Lead Developer Contracts in the North of England

Lead Developer
England > North of England

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the North of England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 192 206
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 16 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.41% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.43% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 32
10th Percentile £395 £409 £400
25th Percentile £541 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% +5.37% +20.59%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £561
90th Percentile - £650 £588
England median daily rate £650 £600 £604
% change year-on-year +8.33% -0.66% +9.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,397 5,527 6,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.33% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,908 5,123
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £385 £412 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £681 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 159 289
10th Percentile £11.02 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £30.76 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -35.78% +64.60% +5.15%
75th Percentile £45.97 £49.88 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the North of England

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Yorkshire +20 8 £650 +13.04% 7
North West +9 7 £550 +26.44% 15
North East - 1 - - 4
Lead Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 North of England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) AWS
1 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
2 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (43.75%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) Git
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
3 7 (43.75%) Coaching
4 6 (37.50%) Microservices
4 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) REST
5 5 (31.25%) React
5 5 (31.25%) Serverless
6 4 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (25.00%) High Availability
6 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (25.00%) Docker
6 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Azure
6 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Advertising
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
2 1 (6.25%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) React
1 5 (31.25%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (25.00%) JPA
2 4 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 4 (25.00%) Spring
2 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) .NET
4 2 (12.50%) Laravel
4 2 (12.50%) Vue
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 1 (6.25%) Jest
5 1 (6.25%) JSON
5 1 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (43.75%) Coaching
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 4 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (25.00%) High Availability
5 4 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (6.25%) CRM
6 1 (6.25%) OO
6 1 (6.25%) OOD
6 1 (6.25%) SOLID
6 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) PHP
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) mParticle