Developer Contracts in Leeds

Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Developer daily rate in Leeds is £501 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 172 266 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 21.72% 20.94% 17.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 23.43% 21.33% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 225 228
10th Percentile £300 £413 £381
25th Percentile £400 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £695 £611
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £470
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.70% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 734 1,247 1,504
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 98.19% 97.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 909 1,109
10th Percentile £300 £361 £274
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 21
10th Percentile £11.24 £12.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.94 £19.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £38.25 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -67.24% +70.76% +4.82%
75th Percentile £15.25 £68.44 £26.50
90th Percentile £17.67 £70.00 £28.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.34 £21.25 £17.57
% change year-on-year -32.54% +20.94% -19.18%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Leeds

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Leeds

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Leeds

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Leeds

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 Leeds region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 38 (22.09%) JavaScript
2 35 (20.35%) AWS
3 33 (19.19%) Security Cleared
4 32 (18.60%) SQL
5 31 (18.02%) Python
6 29 (16.86%) Agile
6 29 (16.86%) Social Skills
7 28 (16.28%) SC Cleared
8 27 (15.70%) ServiceNow
9 25 (14.53%) Degree
10 24 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (13.37%) ITIL
12 22 (12.79%) Software Engineering
13 21 (12.21%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (12.21%) Java
14 20 (11.63%) Code Quality
14 20 (11.63%) Conversational UI
14 20 (11.63%) ITSM
14 20 (11.63%) Data Modelling
14 20 (11.63%) PayPal
14 20 (11.63%) Chatbot
14 20 (11.63%) Azure
15 19 (11.05%) C#
16 18 (10.47%) .NET
16 18 (10.47%) TDD
17 17 (9.88%) Service Management
17 17 (9.88%) Public Sector
18 16 (9.30%) CI/CD
18 16 (9.30%) Customer Service
18 16 (9.30%) Web Services

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 9 (5.23%) Drupal
2 6 (3.49%) Apache
2 6 (3.49%) CMS
2 6 (3.49%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 20 (11.63%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.35%) AWS
2 20 (11.63%) Azure
3 10 (5.81%) Serverless
4 8 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.49%) GitHub
6 5 (2.91%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.74%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.74%) IaaS
8 3 (1.74%) PaaS
8 3 (1.74%) SaaS
9 2 (1.16%) GCP
9 2 (1.16%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.16%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.58%) Apigee
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.58%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) HTTP
1 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.49%) Flink
2 6 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.33%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.74%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.74%) Redis
6 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.16%) Power BI
6 2 (1.16%) Power Query
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.58%) GIS
7 1 (0.58%) MySQL
7 1 (0.58%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Git
2 6 (3.49%) JIRA
3 5 (2.91%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.74%) Mockito
6 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.58%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.58%) gulp
7 1 (0.58%) JUnit
7 1 (0.58%) Maven
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) TestNG
7 1 (0.58%) TestRail
7 1 (0.58%) Xcode
7 1 (0.58%) XCUITest
General
1 29 (16.86%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.88%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.16%) Finance
5 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.58%) Automotive
6 1 (0.58%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.47%) .NET
2 16 (9.30%) Web Services
3 14 (8.14%) HTML
4 9 (5.23%) Spring Boot
5 8 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.65%) FastAPI
5 8 (4.65%) React
5 8 (4.65%) Spring
6 7 (4.07%) Node.js
7 6 (3.49%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.49%) Flask
8 4 (2.33%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.33%) Next.js
9 3 (1.74%) Blazor
9 3 (1.74%) CSS
9 3 (1.74%) Kafka
9 3 (1.74%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.74%) SignalR
10 2 (1.16%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (1.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.33%) CMDB
3 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.58%) Genomics
4 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.58%) mHealth
4 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.40%) Android
2 10 (5.81%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.74%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Linux
4 2 (1.16%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.86%) Agile
2 24 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (13.37%) ITIL
4 22 (12.79%) Software Engineering
5 21 (12.21%) Artificial Intelligence
6 20 (11.63%) Code Quality
6 20 (11.63%) Conversational UI
6 20 (11.63%) Data Modelling
6 20 (11.63%) ITSM
7 18 (10.47%) TDD
8 17 (9.88%) Service Management
9 16 (9.30%) CI/CD
9 16 (9.30%) Customer Service
10 15 (8.72%) Asset Management
10 15 (8.72%) IT Asset Management
10 15 (8.72%) Operations Management
10 15 (8.72%) Service Delivery
11 12 (6.98%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (6.40%) Analytics
12 11 (6.40%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.09%) JavaScript
2 32 (18.60%) SQL
3 31 (18.02%) Python
4 21 (12.21%) Java
5 19 (11.05%) C#
6 15 (8.72%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.23%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.07%) Swift
9 5 (2.91%) ABAP
10 4 (2.33%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.33%) PHP
10 4 (2.33%) Scala
10 4 (2.33%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.33%) VBA
11 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.58%) C
12 1 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 33 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.53%) Degree
4 10 (5.81%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.91%) QA
2 3 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (6.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Ansible
2 1 (0.58%) Grafana
2 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (15.70%) ServiceNow
2 20 (11.63%) PayPal
3 8 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.65%) SAP
4 4 (2.33%) Google
5 3 (1.74%) Splunk
6 2 (1.16%) Ariba
6 2 (1.16%) JDA
6 2 (1.16%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.58%) ESRI
7 1 (0.58%) Okta
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle
7 1 (0.58%) Salesforce