Lead Developer Contracts in England

Lead Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Developer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 431 438
Rank change year-on-year +31 +7 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 151 207 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.44% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.46% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 145 279
10th Percentile £463 £463 £463
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £859 £688 £713
90th Percentile £888 £775 £778
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year - +131.65% -57.84%
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year - +131.65% -57.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in England

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +80 101 £725 +18.08% 73
South East +1 17 £500 -20.00% 16
North of England +6 15 £650 +13.04% 22
Midlands +29 10 £650 +1.96% 18
West Midlands +21 10 £650 -3.70% 10
Yorkshire +15 8 £650 +13.04% 5
North West +6 6 £513 -7.91% 15
East of England - 4 £600 - 4
South West +1 3 £569 -5.01% 8
North East - 1 - - 2
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 70 (46.36%) Agile
2 69 (45.70%) Java
3 59 (39.07%) Finance
4 52 (34.44%) Software Engineering
5 51 (33.77%) JavaScript
6 50 (33.11%) AWS
7 47 (31.13%) TypeScript
8 43 (28.48%) Python
9 33 (21.85%) Derivative
9 33 (21.85%) Banking
9 33 (21.85%) GCP
10 32 (21.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (21.19%) Investment Banking
11 31 (20.53%) DevOps
12 30 (19.87%) Front Office
13 29 (19.21%) Azure
13 29 (19.21%) Protocol Buffers
13 29 (19.21%) Fixed Income
13 29 (19.21%) Apache Airflow
14 28 (18.54%) gRPC
14 28 (18.54%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (18.54%) Apache Ignite
14 28 (18.54%) Pandas
14 28 (18.54%) Apache Arrow
14 28 (18.54%) Dremio
14 28 (18.54%) dbt
14 28 (18.54%) Apache
14 28 (18.54%) Asset Management
14 28 (18.54%) Equities
14 28 (18.54%) Hedge funds

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (19.21%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (18.54%) Apache
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) JBoss
4 1 (0.66%) SAS
4 1 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.11%) AWS
2 33 (21.85%) GCP
3 29 (19.21%) Azure
4 28 (18.54%) dbt
5 26 (17.22%) Snowflake
6 13 (8.61%) Serverless
7 11 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.30%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (3.97%) PaaS
10 5 (3.31%) Azure API Management
10 5 (3.31%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.31%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.31%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.65%) npm
11 4 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.65%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) Firewall
1 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.54%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (18.54%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (18.54%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (18.54%) Dremio
2 27 (17.88%) Data Lake
3 13 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.64%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.65%) Power BI
7 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.32%) OLTP
9 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (15.89%) Git
2 10 (6.62%) JUnit
3 4 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.65%) Postman
3 4 (2.65%) webpack
4 3 (1.99%) GitLab
4 3 (1.99%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) Moq
5 2 (1.32%) NUnit
5 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.66%) Babel
6 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.66%) JMeter
6 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.66%) Xcode
General
1 59 (39.07%) Finance
2 33 (21.85%) Banking
3 32 (21.19%) Investment Banking
4 30 (19.87%) Front Office
5 11 (7.28%) Social Skills
6 9 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.64%) Billing
8 6 (3.97%) Marketing
9 4 (2.65%) Retail
10 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.32%) Electronics
12 1 (0.66%) Advertising
12 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Back Office
12 1 (0.66%) Local Government
12 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
12 1 (0.66%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.21%) Protocol Buffers
2 28 (18.54%) gRPC
2 28 (18.54%) NumPy
2 28 (18.54%) Pandas
2 28 (18.54%) SciPy
3 22 (14.57%) .NET
4 19 (12.58%) React
5 16 (10.60%) Spring
6 15 (9.93%) AngularJS
6 15 (9.93%) Web Services
7 13 (8.61%) CSS
7 13 (8.61%) Spring Boot
8 11 (7.28%) REST
9 8 (5.30%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.30%) HTML
9 8 (5.30%) JPA
10 7 (4.64%) Kafka
11 6 (3.97%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.97%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.85%) Derivative
2 32 (21.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (19.21%) Fixed Income
4 28 (18.54%) Equities
4 28 (18.54%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.65%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.65%) Android
1 4 (2.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.36%) Agile
2 52 (34.44%) Software Engineering
3 31 (20.53%) DevOps
4 28 (18.54%) Asset Management
5 27 (17.88%) Microservices
6 26 (17.22%) Line Management
7 25 (16.56%) TDD
8 23 (15.23%) CI/CD
8 23 (15.23%) Mentoring
9 19 (12.58%) Coaching
10 16 (10.60%) Full Stack Development
10 16 (10.60%) Investment Management
11 12 (7.95%) Data Modelling
11 12 (7.95%) Unit Testing
12 11 (7.28%) Computer Science
12 11 (7.28%) CRM
12 11 (7.28%) Scrum
13 10 (6.62%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (6.62%) Web Development
14 9 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (45.70%) Java
2 51 (33.77%) JavaScript
3 47 (31.13%) TypeScript
4 43 (28.48%) Python
5 22 (14.57%) C#
6 18 (11.92%) SQL
7 4 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.99%) PHP
8 3 (1.99%) Ruby
8 3 (1.99%) Swift
9 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.32%) C
9 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.32%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.66%) Perl
10 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (9.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.95%) Degree
3 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.66%) ISO 15022
1 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
1 1 (0.66%) MiFID
1 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 12 (7.95%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (10.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.97%) Terraform
3 3 (1.99%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.66%) Grafana
4 1 (0.66%) Kibana
4 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.64%) Guidewire
2 7 (4.64%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.65%) IFS
3 4 (2.65%) Splunk
4 3 (1.99%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.99%) Oracle
4 3 (1.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (1.32%) SAP
5 2 (1.32%) Siebel
6 1 (0.66%) IBM
6 1 (0.66%) Informatica
6 1 (0.66%) mParticle
6 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.66%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.66%) Virgin Media