Lead Software Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Engineer daily rate in England is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 614 663
Rank change year-on-year +116 +49 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 48 28 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.058% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.061% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 77
10th Percentile £563 £522 £463
25th Percentile £703 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -3.70% +28.57%
75th Percentile £888 £809 £800
90th Percentile - £825 £880
UK median daily rate £825 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +26.92% -3.70% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.12 £62.09 -
Median hourly rate £67.79 £66.69 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +90.53% -
75th Percentile £72.45 £71.28 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.79 £62.09 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.17% +77.41% -

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 33,715 45,699 67,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,350 32,457 47,796
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,424 1,347 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.54 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.20 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London +132 39 £825 +3.13% 50
South East +26 7 - - 12
South West +17 1 £675 +17.39% 7
East of England - 1 £600 - 3
Lead Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Lead Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (70.83%) JavaScript
3 32 (66.67%) Python
3 32 (66.67%) AWS
4 30 (62.50%) TypeScript
5 29 (60.42%) Java
6 26 (54.17%) Agile
7 25 (52.08%) Finance
8 24 (50.00%) gRPC
8 24 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
8 24 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
8 24 (50.00%) Apache Ignite
8 24 (50.00%) Dremio
8 24 (50.00%) dbt
8 24 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
8 24 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 24 (50.00%) Pandas
8 24 (50.00%) GCP
8 24 (50.00%) Hedge funds
8 24 (50.00%) SciPy
8 24 (50.00%) NumPy
8 24 (50.00%) Fixed Income
8 24 (50.00%) Equities
8 24 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (50.00%) Front Office
8 24 (50.00%) Apache
8 24 (50.00%) Banking
8 24 (50.00%) Asset Management
8 24 (50.00%) Investment Banking
8 24 (50.00%) Derivative

Lead Software Engineer 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 24 (50.00%) Apache
1 24 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) AWS
2 24 (50.00%) dbt
2 24 (50.00%) GCP
3 22 (45.83%) Snowflake
4 3 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (50.00%) Apache Ignite
1 24 (50.00%) Dremio
2 22 (45.83%) Data Lake
General
1 25 (52.08%) Finance
2 24 (50.00%) Banking
2 24 (50.00%) Front Office
2 24 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (8.33%) Billing
4 3 (6.25%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (50.00%) gRPC
1 24 (50.00%) NumPy
1 24 (50.00%) Pandas
1 24 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 24 (50.00%) SciPy
2 11 (22.92%) React
3 7 (14.58%) CSS
4 6 (12.50%) .NET
4 6 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 4 (8.33%) Node.js
5 4 (8.33%) React Native
6 2 (4.17%) Kafka
6 2 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (2.08%) HTML
7 1 (2.08%) RESTful
7 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (50.00%) Derivative
1 24 (50.00%) Equities
1 24 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 24 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 24 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (54.17%) Agile
3 24 (50.00%) Asset Management
4 22 (45.83%) Line Management
5 16 (33.33%) Investment Management
6 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 8 (16.67%) Analytics
8 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 6 (12.50%) LLM
8 6 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (8.33%) CRM
10 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
11 2 (4.17%) Data Science
11 2 (4.17%) Minimum Viable Product
11 2 (4.17%) Prototyping
11 2 (4.17%) Rapid Prototyping
11 2 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) JavaScript
2 32 (66.67%) Python
3 30 (62.50%) TypeScript
4 29 (60.42%) Java
5 6 (12.50%) C#
5 6 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 5 (10.42%) Rust
7 2 (4.17%) Ruby
7 2 (4.17%) Scala
8 1 (2.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Terraform