Lead Developer Contracts in Central London

Lead Developer
London > Central London

The median Lead Developer daily rate in Central London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 155 179
Rank change year-on-year +30 +24 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 7 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.58% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 23
10th Percentile - £495 £502
25th Percentile £475 £504 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.29% +11.36%
75th Percentile £850 £813 £700
90th Percentile £854 £888 £780
London median daily rate £725 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,311 3,591 4,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 95.20% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 2,455 3,245
10th Percentile £339 £325 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 53
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.65 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Central London

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in Central London

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in Central London

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in Central London

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
City of London +34 5 £575 -20.69% 5
City of Westminster - 1 £800 -
Lead Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Lead Developer 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 Central London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) ADO
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Next.js
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Vercel
3 1 (14.29%) MACH
3 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
2 1 (14.29%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) MACH
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) SOLID
3 1 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Sitecore