Lead Developer Contracts in the East of England

Lead Developer
England > East of England

The median Lead Developer daily rate in the East of England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 122 145
Rank change year-on-year +20 +23 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Developer 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.26% 0.047% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.052% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile £550 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.45%
75th Percentile £650 - £619
90th Percentile - - £645
England median daily rate £636 £600 £608
% change year-on-year +6.04% -1.23% +10.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,701 1,933 2,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 91.52% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 1,184 1,397
10th Percentile £210 £185 £163
25th Percentile £315 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £540
90th Percentile £673 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 305 380
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -3.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the East of England

Lead Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Developer in the East of England

Lead Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Developer in the East of England

Lead Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hertfordshire - 4 £600 - 2
Essex +3 1 £600 -
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 19 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 East of England region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) IFS
2 4 (80.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IFS