Lead Contracts in the UK excluding London

Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Leader daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 1,138 1,230 1,659
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.62% 5.32% 5.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.07% 5.64% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 842 1,201
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +9.62% +9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £775 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 50 42
10th Percentile £15.17 £20.95 £22.05
25th Percentile £26.75 £41.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £61.01 £57.75 £41.01
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% +40.82% +57.71%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £71.74 £73.15
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +30.95% +44.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lead in the UK excluding London

Lead
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
South West +19 269 £550 -12.00% 181
North of England +4 269 £582 +5.82% 372
South East +6 267 £550 -6.78% 425
North West +2 160 £590 +7.27% 203
Midlands -1 138 £560 -2.61% 246
Scotland +13 118 £500 - 80
West Midlands +2 108 £595 +1.28% 150
Yorkshire -4 99 £575 -4.17% 119
East of England -7 77 £575 -4.17% 144
East Midlands +5 29 £210 -63.00% 95
Northern Ireland +17 19 £588 - 16
North East +14 11 £533 -14.80% 53
Wales +19 10 £560 +6.67% 37
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
South Coast - 1 - -
Lead
UK

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 281 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 270 (23.73%) Security Cleared
3 238 (20.91%) Finance
4 225 (19.77%) Agile
5 190 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 179 (15.73%) SC Cleared
7 162 (14.24%) Project Management
8 137 (12.04%) Public Sector
9 131 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
10 130 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
11 129 (11.34%) Microsoft
12 118 (10.37%) SAP
13 110 (9.67%) Azure
14 109 (9.58%) DevOps
15 97 (8.52%) Degree
16 96 (8.44%) Roadmaps
17 92 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 89 (7.82%) DV Cleared
19 86 (7.56%) Decision-Making
20 83 (7.29%) Migration
20 83 (7.29%) Risk Management
21 82 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
22 81 (7.12%) Project Delivery
23 74 (6.50%) AWS
24 70 (6.15%) Telecoms
24 70 (6.15%) JIRA
25 69 (6.06%) ERP
25 69 (6.06%) CI/CD
26 64 (5.62%) Windows
27 62 (5.45%) Change Management

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (1.14%) Confluence
2 9 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.35%) CMS
4 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.088%) Apache
5 1 (0.088%) JBoss
5 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.088%) SAS
Applications
1 59 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (3.69%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.28%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (1.32%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.70%) CATIA
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Revit
9 2 (0.18%) Sketch
10 1 (0.088%) Simulink
10 1 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 62 (5.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.79%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.70%) SAP MDG
3 8 (0.70%) SAP MM
3 8 (0.70%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.62%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.44%) SAP GTS
7 4 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.35%) Maximo
7 4 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.35%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (9.67%) Azure
2 74 (6.50%) AWS
3 49 (4.31%) Power Platform
4 31 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (2.55%) Snowflake
7 26 (2.28%) Serverless
8 23 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
9 18 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (1.23%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.14%) GCP
13 13 (1.14%) SaaS
14 12 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.05%) OCI
15 11 (0.97%) Azure Functions
16 10 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.60%) Firewall
1 41 (3.60%) VPN
2 17 (1.49%) WAN
3 14 (1.23%) 5G
3 14 (1.23%) LAN
4 7 (0.62%) Network Security
4 7 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.53%) IP Telephony
6 5 (0.44%) Wireless
7 4 (0.35%) BGP
7 4 (0.35%) IPv4
7 4 (0.35%) MPLS
7 4 (0.35%) OSPF
7 4 (0.35%) SSL
7 4 (0.35%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.35%) VLAN
7 4 (0.35%) VoIP
8 3 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.26%) Junos
8 3 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.08%) Power BI
2 28 (2.46%) Tableau
3 20 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 9 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.62%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.62%) SAP BW
7 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.53%) SAP Data Services
8 5 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.26%) Big Data
10 3 (0.26%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.26%) DB2
10 3 (0.26%) Metadata
10 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (6.15%) JIRA
2 21 (1.85%) Git
3 11 (0.97%) GitLab
4 9 (0.79%) JUnit
4 9 (0.79%) Selenium
4 9 (0.79%) webpack
5 7 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 7 (0.62%) JMeter
6 6 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.44%) Hudson
7 5 (0.44%) LSMW
8 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.26%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.26%) Maven
9 3 (0.26%) Mockito
10 2 (0.18%) Capybara
10 2 (0.18%) Gradle
10 2 (0.18%) Moq
General
1 281 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 238 (20.91%) Finance
3 137 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 131 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 53 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 45 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (3.78%) Legal
9 34 (2.99%) Marketing
10 25 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 19 (1.67%) Banking
14 18 (1.58%) Billing
15 17 (1.49%) Electronics
15 17 (1.49%) Local Government
16 16 (1.41%) Retail
17 13 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (0.88%) Automotive
18 10 (0.88%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (4.83%) Node.js
2 28 (2.46%) React
3 24 (2.11%) .NET
4 12 (1.05%) AngularJS
5 11 (0.97%) REST
6 10 (0.88%) HTML
6 10 (0.88%) Spring Boot
6 10 (0.88%) Web Services
7 9 (0.79%) CSS
7 9 (0.79%) Kafka
7 9 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.79%) Spring
8 8 (0.70%) GraphQL
9 7 (0.62%) React Native
9 7 (0.62%) Redux
10 6 (0.53%) Express.js
10 6 (0.53%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (0.53%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.53%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 43 (3.78%) Management Information System
2 39 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 30 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.76%) Credit Risk
7 19 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.58%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 13 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.14%) NHS
12 11 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
13 10 (0.88%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.79%) Driving Licence
14 9 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.79%) Life Science
14 9 (0.79%) LIMS
15 8 (0.70%) CESG
15 8 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 64 (5.62%) Windows
2 41 (3.60%) Apple iOS
3 35 (3.08%) Android
4 32 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.64%) Linux
6 10 (0.88%) Unix
7 6 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.26%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) Windows 2000
9 3 (0.26%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
11 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (19.77%) Agile
2 190 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 162 (14.24%) Project Management
4 130 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (9.58%) DevOps
6 96 (8.44%) Roadmaps
7 92 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (7.56%) Decision-Making
9 83 (7.29%) Migration
9 83 (7.29%) Risk Management
10 82 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
11 81 (7.12%) Project Delivery
12 69 (6.06%) CI/CD
12 69 (6.06%) ERP
13 62 (5.45%) Change Management
14 61 (5.36%) Strategic Thinking
15 60 (5.27%) Analytics
16 57 (5.01%) Mentoring
17 54 (4.75%) Coaching
18 53 (4.66%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (4.75%) SQL
2 44 (3.87%) Java
2 44 (3.87%) Python
3 29 (2.55%) C#
4 28 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.58%) TypeScript
6 15 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 10 (0.88%) C
7 10 (0.88%) C++
8 9 (0.79%) Ruby
9 7 (0.62%) PHP
10 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.35%) Bash
11 4 (0.35%) Scala
12 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.18%) Groovy
14 1 (0.088%) ABAP
14 1 (0.088%) COBOL
14 1 (0.088%) ProC
14 1 (0.088%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 270 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 179 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 97 (8.52%) Degree
4 89 (7.82%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.11%) APMP
6 19 (1.67%) CISM
6 19 (1.67%) CISSP
7 13 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (0.97%) CISA
9 9 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.79%) ISACA
9 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.70%) CEH
10 8 (0.70%) CISMP
10 8 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
10 8 (0.70%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.70%) SSCP
11 6 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.57%) PMO
2 42 (3.69%) QA
3 35 (3.08%) NIST
4 34 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 25 (2.20%) JSP 440
6 22 (1.93%) GDPR
6 22 (1.93%) SLA
7 18 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 15 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.23%) NIST 800
10 11 (0.97%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.97%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.79%) GRC
12 4 (0.35%) WCAG
13 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.26%) ITGC
13 3 (0.26%) NCSC
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 19 (1.67%) Docker
2 11 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.088%) Firmware
5 1 (0.088%) Lustre
5 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.088%) NFS
5 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.49%) Terraform
3 15 (1.32%) Ansible
4 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (0.26%) Grafana
6 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.26%) Puppet
6 3 (0.26%) SCCM
6 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.088%) MOM
8 1 (0.088%) SCOM
8 1 (0.088%) WSUS
Vendors
1 129 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 118 (10.37%) SAP
3 35 (3.08%) Oracle
4 26 (2.28%) Alteryx
5 22 (1.93%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.58%) Informatica
7 15 (1.32%) VMware
8 13 (1.14%) Splunk
9 12 (1.05%) Apple
9 12 (1.05%) IBM
9 12 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.88%) Google
10 10 (0.88%) IFS
11 9 (0.79%) Juniper
11 9 (0.79%) Workday
12 8 (0.70%) Ariba
12 8 (0.70%) Cisco
12 8 (0.70%) Databricks
12 8 (0.70%) Siemens
13 7 (0.62%) Guidewire