Lead Developer Contracts in London

Lead Developer
England > London

The median Lead Developer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 383 357
Rank change year-on-year +78 -26 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 89 112 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.41% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.43% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 76 200
10th Percentile £474 £495 £500
25th Percentile £519 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £888 £714 £738
90th Percentile - £881 £825
England median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% -0.04% +9.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in London

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +26 8 £650 +23.81% 8
West London +19 1 £600 +26.32%
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 London region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 47 (52.81%) Agile
2 38 (42.70%) Java
3 36 (40.45%) JavaScript
4 33 (37.08%) Finance
5 32 (35.96%) TypeScript
6 31 (34.83%) AWS
7 30 (33.71%) Software Engineering
8 26 (29.21%) Python
9 24 (26.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (25.84%) GCP
11 22 (24.72%) Banking
11 22 (24.72%) Derivative
12 21 (23.60%) Investment Banking
13 19 (21.35%) Azure
13 19 (21.35%) Hedge funds
13 19 (21.35%) Protocol Buffers
13 19 (21.35%) Fixed Income
14 18 (20.22%) Equities
14 18 (20.22%) Asset Management
14 18 (20.22%) Apache
14 18 (20.22%) Front Office
14 18 (20.22%) Pandas
14 18 (20.22%) DevOps
14 18 (20.22%) SciPy
14 18 (20.22%) NumPy
14 18 (20.22%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (20.22%) gRPC
14 18 (20.22%) Apache Airflow
14 18 (20.22%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (20.22%) Apache Ignite

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (20.22%) Apache
1 18 (20.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.83%) AWS
2 23 (25.84%) GCP
3 19 (21.35%) Azure
4 18 (20.22%) dbt
5 17 (19.10%) Snowflake
6 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.62%) Power Automate
7 5 (5.62%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.62%) Serverless
8 4 (4.49%) Azure API Management
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Storage
8 4 (4.49%) npm
8 4 (4.49%) Yarn
9 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.22%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (20.22%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (20.22%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (20.22%) Dremio
2 17 (19.10%) Data Lake
3 8 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.87%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.74%) Power BI
6 5 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.25%) MySQL
9 1 (1.12%) Big Data
9 1 (1.12%) OLTP
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Git
2 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.49%) JUnit
2 4 (4.49%) webpack
3 2 (2.25%) GitLab
3 2 (2.25%) JIRA
3 2 (2.25%) Postman
4 1 (1.12%) Babel
4 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.12%) Xcode
General
1 33 (37.08%) Finance
2 22 (24.72%) Banking
3 21 (23.60%) Investment Banking
4 18 (20.22%) Front Office
5 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Marketing
7 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Back Office
9 1 (1.12%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Publishing
9 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.35%) Protocol Buffers
2 18 (20.22%) gRPC
2 18 (20.22%) NumPy
2 18 (20.22%) Pandas
2 18 (20.22%) SciPy
3 13 (14.61%) React
4 11 (12.36%) .NET
4 11 (12.36%) CSS
5 9 (10.11%) REST
6 8 (8.99%) Spring
6 8 (8.99%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.87%) HTML
8 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.62%) Kafka
8 5 (5.62%) Web Services
9 4 (4.49%) Hibernate
9 4 (4.49%) JPA
9 4 (4.49%) Node.js
10 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.37%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (24.72%) Derivative
3 19 (21.35%) Fixed Income
3 19 (21.35%) Hedge funds
4 18 (20.22%) Equities
5 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.81%) Agile
2 30 (33.71%) Software Engineering
3 18 (20.22%) Asset Management
3 18 (20.22%) DevOps
4 16 (17.98%) Investment Management
4 16 (17.98%) Line Management
5 15 (16.85%) CI/CD
5 15 (16.85%) Mentoring
6 14 (15.73%) TDD
7 13 (14.61%) Microservices
8 10 (11.24%) Coaching
8 10 (11.24%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.11%) CRM
10 8 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (7.87%) Scrum
11 7 (7.87%) User Experience
12 6 (6.74%) Computer Science
12 6 (6.74%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.70%) Java
2 36 (40.45%) JavaScript
3 32 (35.96%) TypeScript
4 26 (29.21%) Python
5 12 (13.48%) SQL
6 10 (11.24%) C#
7 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.37%) Ruby
9 2 (2.25%) C
9 2 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.25%) Scala
9 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.12%) ABAP
10 1 (1.12%) C++
10 1 (1.12%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.12%) PHP
10 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Degree
2 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.37%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) CAPM
6 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.37%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (3.37%) Terraform
3 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.37%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle
3 3 (3.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (3.37%) SAP
4 2 (2.25%) Siebel
5 1 (1.12%) Databricks
5 1 (1.12%) Informatica
5 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.12%) Virgin Media