2.34%) VMware
4 3 (1.17%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.17%) Juniper
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle
4 3 (1.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe
5 1 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.39%) FIS
5 1 (0.39%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.39%) IBM
5 1 (0.39%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.39%) Remedy