Lead Developer Contracts in Leeds

Lead Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Lead Developer daily rate in Leeds is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 85 101
Rank change year-on-year +24 +16 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 6 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.75% 0.45% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.46% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile - £573 -
25th Percentile £625 £623 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £568
90th Percentile - £746 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £663 £650 £500
% change year-on-year +1.92% +30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 731 1,303 1,578
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 97.82% 97.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 949 1,154
10th Percentile £300 £350 £275
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.60% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 24
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.75 £14.55
25th Percentile £11.88 £17.24 £17.93
Median hourly rate £12.53 £54.00 £21.83
Median % change year-on-year -76.80% +147.42% +0.39%
75th Percentile £15.25 £70.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £18.27 - £28.30
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £16.85
% change year-on-year -53.32% +92.88% -22.49%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in Leeds

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in Leeds

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 24 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 Leeds region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Development

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk