Lean Software Development Contracts

Lean Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Lean Software Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Lean Software Development over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 668 775
Rank change year-on-year +105 +107 -125
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 20 37 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.062% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.069% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 61
10th Percentile £383 £450 £500
25th Percentile £506 £503 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £601
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -2.16% +33.44%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £714
90th Percentile - £755 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £570 £463
% change year-on-year -25.44% +23.24% +14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £33.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.25 - -
90th Percentile £72.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Lean Software Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,484 53,362 80,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.34% 89.87% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,149 37,016 56,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,744 1,921
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%

Lean Software Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lean Software Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lean Software Development in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lean Software Development.

Daily rate trend for Lean Software Development in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lean Software Development over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Software Development in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lean Software Development.

Hourly rate trend for Lean Software Development in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Lean Software Development over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Lean Software Development in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Software Development within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +112 20 £625 -3.85% 8
UK excluding London +46 9 £425 -25.44% 5
London +98 5 £588 -9.62% 3
South East +20 5 £425 -29.17% 3
Work from Home +114 3 £450 -23.08% 1
South West +29 3 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Lean Software Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.00%) InVision
3 1 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.00%) Miro
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Android Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
1 5 (25.00%) Senior Android Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Product Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Logistics Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Procurement Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Roadmaps
3 8 (40.00%) Project Management
4 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Scrum
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Android Development
6 5 (25.00%) High Availability
6 5 (25.00%) Kanban
6 5 (25.00%) MVVM
6 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 5 (25.00%) SDLC
7 4 (20.00%) Cost Accounting
8 3 (15.00%) Kaizen
8 3 (15.00%) Logistics
8 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) HNC
1 3 (15.00%) PMP
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) PMO
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Veracode
2 1 (5.00%) VMware