Lead Software Developer Contracts in London

Lead Software Developer
England > London

The median Lead Software Developer daily rate in London is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 497 570
Rank change year-on-year +128 +73 -105
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 20 3 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.011% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.012% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 31
10th Percentile £738 - £538
25th Percentile £763 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £888 £638 £709
90th Percentile - - £750
England median daily rate £825 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +32.00% -3.85% +23.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Software Developer in London

Lead Software Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Central London - 1 £500 -
Lead Software Developer
England

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead Software 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 London region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 19 (95.00%) TypeScript
1 19 (95.00%) Finance
1 19 (95.00%) JavaScript
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
1 19 (95.00%) Banking
2 18 (90.00%) Asset Management
2 18 (90.00%) Investment Banking
2 18 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (90.00%) Derivative
2 18 (90.00%) Java
2 18 (90.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (90.00%) Apache
2 18 (90.00%) Python
2 18 (90.00%) Fixed Income
2 18 (90.00%) Equities
2 18 (90.00%) Front Office
2 18 (90.00%) Pandas
2 18 (90.00%) GCP
2 18 (90.00%) AWS
2 18 (90.00%) Hedge funds
2 18 (90.00%) SciPy
2 18 (90.00%) NumPy
2 18 (90.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 18 (90.00%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (90.00%) Dremio
2 18 (90.00%) dbt
2 18 (90.00%) gRPC
2 18 (90.00%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (90.00%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (90.00%) Apache Ignite

Lead Software Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (90.00%) Apache
1 18 (90.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) AWS
1 18 (90.00%) dbt
1 18 (90.00%) GCP
2 16 (80.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (90.00%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (90.00%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (90.00%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (90.00%) Dremio
2 16 (80.00%) Data Lake
General
1 19 (95.00%) Banking
1 19 (95.00%) Finance
2 18 (90.00%) Front Office
2 18 (90.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (90.00%) gRPC
1 18 (90.00%) NumPy
1 18 (90.00%) Pandas
1 18 (90.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 18 (90.00%) SciPy
2 1 (5.00%) ADO
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (90.00%) Derivative
1 18 (90.00%) Equities
1 18 (90.00%) Fixed Income
1 18 (90.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (90.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 18 (90.00%) Asset Management
2 18 (90.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (80.00%) Investment Management
3 16 (80.00%) Line Management
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Product Management
6 1 (5.00%) BDD
6 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.00%) CRM
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Front End Development
6 1 (5.00%) Micro Frontends
6 1 (5.00%) Pair Programming
6 1 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) JavaScript
1 19 (95.00%) TypeScript
2 18 (90.00%) Java
2 18 (90.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Ruby
3 2 (10.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft