Lead Software Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Engineer daily rate in England is £631, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 499 626
Rank change year-on-year +25 +127 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 11 43 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.12% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.12% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 33 17
10th Percentile £509 £563 £522
25th Percentile £588 £743 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £825 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +26.92% -0.76%
75th Percentile £769 £888 £813
90th Percentile £825 - £825
UK median daily rate £625 £825 £663
% change year-on-year -24.24% +24.53% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £63.12 £62.09
Median hourly rate - £67.79 £66.69
Median % change year-on-year - +1.65% +90.53%
75th Percentile - £72.45 £71.28
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £67.79 £62.09
% change year-on-year +32.77% +9.17% +77.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Software Engineer in England

Lead Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +11 7 £694 -15.91% 83
North of England - 2 £513 - 38
South West +46 1 - - 11
South East +40 1 - - 34
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 4
North West - 1 £500 - 30
Lead Software Engineer
UK

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead Software Engineer 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 England region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Docker
3 5 (45.45%) Terraform
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Git
4 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 4 (36.36%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (36.36%) Linux
4 4 (36.36%) Python
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) Spring
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Degree
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (27.27%) Swagger

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Slack
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (9.09%) DocumentDB
4 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (18.18%) Jasmine
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (9.09%) VectorCAST
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) OpenAPI
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Swagger
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Batch
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) TDD
4 3 (27.27%) BDD
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) API Design
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Kernel Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) C
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) DO-178B
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Istio
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
180 Lead Software Engineer jobs Nationwide