Lead Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 350 352
Rank change year-on-year +91 +2 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 82 119 295
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.47% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.50% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 70 219
10th Percentile £378 £461 £460
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £888 £675 £725
90th Percentile - £724 £778
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,049 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,416 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Developer.

Lead Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Developer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Lead Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Developer.

Lead Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 39 (47.56%) Java
2 38 (46.34%) JavaScript
2 38 (46.34%) Agile
3 35 (42.68%) AWS
4 28 (34.15%) GCP
5 27 (32.93%) TypeScript
5 27 (32.93%) Python
5 27 (32.93%) Finance
6 26 (31.71%) Software Engineering
7 24 (29.27%) Azure
8 23 (28.05%) Hedge funds
8 23 (28.05%) Amazon Athena
8 23 (28.05%) Asset Management
9 22 (26.83%) Banking
9 22 (26.83%) Investment Banking
9 22 (26.83%) Derivative
9 22 (26.83%) Fixed Income
9 22 (26.83%) Equities
9 22 (26.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (26.83%) Front Office
9 22 (26.83%) Apache
9 22 (26.83%) C#
9 22 (26.83%) .NET
9 22 (26.83%) Apache Ignite
9 22 (26.83%) Dremio
9 22 (26.83%) gRPC
9 22 (26.83%) Apache Airflow
9 22 (26.83%) SciPy
9 22 (26.83%) NumPy
9 22 (26.83%) Protocol Buffers

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (26.83%) Apache
1 22 (26.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.68%) AWS
2 28 (34.15%) GCP
3 24 (29.27%) Azure
4 22 (26.83%) dbt
5 21 (25.61%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.32%) Serverless
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.66%) PaaS
9 3 (3.66%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.44%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.05%) Amazon Athena
2 22 (26.83%) Apache Arrow
2 22 (26.83%) Apache Ignite
2 22 (26.83%) Dremio
3 21 (25.61%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.44%) OLTP
6 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.22%) Big Data
7 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.22%) MySQL
7 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.22%) Redis
7 1 (1.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.44%) GitLab
3 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.22%) JIRA
4 1 (1.22%) JUnit
4 1 (1.22%) Moq
4 1 (1.22%) NUnit
4 1 (1.22%) Selenium
4 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.22%) Storybook
4 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (32.93%) Finance
2 22 (26.83%) Banking
2 22 (26.83%) Front Office
2 22 (26.83%) Investment Banking
3 9 (10.98%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Billing
6 2 (2.44%) Automotive
6 2 (2.44%) Electronics
6 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.22%) Advertising
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Back Office
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.83%) .NET
1 22 (26.83%) gRPC
1 22 (26.83%) NumPy
1 22 (26.83%) Pandas
1 22 (26.83%) Protocol Buffers
1 22 (26.83%) SciPy
2 11 (13.41%) AngularJS
3 8 (9.76%) ASP.NET
3 8 (9.76%) React
4 7 (8.54%) HTML
4 7 (8.54%) Web Services
5 6 (7.32%) CSS
6 4 (4.88%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.88%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.88%) Node.js
7 3 (3.66%) Spring
8 2 (2.44%) Django
8 2 (2.44%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.44%) HTML5
8 2 (2.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.05%) Hedge funds
2 22 (26.83%) Derivative
2 22 (26.83%) Equities
2 22 (26.83%) Fixed Income
2 22 (26.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Android
1 1 (1.22%) Linux
1 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.34%) Agile
2 26 (31.71%) Software Engineering
3 23 (28.05%) Asset Management
4 22 (26.83%) DevOps
5 20 (24.39%) Line Management
6 16 (19.51%) Full Stack Development
6 16 (19.51%) Investment Management
7 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
8 8 (9.76%) Data Science
8 8 (9.76%) Microservices
8 8 (9.76%) TDD
9 6 (7.32%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.32%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.32%) Data Engineering
9 6 (7.32%) Data Mapping
9 6 (7.32%) Data Modelling
9 6 (7.32%) Impact Analysis
9 6 (7.32%) OO
9 6 (7.32%) Sequence Diagram
9 6 (7.32%) UML
Programming Languages
1 39 (47.56%) Java
2 38 (46.34%) JavaScript
3 27 (32.93%) Python
3 27 (32.93%) TypeScript
4 22 (26.83%) C#
5 8 (9.76%) SQL
6 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.44%) C++
7 2 (2.44%) Ruby
7 2 (2.44%) Scala
8 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.22%) Perl
8 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.88%) Degree
2 3 (3.66%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) CAPM
4 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
3 3 (3.66%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) Guidewire
3 3 (3.66%) SAP
4 2 (2.44%) QNX
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe
5 1 (1.22%) mParticle