Lean Software Development Contracts in England

Lean Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Lean Software Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lean Software Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 522 627
Rank change year-on-year +46 +105 +99
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 9 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.054% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.062% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 21
10th Percentile £373 £383 £450
25th Percentile £417 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £524 £675 £701
90th Percentile £530 - £800
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -18.00% +6.38% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £33.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Lean Software Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lean Software Development in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lean Software Development in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lean Software Development in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lean Software Development in England

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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 Lean Software Development 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
South East +45 4 £478 +12.47% 21
London +36 3 £456 -22.34% 12
Midlands +22 1 - - 15
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
East of England - 1 £530 - 12
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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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) ObjectStore
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Java Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Celery
2 1 (11.11%) Django
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
2 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) pytest
2 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) DTCC
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Business Process Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Review
3 4 (44.44%) User Research
3 4 (44.44%) User Stories
3 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 4 (44.44%) Wireframes
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) MLOps
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ITGC
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Palantir
2 1 (11.11%) Dataiku
2 1 (11.11%) DataRobot
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle