Development Team Leader Contracts in London

Development Team Lead
England > London

The median Development Team Lead daily rate in London is £675, 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 351 388 481
Rank change year-on-year +37 +93 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Development Team Leader 2 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.017% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.018% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £723 £563
25th Percentile £663 £738 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £590
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +35.59% -17.19%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £610
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £656 £775 £590
% change year-on-year -15.32% +31.36% +24.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Development Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Development Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Development Team Leader in London

Development Team Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Development Team Leader in London.

Daily rate trend for Development Team Leader in London

Development Team Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Development Team Leader in London.

Hourly rate trend for Development Team Leader in London

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Development Team Leader 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 London region featuring Development Team Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

Development Team Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP