Lead Developer Contracts in the City of London

Lead Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the City of London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 156 163
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 5 16 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.44% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.46% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 23
10th Percentile - - £502
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £613
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +18.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile £702 £875 £700
90th Percentile £794 £888 £780
Central London median daily rate £650 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.29% +11.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,090 3,462 3,995
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.13% 95.21% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,357 3,013
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +110.01%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the City of London

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the City of London

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the City of London

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 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 City of London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) ADO
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) Vercel
3 1 (20.00%) MACH
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) MACH
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Sitecore