Lead Contracts in the South East

Leader
England > South East

The median Leader daily rate in the South East is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 37 33
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 0
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 256 307 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.53% 5.49% 6.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.92% 5.80% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 213 316
10th Percentile £408 £349 £383
25th Percentile £475 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £740 £700
England median daily rate £588 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.56% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 8
10th Percentile £18.35 £46.09 -
25th Percentile £20.26 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £29.50 £57.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.13% +65.69% -
75th Percentile £62.34 £71.28 -
90th Percentile £70.41 £81.74 £49.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +30.95% +60.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 5,199 5,293 7,364
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.64% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,066 3,665 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £213 £207
25th Percentile £400 £385 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 234 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.35 £22.27 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the South East

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in the South East

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in the South East over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the South East

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the South East

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the South East over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the South East

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Thames Valley -2 130 £550 -4.35% 91
Berkshire +1 104 £580 +0.87% 48
Hampshire -11 51 £575 -2.13% 55
Surrey +4 38 £513 -16.33% 20
Oxfordshire +14 13 £450 - 25
West Sussex +8 13 £525 -8.70% 11
Buckinghamshire -10 13 £550 +4.76% 18
Kent +14 10 £488 - 21
Middlesex +3 7 £650 +6.12% 2
East Sussex +7 4 £638 +15.91% 14
Lead
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 East region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 67 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.44%) Finance
3 49 (19.14%) Agile
4 48 (18.75%) Security Cleared
5 39 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (14.84%) Decision-Making
7 36 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (13.28%) Microsoft
9 32 (12.50%) Azure
10 31 (12.11%) DV Cleared
11 29 (11.33%) Project Management
12 28 (10.94%) Degree
13 27 (10.55%) DevOps
14 26 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (10.16%) Analytics
14 26 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (9.38%) SAP
16 20 (7.81%) Tableau
16 20 (7.81%) Alteryx
16 20 (7.81%) Actionable Insight
16 20 (7.81%) Public Sector
16 20 (7.81%) Snowflake
17 19 (7.42%) AWS
17 19 (7.42%) Software Engineering
18 18 (7.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
18 18 (7.03%) Management Information System
18 18 (7.03%) Migration
18 18 (7.03%) Project Delivery
19 17 (6.64%) Legal
19 17 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.39%) JBoss
2 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (3.52%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.56%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (1.56%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (1.56%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (2.34%) SAP MDG
2 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.78%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.78%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.39%) Maximo
4 1 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) Primavera
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.39%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.50%) Azure
2 20 (7.81%) Snowflake
3 19 (7.42%) AWS
4 9 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.52%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.34%) PaaS
6 6 (2.34%) SaaS
7 5 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (1.95%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (1.56%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 4 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.56%) IaaS
9 3 (1.17%) Azure API Management
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) Network Security
2 4 (1.56%) Firewall
2 4 (1.56%) VoIP
2 4 (1.56%) VPN
2 4 (1.56%) WAN
3 3 (1.17%) LAN
4 1 (0.39%) 5G
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) NAS
4 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.81%) Tableau
2 7 (2.73%) Power BI
3 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.39%) Redis
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Selenium
2 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.17%) Git
2 3 (1.17%) JIRA
2 3 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.78%) ClearCase
3 2 (0.78%) ClearQuest
3 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.78%) JUnit
4 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) JMeter
4 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.39%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 67 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.44%) Finance
3 39 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.64%) Legal
6 15 (5.86%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.47%) Billing
8 8 (3.13%) Local Government
8 8 (3.13%) Marketing
9 7 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Retail
11 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Automotive
12 1 (0.39%) Aviation
12 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.08%) Node.js
2 10 (3.91%) .NET
2 10 (3.91%) Web Services
3 9 (3.52%) React
4 8 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.73%) AngularJS
5 7 (2.73%) J2EE
5 7 (2.73%) React Native
6 4 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.56%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.17%) CSS
7 3 (1.17%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.17%) HTML
8 2 (0.78%) ATL
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.78%) Playwright
8 2 (0.78%) REST
9 1 (0.39%) EDI
9 1 (0.39%) Kafka
9 1 (0.39%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.03%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.47%) Credit Risk
3 10 (3.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 10 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
4 8 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.56%) Motion Graphics
7 4 (1.56%) Video Editing
8 3 (1.17%) Animation
8 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.17%) NHS
8 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Life Science
9 2 (0.78%) PMI
9 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.39%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.52%) Windows
2 5 (1.95%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.56%) Android
3 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.56%) Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (19.14%) Agile
2 38 (14.84%) Decision-Making
3 36 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (11.33%) Project Management
5 27 (10.55%) DevOps
6 26 (10.16%) Analytics
6 26 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (7.81%) Actionable Insight
8 19 (7.42%) Software Engineering
9 18 (7.03%) Migration
9 18 (7.03%) Project Delivery
10 17 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (6.64%) Process Improvement
10 17 (6.64%) SIEM
11 16 (6.25%) Coaching
11 16 (6.25%) CRM
11 16 (6.25%) ERP
11 16 (6.25%) Service Delivery
12 15 (5.86%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.86%) Java
2 13 (5.08%) JavaScript
2 13 (5.08%) Python
2 13 (5.08%) SQL
3 12 (4.69%) C
4 11 (4.30%) C++
5 9 (3.52%) C#
6 5 (1.95%) PHP
7 3 (1.17%) Ruby
8 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.11%) DV Cleared
3 28 (10.94%) Degree
4 13 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.17%) NVQ Level 4
6 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.78%) PgMP
6 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.39%) ISACA
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.69%) NIST
1 12 (4.69%) PMO
2 10 (3.91%) NIST 800
3 6 (2.34%) GDPR
3 6 (2.34%) QA
4 5 (1.95%) SLA
5 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.78%) COBIT
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 10 (3.91%) Terraform
2 4 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.78%) SCCM
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.39%) MOM
5 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.38%) SAP
3 20 (7.81%) Alteryx
4 10 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.73%) Guidewire
6 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.95%) Apple
7 5 (1.95%) IFS
7 5 (1.95%) Informatica
7 5 (1.95%) Virgin Media
7 5 (1.95%) VMware
8 4 (1.56%) Oracle
8 4 (1.56%) Splunk
9 3 (1.17%) Cisco
9 3 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.17%) Facebook
9 3 (1.17%) Instagram
10 2 (0.78%) Databricks
10 2 (0.78%) Sparx
10 2 (0.78%) Varonis