Lead Contracts in Birmingham

Leader
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Leader daily rate in Birmingham is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 66 58 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.62% 6.52% 6.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.17% 6.75% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 56
10th Percentile £400 £463 £363
25th Percentile £450 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +43.75%
75th Percentile £675 £731 £650
90th Percentile £741 £743 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £563 £598 £550
% change year-on-year -5.86% +8.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £16.75 - -
25th Percentile £25.19 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £21.50
75th Percentile £65.88 - £22.25
90th Percentile £80.35 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £39.00 - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 720 859 1,250
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 96.63% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 572 903
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £335 £375 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 37 18
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.30 £12.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.70 £14.08
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +15.94% +7.81%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.00 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £58.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Birmingham

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in Birmingham

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 12 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 Birmingham region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 16 (24.24%) Finance
2 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (12.12%) Windows
4 8 (12.12%) Migration
5 7 (10.61%) Agile
5 7 (10.61%) Data Migration
5 7 (10.61%) Oracle
6 6 (9.09%) Java
6 6 (9.09%) ERP
6 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
7 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
7 5 (7.58%) NetSuite
7 5 (7.58%) Unix
7 5 (7.58%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (6.06%) Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (6.06%) Presales
8 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
8 4 (6.06%) User Stories
8 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (6.06%) OCI
8 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
8 4 (6.06%) 5G
8 4 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (6.06%) Decision-Making
8 4 (6.06%) Validation
8 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
8 4 (6.06%) Salesforce

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) NetSuite
2 4 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.06%) OCI
2 3 (4.55%) Azure
2 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) 5G
2 1 (1.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) JIRA
1 1 (1.52%) Selenium
1 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (24.24%) Finance
2 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.06%) Marketing
3 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Games
5 2 (3.03%) Legal
5 2 (3.03%) Local Government
5 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Retail
6 1 (1.52%) Arabic Language
6 1 (1.52%) Back Office
6 1 (1.52%) Billing
6 1 (1.52%) German Language
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.03%) Laravel
2 2 (3.03%) React
2 2 (3.03%) Vue
3 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.52%) CSS
3 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.52%) HTML
3 1 (1.52%) HTML5
3 1 (1.52%) Kafka
3 1 (1.52%) Spring
3 1 (1.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.03%) Cyberattack
2 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Windows
2 5 (7.58%) Unix
3 3 (4.55%) Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.52%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (12.12%) Migration
3 7 (10.61%) Agile
3 7 (10.61%) Data Migration
4 6 (9.09%) ERP
5 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (7.58%) Roadmaps
6 4 (6.06%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (6.06%) Data Management
6 4 (6.06%) Decision-Making
6 4 (6.06%) Presales
6 4 (6.06%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (6.06%) User Stories
6 4 (6.06%) Validation
7 3 (4.55%) Asset Management
7 3 (4.55%) CRM
7 3 (4.55%) Data Modelling
7 3 (4.55%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (4.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.09%) Java
2 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.03%) PHP
3 2 (3.03%) SQL
4 1 (1.52%) C#
4 1 (1.52%) ProC
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) ACCA
3 1 (1.52%) CIMA
3 1 (1.52%) CIPD
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.52%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.52%) logstash
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) Oracle
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.06%) SAP
4 3 (4.55%) OutSystems
4 3 (4.55%) Sage
5 2 (3.03%) Darktrace
5 2 (3.03%) FireEye
5 2 (3.03%) LogRhythm
5 2 (3.03%) Marketo
5 2 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.52%) Apple
6 1 (1.52%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.52%) Pega
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow