Lead Contracts with Work from Home Options

Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Leader daily rate in Work from Home is £588 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 31 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 908 1,482 2,587
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.17% 5.98% 5.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.60% 6.28% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 992 1,884
10th Percentile £425 £428 £410
25th Percentile £500 £506 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £688
90th Percentile £850 £761 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 24 32
10th Percentile £26.75 £51.93 £17.15
25th Percentile £55.00 £58.75 £26.98
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +86.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.25 - £75.00
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,766 23,608 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 16,691 30,789
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 595
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.71 £19.45
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Lead daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead.

Lead hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Lead hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead in the job title.

1 248 (27.31%) Finance
2 211 (23.24%) Agile
3 176 (19.38%) Social Skills
4 157 (17.29%) Azure
5 129 (14.21%) Security Cleared
6 127 (13.99%) AWS
7 120 (13.22%) DevOps
8 118 (13.00%) SAP
9 113 (12.44%) SC Cleared
10 111 (12.22%) Python
11 97 (10.68%) Banking
12 95 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 92 (10.13%) Java
13 92 (10.13%) Public Sector
14 88 (9.69%) Project Management
15 82 (9.03%) Microsoft
16 73 (8.04%) CI/CD
17 72 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
18 70 (7.71%) JavaScript
19 68 (7.49%) Migration
19 68 (7.49%) Software Engineering
20 67 (7.38%) QA
20 67 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
21 66 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
21 66 (7.27%) Degree
21 66 (7.27%) C#
22 62 (6.83%) SQL
22 62 (6.83%) SAP S/4HANA
23 59 (6.50%) Analytics
24 58 (6.39%) Mentoring

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 50 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (5.18%) Apache
3 12 (1.32%) Confluence
4 8 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.44%) CMS
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Mule
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.33%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 62 (6.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.66%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.55%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 5 (0.55%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.55%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.44%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.33%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 157 (17.29%) Azure
2 127 (13.99%) AWS
3 52 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
4 51 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (5.07%) GCP
5 46 (5.07%) Snowflake
6 45 (4.96%) dbt
7 38 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 37 (4.07%) Power Platform
9 29 (3.19%) Serverless
10 25 (2.75%) SuccessFactors
11 19 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (2.09%) Azure API Management
12 18 (1.98%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.54%) SaaS
14 13 (1.43%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (1.21%) Azure Functions
16 11 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.65%) Firewall
2 11 (1.21%) VPN
3 7 (0.77%) Network Security
4 5 (0.55%) IP Telephony
4 5 (0.55%) LAN
5 4 (0.44%) WAN
6 3 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) Intranet
7 2 (0.22%) RTP
7 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.22%) Wireless
7 2 (0.22%) WLAN
8 1 (0.11%) 4G
8 1 (0.11%) 5G
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.11%) IPsec
8 1 (0.11%) NaaS
8 1 (0.11%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.29%) Data Lake
2 46 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
3 40 (4.41%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (4.41%) Dremio
4 39 (4.30%) Apache Ignite
5 20 (2.20%) Power BI
6 16 (1.76%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.21%) Big Data
9 11 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.99%) MySQL
11 8 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.77%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.44%) Data Mart
14 4 (0.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (3.85%) JIRA
2 24 (2.64%) Git
3 20 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.10%) GitLab
4 10 (1.10%) Selenium
5 8 (0.88%) webpack
6 7 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.77%) JMeter
7 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.66%) MLflow
7 6 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.55%) JUnit
9 4 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.44%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.33%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.33%) Mockito
10 3 (0.33%) Postman
10 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 248 (27.31%) Finance
2 176 (19.38%) Social Skills
3 97 (10.68%) Banking
4 92 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 72 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (5.62%) Investment Banking
7 49 (5.40%) Front Office
8 41 (4.52%) Telecoms
9 38 (4.19%) Marketing
10 30 (3.30%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.09%) Retail
12 15 (1.65%) Electronics
12 15 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.32%) Legal
13 12 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.10%) Billing
15 10 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.88%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.41%) gRPC
1 40 (4.41%) Pandas
1 40 (4.41%) Protocol Buffers
2 39 (4.30%) NumPy
2 39 (4.30%) SciPy
3 38 (4.19%) .NET
4 21 (2.31%) React
5 20 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 20 (2.20%) XML
6 19 (2.09%) Node.js
7 17 (1.87%) HTML
7 17 (1.87%) Web Services
8 15 (1.65%) CSS
9 14 (1.54%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.43%) Spring
11 11 (1.21%) Kafka
12 10 (1.10%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.10%) RESTful
13 9 (0.99%) PySpark
13 9 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.29%) Derivative
2 47 (5.18%) Equities
3 45 (4.96%) Hedge funds
4 43 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 42 (4.63%) Fixed Income
6 25 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.10%) NHS
12 8 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.55%) CMDB
13 5 (0.55%) LIMS
13 5 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
14 4 (0.44%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.44%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.44%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.31%) Windows
2 14 (1.54%) Linux
3 11 (1.21%) Android
3 11 (1.21%) Unix
4 10 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) VMS
6 2 (0.22%) Windows 2000
6 2 (0.22%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (23.24%) Agile
2 120 (13.22%) DevOps
3 95 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 88 (9.69%) Project Management
5 73 (8.04%) CI/CD
6 68 (7.49%) Migration
6 68 (7.49%) Software Engineering
7 67 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (6.50%) Analytics
10 58 (6.39%) Mentoring
11 47 (5.18%) Test Strategy
12 46 (5.07%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (4.85%) ERP
13 44 (4.85%) Project Delivery
13 44 (4.85%) Roadmaps
13 44 (4.85%) Strategic Thinking
13 44 (4.85%) Test Automation
14 42 (4.63%) Asset Management
14 42 (4.63%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (12.22%) Python
2 92 (10.13%) Java
3 70 (7.71%) JavaScript
4 66 (7.27%) C#
5 62 (6.83%) SQL
6 55 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.20%) Scala
8 12 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.66%) Bash
10 4 (0.44%) C++
10 4 (0.44%) Go
10 4 (0.44%) R
11 3 (0.33%) Bicep
11 3 (0.33%) Groovy
11 3 (0.33%) Ruby
11 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.22%) C
12 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.22%) PHP
12 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 113 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.27%) Degree
4 23 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 9 (0.99%) CISSP
9 7 (0.77%) CISM
9 7 (0.77%) PMP
10 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.33%) CGEIT
12 3 (0.33%) CISA
12 3 (0.33%) CRISC
12 3 (0.33%) ISEB
12 3 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.38%) QA
2 37 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.63%) PMO
4 11 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.21%) SLA
5 8 (0.88%) NIST
6 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.55%) GDPR
8 4 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.22%) P3O
9 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (3.08%) Docker
2 7 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.22%) Firmware
4 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.52%) Terraform
3 17 (1.87%) Ansible
4 10 (1.10%) Grafana
5 7 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.22%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.22%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Matomo
9 1 (0.11%) MOM
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 118 (13.00%) SAP
2 82 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.19%) Oracle
4 22 (2.42%) Databricks
5 14 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.43%) Ariba
7 11 (1.21%) Google
7 11 (1.21%) Informatica
8 10 (1.10%) IBM
9 9 (0.99%) Pega
9 9 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.77%) Guidewire
11 6 (0.66%) Adobe
11 6 (0.66%) VMware
12 5 (0.55%) InterSystems
12 5 (0.55%) Murex
12 5 (0.55%) Splunk
13 4 (0.44%) Citrix
13 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.44%) Sparx