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 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 459 424
Rank change year-on-year +50 -35 -84
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 142 208 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.41% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.43% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 143 306
10th Percentile £463 £463 £450
25th Percentile £520 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £604
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -0.66% +9.82%
75th Percentile £800 £676 £700
90th Percentile £888 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +81 93 £650 +8.33% 56
North of England +22 15 £650 +23.81% 26
South East 0 13 £500 -23.08% 11
Midlands +42 10 £650 +8.33% 10
West Midlands +43 9 £650 +8.33% 9
Yorkshire +19 7 £650 +13.04% 6
North West +9 7 £475 +13.10% 15
East of England +20 5 £600 - 6
South West +13 2 £575 -8.73% 8
East Midlands +19 1 £625 +4.17% 1
North East - 1 - - 5
Lead Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 60 (42.25%) Agile
2 57 (40.14%) Java
3 47 (33.10%) JavaScript
4 46 (32.39%) Finance
5 45 (31.69%) AWS
6 40 (28.17%) Software Engineering
7 39 (27.46%) TypeScript
8 37 (26.06%) Azure
9 33 (23.24%) Python
10 32 (22.54%) DevOps
11 28 (19.72%) Mentoring
12 27 (19.01%) Microsoft
13 24 (16.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 23 (16.20%) Banking
14 23 (16.20%) Git
14 23 (16.20%) GCP
15 22 (15.49%) Microservices
15 22 (15.49%) CI/CD
15 22 (15.49%) Derivative
15 22 (15.49%) Investment Banking
16 21 (14.79%) TDD
17 20 (14.08%) .NET
17 20 (14.08%) Data Lake
18 19 (13.38%) Protocol Buffers
18 19 (13.38%) dbt
18 19 (13.38%) C#
18 19 (13.38%) SQL
18 19 (13.38%) Fixed Income
18 19 (13.38%) Hedge funds
19 18 (12.68%) SciPy

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 18 (12.68%) Apache
1 18 (12.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Camunda
3 1 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
3 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.69%) AWS
2 37 (26.06%) Azure
3 23 (16.20%) GCP
4 19 (13.38%) dbt
5 17 (11.97%) Snowflake
6 14 (9.86%) Serverless
7 12 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.63%) Power Automate
9 8 (5.63%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.23%) PaaS
11 5 (3.52%) Azure API Management
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
1 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.08%) Data Lake
2 18 (12.68%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (12.68%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (12.68%) Apache Ignite
2 18 (12.68%) Dremio
3 9 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.34%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.34%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.63%) Power BI
5 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.11%) OLTP
6 2 (1.41%) Big Data
6 2 (1.41%) Metadata
6 2 (1.41%) MySQL
6 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 23 (16.20%) Git
2 7 (4.93%) JUnit
3 5 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.82%) webpack
5 3 (2.11%) GitLab
5 3 (2.11%) JIRA
5 3 (2.11%) NUnit
6 2 (1.41%) Moq
6 2 (1.41%) Postman
6 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.70%) Babel
7 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.70%) git-flow
7 1 (0.70%) Mockito
7 1 (0.70%) Selenium
7 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (32.39%) Finance
2 23 (16.20%) Banking
3 22 (15.49%) Investment Banking
4 18 (12.68%) Front Office
5 17 (11.97%) Social Skills
6 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.93%) Marketing
8 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.82%) Billing
9 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.11%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Local Government
11 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.70%) Retail
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.08%) .NET
2 19 (13.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 18 (12.68%) gRPC
3 18 (12.68%) NumPy
3 18 (12.68%) Pandas
3 18 (12.68%) React
3 18 (12.68%) SciPy
4 14 (9.86%) CSS
5 13 (9.15%) REST
6 12 (8.45%) Spring
7 11 (7.75%) HTML
8 10 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.04%) Web Services
9 8 (5.63%) Node.js
10 7 (4.93%) Hibernate
10 7 (4.93%) Kafka
11 6 (4.23%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.52%) JPA
13 4 (2.82%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (15.49%) Derivative
3 19 (13.38%) Fixed Income
3 19 (13.38%) Hedge funds
4 18 (12.68%) Equities
5 5 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) Blog
8 1 (0.70%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.25%) Agile
2 40 (28.17%) Software Engineering
3 32 (22.54%) DevOps
4 28 (19.72%) Mentoring
5 22 (15.49%) CI/CD
5 22 (15.49%) Microservices
6 21 (14.79%) TDD
7 18 (12.68%) Asset Management
8 17 (11.97%) Full Stack Development
9 16 (11.27%) Coaching
9 16 (11.27%) Investment Management
9 16 (11.27%) Line Management
10 13 (9.15%) Data Modelling
10 13 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (7.75%) CRM
11 11 (7.75%) Unit Testing
12 10 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (6.34%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (6.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.14%) Java
2 47 (33.10%) JavaScript
3 39 (27.46%) TypeScript
4 33 (23.24%) Python
5 19 (13.38%) C#
5 19 (13.38%) SQL
6 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.11%) PHP
7 3 (2.11%) Ruby
7 3 (2.11%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.41%) C
8 2 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.41%) Scala
9 1 (0.70%) ABAP
9 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.70%) Bash
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.70%) Swift
9 1 (0.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (9.15%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.75%) Degree
3 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CAPM
7 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.41%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) MiFID
2 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.63%) Terraform
3 3 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.63%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.52%) IFS
3 5 (3.52%) SAP
4 4 (2.82%) Guidewire
4 4 (2.82%) Splunk
5 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle
5 3 (2.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Siebel
6 2 (1.41%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.70%) Databricks
7 1 (0.70%) Informatica
7 1 (0.70%) mParticle
7 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.70%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.70%) Solace