Lean Software Development Contract Job Trends in England

Lean Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Lean Software Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 521 592
Rank change year-on-year +13 +71 +158
Contract jobs citing Lean Software Development 12 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.044% 0.043% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.050% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 11
10th Percentile £380 £414 £525
25th Percentile £415 £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £545 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% -16.15% +10.17%
75th Percentile £464 £584 £894
90th Percentile £497 £596 £913
UK median daily rate £437 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -19.86% -5.22% -2.54%

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 25,056 28,263 37,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.86% 86.13% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,889 17,551 26,191
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £645 £653
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,513 1,284 1,449
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £48.71 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

Lean Software Development
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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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Software Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Software Development

Lean Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lean Software Development in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Software Development in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Software Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lean Software Development

Lean Software Development
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 21 September 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 +24 4 £400 -27.27% 21
Midlands - 4 £430 -
West Midlands - 4 £430 -
South East +12 3 £444 -17.87% 13
East of England - 1 £530 -
Lean Software Development
UK

Lean Software Development
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) JBoss
1 4 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Firebase
3 1 (8.33%) Flurry Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) PubNub
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Mixpanel
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 4 (33.33%) JUnit
1 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) EJB
1 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) HTML5
1 4 (33.33%) J2EE
1 4 (33.33%) J2SE
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
1 4 (33.33%) Play Framework
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) SOAP
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Open Source
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Service Management
7 2 (16.67%) Kanban
7 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Scala
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ITGC
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) webMethods
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Palantir