Digital Developer Contracts in Leeds

Digital Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Digital Developer daily rate in Leeds is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 August 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
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Digital Developer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.17% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £700
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £650 - £700

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 576 680 1,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.63% 92.02% 97.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 443 734
10th Percentile £311 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £655 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 27 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.18 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +27.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 - £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £24.18 £17.64
% change year-on-year +36.93% +37.07% -10.59%

Digital Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Developer in Leeds

Digital Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Developer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Developer job vacancies in Leeds

Digital Developer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 24 August 2025, Digital 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 Digital Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector

Digital 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared