Lead Contracts in the West Midlands

Leader
England > West Midlands

The median Leader daily rate in the West Midlands is £575 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 22 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 115 149 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.91% 6.66% 5.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.46% 7.05% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 115 136
10th Percentile £373 £430 £356
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £709 £722 £638
90th Percentile £813 £760 £738
England median daily rate £588 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.92% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £22.68 - -
25th Percentile £27.63 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.00 - £21.50
75th Percentile £51.25 - £22.25
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,780 2,112 3,435
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 94.41% 96.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 1,444 2,476
10th Percentile £250 £257 £233
25th Percentile £363 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 59 74
10th Percentile £12.14 £12.50 £12.42
25th Percentile £14.88 £14.43 £14.63
Median hourly rate £19.77 £20.00 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +16.01% +14.21%
75th Percentile £40.38 £27.32 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.13 £59.00 £23.75
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the West Midlands

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham +9 58 £588 -2.08% 54
Warwickshire -21 12 £575 -13.21% 33
Coventry +1 11 £563 -13.46% 13
Solihull -6 8 £694 -0.89% 2
Staffordshire - 7 £588 - 20
Tipton - 2 £313 -
Wolverhampton +6 1 £475 -20.83% 6
Worcestershire +5 1 £550 +78.86% 9
Dudley - 1 £313 -
Herefordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Lead
England

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

1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.22%) Finance
3 20 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (13.91%) Agile
5 12 (10.43%) Migration
5 12 (10.43%) SAP
5 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
5 12 (10.43%) Security Cleared
5 12 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 11 (9.57%) Roadmaps
6 11 (9.57%) ERP
7 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (7.83%) SC Cleared
8 9 (7.83%) Degree
9 8 (6.96%) Salesforce
9 8 (6.96%) Oracle
9 8 (6.96%) Data Migration
9 8 (6.96%) Azure
9 8 (6.96%) Data Quality
10 7 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (6.09%) Business Transformation
10 7 (6.09%) ITIL
10 7 (6.09%) Automotive
10 7 (6.09%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (6.09%) Decision-Making
10 7 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (5.22%) Workflow
11 6 (5.22%) Validation
11 6 (5.22%) .NET

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (1.74%) CMS
1 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) Revit
3 1 (0.87%) Simulink
3 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.87%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.35%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.74%) Maximo
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.87%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.96%) Azure
2 7 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.48%) OCI
3 4 (3.48%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (2.61%) PaaS
5 2 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (1.74%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.74%) SaaS
5 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Serverless
5 2 (1.74%) SonarCloud
5 2 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.87%) IaaS
6 1 (0.87%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.87%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.87%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) 5G
1 4 (3.48%) MPLS
1 4 (3.48%) WAN
2 3 (2.61%) BGP
2 3 (2.61%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (2.61%) IPsec
2 3 (2.61%) Junos
2 3 (2.61%) LAN
3 2 (1.74%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) Firewall
4 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.61%) Power BI
1 3 (2.61%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Git
2 2 (1.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) Moq
2 2 (1.74%) NUnit
3 1 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.87%) Selenium
3 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.22%) Finance
3 12 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Automotive
6 5 (4.35%) Marketing
6 5 (4.35%) Retail
6 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Games
8 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Legal
8 2 (1.74%) Local Government
8 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.87%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.87%) German Language
9 1 (0.87%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) .NET
2 4 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.61%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (2.61%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.74%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.87%) CSS
5 1 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.87%) HTML
5 1 (0.87%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) Laravel
5 1 (0.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.74%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.87%) FMCG
5 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.61%) Linux
1 3 (2.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.87%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (13.91%) Agile
3 12 (10.43%) Migration
4 11 (9.57%) ERP
4 11 (9.57%) Roadmaps
5 8 (6.96%) Data Migration
6 7 (6.09%) Business Transformation
6 7 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (6.09%) Decision-Making
6 7 (6.09%) ITIL
6 7 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (5.22%) DevOps
7 6 (5.22%) Validation
7 6 (5.22%) Workflow
8 5 (4.35%) Asset Management
8 5 (4.35%) Data Architecture
8 5 (4.35%) Data Integration
8 5 (4.35%) Data Management
8 5 (4.35%) Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (4.35%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.22%) Java
2 4 (3.48%) Ruby
2 4 (3.48%) SQL
3 3 (2.61%) C#
4 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.87%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.87%) PHP
5 1 (0.87%) ProC
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.83%) Degree
2 9 (7.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.74%) CCNP
3 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.87%) ACCA
4 1 (0.87%) CCNA
4 1 (0.87%) CIMA
4 1 (0.87%) CIPD
4 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.87%) JNCIS
4 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.87%) PMP
4 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.22%) SLA
3 3 (2.61%) GRC
3 3 (2.61%) ITGC
3 3 (2.61%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
4 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.87%) Docker
1 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.74%) VxRail
2 1 (0.87%) Grafana
2 1 (0.87%) Kibana
2 1 (0.87%) logstash
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
1 12 (10.43%) SAP
2 8 (6.96%) Oracle
2 8 (6.96%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.48%) Cisco
3 4 (3.48%) Informatica
4 3 (2.61%) IBM
4 3 (2.61%) Juniper
4 3 (2.61%) Sage
4 3 (2.61%) VMware
5 2 (1.74%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.74%) FireEye
5 2 (1.74%) Laserfiche
5 2 (1.74%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.74%) Marketo
5 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.74%) Splunk
5 2 (1.74%) Workday
6 1 (0.87%) Databricks