Lead Contracts in South London

Leader
London > South London

The median Leader daily rate in South London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 32 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 13 14 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 5.94% 3.73% 9.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.10% 4.01% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 27
10th Percentile £510 £425 £450
25th Percentile £525 £500 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £698
90th Percentile £663 £638 £738
London median daily rate £606 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - £48.49
Median hourly rate £68.75 £52.97 £49.99
Median % change year-on-year +29.79% +5.97% -
75th Percentile £71.88 - £51.48
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £43.25 £48.64
% change year-on-year -13.29% -11.09% +32.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 213 349 368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.26% 93.07% 97.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 273 289
10th Percentile £296 £214 £273
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £638
90th Percentile £630 £748 £700
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 11
10th Percentile £17.10 £13.08 £14.29
25th Percentile £21.50 £18.75 £38.85
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -15.31% -7.19%
75th Percentile £79.38 £50.42 £49.22
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £51.48
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in South London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in South London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in South London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Croydon +1 7 £550 - 4
Bromley +13 3 £650 -18.75% 2
Merton +4 1 £550 -
Wandsworth - 1 £450 -
Lead
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
3 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (30.77%) Supplier Management
3 4 (30.77%) Requirements Management
4 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 3 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (15.38%) C
5 2 (15.38%) C++
5 2 (15.38%) QA
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Marketing
6 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (7.69%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) Agile
6 1 (7.69%) Service Management
6 1 (7.69%) CISM

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) 4G
1 1 (7.69%) 5G
1 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Requirements Management
1 4 (30.77%) Supplier Management
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Budget Management
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (7.69%) Service Design
3 1 (7.69%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bash
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) C
2 2 (15.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) CISM
4 1 (7.69%) CISSP
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.69%) PMP
4 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Karpenter
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform